Work In Progress: Kwazii the Octonaut

Lil Miss loves the Octonauts. She couldn't like the quaint lil penguin or proud polar bear, nope, she loves the pirate cat in bright orange fur! Thank goodness I seem to have an appropriately coloured ball of yarn. Every moment I steal to get a row completed she chants "Kwazii!", she is pretty excited that there is a head and a body and tells me he needs arms. Luckily that's what I am working on now.

I love amigurumi but I loathe making more than two parts! Unfortunately all the funnest amigurumi consist of multiple parts all smooshed together in crochet one-ness. Looks like I have to overcome my weakness of dropping my WIP in order to get Kwazii complete before my Lil Miss gets over her Kwazii childhood crush. Nothing like a deadline to get the crochet hook flying!

I'm keeping notes on how I am making Kwazii, using shapes from tutorials and modifying stitches to get the right design. By the end I think I will have a completely unique pattern for this adventurous pussy cat! My very first crochet amigurumi pattern, very exciting!

Talk like a pirate day

Talk like a pirate day and I tell my husband he should stay home and hang out rather than go to work.

I say "You could be my pirate captain!" ~ He smiles

I say "I'll be your saucy wench!" ~ He grins

I run off to the kitchen and return with the tomato sauce and say "A very saucy wench" ~ He bursts into laughter but still had to go to work!

Something for my Valentine

Genetics

There are times when I am grateful my daughter inherited most of her traits from her father. She has a pleasant easy going personality, unbelievable tanned good looks and is a sweet natured little thing. Sometimes I worry she inherited nothing from me. 

Today she showed me I was wrong. Only 18months old and she pulls a chair up to the table while all her little friends are over for a play date, pulls the food in close and sits there for ages just eating till her little heart is content! Yep, that's my girl. Sitting as close to the food as possible! Making sure to get to all the good stuff before the other kids even realise there was food!

Little smiles!

That little feeling of joy when someone pins one of your uploaded pins on Pinterest! 

Clean as a whistle

Having a shower and suddenly I am stuck down by a fit of giggles. My soap has a bite taken out of it! Toddlers are strangle little creatures sometimes, but at least they keep you on your toes.