Meet Lawrence

Before I begin and get completely carried away with my crochet madness, here's a picture of that necklace in the really cute package that I told you about. Isn't that just the nicest presentation you've seen? I thought so.



Anyways, I suppose you're wondering who Lawrence is, aren't you? Well, Lawrence is the little piglet that I just finished crocheting. I used a pattern from Elisabeth Doherty's book, "Amigurumi: Super Happy Crochet Cute." You can check out her amazing work here. My little Lawrence in no way comes close to her art, but I love him. I like how (unintentionally at first) his legs and ears are a bit crooked, I think it gives him that wobbly newborn look. He's really tiny, too. He fits in the palm of my hand, well, he does extend out onto my fingers a bit, but I have teeny hands). I was very tempted to name him Wilbur after the piglet in Charlotte's Web but I thought that it would be too obvious a name for a pig (well, aside from Piglet). He took A LOT longer to crochet than I had anticipated, about four of five days. It probably would have gone faster if I wasn't watching t.v. the whole time. Plus I only learned to crochet a few months ago. So I guess that's pretty good.

I'm going to take a break from crochet for a couple of days so that I can actually study for my finals (I've got one next week and another the week after that and I've yet to crack a book). But soon I'm going to start my mom's mother's day gift. I'm going to make her a little doll that looks kinda like me. That sounds a little self-centered, but I think it'll be cute. I'm not going to attempt to crochet clothes, instead I'll make them out of old t-shirts. I'll put up some pictures when it's done (that is, if I ever get started).