Crocheted Cute Fuzzy Owl

(Originally published at TexasRed Quilts on July 13, 2010)

I started amigurumi after seeing Chris at book-a-rama's Love Birds. Finding out that yarn companies have free patterns just adds fuel to the fire. Here's the pattern I just followed from Coats and Clark ( I agree with them -- it is the "cutest little owl"):

(Of course, I played around some by changing the feet, using different colors and textured yarn, etc. I also made the eyes out of fabric, rather than using plastic eyes, b/c I worry about babies swallowing them.)

Chaaanges and Butterflies

Man, just realized how long it's been since I posted.  Sorry about that.  I'm going to try to get into a better rhythm for these things.

As a step toward that goal (and because I realize that it's silly to have 3 blogs I'm not keeping up), I'm going to combine the TexasRed and the Twins blog and the TexasRed Quilts blog into this space.  Originally, I was trying to keep these subjects separate so that people who wanted just to talk about books and not baby snot or my out of control crafting obsession could do so.  I have discovered, though, that I can't really separate my life very well that way.  As a result, I'll just try to make it clear in the post title what I'm talking about and leave it up to y'all to click or not click for the day.

Also, I'm starting a new part-time job tomorrow, which I'm sure has no impact on my desire to clean up my mess online.  

Whew, so after all that, here's some butterflies for your Wednesday. This is from the Monarch migration in our backyard.  You can check out more Wordless Wednesday at the headquarters.