It's Done!!!!!!

After hours and hours and hours and hours of hard work, frogged stitches, and sore fingers my American Flag afghan is finally finished. It looks okay...it didn't turn out anywhere near as well as I had hoped it would ( I had a hard time getting all the stars to fit.) All in all though I'm quite proud of myself for getting it done...and on time even!! So now, I've decided to make another one. I'm going to make a couple changes though...I'm going to use the same yarn and pattern for the flag part, but I'm going to use a sport weight yarn and a smaller hook for the stars....hopefully that will work out the not fitting issue. I've got some pics taken, but haven't put them on the computer just yet. I figure I'll do that tomorrow when I get done running around like I've lost my mind. So, until then...have a great day and God bless.

I found an interesting blog today

I found an interesting blog today. It's called "A Soldier's Perspective". I think EVERYONE should read this!! It's such an insight. There are some videos posted on there that are a bit graphic, but their brutal honesty about what's going on in Iraq is extremely touching. After watching one of those videos this morning, I stopped and prayed that God would help keep all our soldiers safe. It gives a REAL look at what's happening there instead of what the media WANTS us to see.

Now, don't get your drawers in a bunch...I'm not an extremely political person, I know that what the media ALLOWS us to see isn't always the REAL story. I'm just here stating my opinion. Some people may agree while I'm sure others will disagree vehemently. So, go check it out. You may be educated on some level. The blog gives reference to several other blogs that I haven't had the chance to check out yet, but believe me, I will. One that I have checked out is "Young Americans". Most of the videos that I was talking about earlier were made by the man that runs this site, Pat Dollard. If you're of a weak nature, some of these videos are quite extreme.

Well, that's all for now. Go check out these blogs....and God Bless.

I HATE MySpace!!!

I logged onto my MySpace page for the first time in a couple weeks just a few minutes ago....read a friend's blog post and found that she and her fiance split up. So, I was trying to be supportive and offer words of encouragement by posting a comment on her blog....but could I??? NOOOOOOO!!!! MySpace is ONCE AGAIN having technical issues. Seems like everytime I try to get on there and do something they're having a technical issue!!! I'm about this __ close to deleting my account and telling MySpace to stick it where the sun don't shine!!! I'm going to try again later tonite and see if I have any luck. If not I'm done with it. I'll stick to writing my blog that nobody reads and call it a day.

Almost Done!!!

Well I sat here and crocheted all day yesterday. I got all 50 stars done for my flag afghan. I got a double crochet border around it. I will be sewing the stars on either today or tomorrow. After that I'll wash it and take some pics and get them posted. Have a great and wonderful day!!

WIP update

Well...I've decided that I'm truly impressed with myself. My American Flag Afghan is nearing completeion. I have 25 more stars to make. After that I'll sew them on. Put a pretty white border around the whole thing, then wash it. I have about 7 days to get all of this accomplished. Please, keep your fingers crossed. If I don't get it done on time, I'm going to end up having to mail it...and that will end up costing me a small fortune....although it would make a nice Christmas gift...I think I'd rather just give the Afghan to Johnny before he leaves for Fort Carson. So in honor of my darling baby brother in law joining the Army and graduating AIT and all that good stuff I have some pictures I'd like to post here today. They are of patriotic nature so if that offends you then I suggest you leave and not come back.

And now, to honor my darling hubby.....I have a few more pics...

And finally...a pic of my WIP

On my own...again....

I know I've been gone for a few days, but this time I have a really good excuse!! My hubby was in for a couple days so I decided I was going to stay away from the computer while he was home. Now that he's gone again...I'm back. You'll have me until the 27th of March or so. Then he'll be back in. I can't wait. We're going to the Mid-America Truck Show!! I'm going to charge up every re-chargeable battery I can find to put in my camera and take loads of pictures. Then when he leaves out again I'll post them on here so you can see what the MATS is all about!

I found smileys!! Yes, I'm a smiley nut. I think they're just too adorable. I found some that I can put on my blog. Here, I'll show you....Now hopefully you can see that...if you're just seeing some sort of code or something then you should do a search for crawler smileys and download them so you can see it.

Well, I'm going to get off here and go pay my house payment. Then I'm going to come back home and crochet. I'm getting closer and closer to being done!! Have a great and wonderful day!!

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Update on my WIP....

I've been diligently working on my flag afghan. I have decided that it will be a gift for my brother-in-law when he graduates AIT in March. I think he will like it. I'm still not quite sure what I'm going to do about the stars though. I have a feeling that I'm going to have to combine a couple different patterns to get the look that I want. Here are some pics.

Here's what the afghan looked like this morning:


Here's one of the stars that I've done in some spare yarn just to see how it would turn out.


Here's another star that I did using the same pattern but a different starting technique.


And while I was bored and taking a bit of a break from the afghan I did a search and found a couple snowflake patterns. Not exactly sure if it would look better in cotton thread than it does in the yarn, but I was entertained for a while trying to do them :-)

Here's the first one I did:


And here's the second one


Not bad for a first try I think. Well, I'm going to go to bed now so I can get up and do some more work on my afghan before the hubby comes home.