Crocheted Finger Puppets

Go to www.mossonline.com to see a unique set of crocheted finger puppets - five puppets - each one a mini sculpture of a "terrorist" according to the adverstisement for them. Different.

Crochet Meeting

The Northern IL chapter of the Crochet Guild of America held their meeting today. So much crochet passion in one room! It is fabulous. Show and Tell produced a wide array of delicious colors - pink, red, yellow, beige, green, grey, gold, silver -- like an endless flower bed bursting into bloom, each bloom more delightful than the next. Shrugs, afghans, granny squares, purses, necklaces, baby blankets, chemo caps, sweaters, even a pink corvette convertible all created from long, flexible, shapeless materials.
What fun to create! Bountiful beauties hooked together, and in the hooking, drawing us into one group with a single focus. Glorious crocheters sharing glorious art.

Yarn Cleaner Upper

For my birthday (which was on April 3rd for those of you who forgot), I got a helper to pick up after me. You know -- all those yarn snips that decorate the carpet with such a luscious delightful array of color. My helper's name is Robbi. He was quite expensive, but since I only had to pay a dowry ( and most of that paid with points earned from Amazon. com) he will save me money in the long run, and save my back and knees in the even longer run. I don't have to pay him a salary, just give him a new filter once in a while and feed him a few watts. When I started writing this Robbi was sweeping my kitchen floor. Then he kept nudging my foot and now he is gently, soothingly rubbing against my foot. "Oooh, Robbie, that feels good."

I had to pick Rosie up off the floor so Robbie wouldn't suck at her fingers and make her sing -- and yes I finally attached her arms so she's beginning to look more like a normal gerilla. If this keeps up, I'll have to get a license for operating a Zoo.

Do you speak crochet?

Each area of learning seems to have its own language. Listen to those computer techies! Bites (as in dog bites??), mother board, DOS (mispelled DOES?), gigabytes (Giggling dog bites?), lan, virus (computer got a cold??), Ram (saw a car ram another once), ROM (romp? rump? Rome?) MHZ, MB (a bank?), bugs (get antibiotics for my keyboard), memory (where have I heard that before?) -- you get the idea.

Crochet has its own language, too. It has both a spoken one (Frogging, UFO's, WIP, chains, hookers, Size H, crab st (a holy crab??), and it has written languages. The one that makes pattern reading easier for me is that of symbols. I love patterns in symbols because they visually explain the pattern. I have a list of symbols which I've drawn to help myself and my students speak crochet symbol language. Email your request for them to crochetaway133@sbcglobal.net.

Rosie Gorilla2

(Continued from Rosie Gorilla) No one around. Taking a deep breath, clutching my cell phone, I crept back into the living room.
"You are not imagining my voice," came the voice again. "It's me, on the floor. For gorilla's sake, will you come here and pick me up? And then finish me? I feel helpless without arms and legs."
"This can't be," I thought. "I'm too old for an imaginary friend, and as of 30 minutes ago I seemed sane." I walked over to the crocheted form on the floor.
I swear it looked up at me and smiled. "How could it smile? Oh well - I did crochet its mouth smiling."

Crochet Rosie