Okay, lets get real, I don't really like sports at all. But I am intrigued by those who love their Teams so much that they paint their faces and or wear crazy cheese heads! I really want one of those, by the way. I do watch the games with my husband, I am usually crocheting and only look up when he yells at the TV or says, "Honey, will you get me a soda?"
He Shoots! He Scores!
Well, I decided to make a March Madness Basketball hat
for Maximo to wear while he is watching the Games with my hubby.
My son asked me to make her one. I looked for crochet patterns for pandas on line but they were all small. I wanted to make her a big panda. Well, you know hat this means...I was going to design a pattern. I mean how hard can this be. It is a bear, a black and white bear, it is not like I had to make zebra stripes or polka dots! I knew I could do this.
I started with white yarn at the bottom. I wanted it flat so it would sit,
then working my way up, decreasing .
Then I switched to Black yarn and stitched a nice thick stripe,
I decided to decrease or shape the top,
then switched back to white and formeda head,
so The body and head were all one piece.
When I was ready to close the top of the head,
I stuffed it with fiber fill, then closed the head.
I then made two ears, two eye patches, and a cute snout.
.All free hand!
Next, I made two legs, two arms and a cute little tail..again all free hand,
I did measure to make sure the legs and arms were the same size.
I stuffed them and sewed them closed.
Lastly, I began to sew all the pieces together.
My DIL also loves Cupcakes so I made her bear holding a cupcake,
with a cherry on top, with a matching silk yarn ribbon and flower.
Rosie and Maximo like her, I sure hope my DIL Does too!
She is ginormous!
She measures from Top of head to bottom - 20 inches!
Sock Monkey Water Bottle Cozy Crochet Pattern By Sara Sach of Posh Pooch Designs I thought, with the nice Spring Weather and everyone headed to the Dog parks,
My husband and son had a Business trip to take to Denver, actually Aurora, Colorado. My DIL and I decided to go along for the fun. So we packed the RV and headed out. We stayed at the Cherry Creek National park right in Aurora. It was beautiful, right near town, and it was Dog Friendly!
Our View each morning.
Morning Visitors -Mule Deer
We also had Geese visit us daily- they are very messy!
Meet Boogy, he belongs to my hubby and son's Boss. He is sooo Fluffy!
After the Busy Work week was over,
we decided to head to Colorado Springs,
and to The Garden of the Gods.
It is breathtakingly Beautiful! And it is a dog Friendly place.
You can take your dogs on all the walking and hiking trails.
They even have Doggie oops bags, to help you clean up after your dogs.
Dogs can go literally everywhere humans go,
except inside the visitor center.
There are a lot of breakables in there.
"Kissing Camels"
(OOPS! how did this pic get in here!)
Garden of the Gods,
when we were leaving at Sun set.
Then we went to The Seven Falls
Which is also Dog Friendly. You can take your dog everywhere,
except up the gazillion steps to the top of the Falls.
There is a elevator in a cave,
which I thought was cool,
you can ride to the top, so can your dogs!
And again, there were oops bags at
several different places around the area.
It was all frozen, but the water was still
rushing down the Falls,
it was spectacular!
I took lots of pictures but tried to only show the high lights.
Size: Fits a Small Dog - 8-12 inch neck (5-10 lb dog) To adjust: add or subtract 4 chs per inch (4 chs=1 inch)
Pattern: Ch1 does not count as a stitch
R: 1 - Ch 33, 1 dc in the 4rd ch from the hook,
dc in the next ch, ch1, skip the next ch, * 1 dc in next 3 chs,
ch 1, skip the next ch*, Repeat from *to* 6 more times across row.
Ch 1, turn. (8 clusters)
R: 2 - *3 dc in the next ch 1 space, ch1*,
Repeat from * to * Across, ch 1, turn.
(7 cluster)
R: 3 - Repeat R: 2 (6 clusters)
R: 4 -Repeat R: 2 (5 clusters)
R: 5 - Repeat R: 2 (4 clusters)
R: 6 - Repeat R: 2 (3 clusters)
R: 7 - Repeat R: 2 (2 clusters)
R: 8 - Repeat R: 2 , join to the 2nd dc of the last cluster of R:7 with a slst,
tie off. (1 cluster) Weave in your ends.
For Ties and top Trim:
Ch 20, attach to the top right side of the bandanna
with a sc, sc in each st across,
ch 21, turn.
1sc in the 2nd ch from the hook, and in each ch across,
sc across the top of the bandanna,
1 sc in each ch, tie off, weave in ends.
Now you can embellish with an applique.
I chose a little flower for Rosie and A paw print for Maximo.
