That Goldfish Ate mah Baybee!

I bring you installment #2 in my "Amigurumi + $3 Walmart Onesie" project.    Except I do believe the fish is a tad big.   But he's just so cute! 

Here's another perspective to show how he will compare to the size of the newborn baby he just may devour.  I should probably make a smaller fish, but as you can imagine, I'm ready to move onto the next project.   And the embroidery...blech. 

I think if I added a third eye, he would make a cute Simpsons Fish.

I will destroy you with yarn. You will be destroyed, by me, with fibers of acrylic.

My crowning acheivement...MoJo JoJo from The Powerpuff Girls.   The consummate villian, a genetically altered, repetitive talking mutant chimp.   Perfect for the desk of my BFF Karen, who may or may not be genetically altered herself.  But she does have desires to destroy people. 

Starting with a Chuck the Monkey Pattern, I tweaked his legs, changed colors, dropped the tail, designed some clothes and added the hat.   Of course, I also had to make two of these at the same time, since my daughter would never allow me to send the finished product off to Aunt Karen without a fight.   Because of my ADHD tendencies, I forced msyelf to create 2 (or 4) of every piece.   I know myself well enough that if I made it to completion, it would be very difficult to force myself to start over at the beginning.

One more pic of the back.  I think the cape could have been longer, but by that point, I was all about *finishing*!

Now onto my next big project!

Teacher gifts!

Whew, good thing B only has 4 "teachers" to Thank this year.  In years past, its been closer to 12, with all of his therapists, aides, regular ed teachers, special ed teachers.   He's only been at his school for a month, so we don't know everyone yet.

So I crocheted up some bath mitts with cotton yarn and flowers to make them pretty. 

Note that I got turned around somehow and the orange one turned out lefty.  Still not sure what happened there, but I have asked B to find out if one of the four is a Southpaw.   Let's hope!

Then I added some delicious soaps from one of my neighbors and voila, pretty presents!  

The girls wanted in on the act, so I also whipped up a Monster Mitt that I think is adorable, but E has decided she is scared of it and will not allow it near her.   Eh, I could make scarier.  

A quickie

Well...until I had to make 3 of them! 

Here's a cute headband pattern from Crochet Spot.  Its a paid pattern but the basic band is available for free.    Its super quick and I made one for E (my test) and one to add to her friend's Bday gift.   Well, of course Little Bit also insisted on her own headband.    But she does look rather adorable in it, no?

Now this is right up my alley

I'm always looking for cute, portable, unique and practical but not time consuming baby gifts for the moms I work with (homeless expecting moms in a residential program).    I stumbled across these cute onsies for $3 at Walmart and decided to crochet a toy to go with the applique.   Perfect!   Absolute cuteness and it only took a couple hrs of crochet time.   The octopus has a bell in the body and small bells in the legs, so he is a rattle, too.   I also picked up a few more onsies with other various sea life forms on them.


(And yes, I am still working on Birthday Gift, Baby Gift and Birthday Gift #2)

I need serious help (of the mental health kind)

In the past couple days when I am supposed to be finishing up a birthday gift that is 75% done for a friend....I started a sunflower (which I am planning to combine with 4 other flowers for a gift for a friend's daughter) and a baby hat gift set for another friend who is expecting.   Both are in progress.

Earlier today, I bought the cutest baby onsies from Walmart with critters on them and just looked up an octopus amigurumi pattern to go with the onsie as a gift for another new baby.

I either need less friends or less access to the internet if I ever want to complete a project. 

Tomorow...will finish sunflower and post pics since its 90% done (just need to sew 2 leaves and assemble).   Then will commit myself to 1 hr of work on birthday gift.   If I need a break from that, onto baby hat.  

NO OCTOPUS UNTIL BIRTHDAY GIFT IS FINISHED.  DO YOU HEAR THAT CRAZY LADY?   STEP AWAY FROM THE GOOGLE!

Bring on the apocalypse!

This is not just a crocheted bag, its evidence of my ability to make a net with nothing but a ball of yarn and a crochet hook.   Come the apocalypse, y'all can loot the gun store, I'm headed to the local yarn shop.  We'll see who eats better. 

It also makes a lovely disguise.  For keeping your mug off TV during all that yarn looting. 

It all started with a trip to Joann's for white yarn to...ready for it??? complete a project.   I found myself enthralled by the netted bag pictured on a roll of Sugar'n Cream cotton yarn.   The colorway didn't thrill me, but I picked up two balls just to get the pattern inside, so I could make the bag when my current project was done.

Once home, I began on the bag immediately.    After I mastered the netting stitches, I decided that I could turn this into a water bottle holder, with the benefits of it being smaller and quicker to finish.   So I did what any ADHD crafter would do, I abandoned the bag to start on the bottle holder.

This one remains unfinished because I have the idea to use D rings for the strap to help cope with the inevitable strap stretching issue.  I'll update whether it worked.  Once the project is done.