So, how was your weekend? I stayed busy, busy, busy. Saturday was a trip to Fort Caswell where this happened:

And then from there it was out to the ball park where there was this:

And then there was and a movie with the fam and this:

Sunday was church, a nap and then shopping for this*:

And also these:

I got these to help with the organizing of the bazillion craft projects. I figured they’s be good sized for tool storage and also the materials. Especially for the cross-stitch, I think I could get the pattern, the piece and everything else I needed in there, too.

Today, I’ve been dentist-ing and cleaning. I do have a picture of the former, but I am saving it for a slow day. As for the latter, that’s why I can’t tell you if my storage idea works or not.

*Those are not my feet and those are not my shoes. They are, however, someone’s first high heels, so I thought they were worth a mention.

Welcome to the third edition of the Online Craft Club Show and Tell.

Wow, ya’ll. I am still reeling from digging out all those WIPs. I still do not have a plan for tackling it, and I have worked a bit on a couple of things. I do plan to build a page, I wasn’t kidding about that, but I’m a busy gal, and so I have not done it yet. So, I had to debate, AGAIN, what to talk about, and the tear-it-out-and-re-do Log Cabin won.

Here’s what it looked like on Wednesday,

and here’s what it looked like about 8:30 last night. I’m ripping the square (which isn’t laying all that flat anyway) as I go.

I’m actually combining two pieces into one, and I first talked about that here, except it was only one piece then.

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I hope you enjoyed my show and tell. I’d love it if you play along with me. Here’s what you do:

Take a picture of your current project, whatever that happens to be. Or maybe one you recently finished. Or the materials for the one you are about to start. Let’s say materials for a project in whatever state it happens to be in at the time you snap it. On Friday, post the picture and tell us about your project. What you did, or what you are going to do. How much you are enjoying it, or hating it. You know–show and tell.

Just copy & paste the code below the graphic and get crafty with me!

<a href="http://www.cassknits.com/category/online-craft-club/"><img src="http://i236.photobucket.com/albums/ff136/cassknits/online-craft-club-sidebar-sized.jpg" alt="" /></a>

Be sure to come back and leave a comment so we know where to find you!

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So, what did I do craft-wise this weekend? I sewed in 7 lines of quilting on the blue quilt, and then I ripped them out. I ripped back some knitting on a scrap blanket that I am going to convert into a crocheted log cabin, so It will be usable faster. I sewed the shoulder on Sonnet, and ripped it out. And sewed the shoulder on Sonnet, and ripped it out. And sewed the shoulder on Sonnet and ripped it out. And sewed the shoulder on Sonnet. Yeah, this weekend was a real rip! haha, I slay myself.

Okay, let’s switch gears. You know I pay attention to the placement of his blog on search engines. I look at the keywords people use to land here and try to write articles using keywords that mean something to crafters, so that when the search engines crawl this site, they find those words and report them to searchers. That’s just simple SEO. But today I was on a site that advocated making static pages as well as dynamic ones. I had a momentary inward groan at the amount of work that would entail, until I realized that WP contains a built in static page builder. I think of this blog as one page, a whole entity, as it were, but that’s not how Google views it at all. Each and every post, each monthly archive, and category archive is a page in Google’s eyes. I guess that explains why people land where they do when they come in off the search engines, LOL.

Another site from the drafts: Lion Brand Yarn. Here you’ll find “Inspiration, Education and Free Patterns for Knitters and Crocheters”. Much of it is novelty yarn, but there are some good basics here too. I made my first socks from the 56 round sock pattern on this site. I’ve made several things from there, in fact, but, they’ve all been in plain yarn, LOL. That’s just me.

Still nothing picture worthy, though I knit on both projects yesterday and today, and I think the day before, too. Since that’s the case, I’m pulling out another one of those sites I’ve been meaning to talk about. (yeah, I have a bunch of them in draft, LOL)

This one is for teh crocheters among us. Crochet Me is “the online crochet magazine that follows no rules but our own.” You’ll find articles, patterns, tips and tutorials here. Oh, and a blog! Go make something, and may your projects move faster than mine

I know that’s shocking, but it’s true. I’ve completed three more small items.
Possibly the world’s ugliest hat, vying with one I made last year. But being crocheted from doubled yarn, it may also be the world’s warmest, so I guess that evens things out. It’s going in the Dulaan box.

I extended the ribbing on these shorts, so they can be used again.

And I made this soaker. The waistband and leg cuffs are washable wool, and I am actually intending to felt this just a bit, so it will be a great night-time soaker. It’s worth noting that DD#4 HAD to wear it before I put the cuffs on it. let me just say that it’s much more pleasant to knit on a fresh, unworn soaker than to grab on that’s been used overnight and put cuffs on it while it’s damp. Just sayin’

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Here is the Crusher Hat I’ve been talking about. The hat was made with Caron Simply Soft Shadows in Opal Twist. I used it doubled with an I hook.I t took almost two balls to make it.

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