It’s a Heat Wave Here, an Idea, and Another Contest

Wow, I can’t believe how hot it has been here and in other parts of the United States. I have given up on keeping the grass green; I’m just trying to keep the few trees and plants that I have alive. How hot is it where you live? Hot weather gives me an excuse to stay in and crochet; of course warm weather and cold weather do the same thing to me. I really don’t have to have an excuse to crochet; like I always say I have to crochet! To me crocheting is like breathing, I need it to live. Ok, enough of that.

I counted my crocheted flowers yesterday and I only need one more to complete the 8 that I need to make the 2 pillows per piece of fabric that I bought. Then I can start making the pillow covers and I will be writing the instructions for the making of the pillow cover also. As I was making the flowers the other day I ran across the directions that I wrote 5 years ago for this crocheted flower and one of my good friends Kat wanted to try it out. So I sent the pattern to her not remembering what I had written or not remembering that I never proofed the pattern either. So when Kat emailed me and said that she had a few questions about my directions I took a closer look and found that I didn’t even understand what I had wrote so how could I email her back and try to explain it. Well I knew that I would have to call her and I knew that Kat would have to crochet along as I explained the directions and I knew that it would be a challenge. Thank goodness Kat was a good sport and was up for the challenge too. Anyway about an hour and a half later Kat was well on her way to making her own flower and that prompted me to rewrite the pattern, so as I make this last flower I have written down the pattern and I will be making a flower from this one and call the first pattern that I wrote a rough-rough draft. Ha! Ha! I told Kat that she was a very good proofreader and then I told myself, “Self, since you are rewriting this pattern correctly AND with the encouragement from all of your family and friends, why not submit your flower to Mollie Makes magazine?” And that leads me to another thing, I will need a name for my flower and doesn’t that sound like another contest coming on? Since last month was my one year anniversary of writing my own blog I think it would be fun to have a pillow naming contest. This time all the names that you come up with will go into a bowl and will be drawn out randomly.

The Grand Prize winner will win a crocheted flower pillow of their very own made by Moi. (Tee Hee)

The second place winner will win an autographed Easy Learn to Crochet in One Day book that features around 30 fun and easy projects to crochet;

 

along with my own designs of a baby hat and sweater. (I hope the directions are clearly written in this book, since they were edited by DRG Publishing Co.) 

The third place winner will win the Triangle Treasury book designs by Darla Sims and published by Leisure Arts. Now get your thinking caps on and start sending me names either here or by email at have_2_crochet@yahoo.com or on Facebook. You can send me as many names as you want; the more times your name is in the bowl the better your chances are. I will be drawing on my best friend Debbie’s daughters 30^th birthday on August 14^th. Please remember I want the names to be really good so if my design is chosen to go into the Mollie Makes magazine, I’ll make sure that I mention the winner’s names too. 🙂

Speaking of contests I will be preparing my Candy Kaleidoscope afghan for shipping out of here to be in the

CGOA Design Contest competition real soon, I can not send it any sooner than August 15^th and the deadline to have it to Pennsylvania is August 31st. I hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week and Happy Crocheting!