Tag: pattern links

The next project also gets a post all its own. The mini turtle is an adorable pattern, and since my sister and I have both had turtles as pets, I made one to send her. For whatever reason I didn’t photograph that one (it was in yarn), but I made another in embroidery floss and got lots of pictures of it.

One summer in my mid-twenties, when I had two turtles, they had two goldfish that had been intended as food but left to grow to the size of my hand. I named them Hansel and Gretel, figuring the turtles were fattening them up. I returned from a trip out of town to a traumatized roommate and a filthy tank: “They ate Gretel!” Except they had only partially eaten Gretel; her head was still on the floor of the tank, one big eyeball looking up at anyone who came to investigate the state of affairs. That memory led to this:

Sorry, Maig.

To be continued…

The next project in my crochet prehistory was Kreinik’s penguin ornament, to which I added feet that I freehanded. He’s standing on some wintery hand towels, and the backdrop is from a book of Robert Frost poems with lots of nature photos.

My next project involved color change, which I did incorrectly. However, the pictures are great! Falwyn’s little fox plus a textbook example of what happens when you delay color change by a loop.

To be continued…

We are getting closer to the early days of this blog. My next project was the size-reduced manta ray, in finger puppet form, already blogged about. It was at this point I turned to embroidery floss, a 2.75mm steel hook, and Roman Sock’s pocket elephant. As I’ve said before, legs of three obviously different diameters and Neanderthal brow ridges caused by upside-down safety eye backings give him character. His ears and tail are purple because I ran out of blue.

I made a tiny whale next and tried to get creative with the photos.

To be continued…