last post!!!!!!!

Well this is the last post for a whyel because we are presenting our 20% projects. I will probably post after and tell you about how it goes and tell you how many blankets iv made.  This was a fun project.
melanie

This Week

This week, I've made two crochet stuffed animals. But I still have a couple more to go. Some of the things i started, i never finished. Mostly, because i started it, and had no idea how i would finish it. I am getting rather close to my goal, which i am very excited about! Though for some reason, school has became very busy. The next two weeks are mostly likely going to be finals weeks, and with that, many many tests will come.

This might be the last post i post up for the next couple weeks. So my goals until i believe i will be able to update my progress would be to dedicate as much time as i possibly can to this project. I will need to reach my goal, before my presentation.

I have about a month left to finish my goal and to prepare my presentation. I am very nervous for the presentation. I have been told, that it will be heavily graded and there will be lots of people attending. 

Wish me luck~! 

~Forever, Melinda

Well I made 2 blankets this week! I will be working on them over thanksgiving break and hope to make 3 or 4 blankets.  I will count the blankets and tell you how many I have made so far! But I hope you have a wonderful thanksgiving!!!!!!!! And I will try to post pics of the blankets.
~Melanie~  

This Week

This week so far, I made one new stuffed animal. Its blue, black, and white. It's very cute and is about 6-8 inches tall. I'm already starting on a new stuffed animal. I've finished a body, and half of the head. All i have to finish is a couple other parts and the rest of the head. I'm going to try to make a dinosaur. It's very small, but i think it will come out very cute. 

This upcoming week, i'm going to finish the one i started and finish a new one. Not only that, but I think i will have to start researching for my upcoming presentation.Our time is very scarce and limited. I think i'm not doing anything this weekend or that much for thanksgiving, so I will be finishing that. So far, I've counted up all the things i made. Which is about 8, which is also not that bad for such a beginner like me. 
~Melinda

This week

This week i made two stuffed animals~! I made a little stuffed animal that kinda looks like a little mouse. But my sister begged me for it, so i gave it to her. It was rather small and only took me a couple hours to make. Now, I think I'm getting really good at it. I can crochet without really looking at it. Most the time when I am crocheting I am also watching television. I think its gotten easier, now that I know the basics of it. 

Next week my goal is to make at least two more. I'm pretty much on track with my work and progress. During this, it came to me that this really isn't about reaching the goal. Rather it's about the thought of it, and dedicating your time to make something.

During the week, I bought new yarn. I was running low on white yarn, because i always use it for everything i make. I also got some sewing needles big enough to sew my things together!! Before i got the sewing needles, i was using my crochet sticks to pull the string through the holes. That took a lot of time to pull through. Now that i actually have sewing needles, sewing body parts together has become a piece of cake~! 

~Melinda 

HELLO!!!

HELLO EVERYONE! OK THIS WEEK I JUST DON'T KNOW IT WENT BY SUPPER FAST. I STARTED DRIVERS TRAINING AND I HAVE MY FIRST DRIVE TODAY...SO STAY OFF THE ROADS HAHA JUST KIDDING. BUT I PROMISE I WILL MAKE 5 BLANKETS TONIGHT!!!!!! AND I WILL POST THE PICTURES OF THEM TOO! SO IF YOU WANT TO CHECK THEM OUT LATER TONIGHT YOU CAN! TELL ME WITCH ONE YOU LIKE TO BEST! 
-MELANIE

(11-8-13)

yay!!!!!!!!!!

I reached my goal!!!!!!!! I made 6 blankets!!! There just plain light pink! yay! its Friday I can work on more blankets this weekend:)

~Melanie<3

This week

This week, I finally finished a little stuffed animal. I used crochet patterns that amigurumi crocheter use. It turned out rather cute. It has a pink body, white head, two ears, and a colorful scarf. I though it was really cute~! the sewing all the body parts together was really hard. I'm still looking for ways to make my crochet look nice, and look more professional. I actually found out what amigurumi means. Amugurumi is just a term used to describe a crochet toy. I don't really know what it is. It's just really cute. 
Next week, I will be making two stuffed animals. I found some really cool ideas that looks a little bit easier to make, so i will be doing that. They look very simple to make, but are really cute~! You will have to wait for me to finish it to see it. Also, while researching for ideas, i found a very cool blogspot! It is a blog about crocheting and the ideas there are really cool! 
I really need to speed up my crocheting, I'm on limited time, especially if i want to reach my goal. 

~Melinda

THIS WEEK!!!!

