Bunny for Brandon

One of my co-workers son is in the Navy and is out somewhere on a ship right now.  She is making a care package for him for Easter and asked me to make him a smaller version of the bunny I just made based on CopperScaleDragon's pattern.  Brandon and his wife are also expecting and just found out it will be a boy this week.  So the bunny can be on loan to him on the ship until he comes back home.  Then he can give the bunny to his son.

Almost done with the second half of the bunny.

This little bunny has to be complete and ready to hop in the box on Monday so it might stand a chance on making it to Brandon on time.

This is so cool!

While going through my e-mail newsletters today, I came across Aesthetic Nest's post about seaming your work.   The mattress stitch is so going to make this afghan happen!  I have already planned on lining the back of the afghan with a very light material to hide all the sewing stitches of the chains.  This will also help hide the seaming work.  Looks like I can break the base up into four equal sections and then seam them together.

This is looking like a more doable project as time goes by.  Will probably start the base right after the fair in October because it will probably take me at least three months to crochet the base.  

Dreaming of Pollock

For the last three years I have had the idea in my head about crocheting an afghan inspired by one of Jackson Pollock's drip painting pieces.  I had planned on make tons of little granny motifs and try to make the afghan look something like my favorite piece, Autumn Rhythm (Number 30).

 

This week I have finally come up with a better plan for crocheting this afghan.  Pretty bad I am planning next year's state fair project now while in the middle of making all of this years items.  But this has been bouncing around in my head for years and I guess it just will not go away.  LOL

The thought of making over 600 small granny motifs and then sewing them all together was sounding less and less appealing.  So a new idea came to me while driving to work, my best planning mode lately.  My plan is to single crochet a base and them make random lengths of chain and attach them to the base to try to mimic the painting.  

Pollock's pieces are very large, have never seen one yet, so I am going to try to make the afghan have the same presence.  I am estimating the afghan will be four to five feet wide by ten to twelve feet long.  Will have to measure my open space up in the bonus room to see if I will be able to lay this thing down on the floor to sew on the chains.  

Since this is going to be such a big project, the afghan will be the only item I crochet for the 2013 NC State Fair.  I am guessing the base will take me a couple of months to complete.  Not sure if I will be doing it in sections then sewing them together.  Will have to do a smaller test version to see how bad the seams will be.  

This project has to stay on the back burner but at least I have it written down now so hopefully I will stop dreaming about making this thing now!  

Hooks and Needles Salute to you all!!

Marshmallow bunny for Easter

I have seen CopperScaleDragon's pattern for this marshmallow bunny several times and have always wanted to give it a try but never have had the chance to do so.  Since I was not able to make anything at Christmas for the other kid's at Joanne's daycare last year, I wanted to do something for them.  The original pattern was too small for my liking.  I played with the pattern and got the bunny to be 13" tall.  Thought that would be a great size for the 2 year old's to play with or sleep with.  

I am trying to be thrifty with my yarn purchases so I am using the left over yarn from my multiple color afghan for this year's state fair.  I have a pink one done so far that will be for Joanne.

I have three girls and one boy to make one for at daycare.  I will be using a fun green, blue, purple and yellow for these.  They work up very fast and are fun to make.  I might tweak the pattern again to make them a bit smaller so I can make a small, medium and large size of the bunny.  The smaller ones would be easier to turn out to make to Online Angels.