One last set of Granny Squares

It took me forever to post these because I have become a huge slacker at blogging recently but I received my last set of squares in the Blogger Blanket Project. I am madly in love with the color scheme Debbie chose for these. They remind me of pumpkins which therefore makes me think of Fall and Halloween!!

I can not wait until I have all the beautiful squares I received in this swap sewn together. Courtney is organizing a second swap which I HIGHLY recommend you join!! It was so fun and I met lots of talented and wonderful ladies. I'm not 100% sure if I will be participating in the second round. I have my Mystery Project to work on and then after my birthday I start working on Christmas presents so I might be a bit busy. I don't want to be the jerkface partner who isn't able to send.
 
Have a crafty day my dears!
 

Blogger Blanket Updates!!

I am alive!! I don't really know what happened with blogging, it just fell by the way side I suppose. The week before we went to Florida I was super busy with prevacation preparations, then I was in Florida for a whole week. The following week when I got home I was so busy trying to get back into the normal swing of things. I think I'm back to my normal self and ready to get back to blogging. Thanks so much for putting up with the hiatus...it looks like I was unintentionally participating in the August Break!

Anyway, enough excuses...I have tons of Blogger Blanket Updates!

These are the 3rd set of squares I sent for the Blogger Blanket Project. My partner was Christine who blogs over at CK Scribbles. She's completely adorable, a fellow Jersey Girl and a crafty chic too, what's not to love?!




I have also recieved the squares she made for me so here they are!! I love how bright all the colors are, they all work so well together. Thank you Christine!!!



I have both sent and received from the awesome organizer of this whole swap, Miss Courtney. I am so happy that she decided to organize this swap because it has been really awesome getting so many granny squares from so many awesome and talented bloggers.
These are the ones she sent me and I looove the color scheme. They are so well made too!




These are the insanely colorful squares I sent her. I realized while trying to pick out the colors I would use for her squares that I had all the colors of the rainbow!! I thought about 2/3 of the way through that I was going to run out of the orange and yellow yarns but I didn't, YAY! I don't think I've ever made such colorful squares before, I really like them!



I sent these darlings off to Debbie. The colors sort of reminded me of Valentine's day but all I kept thinking of was some kind of hard candy. Haha!! These aren't the best pictures and I apologize. I took these pics the morning before I went to work and left for Florida...that was a CRAZY morning!!



I received two packages right after I got home from Florida and they both contained some sweet, sweet squares! This first set are from Becky. The red photographed very weird, it does not look like that in person. I really love the color combo, using black as an accent with really bright colors is one of my favorite things!!




The second package left for me after I got home was from Rebecca. The colors totally remind me of Autumn which I am sooo excited about!! The last few days here have been pretty rainy and gross, really getting me in the mood for Fall! The squares definitely put me in that mood too!




I am such a nerd and laid all my squares out on my bed to see how they will all look together. I think I have decided to keep each set of squares in a row of themselves. I can't wait to get the last set and sew these beauties together!!

BBP Sent #2

Here are the second set of squares I made in the Blogger Blanket Project. These ones are for Becky who blogs over at the adorable Strumpets Crumpets. Her dog Mickey has to be the cutest and fluffiest little pooch I've ever seen! Plus all the granny circles she is making are absolutely gorgeous, the colors are to die for!! (I now need to learn to make granny circles!)
While rooting through my stash, I found that I have a lot of green yarn (I also have a ton of green embroidery floss too, coincidence?) I'm definitely drawn to the color, especially Kelly Green. It's in my top 3 favorite colors actually. I hope she likes this combo with the dusty/olivey green and white.

Question: Have any of you noticed that the lighter the color a yarn is, the thinner it is?! All 3 of these yarns are Vanna Choice. The two greens are the same consistency but the white is sooo much thinner, I don't get it at all! Does the dye make yarn thicker or something? From holding the dye? What is it all about?!

Anyways...here they are...




How'd you like that extreme close up of them?! Have a crafty day kids!

BBP Sent

I showed you ladies and gents yesterday the first set of squares I received in the Blogger Blanket Project and now I want to show you the first set I sent.




I'm using this swap to do some stash busting. I have ridiculous amounts of yarn all in the same types of colors. ESPECIALLY red, white and grey!
These are the 6 I sent to Rebecca who blogs over on the lovely Consider My Dear. Go check out her blog because she did an animal doodle challenge every day last month that I am in love with. There is a Lion that she painted/drew on one of the first days and it is beyond amazing! (I obviously love the owl too!) I envy anyone who can paint with watercolors!

BBP Received

As you may or may not know I am participating in the Blogger Blanket Project hosted by the one and only Miss Courtney. There are 6 other chics in the swap and we are each making 6 squares for each other, we will all end up with a total of 36 squares. I know what you must be thinking "Didn't you just do this?!" I did something similar over on Craftster a few weeks ago (I'm actually waiting for 2 more packages of squares to receive from that swap). I had planned to make a blanket from my Craftster squares to bring to work and now I want to make another from these Blogger Blanket Squares. I couldn't really put them all together because the Craftster ones are 7" and these ones are 6". We'll see what happens once I have them all. Plus Courtney mentioned possibly doing another round so I could end up with EVEN more! Never a problem though, I know I can find an awesome use for them all; blankets, pillows, a purse...the possibilites are endless!

Anyway, I received my first package of squares!!

These gorgeous squares are from the darling Miss Heather Dawn! I was so excited when I saw the envelope in my doorway. First off she decorated the envelope with all kinds of cute doodles AND included a very sweet note. I love that the colors are all mish-mashed together. I also really like that there are colors that I probably never would have chosen myself or put together as one square. It will really make this blanket a nice collection of colors. Plus it will open my eyes to all the color possibilites in the world, not just black, red, grey, green and purple!!




I can't decide which square is my favorite but it is definitely between the yellow, pink, green, rusty orange, cream one and the blue, mustardy yellow, purple, pink, cream one. They're both such lovely combinations together! I also think these squares are wonderfully made, such good craftsmanship! Heather said that she was nervous about this swap because she doesn't crochet every day but she could have fooled me with these skills! She's so awesome, it's like she crochets ALL day =D

Thank you so, so much Heather!! You have made this an awesome start to the Blogger Blanket Project for me!