St. Patick's Day Ornaments Part 2

This is the last set of St. Patrick's day ornaments for my friend's business but I'm hoping to get some Easter ones made. Perhaps some bunnies and eggs. Sloth's are a particular favorite animal which is why I adapted a Halloween pattern I had into a St. Patrick's ornament. You can purchase the Halloween pattern here.

I generally prefer ami's with round heads, especially when you want to add things like hats but I had this pattern with a flat head, it was already fairly small so taking it to ornament size didn't disort the pattern so I decided to go with it rather than finding something new. Sloths were a must for this project.

This is made with Sinfonia Cotton yarn I picked up at Creative Yarn source when I was making lots of Ami's a while back. It was a great choice for this project. At some point I'd like to find a rounder Sloth for a different kind of project but this was well received and didn't actually make it to the tree.

Recently someone was kind enough to share a box of old crochet patterns that had been gifted to them. I chose this one because of the multiple holiday themed items included which I thought would make cute ornaments. For those of you interested the leaflet is from Annie's Attic Crochet Backpack Buddies 872853 by Michelle Wilcox. She has long been a favorite designer. There are some great ideas here for future tree decorations.

The original Halloween sloth pattern had a pumpkin between his legs. In order to make it work I really needed to replace the pumpkin with another item and the pot of gold seemed like a great idea. I wasn't as happy with the Orble pattern I used previously so after searching I settled on this free pattern you can find here.

Why the extra pot ornament you may ask? Well this is what happens when you mix and match patterns reducing to fit a tree ornament. I thought I reduced enough but I ended up needing to make the pot in thread to make it fit the sloth. Now I had another pot of gold for the tree. Hopefully it fosters luck on the business.