The Book Corner

Are you a member of the CGOA?? Did you get your copy of the Winter 2011 Crochet! Magazine with the Chain Link Newsletter inside? If so, be sure to check out The Book Corner!! My debut in book reviews for the CGOA!! In this issue I am reviewing Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workbook: 50 Motifs, 10 Projects, 1 of a Kind Results by Ellen Gormley. Let me know what you think...I'd love some comments!

I Stink!

I am doing a very poor job of updating my blog. Sorry.

So let me jot down a few things for you so I don't feel like such a looser.

I have added another new section to my etsy shopReady2Ship Photo Props." Here you will find some great items ready and willing to be used for your next photo session. Most items will be newborn and baby sized and a lot of them will be one-of-a-kind! Right now I have listed some great items for all your Valentine's Day photos! My favorite is the Pink Heart Diaper Cover!!

Also, over at the CGOA site, they are accepting votes for the Crochet Hall of Fame!! Be sure to stop by and cast your vote!

Now to go finish some housework and hopefully start on a new crochet pattern... titled "

CGOA Conference, Here I come!

Well, as close as I'm gonna get anyways!!

I just shipped off my entry for the first CGOA Crochet Design Contest that is being held at the 2008 summer Knit & Crochet show in New Hampshire. Man! I soooooooooooo wish I could be there!! But at least my crochet can, LOL!!!

So if you are one of the lucky ones that get to be there, look for pink and green in the baby category!

And maybe even vote for me if you get the opportunity!

Stitch of the Week!

Are you a crocheter??? Do you belong to the CGOA??? Well, you should!! The Crochet Guild of America is the most amazing organization!! I don't know where I would be right now without them!!

Well, over on our Yahoo board we have been doing something called The Stitch of the Week. Any member is allowed to teach their favorite stitch to the rest of the group. I've learned some wonderful new stitches and have even been inspired by a few of them to create a new pattern!! (see my Breast Cancer Awareness Skinny Scarf!) Well, this is my week to teach!!! I decided to do the Herringbone Half-Double crochet!

This group has been wonderful to me!! I joined their Associate Professional program earlier this year and was assigned a wonderful mentor....Miss Dee of CrochetWithDee! She has been an amazing inspiration to me and an amazing help! I've also corresponded with some other fabulous designers....The phenomenal Drew "The Crochet Dude", the adorable Kim Guzman, and the creative Vashti just to name a few! What a wonderful ride it's been!!! Personally I am just amazed at the number of design submissions that I have already had accepted!! And I don't think any of them could've happened without the help of these designers and the CGOA!

So, if you like to crochet, I strongly recommend that you join the CGOA!! (Especially if you are in Grand Junction!!! I want to start a local chapter!!!!)

Happy Crocheting!

Guest Blogger!!

YAY!! Today I am the guest blogger for my CGOA mentor!! Thanks Dee for the opportunity!!

http://journals.aol.com/crochetwithdee/CrochetWithDee