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…
Before moving on to embroidery floss crochet, as I implied I did right away in one of my very first blog posts here, I ambitiously set out to stitch a kodama for my brother-in-law. This was in my second month of crocheting, and it went rather well.
I got on a kick of finger puppets, and made a tentacled alien, shown blurrily below, for a friend (also Buddha’s fashionable hat, which was the result when my friend challenged me to make a stadium). I tried to make a finger puppet from a pattern that used joined rounds, and ended up accidentally adding stitches until it was a Jabba the Hutt kind of shape, so I added a face and arms to get the second alien below.
To be continued…