What's On The Hooks...

While keeping the two grandkids a week or so ago, Fuzzy, the four-year-old, asked if I would make him an owl. I got out the crochet hook and some yarn. Within a few minutes I had crocheted a tiny little owl no more than four inches long. He was happy.

This past week when he came he asked me to make him a bear. We looked on line and finally decided on a Paddington Bear. I was actually looking for a pattern that I had made in the mid-eighties, but didn't find it. If anyone happens to have that pattern and doesn't mind sharing please let me know.

This is the best one I could find. It is a free pattern on Ravelry. You can find it under Yellow Pink and Sparkly by Janet McMahon.  http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/paddington-bear-2 I have all the pieces completed, but not all are sewn together. It's a very easy pattern.

Here it is in it's almost completed stage.

                  Paddington has black ears.



Have a great week!

Amigurumi Finally Complete...

Here is a previous post from February 9, 2014.

 

I discovered these cute little crocheted animals while browsing Pinterest. I ordered the pattern from http://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyAmigurumi.

After starting over numerous times I think I am finally happy with all the parts, and now it's time to sew them together.

Here is a picture from the website of what it should look like.

 

I said I would post the finished product, so here it is.

Have a great week!!!!

My First Amigurumi...

I discovered these cute little crocheted animals while browsing Pinterest. I ordered the pattern from http://www.etsy.com/shop/TinyAmigurumi.

After starting over numerous times I think I am finally happy with all the parts, and now it's time to sew them together.

Here is a picture from the website of what it should look like.

Have a great week!!!

MIA...

I've been Missing-In-Action, or should I say missing and in action. Missing from my blog and helping my brother repair the ceiling in my dad's bedroom. Those old houses were built well, but when you start to work on one you quickly realize what it means to be more than one hundred years old. A one day job took us much longer. At first we sought perfection and then decided that to achieve perfection would be possible only if the hundred year old room was somewhat perfect to start with, so we decided to lower our standards and go with clean and better than it was. We achieved our goal. It actually looks really well.

In the process of cleaning the room I went through some of my mother's old crochet magazines and brought a sack of them home with me. As I was looking through them I came up with a plan. I decided to crochet 100 cats and upon reaching my goal of 100 I will then find a home for them. I'm thinking Africa, but it may have to be somewhere closer to home. I have a few ideas, but no need to worry about that yet I am only on number four. Ha!

Have a great day!!!

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