Busted!
Richard: Have you seen Olly?
Me: Huh? No. Why?
Richard: Go look for him.
Me: OLLLLYYYY!!! (runs to his usual sleeping spots) Hmm… where is he?
Richard smiles as he watched me lift the lid off my new WIP box.
Olly: Huh? What’s going on?
Richard: (points to label) W. I. P. West in peace.
Me: Ha ha verrry funny. (grumbles)
Abracadabra! The pear is now a frog!
Cristi waved her magical crochet hook on my Pear Tawashi crochet pattern and turned it into a frog! I think it’s just brilliant and doesn’t the frog look adorable? I just want to give the cute fella a squeeze and a hug!
Cristi shared her interesting and informative journey of the pear transformation with me. Here is what she has to say:
Hi Cristi! So how long have you been crocheting?
I have been crocheting steadily for
Why were you looking to crochet a frog? Who is the frog for?
Ok, so this is a bit convoluted. I was without a job and wanted to make
So as I was browsing through my Evernote logs for inspiration I found the pattern I had saved from your website and decided to make a frog. I found a pattern I liked for the legs and started making them. Along the way, I realized this was too much work for heating pads (after I had made four or five). I just ended up making soft cotton covers for the heating pads which went over very well, except for my boyfriend’s father. He opened the present when I wasn’t looking and thought they were sand bags to use for support for his camera… LOL 
… He was a little embarrassed when I told him that they were just heating pads, but tried to make up for it by using one right away. I told him that I totally didn’t mind if he used it as a sand bag, as long as he liked it. He perked up after that!
Right before Christmas, I finally found a job as a nanny and wanted to
Did you look for a frog pattern by googling or searching Ravelry?
I have some links I have saved as bookmarks that link to pages that store patterns, I also Googled, and searched Craftster. Though I am a member of Ravelry, I usually forget to check them out. I also
So what made you use the Pear Tawashi pattern for the body? Have you seen this pattern before the frog one?
I don’t know what made me think of using your pattern like that. I think it was one of those
Did you find my pattern easy to read and understand?
I did! it was 
PROJECT DETAILS OF TAWASHI FROG
Patterns:
Pear Tawashi pattern from Salihan Crafts and Frog Toy pattern from Caron.com
Yarn:
Green worsted I had from a vintage yarn score from Craigslist… epic story in and of itself!
Hook:
I believe I used G, im pretty sure, but I didn’t write it down (bad bad me) and H as the pattern calls for on the legs
Modifications:
I made the pattern with worsted yarn, but otherwise followed the patterns straight up. I made the “front” side first then when I finished making the “back” side, I single crochet all around the outside through BOTH edges. I turned them inside out as I found this made the frog thicker/taller. I put the eyes in then stuffed the frog through the “tail” and finished with single crochet to where I had started to single crochet around. I attached the legs amigurumi style to the sides of the body and to the corners where the body and the tail bent.
All photos in this post are copyright of Cristi Nelson
Thank you Cristi for emailing me and sharing your project with us. I had fun reading all about it.
If you have made one of my patterns and would love to show it off here, please email me at contact@salihan.com. I would love to feature you, yes, YOU!
Healthy Cheese Biscuits in 20 mins
I’ve been craving cheese sticks since having some homebaked ones at a friend’s house on Monday. I was a little piggy and finished the container! They were yummy, Cath! She told me how easy they were to make so it played on mind that I could whip some up quickly too.
So after dinner last night, I pulled out my trusty Edmonds Cookery Book and found a recipe for cheese biscuits. I modified it to make a healthier version and I think they’re delicious, even if I do say so myself. Haha… It was hard for us not to eat the whole batch all at once!
I’ve shared with you my version and I think it’s a good base recipe. I’m thinking that it might also work well with garlic powder and cheese or rosemeary and sea salt. I might try those next week. Happy baking!
Ingredients:
1 cup wholemeal plain flour
1 tablespoon icing sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
pinch of sea salt
pinch of ground paprika
25 g light margarine/ spread
1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese
3 tablespoons skim milk, approximately
Method:
- Preheat oven to 200 degrees celsius and line a baking tray with baking paper.
- Sift flour, icing sugar, baking powder, salt and paprika into a bowl.
- Cut butter into flour mixture and rub in until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
- Mix in cheese.
- Add just enough milk to form a stiff dough.
- Knead lightly and roll out to 2mm thinkness.
- Cut into squares and place onto lined baking tray.
- Prick each square with a fork.
- Bake in preheated oven for 10 mins or until lightly golden.
- Sprinkle biscuits with a pinch of sea salt. Eat when cool.
Makes 25.
{ 6 comments }New Pattern: Perry the Pear
My obsession with super-sized cuddly fruits continue! Many of you have left comments saying you can’t crochet but would like to make one of my Amigurumi Pears. So I’ve come up with a knitted version just for you.
Perry the pear is huggable, cute and has a big heart. I have him sitting around the house – on the bed, on the sofa but most of the time he’s right here on my desk. Whenever I get frustrated and need to turn my frown upside-down, Perry is there to greet me with his loving smile. A cuddle a day sure brightens my day!
I knitted the pear with soft bulky weight acrylic yarn, which makes Perry a quick and affordable plush toy to make. He is a fun one-skein, weekend project and your kids would love you for it. I dare say the grown-ups would love him just as much too!
If you’d like to make your own pear plushie, please visit my Perry the Pear pattern page.
Furry Colleague + Weekend Special
I’m trying to get some work done today. I have the house to myself. I turned off all my usual distractions. It was going great until Olly turned up. That was the best I could do to get him away from me. At least he wasn’t lying on the keyboard or my hand or the mouse or all of those at the same time! Argghhh…
Thankfully, he’s moved to his box now and I can get back to work.
So I’ve got something special to share with you. It’s a little treat for Ravelry members who like knitting and cuddly things. But this offer is only going to last a couple of days so you better hurry!
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