Once upon a time in January just past, I found myself snowed into my home with my two kids. Needless to say, I had to have something to fill the long days as well as help me maintain my sanity. This project did just that. I lost count how much time I spent on it because it was loads of fun to make!
My first IYP swap partner had a very interesting item in her wist. It was a knitted log. She had something like it as a child when she was young and wanted to her little daughter to have one like it. Now, I don't knit but I have done enough simple patterning that I was able to reconstruct it in crochet. I added in "age rings" to the log as well as some vine work (not pictured...) to spruce it up a bit.
Here's the log:
Oh wait, there are wooden buttons on the log. Whatever could be inside?
What else but....forest creatures!
If I had allowed myself, I would have continued making little mushrooms and other little woodsy bits, but alas, a week is only so long and I eventually returned to work.
I hope my partner's little girl has hours of imaginary fun with her log! :D
8 comments:
Ummmm....LOVE IT! Congrats on 100 posts!
That is SO seriously cool!!! What a fun gift for your craft swap partner's daughter.
I saw this one on craftster! It's such a great handcrafted toy! My kids would definitely play with this & love it!
Visiting from crafster, because this is all kinds of awesome!! My kids would adore this(and lets face it, I would too!)
Because of this post, I now have to go watch Ren and Stimpy to get that song out of my head :) I love your log and the cute little creatures that live inside!
Just saw this linked on Creative Me. Seriously cute project. What a wonderful swap that must have been.
--Denise at Sly Needle
This is ADORABLE! I love it. Great job- it's fantastic. happy one hundred posts, as well.
Stopping by from southern institute.
cute critters! What a great idea
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