Polaroid Magnets

There has been a tutorial floating around blogs and pinterest lately, and it inspired me to make my mom, m's mom and my sister in law their mother's day gifts this year.

Polaroid Magnets!

You can find the tutorial that inspired me here. She does a great job at explaining how you can make your own, though hers are WAY smaller than mine.

After I made everyone's gifts, I loved how they looked so much that I wanted to make some for our fridge!

One of my favorite pics of me & m.

I also made one out of the Windshield Diaries button!

...but, I messed up! Notice the goof? I'm missing a D in there somewhere. Whoops!

babette

i've been looking at all the beautiful babette blankets popping up in the online crafting community, and have wanted to make one for about a year now. i was finally able to start working on my very own! it's a very easy pattern, i've been crocheting for about 20 years (what?! yup!) but it's easy enough for a beginner to complete as well. in fact, many online crafters taught themselves how to crochet just so they could make themselves a babette!

i took m to the store with me to help choose the colors for my babette. he found something better to amuse himself with.

it took us about 15 minutes to put together our final color pallet of 12.

and i immediately got to work that night!

after one month, i've progressed to here: it's about 2/3 done. unless i decide to make it bigger than the pattern and add more panels.

granny square afghan = dunzo

 

  

 

 

i don't remember how long this took me...i know i started it some time after meeting kelly and learning that she knits...so it's been at least since...august? september? a loooooong time, but it's DONE!

getting crafty

 

  

  

  

my friend kelly and i got crafty together. she worked on fingerless gloves for her awesome shop, friendly brown, while i worked on my granny squares. it was awesome.