Well, I'm pretty much done with my May goals, so I'm looking at June. Here is my Penguin Pail (bucket list) for June.
1) Finish the Outlander Cape that I thought I had finished, but had to tear out because I messed up. (Done - picture coming soon)
2) Finish the scrappy slippers I started and lost interest in - DONE
3) Make 10 more bottle slings (DONE)
4) Finish 13th Doctor Scarf (oops, got 1 row done...)
5) Make 15 items from the “unfiled” yarn (four trays and a bag of yarn from previous projects or recent garage sale purchase that I haven’t put into Ravelry stash… will be easier to use it up than to enter it!) I will try to stick to projects I think will be good sellers, like geckos, dragons, mermaid and unicorns...although I'm sure other patterns will come up that are just so cute I can't resist!
One of the four trays. The green and pink, and the three little balls of yarn in the lower right went into a mermaid doll at the end of May.
Did I say four? Oops, I meant five!
First of 15... a Micro Dragon. On May 31st, I made a mom/baby gecko set, and thought that the baby gecko looked like a wingless, spikeless dragon... so I played with it and made a tiny dragon. |
| Made progress...I'm down to three trays! |
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| #2 was a donut with pink sparkly sprinkles, to match a gecko order. #3 was a bottle sling... didn't take a picture. |
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| #4 - Albino Pacman Frog, to replace one sold on Sunday |
Project box is loaded, ready to churn out some more cute little projects!
For project #5, I went "outside the box"...when I went to my room to get a sweater, I saw a small ball of blue cotton crochet thread... so I combined it with some white crochet cotton, and made a bottle sling. I love how it turned out! I call it "Cool Blue".
Project #6 did actually come out of the scrap box I made up... I got an adorable pattern from Trifles n Treasures called Geoffrey and Lulu that has TWO patterns... a cute little giraffe, and a llama. I just had to make Lulu the Llama!
She is less than 6" tall, so I made her one in one evening... but I decided she needed a blanket or poncho or something bright... because that's how llamas roll. I pulled some more bright colors from the project box, and made her a poncho. This morning, someone told me that I picked out the colors from the Colombian flag. I love the pattern and will be making more of these cuties!
Scrappy Hedgehog is #7. Attaching all those strands of yarn took time, but it made my scrap yarn bag a lot emptier!
#8 - another "cool blue" bottle sling
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| #9 - Finished off the cotton thread with a "cool blue dishcloth" |
#10 - Rainbow Elephant!
11. Patchwork Pup
I'm starting to hashtag finished items with #penguinpailjune2019
Puppy got a dog bed, blanket, bone and bowl... If I counted each one as an item, I'd be done with the 15 items... but I'll clump them all together.
#12 is for an order: a little green car
#13 is a little Royal Blue car... and #14, light blue car, is started!
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| #14 Finished... |
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| #15 was a bone to send along with an Etsy order of a red puppy |
And another bottle sling...
And an otter, for the Friendly Red Fox crochet-along
#thefriendlycrochetclub
And a chocolate chip doughnut
Then I decided I'd better do some work on clearing up the big projects I had on my list:
Only about 20 rows to go to finish up the Outlander Capelet. (6/18)
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| My granddaughter picked out this yarn and asked me to make a lizard. So I made two: one for her, one for my shop. |
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| Then I finished up a little mermaid for a CAL (crochet-along) |
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| Finished up a rainbow lovey, using up more small quantities of yarn from my trays. |
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| Then I made a penguin... a new Crochet-Along from The Friendly Red Fox |
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| I found a cute new pattern for "Jellyfish Splashers"... like reusable water balloons, only cuter! |
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| Then it was back to water bottle slings... |
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| And more water bottle slings... |
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| And more... and I think I made two more after this pic! |
