Shades of Blue Baby Round Ripple

Baby-sized Round Ripple in 4 shades of blue with off-white/gold/green center.

Caron Simply Soft yarn, L (8 mm) crochet hook

The pattern for this afghan is available for free at my Lulu Store:

    lulu.com/crochetdad

My First Amigurumi!

I just finished my first Amigurumi. It's a cute little (6 1/2 inches tall) Bear



I got the free pattern on Crochetville:

• http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=31654
  

Earth Tones 9-Pointed Round Ripple

I just completed another round ripple. This one's in "earth tones":


Detail of the points:


This one was a special order for an Etsy customer.

We Found Sunny!

My son, Christopher, has a pet corn snake, "Sunny". During a moment of inattention, Sunny escaped from her cage, although we were pretty certain she was still in the house. She was missing for over a week, so she should have been getting hungry - we feed her about once a week. I was doing a load of laundry and spotted Sunny peaking out of the washing machine! I presume she hadn't been in the washing machine all week, since we had been using it regularly for several days.

She was careful not to expose herself too much as you can see in the shot above.

We waited a very long time, it seemed like a couple of hours, and decided to get her favorite food, a mouse, to persuade her to come out of hinding. As you can see below, she liked that idea!

I won't show the final resolution, in case you're squeamish about a snake devouring a mouse, but suffice it to say, Sunny is now back in her cage.

Hat Update

An update on this hat:

I posted a previous picture of the hat I made on a trip when I forgot to pack a hat. The resulting hat has had a good following with nice comments. I've since updated the brim. This picture is the result. I'll be working on the pattern to satisfy many requests. Thanks to all who encouraged me to "get with it".

If you have a suggestion for a name for the hat, please let me know.

We're gonig to the Fair!

I discovered PLARN (PLastic yARN) a couple of years ago and have had some fun with it...

In case you're not familiar with PLARN, it's plastic yarn made from those plastic shopping bags you get at your local retailer. Instead of throwing them away, I reuse, recycle or upcycle them. In this case, you might call this an upcycle.

Tomorrow, I'll be entering the one-day contest "Recycled Wearable Art" at the San Diego County Fair. Here's what I'll be entering:



Yes, they're wearable!


This particular PLARN is from The Home Depot!

There is no pattern for these - I just winged it!

Oh, did I say that contestants get into the Fair for FREE?!! An added bonus!

That Crochet Guy meets CrochetDad

That Crochet Guy (Ken Jones of Philadelphia, PA) and CrochetDad (Gene Saunders of Temecula, California) finally meet.

Ken and I belong to a fairly exclusive club: Men Who Crochet

We've admired each other's work, so when our trip was in the planning stages, I contacted Ken to arrange a meeting when I got to Philadelphia.

Here we are at the Starbucks on 19th and Chestnut in South Philly.