THIS WEEK I MADE 1 BLANKET!!! ITS PINK!! I WILL MAKE MORE THIS WEEKEND.  I HAVE A LOT OF STUFF TO DO BUT I WILL DO MY BEST TO MAKE AT LEAST 3 BLANKETS. I HAVE A FRIEND THAT IS GOING TO MAKE SOME BLANKETS AND GIVE THEM TO ME  SO I CAN DONATE THEM TO ST JUDE.  I ALSO THING I WILL DONATE SOME BLANKETS TO A PLACE IN DETROIT. BUT I WILL HAVE TO LOOK INTO IT FIRST. THEN I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT IT SOON!!!!!!!!!!!! 
-MELANIE

This week

This week was unexpectedly very busy. This week, I forgot to put in a goal, but i did accomplish some things. I made many body parts for one of my animals, but they cam out un-proportionate. The head was way too small for the ears and they body, so I currently working on a new head. I decided to use the small head, since it is white, for my panda. It doesn't have a head yet, so everything worked out okay. This weekend I don't think I am doing anything, so I will be trying to make a new animal. 

I think I am going to try to make amigurumi, which is just a bit of a different form of crocheting. Many of the amigurumi I've seen are very cute. They also look easy to make, so I want to try to do that. Someone told me crocheting is a "trial and error" process and depends on experience. So this weeks goal is to learn how to crochet amigurumi! And make something out of it while using this technique.

~Melinda 

This Week

This week was a crazy week. There was so much testing and quizzes. But I did go to Jo Ann's Fabric during the week. I got some new black yarn, so now I can make my legit, real, cool looking panda! You need black and white yarn to make a panda so now I have them. Not only that I bought some accessories for the stuffed animals. Well, i don't really know if eyes and noses are counted as accessories. I got some rather expensive looking eyes, though they were just solid, but i guess it expensive because it has to parts to secure the eyes just in case they eyes do pop off. The other eyes i bought were just googly eyes. I need to go buy some felt for the googly eyes because they look better with the felt, but i probably have to go back to Jo Ann's or another arts and crafts store, because i cant find it at regular stores. I am currently working on a pink body for a really really colorful bunny. I think its going to come out very cute. This next week coming up i have to make two new animals so i can be on track for my goal. This weekend i hope to finish my panda and my bunny!

~Melinda

HEY ITS MELANIE!!!
This week I made 2 blankets! I didn't have much time to work on blankets this week because I had cheer every day except Wednesday. But Wednesday I had to go shopping for winter cloths because my school is always soooooooo cold!  They are pink with little ballerinas.My goal is to make 3 over the weekend. 
well I tryed to make this really  colorful!!!!!! it was FUN!!!!!

this week...

Well... this week I haven't done much with the blankets because I have been going to my brothers soccer games. Also I have a crazy week of cheer.  But I did cut some fabric for the blankets.  My goal this week is to make 3 blankets. Also I want to get boxes to ship the blankets.

This week

This week was crazy! I had so much testing to do, and right now i am kind of behind schedule. Last week end something urgent came up, and no crocheting was done. I tried to find black yarn, but the stores i had access to did not carry it. I was not able to buy filling. Where do you find this stuff? But i did start on my blue jelly fish. All that's left is to make the bottom, and the tentacles, which would take only half an hour to make overall. 

My goals this week is to catch up on everything. EVERYTHING. So, this weeks goal is that. If i finish all of that i am going to of course make more! I need to reach my goal before the end of the semester. I will buy filling for the crochet parts. I desperately need fillings. The animals don't have organs which is kind of sad. Then i will be content.
 ~Melinda 

This Week

Hello~  This week so far I have only made one little crochet animal. It is another bear. My goal was to make three, but I've only made one. I am reserving my weekend for my crocheting. If I end up going somewhere, I will be packing my crochet things with me. YAY~! 

I got this awesome idea the other day! Since I made a pink jelly fish, i decided to make a partner for it! Next week I want to make a blue jelly fish, to match the pink one! I also really wanted to make a panda. An actual black and white panda! But that means this week I have to go buy black yarn. Also another goal this week is to go buy stuffing! I really need to put all the body parts together. It feels weird to have crochet animal body parts all over my room. 

I'm not going to make a lot of animals this week because next week is testing week, which means lots if studying! So, I won't have as much time to dedicate myself to my crocheting. My goal is just to make a blue jelly fish and a panda. And of course buy some new materials. 

