Crafty!

I use to hate winter it was cold, rainy, cold, snowy, cold and more cold, yuck! Now, now! I enjoy it, because all winter long I get to be "crafty". I say crafty because besides beading I'm knitting and crocheting. Now mind you I still have to cook, clean and do laundry, but I no longer need to work outside weeding, weeding and more weeding. OK, there is some fun gardening thrown it there, but mostly it's weeding.
So last week I started knitting this scarf.



I chose it because I never did the cable stitch before and this had just a little in the pattern. I was having fun learning this new stitch but after finishing the first part it was very small. By small I mean it was 1.5 inches across! I read my instructions top to bottom to see if there was something I missed. There was one minor word I that I did not pay enough attention to... It's called a "neckwarmer". Silly me I assumed by the picture it was a scarf. So now I'm going to try to use the same pattern and make it larger. Me, with little experience with knitting! But the "neckwarmer" pattern is pretty cool (it's called Twig) so I'm going to try and make it work. Wish me luck!
In the beading world, I did make this awesome (if I do say so myself) bracelet.




It's not my pattern I got it somewhere on the internet (that I couldn't find again if you paid me).
I couldn't wait to make this, and since it's not my pattern I wouldn't sell it in my esty shop so I thought I'd make it for a raffle my uncle Paul is in charge of, the proceeds go to help patient's with prostate cancer.
I am more than happy to donate to this cause especially since my uncle is a cancer survivor himself.
Hopefully people will bid high to own that beauty.