Jessie At Home

3 Dec | 2013

Thanksgiving Weekend 2013

Well hello my friends! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend. Time to get ready for more holidays. They just never stop this time of year!!

There was some sort of Tricky~Tray at one of Doug’s jobs, and he tossed a ticket in a cup for something for me. Look what he won for me!

It’s actually a nice little book. The projects are really cute. The best part is the pictures:

Now there is a girl who loves to knit!!

We had a nice long weekend over here. We went to Doug’s mom’s for Thanksgiving. It was fun. The girls got a bit crazy around dessert time.

Most of the rest of the weekend was spent in Pajama~Time at home. The girls spent some time reading to each other, it was extremely cute!

One day over the weekend, Doug and the girls did some leaf raking. They have discovered if they put the pile right next to the tree it provides a long run way to run and jump into the pile.

After the jumping, there was much leaf~throwing.

It’s raining leaves!!

Eventually they had to bag up all the leaves and come inside.

I thought making wrapping paper would be a good way to keep the littles busy on a cold, inside day. We are all ready to wrap some presents now!

I have been getting ready for the Holiday Boutique that will be happening at the girls’ school on Thursday and Friday. It runs from 9 to 4 both days, and all the kids get some time to come and shop for their families. The parents can then stop by after school if they want to get some shopping in. I did pretty well there last year. I am hoping to do even better this year. Wish me luck!

Well, that’s it for now. I do have several exciting patterns coming up for you. Just wait, more fun is coming!

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Filed Under: Crafts, Crochet, Family, Holidays, Knit, Nature, Playing, Twins Tagged With: Craft Show, crochet, Fall, family, Fun, Holiday, Knit, Leaves, Thanksgiving

28 Nov | 2013

Another gift for you!

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I seem to have so much to say lately! Yesterday I posted a quick pattern for you that makes great last minute gifts; but I forgot the other little gift I have for you. Now through Sunday, January 5th, you can receive 15% off your entire purchase in my Ravelry store with coupon code “Holiday”.

All day today I will also be tweeting about people I am thankful for that have helped me (are still helping me) to achieve more and more success as a crochet/knit pattern designer and blogger. There is much more that I am thankful for, but I would miss Thanksgiving with my family if I tried to type it all out, so I decided to focus on this one subject for my online thankfulness.

I want you to know that I am VERY thankful for every one of you. Whether you comment or not, whether you read every post of mine, or whether this is your first, whether you follow me on all my social media sites, or just here, whether you are here for the family posts, the crafty posts, the crochet posts, or all of them. Thank you

oh, and I am thankful to Google for reminding me the difference between weather and whether.

Filed Under: Crochet, Knit Tagged With: Coupon, crochet, Knit

27 Nov | 2013

Quick Scrap Yarn Slip Stitch Bracelet ~ Free Crochet Pattern

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Happy Thanksgiving! I have a new pattern for you. Thank you for joining me here “At Home”!!

Quick Scrap Yarn Slip Stitch Bracelet
Crochet Pattern
Intermediate Skill Level
Designed by Jessie Rayot

This bracelet is a great way to use up those little balls of yarn you have tucked away! They also make great last minute gifts. You can even choose your team colors to show your spirit. These bracelets work great as wrist warmers as well. You can make them as skinny or wide as you want, and any size you need! I find them very simple to make, but slip stitch crochet is considered an intermediate skill, hence the intermediate listing on this pattern. Enjoy!

Sizes:
Whatever size you want to make!

Yarn:
Pretty much any size “regular” yarn. Not recommended for novelty yarns. The sample in the photos is made with Berroco Vintage Chunky.

Hook:
Whichever size coordinates with your yarn, or even go up one size to keep your stitches loose

Gauge:
Not important, but you do want to keep your stitches loose so that you don’t have to struggle to make your slip stitches

Stitches and Skills used:
Ch ~ chain
Sl St ~ slip stitch
St(s) ~ stitch(es)
Sk ~ skip
Beg ~ beginning

Getting Started:

First, find a little ball of scrap yarn. Check the couch cushions. Find a hook that works with the yarn you have chosen, then get started!

Pattern:

Row 1: Ch until desired height of bracelet is achieved, for the sample I made a ch 5. Now ch one more. Sl st in the bottom loop of the 2nd ch from hook, and in the bottom loop of each remaining ch.

