Painful Reads: Crochet with Books

Crochet with Books

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I told myself, "Vangie, when you make 10 Crochet with Books items, you are to give 5 away", when I made my 3rd Crochet with Books project. And here is me doing what I told myself to do.

It wasn't really hard deciding what I'd be giving away, since a good half of the projects I did were made for people who agreed that the colors would be based off of book covers. So the projects that are going to be given away are the ones that were solely made for Crochet with Books. These said projects are:

Make It Count Clutch

Faking It Pillow

(book size)

Upside Down Star Pillow

Make It Right Purse

(purse size: more than half the size of a book)

Nash Infinity Scarf

(child sized)

(Click on images to know more about the project)

ALSO... along with each Crochet with Books project the winner will be given a No Blog Left Behind bookmark, AND the ebook that inspired the project.

So what do you have to do to enter?

Comment on the blog post of the crocheted item you'd like to win (Click on image up above to do so) stating your first name, the crocheted item you'd like to win AND the book that comes along with it. (Please comment stating ALL three items needed to enter).

This giveaway is going to last a week (8/15 - 8/22) and will be open to Canada and the US.

You can enter 5 times a day, if you want to be entered for each crochet item, for a total of 35 entries.

I'll be using Random.org to choose each winner. Once a winner is chosen for a certain item, if they entered for others they won't be added to the next draw.

If you have any questions about what is stated above, go ahead and comment and I'll try to answer you as quick as possible.

AND NOW COMMENT AWAY!

-Vangie

Good Luck!

Update: Add your email into the comment as well!

GUYS I HAVE MADE MY BEST CREATIONS YET.
I lie. I lie. All my Crochet with Books so far have been the best. I've gotten out of my comfort zone and crocheted items that were not my usual scarves and beanies. And these two projects were no different.

So if you didn't know before, I love Faking It by Cora Carmack. It's one of my favorite NA reads and my go-to read when I'm in the dumps. So I knew I wanted to crochet an item for it and I did.
So recently I started sewing; not legit sewing but I got the basic concepts down. And now with my mix of crochet and sewing skills, I created a PILLOW. Yes a pillow, here's proof.

And this is a photo of me messing with my unfinished Faking It pillow. I was thinking of making a hat that looked like that, don't know if I'll actually do it though.

ANYWAYS! While I was finishing my Faking It pillow, I was in the middle of reading Upside Down by Lia Riley, which has also become one of my favorite NA reads. So I thought I should make something for that beauty too, and I did... It was another pillow. BUT A STAR PILLOW. Again, proof:

I was originally going to do both sides the same color and then thought that wouldn't do the book justice so I did this.

Here are some more photos of me messing with my Upside Down pillow. Oh and I absolutely adore this pillow right here. I love it so much that I'm thinking about making another one and giving one away. We'll see how it goes.

So those were my 9th and 10th crochet projects I made this summer. And probably the last ones that I'll be doing for this year since school is starting back up and fall and winter are when I get crochet orders. BUT I will try my damn hardest to make time to crochet these fun projects.

*whispers* Look out for a giveaway soon!

-Vangie

SO I fell in love with this book called Pieces of Olivia. And I knew I wanted to crochet something for this beauty. So I did. It wasn't going to be a purse at first, but my little sister was begging for a purse like my Make It Count Purse. To please her, I did, and this was the result.

My sister loves it; hope y'all do too.

Working on the next Crochet With Books projects
-Vangie

I'M DONE!
And the best thing is that some one wants to buy this! So double bonus!

If you didn't see the post about this particular project, no worries. Recap: I'm doing a Crochet with Books project based on Nicole Williams' Crush cover -->
Which is gray and pink... to my eyes.

So here's the finished creation!

And here's an ugly picture of the unfinished project and of me playing with it. (Yea don't mind me... I'm weird.)

It turned out better than I expected which is awesome because it was a new stitch that I've never tried before this project. Here's a close up of the project

Well, I hope y'all like it because I had a blast making it!

Thinking of new Crochet with Books ideas

-Vangie

FINALLY

I'M DONE

I started this project a while ago and now I'm proud to say that I am finished! It didn't actually take that long to make but it was very difficult for me to make time to work on it. And so I set a day to work on it, determined to finish. And I did, thank the Lord.

Some people know what I was making and some were clueless. (Click here for some background of this project). I sent a few snippet photos of the project to Megan and to some of my favorite book friends on twitter, and I was getting nothing but happy replies which was what urged me to finish this and finally show y'all.

So here it is... my Make It Right over-the-shoulder purse! (Yes, that is my 6-year-old smile in the background)

Hope y'all like it! and now I move on to my next Crochet with Books project... I'm beyond excited for this next one.

-Vangie

P.S. Stay tuned because I'll have something fun for y'all once I hit 10 Crochet with Books projects!

SOOOOOOO.... I've decided that for this new Crochet with Books idea to do something different.

First off, I bought some paint -->

Along with some white yarn that I began to unravel... <--

And I decided to mix the two... ∧
and let it dry... ∨ and hopefully it will be dry within the next couple of days! (I've never done this before and it was a blast!)

So you might be wondering what this is for and as I've said before, this is for a Crochet with books project, however since the cover hasn't been released yet I'm not able to show y'all what it looks like... HECK I don't even know what it looks like. All I've been told is that these are the main colors and, for now, I'm content with that much info. Hopefully by the time I'm done with this particular project, the cover will be released and we can compare the cover and my project.

Off to get a blow dryer to speed up the drying process

-Vangie

P.S. I don't think I stated this, but this is for Make It Right, the second Bowler University book by Megan Erickson

P.P.S. (HAHAHA "pp". Ignore me.) Megan is pretty darn awesome. And I'm beyond excited to see the cover and finish the project.

UPDATE: HERE IS THE COVER