Adopt Don't Shop

   

 Adopt Don't Shop
      There are so many animals in this world who are homeless.   They end up in shelters alone and scared and many are euthanised because there are just too many.  Shelters are over run and have to turn many away.  It is heart breaking to see.  

     Alot of people want purebred animals.  Cats and dogs which is fine if you can find a reputable breeder.   Although pure bred animals have been overbred and many come with a lot of health problems.  For instance German Sheppards, beautiful smart well behaved dogs, their breed has been altered to make them bigger and stronger and it caused many ailments in the dog. The number one cause of shorter life span for them is hip dyplasia.  This is a really good article about the German Shepherd.  It will expalin why some purebred animals have so many health problems.

The History and Origin of the German Shepherd Dog 

  http://gsrelite.co.uk/the-history-origin-of-the-german-shepherd-dog/. 

     I did not rescue my girls from the shelter. Tiger came from a farm where the cats were not spaid and or neurtered.

    

Sookee came from a box on the side of the road with her sister Smokee whos is grey.  

     

    

      Her sister still loves boxes... 

     

     Although cats are jerks and if you own one or three, you know this is why we love them.  Jerks yes, but they are truly grateful for their warm home and well stocked food dish.   These girls are loveable, sweet, bad, short tempered, love me kinda cats. 

    

 As you can tell my girls love yarn.  Love it!  So to keep my yarn clean my husband has come up with this for me.  

      To me there is no greater feeling than cuddling up on the couch with my hook and yarn and cat purring beside me..  Now that it is not to say they dont try to steal the yarn sometimes.  Every now and then I get a wet spot where they have chewed on it.  That makes it all part of the adventure.

     I hope if you decide to adopt you try your shelter first or animals that are homeless on the street.  They are furever grateful.  

   Adopt Don't Shop

Christmas Table Runner

Christmas Table Runner

 

 

 

I designed this graph at Stitch Fiddle

Yarn Used:
Red Heart Super Saver: Hunter Green - The back ground.
Red Heart With Love Metallic:  White - Santa's hat and Beard
Red Heart With Love Metallic: Red - Santa's hat, Santa's nose and mouth,  Rudolph's nose, the sleigh and the words HO HO HO.
Red Heart With Love Metallic: Black - For the Runners on Santa's sleigh, Santa's and Rudoplhs eyes.
Red Heart Super Saver : Oatmeal - Santa's bag of gifts.
Bernat Baby Sport:  Peach Blossom - Santa's Face.  I had to use two strands together as this is a very thin yarn.  
Red Heart Super Saver: Coffee- Rudolph's antlers
Red Heart Super Saver: Gold for Rudolph.

Crocheting the back ground I used almost two skeins of the Red Heart Super Saver Hunter green.  There is a lot of color changing.

Material:
Yarn
Sewing Needle
Scissors
Crochet hook.  H 5.0

This Table runner is made using the corner to corner stitch or C2C.  I started at the bottom left corner.  If you do not know how to crochet corner to corner there are several youtube turtorials.  Just type in corner to corner crochet in the search bar.  Also you will definitly want to sew in the ends as you go.  There will be a lot of color changes.
I use the Susan Bates finishing needles.  They are plastic, easy to thread and makes the process move much faster.

You will want to print out the graph so that you can mark off your rows as you go.

For the Border I used what is called the Candy Cane Crochet Border.  I learned how to do this watching the Youtube video from RepeatCrafterMe-Candy Cane Crochet Border.  This just makes the Table runner look so festive and fun.

This is really a designers choice.  You can use any color you want and besides the back ground I pretty much used scraps for the rest of it.

I hope you enjoy making this.