Summer Birthday Presents

I try to make lists and I do take pictures but I'm finding these posts to be helpful in keeping track of what I made and when. So I decided a birthday post would be worth while. I"m posting it at the end of July because the box will be long gone and I'll have had to start work on the crazy fall schedule of a fall birthday, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and then Christmas. It all creeps up so fast.

Manatee

When I was thinking about creating an ocean play set I never thought I'd find a manatee or a stingray pattern to include in the set. I was quite pleased to see the range of sea creatures I've been able to find crochet patterns for as I've proceeded with this project.

This is another pattern from Bathtime Buddies that I still have on loan from the library. I do have the PDF to work from once the library book goes back, but for the moment it is easier working from the book.

The manatee works up quickly. As I mentioned before I'm trying to keep my animals small for the play set. If I had to do this again I'd have used sport yarn, but grey is in short supply in my yarn sport section so I used a D hook with worsted weight 4 yarn.