August 2: chicken

Today’s toy is a crocheted chicken. Design by Sweet Softies. Using Lion Brand mandala yarn, Hobby Lobby’s Yarn ID, Lion Brand’s pound of love, Hobby Lobby’s Soft Secret, and a 2 mm crochet hook, this is just two granny squares sewn into a triangular shape. Great way to use scraps. I will also make this…

August 2, 2024 Friday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080224.cfm Today’s first reading is an account of Jeremiah telling the people what God told him to tell them. There will be judgement for your sinfulness. The people want to kill Jeremiah. In the gospel, Jesus is at home and the people cannot comprehend the God part of Jesus. They see him as a man…

August 1, 2024 Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/080124.cfm In today’s first reading the Lord sends Jeremiah to the potter to see him perfect his creation made with the clay. So is the Lord working on us, creator of the universe and man. In the gospel, Jesus again speaks of the kingdom of heaven. This time it is like a net cast into…

July 31: axolotl

Today’s toy is a crocheted axolotl. Design by Sweet Softies. I was reluctant to make this toy, but this pattern is really fun to make. Using bloom chenille yarn from Premiere and a 4.5 mm crochet hook, this size is perfect. I did make other sizes from this pattern. It is a no sew pattern,…

July 31, 2024 Memorial of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, Priest

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/073124.cfm In today’s first reading Jeremiah is asking the Lord for relief. God told him, “If you repent, so that I restore you,in my presence you shall stand; For I am with you,to deliver and rescue you, says the LORD. I will free you from the hand of the wicked,and rescue you from the grasp…

July 30, 2024 Tuesday of the Seventeenth Week in Ordinary Time

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/073024.cfm Today’s first reading is Jeremiah viewing the destruction of man due to sin and pleading with God for relief. Do not forget our covenant! In the gospel, Jesus explained the parable of the weeds and the wheat. God provides the wheat which are the righteous people following God’s commandments. The devil sowed the weeds…

July 29: daisy

Today’s toy is a crocheted daisy plant. Design by Lauren Espy. Using Red Heart and Hobby Lobby’s Yarn ID, I used a 3 mm hook. The stem is wrapped around a dowel. There is also a foam ball in the pot under the soil. You have to make 9 petals and with the sunflower, 16!…