What will You Be Doing on the 4th of July?

Happy 4th of July!!!

We are taking off to the mountains this week so I will not be posting till after the holiday, but I will be crocheting... what will you be crocheting? Anything new? Or are you finishing a project?


I'll be taking my:

   

What will I be doing??? I will be:

Crocheting

Reading

and writing Pen Pals

and enjoying the mountains with my hubby and pooches~~

See you again soon...

Happy 4th..

Ravelry Competes For Keeping "Ravelympics" Name

[source-The Telegraph]

This example of Olympic knitting was done on a rail in Saltburn-by-the-Sea Pier in Teesside 

Did you know that Ravelry was sent a "cease & desist" notice from the U.S, Olympics on their annual [3rd] hosted "Ravelympics," a knitting competition for users that includes events like an "afghan marathon," and "scarf hockey." Knitters were supposed to compete in their events while watching the actual games on TV.  

It appears that the U.S. Olympic Committee has sent a "cease and desist" letter to the knit/crochet community, Ravelry, for hosting a knitting "olympics." Now, knitters are outraged!

In 2010 Ravelry sold a pin to represent their knitters competing. 

2012 would have been the 3rd year Ravelry, a  surprisingly popular knitting event that has been hosted on Ravelry called  "Ravelympics." 

The U.S. Olympics Committee thinks that Ravelry was making a mockery of the games with their needlework. 

[source here]

The USOC demanded Ravelry change the name to the "Ravelry Games? A recent update stated that the U.S. Olympic Committee apologized 2x to knitters everywhere. Be sure to read the whole article here...


Maybe they should just switch to crochet???? lol.... really I searched Ravelry and cannot find many groups on there doing it this year???? Maybe I searched wrong??? 


I thought how fun it would be to see who will be crocheting during the Olympic games? If you will, what will you be crocheting? I thought that it would be fun to feature crocheters across the world...So if you do crochet during the Olympics send me a link to your projects and I will feature them here on "Crochetoholic's" blog for a "Crocheting During the Games" day....just leave a comment during the Olympics days July 27- August 12th....Let's see how many of us are crocheting during the games....


Have fun.... 

Twinkie Chan is Having a Give Away

"Twinkie Chan" is having a Give Away

Twinkie Chan is having a giveaway on her blog. Three people will win an iphone 4 cover, a notebook and a 20% discount at her etsy shop. Go here to enter! You may remember that I made a pizza scarf from one of her patterns

Summer Crochet Patterns Fun!!

 OMG this is too cute Maggies has this booklet available with this little cutie in an array of outfits...

These flip flops are so cute when you add this crochet decoration. Any flip flop these days can be owned 

for usually only a $1 at most $1 stores or WalMart... These are decorated to look really

snazy....Pattern available here

Oh this is too cute...pattern available here

I love this cute Owl bag...see it on Zoom Yummy

Here's another that you can order, too cute!!!

Stitch n' Chicks Had a Beach Party!!

Our Stitch n' Chicks "LYC" had its annual "Summer" party, this year the theme was "Beach" and we got dressed for the occasion and then we had a "decorate your pail" contest...very crafty...what fun we had included in this was a silly "Fashion Parade" through the living room into the kitchen then the voting began...I won the "Fashion" beach wear contest, [I wore my bikini, fish earrings and necklace, sun glasses, made my flip flops and had on my sun hat with my bag full of yarn to crochet on the beach] and I won for my pail, and Maria won for her pretty pail...Pat's pail was hilarious, she cut out pictures from magazines and added our faces to the photos...it was fantastic!!! Our prizes were sand pails filled with a beach towel and crossword puzzle book with a large candy bar...Yummy everything we need to take to the beach... Patricia did a wonderful job putting it together....what fun...oh yeah and I won playing L,C, R, game and Maria won all the YARN!!!! WOW!!!!

my pail

she's crocheting

everyone's pails lined up for voting

winner

too funny

she glued on sand

the beach gang

playing for yarn

winner

winner

winner

winner

winner

these glasses I got last year at the LA Fair they open up

the loot

we decorated with bathing suits

ohhh Hot Mama...lol....that's as close I get to a bikini