For a friend's birthday, I decided to make a bit of an elaborate project that started with four elephants. I bought the patterns from PlanetJune, because it was cheap, she's clear about her patterns and they were adorable.
When you're self-taught, you don't realize what you're doing wrong until someone else points it out and then you realize how much more sense it makes to do it this way as opposed to the other way. For instance, when I first started, I didn't understand what people meant by sc and was doing a sl st to make things.Anyway, doing the elephants, I suddenly realized how much more durable crafted objects were when you use both st of the last row instead of just the front one. And so these elephants really mean a bit more to me than they already did.
Finger puppets happened. Injuries happened (I've got a scar from my hook wearing off the skin between my ring and pinkie fingers). Piles of elephant parts happened. I used a yarn needle for the first time. Three-legged elephants happened. Mailing incidents happened. Shenanigans continued. And there were elephants.
