Coming soon... #GrandAmiVenture

The project / series I'm calling #GrandAmiVenture started back in 2023. I gave my daughters a little booklet I made up with pictures of some of my best sellers, asking for my granddaughters to come up with color combinations for them. 

I got the pages back at our family Christmas in 2024. My two oldest granddaughters took turns coming up with some fun color combinations! 

So, for 2025, starting in March, I will be making one of their color combinations each month. 

For ease of copying and pasting into a spinning wheel of names, here are the patterns still left to do: 

Cute Little Dino

Big Head Turtle

Mini Tanner the Triceratops

Fancy Elephant

Ankylosaur

African Flower Sea Turtle

Aliyasaurus

Axolotl in Sleeping Bag

Little Bigfoot Puppy

Hatching Party - Big Brother

Chameleon

Fofo the Bull

Ballerina Kitty

(I will eventually get pictures of one I've made already and a pattern link... and pictures of how each girl's color combo worked out.)

Cute Little Dino is a pattern here on my blog. Pattern Link

5-year old Sophie wants me to make one in Pink with yellow accent stripes and green spikes, and red cheeks! 

Big Head Turtle

This is a free pattern on Instagram

8-year-old Aliya picked out the colors for this one: 

Royal Blue for the head, and a multi-colored yarn (pink and white) for the shell. 

Ankylosaur is a free pattern on Ravelry

(The pattern can be found here.)

Aliya picked out the colors for this one, too. Forest Green body, yellow shield, light pink bumps! That one is going to be interesting! 

Fancy Elephant: I'll have to track down the pattern info for this one! It's been so long, I don't remember where I put the pattern! 

(Found it! Pattern here )

Aliya's color choices: grey body, light pink dress with forest green for the top ruffle, mint green for the middle, and a pink/green ombre for the bottom... and coral hair bows.

(Definitely not colors I would have thought of... that's why this is going to be so interesting!) 

Axolotl with sleeping bag is a free pattern from Whimsical Yarn Creations

You can find info here

Aliya wants me to make it in dark green with yellow gills and a multi-colored blue sleeping bag. 

Tanner the Mini Triceratops by The Nicole Chase is one of my favorite dinosaur patterns. Here's the pattern 

Aliya said "this will be a silly one"... Green body, blue accents at the bottom of the feet and arms, light pink frill, light purple edge on frill, yellow horns by the frill, white horn on the snout. 

Hatching Party is a paid pattern from One and Two Company

Hatching Party Pattern 

I made baby brother in the egg shell years ago, with a blue "Big Brother". Over the years, I keep making the "Big Brother" over and over again (well, there may have been big sisters in pink and purple)... but nobody has purchased the set yet. 

Sophie thinks the next big brother should be light blue with light purple spikes, and a purple eggshell. 

FoFo the Bull... what a cutie! Here's his pattern

I've made him twice. Following Aliya's instructions, he will be a purple bull, with aqua blue pants (and orange pocket embroidery), dark pink feet, a light pink bow tie, and light brown ears and horns. Oh, and his arms are supposed to be coral. That's going to be one interesting cow! 

Honu the African Flower Sea Turtle is a long-time favorite. Looking through my Ravelry projects, I can tell that I made at least 18 of them so far! Here's the pattern. 

Aliya picked colors for this one: light purple head and flippers, yellow in the center, royal blue petals, dark purple to separate the petals, and light blue to finish off. 

Note to self... add pattern links for Aliyasaurus, Little Bigfoot Puppy, Chameleon and Ballerina Kitty

(as I type this, it's almost midnight, so I'll finish up tomorrow)