Lakers Afghan

     For the past year and a bit I had been really wanting to make an afghan to donate to the Fort Frances Lakers in order to help them raise money, and finally, after completing my brother's birthday blanket I decided to dive right into it.  Having completed my brother's afghan in record time I felt confident I could keep the streak going and finish up the Lakers Afghan in no time, and though I may not have finished this one in record time, it is completed and I'm glad to see how wonderful it turned out.

I started out with the lettering for the logo

Then worked on the afghan background.... Of course Zija was all over it.

And more work on the lettering

Background finished, lettering almost done

Lettering finished! (no easy task)

Ready to scope out how big to make out the rest of the logo

Kitten just waiting for me to turn my back so she can pounce on a fresh afghan

This is how it starts.... two paws at a time 

Kitten caught!!

Logo placement, still needs to be sewn on

Friday the 16th, in the morning, sewing on the logo

And the afghan makes it to the first pre-season game!

      The Lakers Afghan is part of a Lakers raffle to be drawn on December 19th 2011 at the last Lakers home game before the holidays.  The draw will be for the Afghan and 2 chairs (seen in the above photo).  Tickets are 5$ each and ALL proceeds go directly to the Fort Frances Lakers.  The blanket was 100% donated :)  I am planning on having the Afghan available for custom order sales, however since it took up so much time to make, the price will be adjusted accordingly plus part of the proceeds will go to the Lakers.  Once I've crunched up all those numbers it will be up on my Etsy site and this one as well as the Facebook page.
     When it comes to labours of love, they are always long and arduous but ALWAYS well worth it in the end. :)

Droid Mouse

     The Droid factory was under attack!  It would seem, not surprisingly, that Zija (and to a lesser extent Gurr) really enjoys the Droid head pieces and will go to great lengths to retrieve them.  Although she is horribly adorable when she takes off with a piece and tries to stash it somewhere I have to keep her from doing it, otherwise the Droid heads would be full of cat hair and other miscellaneous fluffs from the carpet and kitchen floor.

     In response to this series of attacks I created a decoy diversion.  Enter Droid Mouse!  Designed to grab and hold kitty attention and divert it from the factory storage unit (an upper shelf near my crochet chair).  Droid Mouse was very successful and has so far kept the Droid parts safe for nearly a week now.  

Zija keeping a close eye on the Droid Mouse

   I made this mouse 'off the cuff' as they say, with no pattern.  I did use elements of the Droid pattern and just crocheted till it looked decent. However, I will attempt to piece together a pattern so that anyone interested can make their very own Droid Mouse.

     I used the same shade of green I've been using to make the Droids (see previous post) and the same hook (5.0 mm).

{Pattern Documentation still in progress}

Start: Ch 6.

Rnd 1: Ch2 in 2nd chain from hook, sc in next 3 sc, 2sc in last sc, continue working to other side of chain, 1 sc in next 4 loops (back of the first chain), 2sc in last loop, join to beginning with sl st.

Rnd 2:  Chain 1, 2 sc in next sc, sc 

{Pattern Documentation still in progress}

Zija and Droid Mouse

     For more photos of Zija and Droid Mouse click here.