Yarnjeannie's Crochet Cache

This is my best friend. He is always at my side. He knows when I'm sad and need a little extra attention. He loves me unconditionally. No, let me qualify that. He is my best 4-legged friend. My husband fills all the qualifications above too.

I haven't blogged in forever.  I've had some trouble with dizziness and other problems.  Found out what the cause is - happy because I was starting to think I was nuts.  My crocheting fell by the wayside because I took a tumble that pulled the muscles in my chest and kept me from using my arms for several weeks. Hope to be recovered very soon. Aren't these shoes a hoot?  I wish something like this was real - I'd buy them just for the novelty of it! My grandson is growing so much! I can't believe he is 4 already. He makes me smile! He is very into the Nintendo DS and playing Mario Bros. He went to the park the other day with his grandfather, and told me that "Pop Pop was Mario, and he was Luigi". So cute! I hope to have some new projects on the hook in the near future. Will get back to updating on a regular basis. Hope all of you are well and happy!!

The owner of a dive shop asked me if I could make a cup cozy with the diver down flag logo on it. After a couple of tries, I came up with this.  If she likes it, she may put them up for sale in  her dive shop.

I hope that everyone is celebrating with loved ones today. I have been asked to design something and I've been working on it very hard.  To do it in tapestry crochet wasn't giving me the results I had in mind, and working it on a diagonal wasn't doing it either.  I'm going to have to give the project more thought. I put together some sea friends this weekend.  I have ideas for more.  Doing them on the fly without a pattern.

and listed in my Etsy shop:

Dolls!  I love making dolls.  Unfortunately, I have no granddaughters or I would be showering them with dolls!

I have someone contacting me through my blog asking for the pattern for a doll I crocheted (L'il Buster).  I have informed her where she can purchase the pattern (from Kathleen Early- easily found on the web) and kindly declined to provide her with a copy.  Her e-mails come through in Spanish and she says she has the pattern but it's blurry.  I asked her if she has a photocopy of the pattern and if so, that isn't permissible.  I also told her I will not provide her with another photocopy.  I keep getting comments from her and I've had to mark her latest as spam, in order to stop the conversation in its tracks.  I will not - ever - provide anyone with a copy of a pattern used to make any of the items I show on my blog.  I purchased the pattern and others can do the same.  I respect the copyrights of others. If you see something on my blog that you like - thank you for your kind comments.  But please don't ask me to provide you with the p...