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Sweetness

Got a text the day before Valentine's Day informing me my friend's husband would be picking Lizard up the next day for an "undisclosed mission". I wish I'd snapped a photo of my sweetheart's face!

They had not planned this in advance. It was just spur-of-the-moment thoughtfulness.

The next day, Lizard got ready as if he was going on a date. Two hours later, he came home with the perfect Valentine's treat for his sweetheart.

Who could ask for better friends?!?

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Snowflake Monday

This is adapted from a very old pattern I found on my old computer last July. My old computer went out of service in 2016. The notes were labeled "try". Yet another mystery! The formatting leads me to believe I wrote the three original Rounds on my phone, then emailed them to myself. Perhaps I ran out of thread on the bus or on the train and forgot about it. Whatever happened, I'm so glad I didn't let this little gem slip away!

Mini Mys Try Snowflake Prototype

I looked up all the little snowflakes in my directory to make sure I hadn't already published the pattern. Cake Urchin and Sand Dollar are similar to my original notes, but I had already made a couple of improvements for today's pattern, so it is a new flake. Yay!

You may do whatever you'd like with snowflakes you make from this pattern, but you may not sell or republish the pattern. Thanks, and enjoy!

Finished Size: 3.5 inches from point to point
Materials: Size 10 crochet thread, size 7 crochet hook, empty pizza box, wax paper or plastic wrap, cellophane tape, water soluble school glue or desired stiffener, water, glitter, small container for glue/water mixture, paintbrush, stick pins that won't be used later for sewing, clear thread or fishing line

Mys Try Snowflake Instructions

Make magic ring.

Round 1: Ch 2 (counts as 1 dc), 1 dc in ring, (ch 6, 2 dc in ring) 5 times; ch 3, 1 tr in 2nd ch of starting ch 2 to form 6th ch 6 point of Round.
If you're not reading this pattern on Snowcatcher, you're not reading the designer's blog. Please go here to see the original.

Round 2: Ch 1 (counts as 1 sc), 3 sc over post of tr just worked, * ch 2, sl st in 2nd ch from hook, 5 sc in next ch 6 sp; repeat from * around 4 times; ch 2, sl st in 2nd ch from hook, 2 sc in next ch 6 sp; sl st in starting sc.

Round 3: [In next sc work (1 hdc, 1 dc, 1 tr, 1 dtr), ch 3, 1 sc in 3rd ch from hook, sk next 2 sc, next picot and next 2 sc, in next sc work (1 dtr, 1 tr, 1 hdc, 1 hdc, sl st in next sc] 6 times; bind off. Weave in ends.

Finish: I've been stiffening my flakes with undiluted, full-strength water soluble school glue for quite a while now, and I've been squishing the glue onto and throughout each flake with my fingers (yucky mess!!!) instead of gingerly painting the flakes with glue. Yes, it's a mess. But it's faster. And stiffer.

Tape wax paper or plastic wrap to top of empty pizza box. Pin snowflake to box on top of wax paper or plastic wrap.

If using glue, mix a few drops of water with a teaspoon of glue in small washable container. Paint snowflake with glue mixture or desired stiffener. Sprinkle lightly with glitter. Wash paintbrush and container thoroughly. Allow snowflake to dry at least 24 hours. Remove pins. Gently peel snowflake from wax paper or plastic wrap. Attach 10-inch clear thread to one spoke, weaving in end. Wrap fishing line around tree branch (or tape to ceiling or any overhead surface) and watch snowflake twirl freely whenever you walk by! Snowflake also may be taped to window or tied to doorknob or cabinet handle.

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Valentine Sweets

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Pieces of My Heart

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Wordless Wednesday

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Zeroes

Oops, I missed again. Sometime in December I hit 10,000,000 visitors here at Snowcatcher. (According to my stats, I had a million visitors in two months. That has never happened before!!!) I would have loved to have been able to screenshot my momentous milestone. But I guess 11,000,000 will have to do. Looks like that set of zeroes might come a lot sooner than I would have expected.

Maybe. Looks like my blog went back to predictably boring after January 14, the day I experienced a mind-numbing 45,000 hits. What did I publish that day???

Hmmm. Nothing ground-breaking. Nothing to garner that kind of attention.

I did share my years-long avocado-dyed motif project on January 13, but it has only 108 hits so far.

I wonder if I got bombarded with bots or something because even my most popular posts don't reflect the influx of visitors I appear to have attracted for about six straight weeks. Whatever happened, sorry I missed it. Hope I don't miss the next one!

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