Handmade House: 4th Doctor Scarf Rug

Almost 2 months in the making. My super thick and cushy library rug! My library isn't a library yet, that comes later, but the rug is done. I'm super excited about his rug. It is pretty small, not like the Doctor's scarf, but it has the right colors, general pattern, and I crocheted it to look knit, just like the real scarf. I learned the camel stitch to make this rug. It is a front post half double crochet stitch. It makes a ball of yarn go only about half as far as a standard stich (or even a fpdc) but also makes it about twice as thick. This is a heavy rug! I know my cats like it. 

Anyway, I'm a big geek and I'm scattering Dr. Who all through my house. This rug is my latest addition. Love it. 

What's next? Funny baby pants. 

Life gets more complicated all the time.

As you may or may not know, Paul is a bubble boy. Skin problems (eczema), breathing issues (asthma), and lots of allergies (medical and food related). 

Today I did something I've never done. I contacted the Rice Dream company about their rice milk ingredients. 

I've contacted numerous restaurants and looked up ingredient list for tons of food choices. We never buy anything without reading the label- we always ask, "did you read that?" Companies change their ingredients all the time, with no warning. 

Today I actually inquired about a change in ingredients. Here's my email:

My husband has anaphylactic reactions to all animal milk, as well as all nuts. And more recently has developed an allergy to sunflower seeds and sunflower oil. This one has been particularly annoying because sunflower oil is the new fancy, more healthy, latest trend or whatever to put in everything. Rice milk is my husband's go to milk, and it is listed as an "and/or" oil in your rice milk. This makes us sad because this basically takes it out of the running for options for us. We make pumpkin pie with rice milk, and pancakes, and tons of other things too. But now, we can't use it. 

I was wondering if there are any plans in the works to simplify or change your ingredients by choosing just one oil to put in your rice milk? Of course, preferably not sunflower oil in our case. 

Almond milk, which doesn't work for his nut allergy either has already basically taken over the dairy free shelves in our stores (where there is one shelf of rice, one of soy, and 1/2 of coconut, there are 5 shelves of almond milk). And now rice milk has been stolen away too. Not from a change by your company (I'm pretty sure it's always been labeled and made that way) but by my husband's irrational body.  He doesn't like the taste of soy, and coconut is actually bad for his particular case of cholesterol issue. Rice was our perfect option. I was just inquiring and letting you know this issue exists in the world. Thanks for your time, looking forward to your comments. 

-Cori 

Hopefully I hear something back. Well, hopefully something positive, but anything at all would be nice. 

It is annoying to me how much almond milk has taken over the dairy free market. And how vegan anything means pretty much nothing, given vegans eat as many nuts as possible- and for good reason. It just doesn't help our unique case. 

Sunflower oil is in everything from chips and frozen fries to raisins and cereals. It's a hard thing because it is always an "and/or" oil, which means it may or may not be in any given bag or box, but we still can't get it. Sunflower is also not a top allergen, so it's not listed at the bottom or in bold letters, like sometimes allergens are. Now we have to carefully read every ingredient. And it will not be included in the processing warning with the other allergens. So when it could be a risk in the facility, we don't know. 

Ah, the life of an allergy family. 

Here we go again!

Ok, my life is toddler crazy right now. Many days I don't even touch my computer. Good thing there's an app for this. It's easy to post pictures to Facebook, but much harder to actually write a blog post. Challenge accepted. Here comes my life to the blogosphere: food, photography, crochet, crafts, projects, funny toddler, family...

What's next?

A 4th Doctor Doctor Who crochet rug.

Hippity Hoppity, Easter's on the way

Easter is at my etsy shop! https://www.etsy.com/shop/corilynn

2 sets of crochet flower Easter eggs done!

More coming soon!

Update

Well, it's been almost a year. Holy moly. Anyway, Kat is growing like a weed, she loves grapes, noodles, dogs, books and the kitty. 

We are slowly updating and remodeling our house to make it our home, 

and I decided to give this etsy thing another try. 

Our summer was crazy. Moving all over to end up here in the fall, and then a 1st birthday party right after move in. 

So, that's my update! More to come!

Ribbit! Roar!

I love it when someone asks me if I can make them something! It makes me feel like people really like what I share that I have made. Like if I can make this thing, maybe I can make the thing they want too. It makes me feel special to be asked specifically if I can do something. So far, my answer has always been yes!
The 2 most recent things have been a lion and a frog hat. Success was achieved both times, which also makes me very happy, of course!

I can do that!

A facebook friend asked if anyone could crochet her some fingerless gloves.

Naturally, I said I could. I didn't have a pattern for these particular gloves, but they were a combination of a couple elements I had worked in the past. I just had to put them together.

Easy peasy, well that is after some trial and error getting the pattern and size right of course.

I combined the back of the last pair of fingerless gloves I made with a hat I made Koleen a few Christmases ago. I love when I can use my past experience to create something new. I love the way they turned out, and more importantly, so did Shannon.