Do you speak Spanish? Your help is needed

If you speak Spanish, crochet, would be willing to help a person whose first language is Spanish in the interpretation of one of my patterns, I'm looking for you.

I have a pattern called the Spiral Round Granny Blanket that a nice lady is working on and there seems to be some kind of a language barrier or language interpretation difference.  I'd like to give you this pattern and her email address and ask you to exchange emails with this person who is having trouble.  I'm hoping that this will benefit you as you get a free pattern and she can finally get past the beginning rounds where she is having some trouble.

Please send me an email if you are interested.

Donna  SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

I have enough testers for the Bright Lights Round Ripple

I have enough testers for the Bright Lights Round Ripple.

Thank you,

Donna

SmoothFox Helper's

You may notice that some blog posts may come from SmoothFox Helper Cindy.  Don't be alarmed LOL... Cindy is an awesome lady and helped in such a great way with the prior charity square drive.  She is going to additionally try and help take some of the load off of me by helping with the blog so I can get more designing done.

I was also thinking of asking for volunteers (most likely people I'm familiar with) who may be interested in becoming SmoothFox Helpers themselves.  People who might be interested in helping with blog posting about tips and techniques or stories of interest in the crochet / knitting world or someone who wants to help with running and tracking the upcoming charity square drive or even volunteering to coordinate testing of patterns for either myself or other followers of the blog.  There is also a need for someone very familiar with Blogspot who can help me turn the blog into a work of art LOL, setting up pages etc. (which I can't figure out for the life of me).  So if you are interested, please contact me.

More to the story - more reasons that I'd like a little help - A little known fact is that this blog gets about 70,000 hits a month and that produces a lot of email and not enough time for the fun stuff like crocheting and knitting.  Additionally, I've been extremely afraid that if something happened to me - no one would be able to fill-in to let people know and keep things going if I were sick. SmoothFox Helper Cindy accomplished her first blog post last night and although it took her quite a while to do it, I'm sure she will get the hang of it very quickly.  Thank you very much Cindy!

Donna
SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

Testers Found - Bright Lights Round Ripple

UPDATE:  TESTERS ARE - RHONDA, CHRISTINE S, MARIE ANNE, GRACE ANN, LISA, BETH, TINA, JESSICA, FAITH, GINGER, KAREN, MELISSA, JANET

This is the first round ripple pattern I've created with no ch-2 holes and I absolutely love it.  If you are interested in testing this cool blanket, please read below.

When I find enough testers I go back and change the title of this posting from Testers Wanted to Testers Found. Before emailing me, please go back and check this link to see if the title has been changed. If the title has been changed, PLEASE do not email me asking to test. If you are currently testing an item and I haven't received your picture yet from the current project, you should not ask to test this item.

1. Must be a follower of this blog and a subscriber.

2. Must be able to finish testing by Friday August 12, 2011

3. Must be able to send me a picture of your finished item attached to an email. People not following through and sending me a picture or not posting on Ravelry will no longer be able to test future patterns. 

4. Must be able to send me errors of any kind you find in the pattern. 

5. It is mandatory as of January 23, 2011 that all testers add their test projects on Ravelry after I post the link to the pattern. Once I post the pattern, you'll need to go back to Ravelry and link it to the proper pattern. If you posted your project ahead of time, it won't be linked to the pattern without using the exact name I called the pattern once it was posted. Anyway, believe me, I will be checking. If 10 people want to test, there should be 10 projects on Ravelry.

6.  You can use whatever 3 ply or 4 ply yarn you'd like to use.  Please do not use varigated or striped yarn.   3 ply will product a small afghan so you may want to complete more rounds.  You can make the blanket as large as you want however, if you are a tester you must make it as large as the amount of rounds in the pattern to make sure the pattern has no errors.

If you want to test, send me an email to the address below with your Follower name. Only the first people emailing me will receive the pattern to test. I respond to all requests. If you don't receive a response, send another email as your original email may have gone into spam. Please don't post a comment that you'd like to test. I can't send a copy of the pattern to a "comment." You have to email me as it states. Don't send me a comment through the Google feed that you want to test. You must use the email address below.

Donna
SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

SmoothFox's Granny Round Ripple 12 and 8 points

Granny Round Ripple 12 Points

Granny Round Ripple 8 Points

These two patterns will be on sale from July 21, 2011 thru August 20th for $3.00 only on Ravelry.  This price is only good on Ravelry.  After August 20th the price will go up to $4.50.    The patterns may look alike but the technique is different to make each of them.

Click the link below to purchase or read more about the blanket:
SmoothFox's Granny Round Ripple 12 Points


SmoothFox's Granny Round Ripple 8 Points
Happy Crocheting!

Donna

Testers Pictures of Granny Round Ripple 12 Points

TESTERS PLEASE ADD YOUR PROJECTS ON RAVELRY

CHRISTINE

DENISE

GINGER

LORI

MELISSA

SANDRA

STEPHANIE

VIMS

Here are the instructions to post a project on Ravelry 

1.     Click on the link below

2.      http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/foxs-granny-round-ripple-12-points

3.     It takes you to the pattern page – you may need to log-in to Ravelry to see the “Hook it” icon in step 4

4.     Click on the "Hook it" icon in the top right area

5.     It will let you fill in the blanks, name your own name for the piece you worked.  You can name it whatever you want.  Example:  Sparkles’s  blah blah blah.  It will let you rate the pattern also.  So you enter all the information about your "project" like, did you like it, did you have to add a round of sc's to make it the right size, what yarn you used etc and then you save that. General notes for other people who  will see it.

