After months of living on an island, which I swear I will talk a bit more about soon, there was an adjustment period of getting reacquainted with my house and all of the things in it. Before we left for the season I started purging and staging the rooms in their new roles. Fellow emptynesters will understand as the rooms in their homes become these weird stained voids of life in the house where life once was. (I mean don’t get me started on that weird hard stain in the carpet that was smack in the middle of where the Chicken kept her bed that sat directly on the floor.) Suddenly you have rooms for all of these things that you’ve had to tuck into corners or in high spaces so that the kids didn’t ruin them because you would get back to them Someday.
Well friends, my Someday has come.
One of the things that I have been working on as I figure out Who Heather Is is doing stuff that brings me joy and living my life apologetically. Crafting, whether it be crafting words, relationships with people, or just crafting things brings me joy. But I had a hard time of letting go of that joy and so things sat unfinished because I couldn’t bear to give them away for fear that they wouldn’t be good enough. Case in point Moo the Unicorn aka Rainbow Cuddles the Unicorn by 1DogWoof
This poor unicorn has been in a partially bald larval state for nearly two years. I was excited to crochet my second toy and thought it would be perfect for the granddaughter’s first birthday. After I finished the body and head I let some mistakes I made in the parts that were done stop me from making the legs. Fear that somehow my granddaughter would some how reject this unicorn if the legs weren’t all the same size and looked just like the pattern kept me from finishing it for over two years.
I’m happy to share that Moo is no longer in her larval state and is happily living her best life with the granddaughter in a room with a slide. And many more of the projects that I had started are getting their finishing touches. I have a baby blanket that I am putting together for my soon to be here great niece from squares I created while sitting in waiting rooms while my mother had therapy after her strokes. The love and prayer in each one of those stitches that will wrap around that little babe just has me feeling all of the joy. She won’t care that the squares aren’t even, she will just feel all of the love.
If you check out my Instafeed I will share the things as I finish them because I want 2019 to be full of FOs of Joy! (FO stands for Finished Object)
Now for my notes on the pattern with some affiliate links, disclaimer which means if you click and buy I get rewarded and since I am new at this I am not even sure how. But onto the supplies: I used the recommended Red Heart Yarn in colors white and petal pink for the body. I did the curlies all over for the mane and tail and used Red Heart Stripes in the Retro colorway so I didn’t have to worry about getting multiple skeins of yarn. I followed her directions and the pattern was very easy for a beginner pattern reader and toy maker to execute. My issues came from my inexperience and my lack of stitch markers when I was making some of the pieces. I would probably make this again and I have made several patterns from this designer. Check out her site and her Instafeed if you love fun crochet projects.
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the world because so many of us are writers unaware? I think Maya Angelou said it best when she said that “there is no greater agony than being an untold story inside of you.”
One day you are making a quick mainland trip and feeling guilty about not telling your kids that you’d be on their side of the lake and you see a plate on the car at the stop light in front of you. (see car photo)
