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so you fancy yourself a cowboy?

 

Ostrich Boot

This pattern, slightly modified.

Happy Wednesday my lovelies!

~Penny

I'll tumble for you: completed

 

 

This weekend, I put my head down and finished it. 

Complete with hand stitching and all:

 

I used cotton crochet thread and a big 'ole needle to do it.

For the backing, I thought this circus fabric was apropos.  Get it?  The circus... and tumbling...

 

I hope you all had a fab weekend! 

~Penny

Just for fun

 

 

Ever since I saw Vicki's chicken potholder pattern in 101 patchwork projects, I've had a hankering to make one. It came together super easy with her instructions, thank-you, Vicki!!

Here's to some fun Saturday sewing!

~Penny

Get yer Yoyo along button and progress bar here!

Firstly, I must thank Robyn of Coffee & Cotton for all the help she has given me through oodles of emails.  Also, thank-you to Julia for planting the seed to have a progress bar at all!  Between Robyn and I, we have come up with the official yoyo along button and progress bar combo you can see here:

 

Yoyos completed
Goal: 1008
Current: 166

16.5%

 

 

 

If you'd like to add the button and progress bar to your blog, I'll give you the code for it in just a sec.  First though, you'll want to know a couple of things.

• the progress bar % has to be updated manually.  For example, if you have 28 yoyo's done, you'll enter 28 into the code where I have 166, and then you'll need to figure your percentage and enter that as well.  28/1008=2.7%, so you'll enter 2.7 where I have 16.5 (in two places) in the code.  You'll need to do this manually each time you want to update the number of yoyos you have done.
• if you are making a different # of yoyos than I am, you'll need to change out the 1008 in the code to whatever # you ARE making.

 Alrighty, now for the code:

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<b><font color="#51B1CF"> Yoyos completed</font></b><br>
Goal:  1008 <br>
Current:  166<br>
<div style="width:160px;height:15px;background:#51B1CF;border:solid 1px #555;">
<div align="left"><div style="height:17px;background:#ff7f00;color:white;width:16.5%;"><b>16.5%</b>
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</div>
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 Happy Friday everyone!

~Penny

 

 

yoyo along button and pretty please a little help?

For those of you who have asked, here it is, the official yoyo along button!

You can choose the size you'd like, just copy and paste it whereever you'd like! 

 

 

And I have a favor to ask.  If any of you out there know how to make a progress bar for the yoyo along, please do tell!  I've googled it and found lots of results, but need some help.  For some reason I'm just not getting it. 

~Penny