6.     Then there is a tab so you can add your pictures of your square or blanket or multiple squares with the same pattern.

7.     If you had already created your project on Ravelry before I posted the pattern, you will need to go to the link above – highlight and copy the BOLD name of the pattern that I named it.  Then go to your project page and put in this name as the pattern name link.

It's really kind of easy.

Donna

Testers Pictures of Granny Round Ripple 8 Points

TESTERS - PLEASE ADD YOUR PROJECTS ON RAVELRY.  INSTRUCTIONS ARE BELOW

AMANDA

DAWN

DENISE

GAYLE

JUDI

KARIN

LORI

SANDY

Here are the instructions to post a project on Ravelry

1. Click on the link below

2. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/foxs-granny-round-ripple-8-points

3. It takes you to the pattern page – you may need to log-in to Ravelry to see the “Hook it” icon in step 4

4. Click on the "Hook it" icon in the top right area

5. It will let you fill in the blanks, name your own name for the piece you
worked. You can name it whatever you want. Example: Cindy’s blah blah blah. It will let you rate the pattern also. So you enter all the information about your "project" like, did you like it, did you have to add a round of sc's to make it the right size, what yarn you used etc and then you save that. General notes for other people who will see it.

6. Then there is a tab so you can add your pictures of your square or blanket or multiple squares with the same pattern.

If you had already created your project on Ravelry before I posted the pattern, you will need to go to the link above – highlight and copy the BOLD name of the pattern that I named it. Then go to your project page and put in this name as the pattern name link.
It's really kind of easy.

SmoothFox Helper Cindy

Blankets made using your charity squares

Thank you again to all of you wonderful people who participated by sending in your squares to Online Angels.  Your squares have been made into beautiful blankets.  Below is a link to their site with pictures of many items.  Scroll down and you'll see some of the blankets your donations made.

http://craftingforonlineangels.blogspot.com/

Donna

I have enough testers for the Sweet Delights Sampler

I have more than enough testers now for the Sampler.

Thank you everyone.

Donna

Testers Found - Sweet Delights 10 Sampler Patterns

UPDATE: TESTERS ARE:  TASHA, DEEDEE, LAVINA, MELISSA, DENA, JENNIFER, ELAINE, CHRISTMAN, STEPHANIE, JANET, ELLAMAY, BETHANY, CINDY, VIOLA, PAT, ANN, GLORIA, GAYLE, SANDHYA

Hi everyone,

Long time no posting for me.  I've been working on so many crochet projects and completely forgot to post that I have an opening for testers to test a sampler that I've created. Some of the patterns are variations of some of the other sampler patterns.  I was just trying to see how varying placement of certain types of stitches would make different squares.

There are 10 squares in the sampler and I'll break the patterns up into groups of X nbr of patterns depending on how many testers I get who want to test.  At this point, prior to receiving any emails, I believe I'll be breaking the patterns up into 2 groups of 5 patterns each. If I get emails from a lot of testers, I'll break it into smaller groups of 2 patterns each.

When I find enough testers I go back and change the title of this posting from Testers Wanted to Testers Found. Before emailing me, please go back and check this link to see if the title has been changed. If the title has been changed, PLEASE do not email me asking to test. If you are currently testing an item and I haven't received your picture yet you can't ask to test this item.

1. Must be a follower of this blog and a subscriber.

2. Must be able to finish testing by Sunday July 17, 2011

3. Must be able to send me a picture of your finished item attached to an email. People not following through and sending me a picture or not posting on Ravelry will no longer be able to test future patterns. 

4. Must be able to send me errors of any kind you find in the pattern. 

5. It is mandatory as of January 23, 2011 that all testers add their test projects on Ravelry after I post the link to the pattern. Once I post the pattern, you'll need to go back to Ravelry and link it to the proper pattern. If you posted your project ahead of time, it won't be linked to the pattern without using the exact name I called the pattern once it was posted. Anyway, believe me, I will be checking. If 10 people want to test, there should be 10 projects on Ravelry.

6.  You can use whatever 3 ply or 4 ply yarn you'd like to use.  3 ply will product a 5" x 5" square and 4 ply yarn will create a 6" x 6" square

If you want to test, send me an email to the address below with your Follower name. Only the first people emailing me will receive the pattern to test. I respond to all requests. If you don't receive a response, send another email as your original email may have gone into spam. Please don't post a comment that you'd like to test. I can't send a copy of the pattern to a "comment." You have to email me as it states. Don't send me a comment through the Google feed that you want to test. You must use the email address below.

Donna
SmoothFoxLover@yahoo.com

Kay Carlson Blanket

Just wanted to show off Kay Carlson's Blanket.  She sent me this great picture of a blanket she worked in one of my patterns.  She said this beauty is going to a friend who is a new Grandma.  Kay usually makes her afghans and donates them to charity.  Kay has varied the colors around each square from her earlier blanket she did using the same pattern and has completed a different border surrounding the blanket.  The pattern is called Fox's Star Square and is available down the right side of the blog under Crochet Patterns.

Good job Kay!