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PantyHo Turkey

Isaac and I recently did a turkey craft with his 3rd grade class.  It was a fun craft and required pantyhose, among other supplies.  "Pantyhose are just weird, Mom" Isaac proclaimed at the store  (you know, he has a point...), while I was deciding that knee-highs might work even better than home-chopped hose.  Once we pulled them from their packages, Isaac quickly became enamored of the knee-highs, and referring to a single item as a "pantyHO" -- the most obvious singular corrolary to plural pantyhose.

Isaac and I worked on a ppt presentation to share on his classroom's smartboard, and so many of you have asked how this all turned out, that I thought I'd share:

 

Here are some photos of the finished products:

Happy Thanksgiving!

Bok, bok and kazoo

So when I was hunting around on the internet for interesting crochet, and I saw this (follow link and scroll down a bit -- see the chicken towel!) how could I resist trying to come up with my own pattern for the little chickens?

Here they are -- little bok is worked in filet crochet thread on a size E hook, while big bok is made of thin mercerized cotton (Patons "Grace") double-stranded with some fluffy white yarn (Patons "allure").  The baby section of the yarn department at our local craft chain is a great place to find interesting, machine-washable, fuzzy yarns for animal-making experiments.  I used red embroidery thread for little bok's comb, and red satin ribbon for big bok's.  Their beaks are orange felt, and their eyes are french knots in brown embroidery thread.

Aren't they silly and fun?!