May 2025 Card Swap - COFFEE theme

 

Presenting to you these fantastic cards from our 2025 MAY Card Swap! 

This month's Card Swap challenge was to design and create a card with an UNCONVENTIONAL envelope using a COFFEE theme and an additional challenge of adding some texture to the design! We had six participants who created COFFEE card creations! 

Here are the coffee cards - they each are amazing and unique!  Enjoy these whimsical creations.                          Thank you for looking!

Angie

April

Maria

Under construction...

Meagan

Melissa

Sandra

Hope you enjoyed the cards from this swap!

Next month we will feature cards with a "Nursery Rhyme" theme. Our challenge is to add a tag or two to the design.  I'll be back at the end of June with the swaps.  

 Here's a link to last month's card swap here - April.  

Thanks for stopping by and letting us share our card swaps!  Remember to hug the ones you love the most... until next time!

2025 Crochet Book Blanket

 UPDATE!  

Here's a current pic of the Book Blanket at the start of JUNE!  Halfway done...

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This year, I am putting two of my favorite hobbies together - Reading and Crocheting!

I'm posting this now to keep me "on track" and focused on this new adventure! 

 I'm planning to crochet a simple granny square inspired by the book's front cover that I'm reading.  I'm hoping to read 48 books this year -making a blanket of 6x8 squares.  We shall see! 

Here is my beginning row, so far!

If you have a recommendation of what to read, please let me know.  I like all types of genres of reading!  

Thank you for stopping by and allowing me to share my new crocheting project with you.  Remember though those you love the most... until next time!

2025 April Card Swap - Ribbon, Weather, & Circles

 

Hello!  Thanks for joining me today!  

This month's card swap had the challenge of WEATHER, Ribbon, and Circles.  It was up to the artist to create a card and envelope with this challenge in mind.

We had 6 wonderful cards this month!  These cards are fabulous - but what's better are the ladies that make these cards - they are the BEST!  The fellowship - with the bonus of the knowledge and talent, is the highlight of my month!  

This month's swappers include:  Meagan, Angie, Sandra, Maria, April, and me! Here they are:

MEAGAN

ANGIE

SANDRA

MARIA

APRIL

MELISSA

Here are the links for the last Card Swap that was held in April:  April's Card Swap. 

Next month's Card Swap is set to design a card is using the theme "Coffee" with the challenge to include TEXTURE, along with a "nontraditional envelope"!  

Can't wait!

Thanks for stopping by!  Wishing you a MARVELOUS day - may all your wishes come true!  Remember to hug the ones you love, until next time...

2025 March Card Swap - Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge

 

   Our theme for the March 2025 CardSwap was to complete a "Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge" using three or more items in the card design! 

The "Tic-Tac-Toe Challenge" was a new challenge for our ladies to take and shine with their creativity - and they did not disappoint this month.  



We had six fabulous card swappers this month - but these ladies brought the STYLE and CREATIVITY to this challenge - WOW!  Just wait and see!

MARIA

ANGIE

MELISSA

MEAGAN

SANDRA

APRIL

Thanks for joining us and letting us share our card swap for March with you!  Here is a link for the  February "ANIMAL" themed cards. 

Next month's challenge is to create a card that incorporates: Weather, Ribbon, and Circles!  This should be fun!  Be sure and check back for next month's swap!

     Hope you are enjoying these spring days!  Remember to hug the ones you love the most... until next time!

2024 Moogly Blankets

Here are our final designs for the 2024 Moogly blankets!  

What is a MOOGLY blanket?  It's a yearly, stitch-along crocheting project that you can join by making a 12" square from a selected color scheme of yarn (of your choice) every 2 weeks!  Each month, selected artists create a uniquely designed crochet pattern that they are willing to share.  24 squares are then put together at the end of November, a border is added, and the blanket is complete!  If you are interested in super cool and unique patterns for 12 squares - they've got a TON of them here at this link!  Moogly CALS (crochet along) have been active since 2014!

Kyle and I have often participated in this stitch-along.  There is ALWAYS something new to learn with these squares with crocheting!  We each picked 4 colors, along with a white, for each of these blankets using 100% acrylic yarn and a size 6 crochet hook.

Here is Kyle's blanket.  He combined squares from the 2023 and 2024 patterns to complete his blanket.  His color scheme included light blue, orange, navy, olive, and sunshine yellow.  I had reservations about this color scheme, but it works beautifully together!  This blanket is so beautiful!

Here is my blanket.  I mainly used square patterns from 2024.  This year,  I used khaki, navy, crimson red, and beige for my color scheme in acrylic yarn. This blanket went to a cousin and his new bride!  Hope they enjoy this crocheted blanket for many years!

We highly recommend joining in on a MOOGLY year in making a fun, always creative blanket!  You can find out more information about this program here at this link.

Remember to hug the ones you love the most, until next time...

2025 February Card Swap - ANIMALS

 

 The February Card Swap was recently held and the cards are so CU-TE!  The theme was to incorporate

"animals" into the card. The challenge was creating a 3-D feature within the card and using at least one stamped image.  Can't wait to show you these cards!  

This month, we had six card swappers involved.  Here are these six awesome ANIMAL homemade cards!!

MARIA

ANGIE

SANDRA

MELISSA

APRIL

MEAGAN

Thanks for joining us and letting us share our card swaps for February with you!

 Here's a link to last month's swap here - "Valentine" themed creations with the twist of a challenge to create a candy holder. 

   

Next month's challenge is "TIC TAC TOE" - This is a new challenge type; we pick THREE spots for a win! This challenge will be something different for us to try and hopefully enjoyable!  Be sure and check back for next month's swap!

     Hope you are enjoying life!  Remember to hug the ones you love the most... until next time!

The "Magical Granny's Cupboard" blanket is COMPLETED!

Presenting to you my 2024 stitch-along blanket that I participated in last year with "Jayda in Stitches".  It's a collection of 9" granny squares crocheted with acrylic yarn and 12 different patterns.

It took a year and then some to complete this blanket!  Starting in January 2024, I made three blocks of the same pattern with different uses of the pink, white, and red color scheme.  Each month had a different crocheted pattern for the 9" square. 

36 squares later, I was able to put together and stitch a border to finalize the blanket!  I used acrylic yarn, all by Joann's Big Twist brand, to crochet with, and a 5.5 crochet hook.  I used a "ladder stitch" to attach the squares together.  I followed the unique border by Jayda, along with all the patterns for this 2024 blanket. 

Jayda hosts a yearly calendar blanket that always has videos each month that I have often participated in.  This one for 2024 was called "Granny's Magical Cupboard" calendar blanket.  Here is a link for more info on this with Jayda.

Remember to hug the ones you love the most, until next time...