Crocheted Capelet

I have been working on crafty projects non-stop for the last couple of weeks. I finished these at the beginning of that spurt. I saw the pattern for this cute little sweater and decided that even though I am not very good at following patterns, this one was simple enough that even I could do it. Sure enough, each of these took me about 3 hours to finish. My little girl picked out the blue and I also wanted to make a purple one to match some other things that she has. SO EASY!

And here it is on my little model, as she's dancing away

Blog Neglect...and a Cute Sewing Project

For a while I lost all will and desire to do anything even vaguely creative. All of my creative energy and time was being spent reading ridiculous amounts of history texts and writing long papers on those. Now that I am finally finished with school (until I decide I'm bored and go back) and have had a few months to catch up, I've been immersing myself in new projects. Hopefully this means that I will stop neglecting this little blog of mine.

Many of these are to get a jump on Christmas gifts, so I won't share them yet, but some are just for fun. A few weeks ago I saw the cutest dishtowels in the $1 bins at Target (well, the $2.50 bins) and decided that I ought to try to make a Halloween dress for my almost 3 year old little girl.

Pictures aren't great--

but I think it turned out kind of cute, especially because I spent a total of $2.50 on it. (I had the ribbon left over from a previous project, so no need to buy more!)