Three Silly Monkeys!

A dear friend of mine has Glioblastoma - an extremely aggressive form of the "C" word...

He also has a beautiful wife and cute little daughter... he waited a long time for both of them!

Now his time may be cut short.

I feel helpless... 

When in doubt, I crochet... but what?

They made it easy for me - their family nickname is: 

Perfect!

I hate to turn such a serious subject into a crochet blog post, but it is therapy for us all, right?

First - brown beanies.

I love the half-double crochet stitch - and my new love-hook-size is an H.

I can whip one up in an hour if I watch a scary movie!

"The Collector" (don't watch it - it is appalling) worked for me...

Papa Beanie... Momma Beanie... and Baby Girl Beanie!

  Now... how to turn these into monkeys... hmmm...

First I suppose they need ears... so I made a bunch of them by guess and by golly (literally).

Not sure exactly what monkey ears should look like, but this might be close.

Each turned out somewhat different, but I found three pairs that seemed to match up... kind of. 

What else... oh yea... I need some yarn needles.

"Quick run" (three hours) to Michael's... 

thankfully they are only 99 cents (so I could buy more yarn)!

At the risk of sounding like my Junior High, Home Ec teacher, 

I have one word of advice:  B A S T E

I ever-so carefully sewed the ear on, perfectly weaving in and clipping the ends before trying it on.  Big mistake.  As I painstakingly tried to remove it, I clipped the wrong yarn!  

Oops.

"Spirit of Grammy Mim"... what do I do? 

After tying and weaving, you can hardly tell - and the ear covers is nicely...

Whew - thanks Grammy!  Note to self:  buy a Styrofoam head

I thought about adding pink to the middle - 

but it looked even more like a mouse than it already did.

OK, I'm ready to make the flowers for mommy and Elly.  

As I finished the chain (3-doubles in each hole) I paused...

Maybe I should make little Elly's into little hair extensions?  Naaaah...

I love making these... they just roll right into a perfect flower... it is easier if you stitch them together before adding them to the hat - found that out the hard way.  

Roll... 

Stitch... 

 Plop...

Now what... maybe a puff of hair at the top?  Why not!

I wrapped the yarn around my fat little thumb and it was perfect.  Wrap wrap wrap.

Anchor....

Clip.... 

And Voila - Here is the final product! 

Wish a cure could be whipped up as easily...

In the meantime maybe this will bring a smile to

 THREE SILLY MONKEYS!

To be delivered...

September 4, 2012

Benham took his final breath tonight...

Rest in Peace my dear cowboy friend...