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 Tonight I decided to start on a pineapple tablecover.  This one will be a 36 inch circle.  Will be all in white and just beautiful asset to your home décor. This will be what my finished product will look like.  Getting excited..please check out our shop at https://www.etsy.com/shop/rustycupboard.....this table cover will soon be for sale for $59.99

 Our beautiful daughter...our only daughter...she does such a great job on all her projects...and she has so many talents.  She made me this loopy crocheted sweater for Christmas and it is so fun.  Even with the large holes in the stitches this is so warm.  It has a lot of uses as when I am not wearing it I use it as a cover up when I lay down to rest. Matches everything and is such a nice piece.  Thank you so much daughter for this wonderful gift.  These are available in our Shop.....https://www.etsy.com/shop/rustycupboard....don't forget to stop over and check it out.

 Had a client write and ask us to make her and orange crocheted doily.  Well, I haven't crocheted a doily using crochet thread for quite a while so this would be an undertaking for me.  So I researched some patterns from some old crochet books to see what I could find that wasn't to hard but doable.  We had to order in some pumpkin 100% cotton thread.  Here in our small town we have a Walmart but they only carry a little of the white thread.  So to get the pumpkin color we had to order in 3 balls.  I now have plenty of pumpkin.  This doily starts out basic and then goes into clusters of wheat.  Each little row working out to the ends are clusters of wheat.  Most of this pattern is done in sc, dc, and dctr crochet...so not hard.  You just have to remember to keep counting.  You don't want your doily to start curling.  That would be from to tight of stitches or to many stitches.  So had to keep my count ac...

Finally Christmas day is here....all the presents are ready and under the tree.  House is clean ...hubby reading the newspaper ….we got the ham in the oven getting all cooked.  There are 3 batches of candy made on the counter, gourmet caramel corn all bagged up.   Cherry pie cooling on the counter...couple salads in the refrigerator.  So I guess we are getting closer to being done.  We have 4 children and have been blessed to have them home most of the time for the holidays.  Oldest son lives 13 hours away so we don't see his family much any more.  Sure miss them.  Be sure to love and hug on the family members that want to be around.  Let them know how much you love and appreciate them.  Time goes so fast and then you look back and wonder.....what happened to when they were just learning to crawl or walk.  The excitement of them opening their gifts...they didn't care what was inside they just loved the opening of them and all the ex...