Easy Crochet Hat

When you are pregnant, have asthma and a case of walking pneumonia and you get out of breath just going to the bathroom…what do you do?  Crochet.

Here’s a link to the pattern…retro tam.  I’m still a beginner at crochet so I tend to do it too tightly.  So an adult hat becomes the perfect fit for a 4 year old.  I think I’m going to add a nice size fabric flower to the side of it once I can make it down the stairs to the basement and dig through my stash but that is gonna require much more breathing than I have in me right now.

Little Dresses For Africa

So, we have all been MIA for a long time now.  It’s not that we haven’t been crafting, just too busy with life and the blog has been a bit neglected because of it.  Each of us are homeschooling our children and so fall has been a whirlwind of activity as we trade the lazier days of summer for more scheduled days.  Kelly, Jen, and I, along with our friend, K, all pull our resources together once a week and co-op our schooling.  Each month we work around a different theme or area of focus and this month our focus has been on “Serving Others”.  We took a day to hike, play and do some clean up outdoors and we have worked on creating pillowcase dresses to send to Africa through Little Dresses For Africa.  Such a great mission project has been going on with this organization and we really wanted to get involved ourselves.  So last Wednesday we sent a total of, I think, 20 dresses to Africa and we’re working on some more…they are quite addicting.  Here’s a sampling…