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Bottom loop of 2nd ch from hook

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Sl st into bottom loop of 2nd ch from hook.

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End of row 1.

Row 2: Ch 1, turn, sl st in back loop only of each sl st across row (so if you started with ch 5, plus 1, you will make 5 sl sts in this row)

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Back loop of first sl st (the st to the right of the needle is the turning chain)

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Sl st in back loop only.

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End of row 2.

Repeat row 2 until bracelet is desired length.

Finishing: Fold bracelet in half and sl st together.

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Slip stitch two ends together

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Playing with colors and sizes

Ideas:

With smaller scraps of yarn, you can make stripes. With even smaller scraps, make 2 rows of each color, and tie the ends at the bottom of the bracelet to make little tassels *see photo*. Just have FUN with it!!

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Teeny tiny scraps!

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Filed Under: Crochet, Jewelry, Pattern, Tutorial Tagged With: Bracelet, Free Crochet Pattern, Free Crochet Tutorial, Jessie At Home, Last Minute Gift, Scrap Yarn

26 Nov | 2013

Playing with color makes me happy

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Hello my friends! How are all of you?

I have been under the weather in a rather miserable way, but I am starting to feel better, and should be back to myself in a week.

Thankfully, I got everything straightened out with Flickr/Yahoo and am able to sign into my Flickr account again.

I have not had the chance to get some snaps of my Katherine coat yet, but I will soon. I have a few testers going, and am very hopeful to have the pattern ready for you before Easter! Here is another look at my belt with all the pretty colors all rolled up.

I thought a good way to make myself feel better would be with some pretty colored yarn! So I got going on a pattern that has been rolling around in my head for some time. I needed to roll up 2 skeins of yarn and didn’t feel like getting out the swift and the ball winder, so I enlisted the help of the cute little blond child. Isn’t she just the cutest swift you have ever seen?!

What a sweetie! She was so happy to help Mommy. She is always happy to help. They both are. I am a very lucky Mommy!!

Here is a quick snap I took of the colors I have been playing with. They are actually a bit more jewel toned then the picture shows, and the middle is really more teal.

I have a Thanksgiving gift for all of you! Tomorrow or the next day I will put up a quick little tutorial on making a fun bracelet with your yarn scraps. It is also a great way to introduce yourself to slip stitch crochet. I just need to get some good photos to go with the tutorial.

As I have been feeling under the weather, I have not been in much of a cooking mood lately. So this was the girls’ dinner a few nights ago. (I had the same thing, just on a different plate, the girls shared this plate)

They were quite happy with the dinner. However, one of them *Kyla* liked the turkey much better then the cheese.

Vada and I took care of the little Swiss pile for her. The littles got a kick out of using the last roll up as a pincushion for the rest of the toothpicks. Eventually they had to remove all the toothpicks so they could finish dinner.

Have a lovely Thanksgiving my friends!

Jessie-At-Home

Filed Under: Crochet, Twins Tagged With: Colors, crochet, Flickr, Food, photos, Silly, yarn

24 Nov | 2013

Ugg ~ passwords!!

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So I was going to put up a short post with just a few pictures for you this evening. But I did a little laptop cleaning earlier and now I have to re~sign into everything. It seems my Flickr account is attached to an old yahoo account I don’t use anymore, and the backup email they have to send the new password is an old work account I don’t have anymore. Blech!!

So I am unable to get into my Flickr account until I hear back from Yahoo support.

Anyway, I can still post pictures straight from WordPress, I just don’t want to post too many that way. So, until I get this crazyness worked out, here is one pretty for you:

I have finally finished my Katherine coat! The hood is shorter, still long, but not so long it won’t stay on, the pockets are on, and the belt is done. That’s the belt above.

I hope to get some good snaps in the next week or two. I still need the pattern tested, which may take 3 or 4 months, especially with the holidays coming up, but the pattern will be ready for all of you in time to make it for next fall, or even spring if you knit fast!

If you want to be one of my testers, I could really use a few good knit testers for this coat. You can find my testing group on Facebook, here. I hate to have to point this out, but I do: If you intend on just getting a free pattern and running, you can’t do that with me. Until you have completed several tests with me I only give you the pattern in small pieces, so I know you will stick around.

Have a great week!

Filed Under: Knit, Other Tagged With: Flikr, photos, technical difficulties