Pioneer Woman at Heart: Embellished Crochet Paper Clips

Friday, February 28, 2025

. . .from the handiwork journal {Feb 28, 2025}

The month of February typically is the month we tend to get the most snowfall. Now we are thawing out, and having some flooding. Heck, Wednesday we started out with everything frozen again, then snow showers, followed by a day of rain.

Yesterday we woke up to fog. The weather is all over the map right now. Just after dinner time last night, we had a rain shower.

Ribbit, Ribbit. 🐸 Sounds like Rip it, Rip it. It's where the term "frogging" a crochet project comes from. Ripping out stitches due to mistakes in previous rows.

I did more frogging this past week than I wish I had, ha ha! I worked on the blue and white baby blanket, but kept making mistakes. I am not sure if it was my husband talking to me, or if I was just having an "off" day. Ha. If fact, I had to rip out a few rounds last night (again) due to an extra stitch I had made in a previous row. I hope to get it finished soon.

Update on the "book" blanket granny squares.

. . . finished more books, so more matching granny squares for my "book" blanket. These books were both on my shelf for several years (other than the very last book). The first book granny square is a repeat photo from last Monday's post, but these are all the newest ones made for the "book" blanket. All of them have been crocheted to the blanket (other than the last three).

The "BAT" book was tucked into a drawer and forgotten about last year. My Mom gave me book #1 and I read it about a year ago, and bought book 2 and 3. She just handed me the book with a giggle, and told me I just had to read it. Hence the kids book included in my reading this year.

. . . some embellished paperclips, to use up the last bit of some crochet thread.

Lastly. . .

I found a new pacifier holder pattern, and I love it. Funny story about finding it. I went on a search, so I could make one to gift with the pink baby blanket soon.

I can't exactly remember how I saw the one I liked. Maybe doing an image search? Once I found the one I wanted, I checked Ravelry. All of the finished ones were noted with a pamphlet or copy of Crochet World Magazine. After extensive searching, I somehow found a book that it was published in, and wa-la, our library had a copy.

My first crocheted pacifier holders - Pattern is from Crochet Crowd. As you can see at the clip, it is rounded, and slides back and forth on the clip. It's cute, but I was not really that happy with the final results. I also had a hard time getting it to lay flat, even after blocking it.

These crochet up very quickly, and they fit the clip much better than the last pattern I used from Crochet Crowd (using #3 crochet thread). The pattern I used, uses #10 cotton crochet thread. I already had the clips, because I had made a few using the last pattern.

Last month, I was him-hawing about getting rid of a bag of misc. beads. I'm glad I did not. I used some jewelry supplies, jewelry tools, spare beads, and created a way to attach a row counter to my project bag (or project) for traveling. Talk about a happy gal. No purchases needed. The row counter actually came in a bag of odd assortments from a thrift store haul years ago.

Results? I love this for road trips or just any long drive with time to do handiwork. I still feel I will be using paper and pen any other time.