"Easy" Knitted Toys

This post shall serve as a warning to all knitters who enjoy "easy" side projects as a break from their more complicated endeavors.
For the past year (yes, a full year) I've been working on a complicated aran sweater for my husband (he wasn't my husband yet when I started the project!) It's a difficult all over cabled pattern (difficult for me - I've only been knitting about a year and a half) and I often take "fun-knitting" breaks... you know, the occasional hat, scarf, toy (like hedgehog for example)
Well... I have this book... I've made one toy from this book so far (hedgehog) and it was fun and easy (like the title of the book would suggest). This book is Called "easy toys" from family circle. See noted book below....



Notice the key word in the books title... as indicated in red....



Now, I don't think it was wrong of me to assume that this book would contain what it advertised... easy knitted toy patterns. In fact, I think that the majority of knitters out there would see the cover and come to the same conclusion about its contents as I did. "oh, look, a fun book of easy and fun knitting projects!"

DOES THIS LOOK EASY TO YOU!?!?!?





Just in case you were wondering.... I'm TRYING to make this...



Cute hey? (yeah, I used to think so too!)

Oh yeah, and one more thing.... the pattern called for Astra yarn... which, I have since been informed, changed owners or something and the yardage is different in their 50g balls now....
I found this out AFTER i ran out of yarn.... twice.
Thank you Mom, for picking up "refill" yarn for me. :-)

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too funny not to post.

St. Patrick's Day

A bunch of friends came over to celebrate St. Patrick's Day this weekend (I know it was on Friday, but we all got together on Saturday) Everybody brought "green" things. Tara made this great green caterpillar cake (which she named Danny - FYI - you should never name something you are going to eat) Monkey really enjoyed having company over, he even got some cake! (yes, that is an "Irish" shot glass in his hand!)



Charlie really got in on the action too!



We had all sorts of green goodies... too much actually. I have a fridge full of green leftovers.
Dying your food green is great, in theory, but when you leave it in your fridge for a few days, it's kinda scary... Why scary? Well, its hard to tell if its just regular green or moldy green... ew.



We even had some green prizes... new green Juicy Fruit Gum, A green "computer brush/pen" bird-type-thingy?, a green Jumbo Push Pop, and a green freezer mug. (Artfully displayed in the "showcase")




Prizes were awarded for winning video games... and Paul won a prize for discovering that if you throw green napkins in the fire (we have a fire-pit in our backyard) it makes super-cool green flames! (we wasted a LOT of napkins!!!)

Monkey Meets Charlie

Charlie has been a part of our family for almost 2 weeks now.... so I thought it was time for him to meet his brother, Monkey.
Monkey was a little nervous about meeting Charlie.... he is a huge DOG after all, and dogs generally like eating knit monkeys (as you will remember from when Monkey met Shelby).
Soooooo, he decided to offer up a gift - a new tennis ball (FYI - Charlie LOVES tennis balls).
It seems to have worked. They got along great!



They hung out for a bit, chatting.... Monkey seemed to be whispering to Charlie a lot.....



I don't know what kind of secrets he was telling him.... but whatever it was, Charlie seemed rather shocked!



I hope it wasn't anything about ME!!!!