In need of some crochet help

I never thought I'd say this, but I need help. Crochet help.

Any takers?  Its going to be quite an easy project, but a large one.  I need help crocheting rectangles for an upcoming project.   If you are interested, please email me, or leave a comment!!!

We can even crochet together while watching reality TV and drinking wine!!! I have the yarn already, I just need an extra set of hands (preferably that know how to crochet already)!!!

Carafe'tin Time!

I love the term Stitch and Bitch.  To me, it represents girlfriends getting together and crafting. But I would substitue Wine for Bitch in our case.  My girlfriends are pretty drama free.  We don't really have that much to bitch about other than our sore abs/ass/legs/arms at the moment due to Booty Camp.  We all are quite content with our lives, our children, our jobs, our homes, etc.  I'm not trying to paint this "pretty, stable, family picture" as one of my DNA counter parts would say, but its definitely not a "group of girls ranting and talking bad about their men/kids/pets/jobs/lives lets-use-the-stitch-excuse-to-bitch type of party.   The two words rhyme and thats pretty much it.  I'm now gonna call it "Craft and Carafe" because that's more along the lines of what happens.  And right now, the wine is flowin because of our recent trip to Walla Walla. :) 

So tonight is another edition of Stitch and Bitch Craft and Carafe.  We are going to make Valentine crafts, more specifically, yarn wreaths.  I love this idea, mainly because I'm half way there as far as materials needed.  You pick the color, I've got it.  So last night I got a head start and wrapped my foam circle in yarn.  On all the DIY blogs regarding this project I've found don't mention the part where it takes a lot of time and patience to wrap a whole wreath.  I was able to get Hottie Hubs help for a wee bit (emphasis on wee but it was the thought that counted) and then I got into a rhythm.  Tonight I'm going to add a few things to it with my trusty glue gun and felt.  Here's the start to the wreath.

Foam circle and purple yarn.

Flash from camera does not flatter this wreath

This better represents the true color.

Happy Friday! 



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UPDATE:

These are pictures I took during the crafting party, and have been a little lazy in getting them on here to show you the end results.  M

Almost done wrapping the pink string.  

This took quite some time.

Done. For the night anyway.  

Still need to put some hearts/flowers on it.

Jenny's wreath all wrapped up.

Her amazing felt flowers. 

Stitch and (Bitch) Talk Nicely About Our Lives

I've posted this topic on FB, and gotten quite the postive response, but never followed through with actually planning a "Stitch and Bitch" event.  These things go on around the country y'all! Didya know THAT? I'm not clever enough to make up my own slogan, so any credit you gave me can be given to Debbie Stroller.  She's the author of the actual Stitch and Bitch books, which include patterns for knerds knitters. 

I've aquired what I believe is carpal tunnel from knitting, so I've all but completely stopped :(. But I still crochet like a mo-fo, and have just started sewing (doi, you obviously know this).  Last night, my crocheting p.i.c. Megan excitedly told me she is getting a sewing machine!!!  We are only now 7 sewing mates away from a Project Runway competition.  I can just imagine models strutting down the runway showcasing my oven mits and napkins. 

SOOO, back to the idea of getting together to drink craft. I was thinking maybe once a month we come together and maybe one person can bring an easy project to do, and teach the rest of us.  OR, we could just get together and work on whatever project we've got goin on. For example, I would love to teach how to make that braided scarf I posted about earlier.  It literally requires 4 straight stitches.  And I didn't even have to cut material!  I know a few people already that are interested:  Jenny (who is highly advanced at sewing I might add), Megan, Carly (although she stated she's more interested in the bitching and less into stitching), Katie, and Rodney's interested too. HA. joking.

Anyone seriously interested in crocheting/sewing/bitching? There will be alcohol involved, so lets not get our expectations too high on the final outcome of the projects.  I mean I'm not going to be going around with a whistle and pouring tequila down your throats/shaking your head around, but a beer or glass of wine can only strengthen our creativity, right? 

Leave a comment if you are interested, and the first par-tay can be at my house.  If you don't have a sewing machine, I can let you use mine (after a drivers ed type course).  If you don't have crochet hooks, I can also let you use mine (as I have MANY).   I've got some shitty yarn I can probably let go of too, but if you want the nice stuff, you might need to supply your own :)