Socorro Ana-Paula!

Look at this face... Look at those eyes!

Wouldn’t you do just anything for him!
When Baby #4 looked up at me with those eyes just like those and said, “Ladybug?” I determined to recreate said ladybug just for him. He’s 33 months and really into his board books. He is particularly fond of Eric Carle’s The Grouchy Ladybug. Being a toddler with a notoriously short attention span, I had to abbreviate the tale for him.

“Hello!”
“Go away!”
“The ladybug met a yellow jacket.”
“Wanna’ fight?”
He got stuck on, “Wanna fight?”
He liked all of the animals that the ladybug met, but he loved the “wanna fight?” line.
“But Baby #4!" I reasoned
“You have to understand that the grouchy ladybug has a change in attitude.”
I continued “She met all of those bigger and tougher animal, couldn’t beat them and now she is the NICE ladybug…”
“Wanna fight?”
No matter, I was still going to make him that adorable NICE ladybug. I embarked upon a ladybug pattern in the April 2012 that Crochet World deems EASY…We will see because I have an inexplicable fear of amigurumi crochet. I don’t mind buying those books. I have too many of them to name. Ana-Paula Rimoli’s blog on blogspot is one of my favorite and I have all of her books(and I'm buying her new despite the $1,500 price tag!)BUT I had to stop buying ami books because I just wasn’t making them. I wasn’t making them because I was afraid of them.
I will start on an amigurumi, crafting the head, easy orb, done that before. When it comes time to branch out and make that body…I can’t do it. Is it he designers? Is it my mind? Is it the amigurumi? I don’t know.
Since the ladybug isn’t a traditional amigurumi (small crocheted thing, no torso to scare me) I decided to push past my fear and pick up my hook. I made the body easily, but tired because I like quick and easy projects. I made the head, stepped away from the project after all of that work and found that Baby #4 had pulled out 3 of my rows! I would not be deterred, although I did stop to take a break and to write this blog.
You see, this is where I usually get stuck. This is what turns a half-completed ladybug unto a UFO (UnFinished Object!) I’ll stash it in my workbasket, then reason that he didn’t really want that ladybug after all, I could pass off a store brought one for him, even though I promised him and myself NO MORE UFO’S, and he is looking at me, and then at the creature that is his ami… Look at those eyes...
Sóccoro Ana-Paula!