It has been a while ... a year a while. I should get better with this. I will not make any promises, but the potential seems to be there. My main issue seems to be documenting my work. I would much rather continue working through, than stopping to take a picture and continue.
With my 2017 goal (early resolution) being to knit, bead, and create enough products to hit every local craft fair imaginable come the 2017 Christmas season, I need motivation. What better way of motivation than this blog. It'll be like my food journal for crafts.
I've also gotten myself super organized for this Girl Scout year and I want to document that, as well.
My Girl Scout troop this year holds 29 girls. We are a multi-level and the only troop in my Service Unit that seems to want girls. We are Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors and I am heading up the Daisies this year. I've mapped out meeting plans for various Daisy Petals as well as various fun patches, drives, etc.
This Google Drive Folder is a work in progress, so keep checking back. You are free to use whatever meeting plans you want, tweak and edit various pages as you please. If you are having trouble navigating Google Drives, feel free to send an email, and I will be more than happy to forward you other versions (I have it available on One Drive, as well for the Microsoft Users).
On to the fantastic title of this post ... leg warmers! The amazingly awesome fad in the 80's that everyone loved and to some are still quite the thing. To my awesome nine year old, they are a thing. At her request, so she could continue to wear dresses and shorts throughout the year (my child is extremely hot blooded), she asked that I make her leg warmers.
I had several pair already in my queue on Ravelry, but the one I absolutely adored without question were Mosey by Susan Power.
I used the Michael's exclusive "Caron Cakes" yarn in Rainbow Sprinkles. You can probably make two (sans the i-cord and pompom) with one skein, but I purchased two, because I already had an idea of what I wanted to do with them and I definitely wanted to match (I'm usually the type that just doesn't care if it matches or not).
The biggest pain in the butt, had to be making the pompoms all the same size. I have the pompom makers, but naturally I wasn't counting or paying attention to how much I was wrapping them, so two of the four I had to trim down excessively.
Overall, I love the pattern, I'm already addicted to Caron Cakes and will be buying up several skeins more with all the coupons I get in the mail from Michael's.
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