^_^ ~ Melinda 

Hey guys! This week so far I have only made 1 blanket. I'm going to make more over the weekend. I hope to make 5. I will post pictures of all the blankets when I figure out how to post them.
Melanie💜

This Week

This week so far I reached my goal! First I bought some more yarn! And this time they are colorful! I made two new stuff animals. One is a jellyfish (I made it while I was on vacation during the weekend and I saw a jellyfish!) It is pink. I also made another bear. This time I made the bear blue! I would post pictures and show you guys but I haven't really sewed them together. I haven't bought the stuffing to put inside the animals so I haven't been able to put them together. I just have animal parts. 

This upcoming week I want to up my game and make three animals. Of course that would take time and dedication, which means no slacking off. I'm pretty confident in myself now. I'm actually getting the hang of crocheting. Now with dedication i can crochet a little head within an hour. Which is progress. It isn't that great. *laughs* Anyways, I'll take what I can get.

There's so many animals to chose from. (@^_^@) *gasp*

~Melinda Cheng

Melanie-

   This week I made 2 cut and tie blankets. I also got a bunch of blanket material from Jo Anne. I got mostly baby blanket print fabrics this time but I got one that is very colorful and would be for a teenager.  Also this week Melinda thought me how to crochet a single stitch and single thread. It looked pretty good for my first time.  This week my goal is to make 2 blankets. 

This week

Last week, I've learned how to crochet an actual teddy bear. I made my first project! It's not that big. It's about 5inches in height. I was really happy I finally learned how to crochet the magic circle! It actually took me a long time because I was learning off the Internet. It took me about 3-4 days to finally get the trick down. I also learned how to expand my crochet circle and I'm currently learning how to make my circle close. I just bought more color yarn! Yay! Now I can make more colorful things! On Thursday was my presentation of my 20% time project. I really hope I get a good grade. 


This week, I have lots of goals. Time is running out and I need to step up my game. Now that I've got the basic crochet methods I really need to be using, I'm hoping I'll be able to crochet efficiently and diligent. I want to spend at least an hour every day this week to crochet. I'm hoping to make at least 2 bears. Wish me luck! ~Melinda Cheng

     Melanie Crnkovich-     This week on our 20% project I made one cut and tie blanket for a baby.  I went to Jo-Ann's and got a cute blanket with little bear faces on it. This blanket could be use for either a boy or girl. It will also be sent to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The blanket will be donated to the sick children in the hospital. We hope to make their visit to the hospital less scary.

☆*･゜ﾟ･Hello!･゜ﾟ･

(✿◠‿◠) This is Melinda. So far this week, I've learned how to crotchet a single thread (which is not that great), but its progress. I've also bought some white yarn to start with the stuffed animals. I've yet to learn how to actually start it, but that is my goal next week! Hopefully I will achieve it. And of course, I've bought my crochet sticks. How do you crochet without crochet sticks?!?! 

Hello~! (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))

Hello~! This is Melinda and Melanie AKA Mel & Mel.

(✌ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞  This is our blog and we will be posting about crocheting little stuff animals (͒⑅′࿉‵⑅)͒ෆ* and making little felt blankets ༼´◓ɷ◔`༽. This is both of our first times learning something new like this. We are really excited about this o(≧∇≦o).This is a 20% time project we are doing in our awesome English class. Isn’t that cool~!?!? ╮(╯▽╰)╭ Every Friday we get the whole English hour to work on our project. I bet you guys don’t hear that everyday huh?!? Of course we have to have a goal (´⊙ω⊙`)! We haven’t really figured out how much we want to make, but I sure hope it’ll be a lot! Our goal for this project is to make a lot of things and then we want to donate them to kids at a children hospital. Yay~!  (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o))) We think it’ll will be very cool~! We also hope that even after donating our things to them, we will get time to spend with some of the kids! We’re positive that we’ll have lots of fun with this! (☆^ー^☆)

     We decided to do this project because we wanted to learn something new. But not only learn something new, to give to other people 
(ﾉ´ヮ´)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧. We wanted to help make a difference in the world, even if it was only a very tiny portion, we wanted to do it. We especially wanted to donate them to children, because children are precious °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖°. They deserve to have a good childhood, nice family, healthy life, but not everyone is lucky like we are 
о(ж＞▽＜)ｙ ☆. We grew up, being cultivated by our family and friends. We grew up being surrounded by our family and friends. We grew up being loved and fortunate. Some children are not lucky like we are, but sometimes we don’t even know it ☆ﾐ(o*･ω･)ﾉ. So we would like to give our time and dedicate it to make children happy. Even if we only get a small smile (✿◠‿◠)

Hello~! This is Melinda  (((o(*ﾟ▽ﾟ*)o)))