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Some crochet projects

I’m slowly working my way through my book of crocheted animals with inept faces. Soon I will have a whole creepy menagerie! This week I made a hippo, because I’m lazy and it only had 8 parts (body+4 legs+2 ears+tail).

He looks slightly less terrifying than the giraffe--maybe I'm improving

He looks slightly less terrifying than the giraffe–maybe I’m improving

Steven was disappointed that his expression wasn’t made of nightmares.

I also finally used up all of that Wiess-colored yarn I bought last year for that ill-advised cardigan!!! I’ve made a few scarves and unfortunate-looking hats with it, but to tackle the rest I had to take on a fairly big project:

It's an afghan! Kind of

It’s an afghan! Kind of

It was stupidly easy to make, just being one giant granny square, but I’m glad it’s done and I can move on to less school-spirity projects. You know how I feel about pep, ugh.

Next I’m going to try to make the elephant!

Make A Face

So remember when I crocheted that lion? The same book has a pattern for a pretty adorable giraffe. Of course, giraffes are my favorite animal, so I had to try it. All went well, until the end, when it just told me to “make a face.” I looked at the picture of the finished product for guidance, but they used for real plastic stuffed animal eyes. I thought I could probably just make do with yarn, and eventually ended up with:

At first you think he's creepy, but after awhile his ugliness is kind of endearing

At first you think he’s creepy, but after awhile his ugliness is kind of endearing

I don’t know how I feel. Maybe I’ll make a whole series of stuffed animals from this book, and they’ll all be normal until the face, which will be weird and kind of terrifying. Steven doesn’t like how it watches him. I plan on setting it on his sleeping chest for him to wake up to any morning now.

Look at this lion

I crocheted this lion!

I crocheted this lion!

I only learned how to crochet at the beginning of May when I was visiting my mom at her school. It was IB exam season, so any teacher with mostly seniors had not as much to do. This included my calculus teacher, whose room is right beside my mom’s, and in between grading and organizing and different meetings and things, she taught me how to crochet! This instruction was almost exactly like I remember her math lectures to be: “So here’s this thing. Go play with it for awhile until you know enough for us to talk more about it.” I’ve watched a bunch of youtube tutorial videos since then, but crochet seems a lot easier than knitting so far–and faster! This lion took me like a day, in between work!

I posed him on a Food Lion flyer because THE PACK STICKS TOGETHER

I posed him on a Food Lion flyer because THE PACK STICKS TOGETHER

Guess what you’re getting for Christmas!

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