Floral Hot Pad Set

I finished the hot pad set for my grandma's sister-in-law.  I sent my mom the above picture, and she said that she will love them.  My mom will pick them up later this month and mail them to her.

This is one of my favorite patterns to crochet.

I used Bernat's cotton yarn for all of these hot pads.

Here is the pattern for this wonderful hot pad.

Crochet Group Today

Someone that I know asked me 2 weeks ago if I could help her make a crochet scarf.  The pattern was in chart form, which I had never done before.  So I needed to learn how to read a chart.  Also she wanted to invite a few friends with various crochet skills to the get together.  The scarf pattern is made up of several floral motifs in fingering yarn with a small crochet hook.  Since the pattern was for a single floral motif, I thought that it would be easier to make coasters using worsted weight yarn and a larger hook.  After they get the hang of it, then they could move on to the smaller hook and yarn.  The above picture was taken before we got started.  I was working on a scrubby while I waited.  There were 3 ladies, one who did not know how to crochet, one who was rusty and wanted to make a granny square blanket, and the one who organized the get together.  I showed the one lady who was new to crochet how to chain and single crochet, and she practiced doing that.  It was a nice morning crocheting with these ladies.

I had made two cotton versions of the motif before the get together today.

Here is the pattern.

I'm working on a different version of the red scrubby that I made the other day, but this time with the white Christmas cotton yarn.  There is a sparkly silver thread that is in it.  

Pattern:

Chain 2

Single crochet (sc) in the center / first chain 8 times

Double crochet (dc) in each stitch two times for two rounds

Sc in every stitch 2 times for one round

Sc in every stitch 3 times for the remaining rounds.

Here is where I am at with my son's granny square blanket.  I don't know how big it is, but its not that big at the moment.

Ocean Grove Round Washcloth

I started crocheting this washcloth Sunday night while having a special dinner at my yoga teacher's house.  I finished it yesterday.  I'm thinking about giving it to my yoga teacher as a thank you for hosting the dinner party (it was part of a weight loss & yoga combo class that I've been taking for a few weeks).  The washcloth was very easy to make, and it would be very easy to make it larger.  The pattern was free on Lion Brand's website: Ocean Grove Round Washcloth.