chop, chop

Tuesday, dec. 12, 2006   |   0 comments

My friend Jessica (scroll down to the “Kashi GOLEAN Crunch!” review) crocheted a herd of lovable stuffed trees (inspired by the trees posted at Craftster) for Saturday’s party, and then each of us got to take one home!

These past few strange nights I’ve been applying my busy brain and my feeble crocheting know-how to hooking up a misshapen (I think mine need to be fed a little more stuffing), bald-spotted (and crocheted a little tighter) forest of friends for my perfect little tree. Their umbilical chords still need to be cut, and they still need ornaments — maybe some embroidery-thread blue, pink, and red stars? Or pear, apple, and banana beads from the frayed, vintage plant-hanger my aunt Cordy gifted me? — but even naked, they’re elementally satisfying, especially en masse:

And here they are all together in a nocturnal shot, looking strangely guilty: