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Emotional Support Chicken

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Sunday, April 7, 2024

Thursday is my day to work at the store. Typically, I work alone on Thursday and I like it that way although when one of my coworker friends does come to work with me, I love that too. Anyway, last week we had a surprise Nor’Easter and the store remained closed for the day so I had a snow day!!!

AND since a snow day meant bonus time for me, I decided to do some frivolous knitting and cast on a new project … an Emotional Support Chicken. The pattern is by Annette Corsino and is wildly popular right now. In fact, there are over 2400 projects recorded on Ravlery. That’s a lot for a pattern that’s not quite a year old. So, I went over to my worsted weight wool leftovers bin and chose three different colorways of Ella Rae wool and got to work. By the end of the day Thursday I had completed most of the body of the chicken. People tell me I knit fast but I’m not sure about that. Regardless, these are the first two photos of her. The knitting is very simple and starts at the tail feathers. Everything is knitted in garter stitch and once you knit the tail, you pick up stitches and start your way up the body to the head.

By Friday afternoon at my knitting class I had gotten this far…

I was all ready to stuff her. So, after work I went to our local JoAnne’s to pick up some fiberfill for her stuffing and today I finally got around to filling her up and seaming in the belly and took her outside for her first photo shoot.

I love her! Ha! Ha! When can I make another?

Gone knitting.

Adventure in Crochet

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The other day my daughter forwarded this photo to me. It’s cute, right? Well, I found the pattern on Theresa’s Crochet Shop on Etsy and bought it … even though I really don’t crochet. Why? Because it’s utterly adorable, right!?

Despite the fact that I work in a yarn shop, we didn’t have a jumbo chenille yarn and I didn’t want to struggle with crocheting holding two strands together, too. I’ll struggle crocheting with a single strand, thank you very much. So, off to Michael’s I went on Monday and bought two balls of their Sweet Snuggles yarn in a baby blue and a cream. I wanted a teal blue but they didn’t have a great selection at the store and I didn’t want to try to order and have to wait. I also bought a Prym crochet hook in an 8mm/L.

Yesterday I had a very long meeting via Zoom and decided that it was as good a time as any to give it a try. I started twice (note: frogging chenille yarn is not an easy task!) but got the hang of it and since it’s all single crochet, I do know how to do that. I got the first part, the top, finished during the meeting.

I had planned to complete it today but got busy cleaning up our primary bedroom and bath and then cooking all the veggies that I had bought to roast for my week. I’ve been dragging since the time change and it’s been a struggle to get as much done as I’d like. So, I’ve not gotten a lot of crocheting done today but I did manage to write my store newsletter and print a recipe for a customer friend … now I just have to remember who that was.

I’ll get to it this weekend. The head is next and it can’t take too long – it’s small. And then the bottom of the body. I have to remember to buy some stuffing at work this week so I can stuff it properly. And I need to find the safety eyes. Nothing else will be quite right. Right?

It was a beautiful day at the lake today … it warmed to 50 degrees and the ice is starting to melt. It wasn’t much of a winter and I hope the Browntail Moths don’t thrive with this warmer winter. I will never be able to work in our yard if they’re as bad as they’ve been the last two years. Spring is coming!

Sunrise Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Until next time … gone knitting.