T Stands For Procraftination

Procraftination: doing some other craft when you should be working. It started out innocently enough. There was the bag with the cotton batting used to stuff the elf legs. What was I going to do with all the batting?

I started playing around with some yarn and a crochet hook. It had been decades since I had crocheted anything. Pretty much the only items I could crochet were granny squares. Hunting around for a simple project, I came across amigurumi. Japanese art of crocheting small animals or objects and anthropomorphizing them.

I only had black and yellow yarn so finding the little bee was fortuitous. As I began working the bee, I wondered what I could use for the wings. I tried crocheting the wings out of very thin, white ribbon, but the results were less than satisfactory. Then I remembered in the Christmas bauble box a skein of yarn from the year I crocheted snowflakes to go with my Christmas cards. And sparkly white yarn to boot. A pair of diamond button eyes and the little guy (2 or so inches long by 2 or so inches wide) was finished.

The Eldest decided the little bee felt squishy like a stress ball. So off he went to be her cubical companion at work.

Once the bee was finished, I wondered what else I could make. If I could figure out how to make pointy ears, I could make a cat from the same pattern. Then baby pandas popped up on my Facebook timeline. I could make a black bear and a polar bear. The little critters still need button eyes or embroidered features on their faces.

 Chick, duck, skunk, black bird, (if I can beg some yarn scraps from Red) maybe an orca are waiting for another procraftination day. What are you procraftinating today?

And since this is T Stand For besides the gear needed to prcraftinate crochet, a cup of tea at the ready. Drop by hosts, Bleubeard and Elizabeth's blog to find out what the rest of the T Stands For gang are up to. If you want to play, include in your Tuesday post a beverage or container for a beverage. Don't forget to link your blog to Bleubeard and Elizabeth's page.