The Salinas Slut

I started this doll because I did not have any projects on deck.  As with the other dolls I have made, I get to the face, add the eyes and then loose interest, so she has spent the last 3 months kicking around the house and showing up in various places with out a mouth to voice any protests.  Pour thing.  She has been stripped naked, drug around by the dogs, and posed and photographed in inappropriate positions.  She has been through hell-Kinda reminds me of my childhood.  So we are having a couple of young-ins come to visit this week so I thought I would finish her up and send her off to a respectable family.  Here is her final portraits all 'dolled up'.

Crochet African Flower Soccer Ball

I found a tutorial for the African Flower Soccer Ball and wanted to make one for my dog. Unfortunately I can never seem to follow directions properly! I am convinced it is A.D.D. The instructions call for 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons, I however tend not to read the entire instructions, see the number 20 and somewhere the number 5 so I proceed to make 15 hexagons and 8 pentagons (how I came up with this number is beyond me at this point). By the time was finished crocheting my African flowers and am ready to assemble I was at work and did not have all my yarns with me (thinking I had made the correct amount of pieces why would I bring it all...right?), I begin assembling and am getting frustrated so I refer back to the diagram provided by Crochetbug. Wouldn't you know she had way to many hexagons on that picture. Some people should pay more attention to detail.......So I sat there with not enough of either shapes ready to quit. I decided to just start piecing them together and see what I come up with. Maybe I will come out of it with a placemat or something. As I was pinning them together I found that they still could form a ball. I ended up using 8 hexagons and 10 pentagons. It is not a perfectly round soccer ball that it should be, but a ball all the same. And since I was not planning on using it to try out for the world cup with it and it was going to be a ball for my dog it worked out just fine. In fact I had to wrestle it away from Juno to snap a picture of it.

Thank you Crochetbug for the tutorial and the inspiration!

 
 
 
 

 

That'll do Pig.

Here is the Amigurumi Pig from lionbrand.com. Anyone wanting to start making Amigurumi's and is looking for a starter animal, this would be perfect. It is quick and easy. My biggest issue is the leg placement, but I have that issue with all Amigurumi.

Stratford "Circle" Afghan by Lionbrand.com ???

You know how things do not always work out the way that you plan? Well this is one of those projects.
When I started in mid December, this started out as this blanket.


After working 30 or so rows, with it getting wavy and distorted and having to pull it all out, time and again (5 TIMES!), I soon decided that I SUCK at crocheting in the round. I then came to the conclusion that a Square afghan would be lovely. So, This is what I ended up with.





All in all, I am very happy with the way it came out. The colors go well with my living room and I love the Homespun Yarn from Lion Brand, and I have a several left over from each color, so pillows will be coming soon.

HSSSSSSSSSSSS!!

It can not get any easier than this Snake. This project took about a an hour and a half. After making the head you do not need to look at the pattern again. Just sat in front of the T.V. watching Criminal Minds and by the time it was over I was done. Easy as can be.

Wow I really like the way this rabbit came out. This only took a day to do, I think that the ears took the longest. I added the Belly button at last minute. I am glad, I think it adds to the bunny.






Hmm not quite realistic.









As well as this came out I will be redoing the hippo now, I found a pattern that may work up easier. I will post when I complete him.

My first Amigurumi!

Well here is my first Amigurumi critter. I plan on making a zoo for some bratty kid I am related to for easter.