#crochet365 February 2, 3, 4

Feb 2 - red

7 Deadlies - Anger

Feb 3 - WIP - blocking

Pinned & Blocked

Daisy Self Portrait

Feb 4 - TBT - Return to crochet

 ie unmedicated choice of yarn

C

#crochet365 Day 31

Day 31 - animals - Guess.

Passing for Cute

Hello there. Did you think you'd be working today?

Nope. I'm not leaving.

  No workie.

Wake Up

Just felt like they needed a few extra photos to explain what they mean to me.

Interruptions of the fuzzy kind.

C

#crochet365 photo challenge Days 29 and 30

Day - 29 - knit-look - Alternating diamond bracelet, Experiment with Tunisian and enterlac in size 10 crochet thread

Day 30 - noise - huh! Take your pick. The wellspring from which my emotional mallaise flows. Harbinger of chaos.

Thoughts Aren't Deeds

More #crochet365 - 2016 - Day 25 -> Day 28

#crochet365 2016

Day 25 - Yarn in a bag - yarn as a bag

More catch up.

Feel like poo. No, amend that; I wish I felt as good as poo.

Just general malaise - down, dizzy, weak, ache in pit of stomach, warm, frustrated.

DK

DC

#crochet365 - 2016

Day - 19 - Where I create

Phoned it in. Too embarrassed of how my place looks, ...is. So took photos of the view from the couch I never seem to leave:

Day - 20 - WIP

Even more embarrassing is that I'm barely doing anything. Had such high hopes for getting my ass back in gear. Can't move forward without addressing the problem. So my WIP for 1/20  - me.

Day - 21 - TBT

Running out of things I've done. Uh Oh.

Eye glasses cozy:

Day - 22 - chunky

Aw, man! Don't work with yarn much less chunky. Have that scarf and blanket, I guess. But I'm not ready to share those yet.

The snake baskets turned out to have a little bulk. Gonna have to do:

Day - 23 - yellow

Love the color. Don't use it much. What's up wit dat? Probably too sunny and happy. I'm less in that mood than I am in "little black raincloud" mode.

Do occasionally:

Rubber Ducky Applique:

Day - 24 - crochet inspiration

Brings us to today. Can't think straight when I feel blaaah. Maybe photo, sketch, finished product?

Saving it for longer post. Guess I can still do the longer version later. Save sketch for then.

So these two characters:

played by these two guys:

inspired this crochet piece:

Crochet inspiration - game, set, match

...until tomorrow.

Hook on,
C

crochet365 - 2016 - Jan - Day 18

#crochet365 - 2016 - Jan - Day 18 - crochet challenges

These are from a challenge back in 2010. Theme was thing-a-day for the month of February. I decided on an animal alphabet motif. Like grade school banners.

I have cats. Have always had cats. I even make cats. Weird little crochet appliques of cats with, oh, let's call it "personality."

So it became a cat-alphabet, or as I was feeling rather punny at the time, a catphabet.

I'm too lazy to dig up, fix and post all 29 (Leap Year). And I couldn't seem to choose between them, so here are four chosen realitavely at random.

Hazzuh.

The Me

Crochet365, 2016, Jan 16 - kids , 17 - my precious

Had a rough weekend. Completely missed  posting Sat. 16 crochet365. Had something chosen just ...needed to sleep.

Which is depressive code for hide away, ignore life and wait till it all goes away.

It finally settled down and and went away enough so I could post (share, whatever) on Sun.

Jan 16 theme/prompt was "kids". Never had them. Can't anymore, so never will. I can only assume that it's for the best. Wouldn't be fair to any poor tyke.

Anyway:

#crochet365 - Day 16 - kids

From an old online challenge, I think. I remember that "Family" was the topic.

Designed to evoke memories of preschool aged crayon etchings. Or at least look like one. Kid art. Check.

And those rightmost stick figures represent my brother and I in our early elementary years. Kid figures. Check.

Lots of cats, dogs, space, air and love. Overall, pretty easy, nostalgic, warm and fluffy thoughts. And  twofer.

Sun 17 was harder:

#crochet365 - Day 17 - my precious - ?????

I couldn't get past Gollum and gold rings. Wasn't up to whipping up a LOTR piece.
So I had to scramble.

Jewelry?

                                     Nah.

Treasure chest?


                                                          Nah.

Proof of Crazy hat?

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                      Nah.


...and then I thought of my beautiful babies, Calvin and Hobbes.

circa 1991

Both gone by 2006. Sickness and pain. Watched them go slowly.

My little Hobbie. Tried so hard to force her to stay. Horrible tube feeding sessions. Terrible rash from diarrhea. Miserable discomfort. I had to stop. Had to let her go. Found her ...still, not breathing before had the chance to give her comfort.

Made myself pay penance for that. The paw print tattoo on the back of my shoulder. Hurt. Burned. Used same painkilling greasy cream on my scab until it detached and fell off.

Calvin was different. Saw him stop eating waste away Calvin. Vet let me have him one last weekend to say goodbye.

Too thin to hold without hurting him. But he came to me one night and I helped him up onto the bed next to me.  He slept next to my heart.

That was the night before he didn't have to suffer anymore.

I failed them both. They suffered. Hobbie worse than Calvin, but they shouldn't have had to at all.

Didn't pay my pound of flesh for Calvin until much later. 2011. Diabetes, fatty liver cirrhosis, hysterectomy. Serves me right.

I failed my precious kitties. Like I failed my Mother before them. And my Father since.

Serves me right.

The C