Beautiful Butterflies

My mommy LOVES hummingbirds and butterflies.

So imagine my delight when I found this pretty doily pattern:

Doesn't it just scream "SPRING!!!"?

She loved it, flaws and all.

I was using up some stash colors I was given
and I had to make them stretch a bit so
I tweaked the edging of the butterflies a bit.

I also messed up the center and ended up
with less stitches around the edge than I needed
to use the number of butterflies in the pattern.
I will pay better attention next time.

It was just as well since I was short
on thread anyway.

The Butterfly Garden Doily pattern is from
the Annie's Attic book:  Vintage Floral Doilies
by Elizabeth Ann White

I also made the Sweet Southern Belle Doily from that book.

All the patterns in the book call for using a size 7 (1.65mm) hook.
There are 7 floral doilies with raised motif aspects.

School Teacher Booties

At my church,

at every baby shower,

the mama is expecting

to receive her special

homemade gift from me.

Sometimes it is a bonnet.

But most of the time it is a pair of booties.

These booties were made for a school teacher friend.

I found the pattern after I found out she was expecting

her 3rd baby.  And because the booties were

PERFECT for her I found myself hoping she

had a boy, even though she already had two.

That was weird!!!

Since I have 4 boys,

I'm usually rooting 

for other mamas with

boys to get a girl!

Oh well!!!

You never know what havoc

a great crochet pattern can

wreak in your personality!

Go figure.


Pattern from Leisure Arts Bootie Collection #3052.
Designs by Kay Meadors
Hook size: 7 (1.65mm)

Dainty Lady in Sage

This was my sister's birthday present:

Love, love, love the flower basket!!!


I used Aunt Lydia's size 10 thread:
frosty green trimmed with black.

  The rest is stash busting gleans.

I used a size 7 (1.65mm) steel crochet hook.

The Sweet Southern Belle Doily pattern
is from the Annie's Attic book:
Vintage Floral Doilies
by Elizabeth Ann White

It is one of 7 designs with raised motif elements.

VERY COOL!!!

Pretty Pineapples

The first of many more doilies I hope to recreate

out of my fabulous new pattern book

that I got on my trip to Texas.

The book is called Absolutely Gorgeous Doilies.

It is a Leisure Arts product.

I love these patterns!!!

The doilies have raised layers

which give them so much

intricate depth.

BEAUTIFUL!!!



The designs are by the fabulous
Patricia Kristoffersen

I used a size 7 (1.65mm) hook
and size 10 crochet thread.