Crocheting Some Days Away!

Hello Everyone!

So I feel like I haven't shared a lot of the crocheting projects that I have been working on. My birthday was last month and I got a lot of yarn so that I could crochet more! And then after that I got onto a crocheting kick which wasn't too bad because I got to finish up some old projects that I have been meaning to finish up for a while!

So let me get started by saying that I love to crochet it makes me so happy so whenever I have a chance to learn a new skill within crocheting I am all for it! I am really into looking at and following a long with one of my favorite crocheting bloggers, Sarah from Repeat Crafter Me (you can look at her blog HERE). It's so cute, she really does an amazing job with everything that she comes up with I have to try everything! One of the blog posts that she shared was where she crocheted a border around a piece of fleece and that is where I got the idea of making my sister-in-law's baby shower gift. I made her a blanket by crocheting around a big piece of fleece. You can also go HERE to look at when I talked about my sister-in-law's baby shower.

In this picture it was folded in half, it was a pretty big blanket to keep my little niece warm! :)

This is the close up on the boarder. It took a while to get this boarder done but I think that it turned out great.

What I did on this blanket was I used a skip stitch blade and it made little holes where you see the stitches and fleece come together. Then I used Red Heart yarn that was especially for babies! It is super soft I loved the colors that it came in.

The next crochet project was one that I started on my birthday to give to my brother and sister-in-law (Brandon and Courtney)for my niece for her blessing day.
I used a Sweet Roll from Premier Yarns that is called Cheesecake Pop. I used a total of three balls of this yarn. I used a J crochet hook. I think that the over all project turned out great!

This is the full blanket! I love how the colors were different every other row, it looks so pretty!

This is the close up of the stitches. I did two rows of single crochet and then two rows of double crochet.

And this is one of the edges. There were many possibilities that I could do for the boarder such as doing just a single crochet boarder with a different yarn or the same, but I decided to leave it the way it was! I think that it looks really great!

Well those were the projects that I finished up just recently! I hope you liked seeing some of them because a lot more are coming your way!

~Bethany

Recipe and Notes Plaques Tutorial

Hello Everyone!
I hope everyone has been doing well. I have been meaning to write this a while ago but I have been busy with school.
Since I had my eye surgery in December I didn't really have the time to make the plaques that I am going to show you. I finally finished all of them in the middle of January but I didn't get the chance to take pictures of them until the beginning of February. I made one of each for myself, my mom, my sisters, and my sister-in-law for their Christmas gifts. I also got these cute plaques at The Wood Connection!

So this is what the Recipe plaque came with. It came with vinyl that said "Recipe", a dowel so that it could stand, and a little clip so that it could hold a recipe!

What you will need is the plaque kit that I showed you above, your choice of paint (since the vinyl is a light tan color I would recommend doing a darker shade of paint), a paint brush, a vinyl applicator, and sand paper or a sanding block. You also need wood glue to put the clip on at the end. For the paint on this one I am using Delta paint and it is called Tahiti Blue.

So after you do how ever many coats of paint that you would like you will put the vinyl on where you want it to go.

This is what it looks like when the vinyl is on. All that is left to do is put the little clip on and then you are set.

And there it is! To finish off the recipe plaques I sprayed it with a gloss spray so that if anything would get on it while you are cooking you could just wipe it off!

These are all of the Recipe plaques that I made! I let everyone pick their own colors so that it would go with their kitchen.

This is the Notes plaque kit. It has everything that the Recipe plaque had but the vinyl says Notes.

All of the materials that you need are about the same except you will need chalk paint instead of regular paint and you don't need to use the clip if you don't want to. I decided to leave it off in all of the ones that I did.

So on this you need to put two coats down of the chalkboard paint. This is when it has two coats on it.

Before you condition the chalkboard paint put the vinyl on first so that it will be able to actually stick.

To condition the chalkboard paint before you can actually write on it: take a piece of chalk and cover the whole surface and then wipe off. This is before I wiped it off.

And this is after I wiped it off. And now it is ready to be written on! I didn't spray this with anything, if I would have they wouldn't have been able to write on it.

I gave my family this plaque with chalk and a chalkboard eraser.

And there you go. There are the finished plaques!

And here are all of the plaques that I made!

I hope that you guys like my first ever tutorial! If you guys think that I should do more just let me know! Also I am now doing custom orders for wood and crochet projects, so feel free to email me at createwithbethany8@hotmail.com or you can dm me on my Instagram account!

Have a great day guys!

~Bethany