I continue to work on things for the Fall Festival, although when I finish a snake (the 3rd) I'm working on, I think that will be all for the Fishing Booth. I may make more dishcloths and hotpads for the Country Store. Here are most of the critters I've knit and crocheted.
This octopus pattern is from a group who make them for premature babies. The babies seem to like to hold onto the curly legs. It is surmised that they feel like the umbilical cord to them. Carmen has requested that I make a pink one for a co-worker's baby (not premie)
One of my knitting friends made the orange fish. Although it doesn't look like it in the picture, she did a better job with this pattern than I did. The fish on the back row are all from other people's patterns, but the two in front I made up as I went along.
These cats all have the same amount of stitches - just the size of yarn and needles changed. When Alyssa showed Brady the pictures that I posted on FaceBook, he asked her to call me so he could tell me he wants a cat like the largest one, but in blue and black. I don't have any yarn with blue and black in the same ball, so this is what I cane up with:
I don't know if it matches what he's thinking of or not. I suggested to Alyssa that she have him draw and color what he has in mind.
On to the rest of the critters.
Four knit and four crocheted. the biggest and smallest are both knit with the same amount of stitches, just different size yarn and needles.
When I took the picture, only the gray striped snake (knit) was complete. Since then, I have finished the solid gray (crocheted), and have done a bit more on the green one (knit).
The squid is my own pattern. I looked at a lot of pictures of the actual creature online, and read descriptions, and this is what I came up with. I have made a second one, as well.
I've also been weaving more mugrugs. 190 completely woven, so far, although 40 of them need to be zigzagged across both ends to keep them from unraveling. I'm almost finished with another 8-yard warp - 35 to 40 pieces. I'm using up a bunch of 'stuff' - mostly old t-shirts friends and relatives have given me and yarns I don't like to knit with.
