Finished Minion

Husband kindly brought him home so I could take pictures.  The soda is for scale.
That's our new couch in the background, it's dark chocolate brown and has brass rivets. :-D It's really lovely to have a couch that does not inflict back pain when you sit on it!
I do love making toys. There is the joy of making something that will bring happiness. The giggles I get when one is finished. I have an entire list of toys I plan on knitting.
 I don't even mind all the finishing work, the little details that give a toy life.  I do mind the tight gauge toys tend to be knit at that makes my hands ache.  It means no enthusiastic knitting marathons where I finish three toys in a week,but one toy in a week with lots of stretches and other projects in-between.  Though, being forced to work on other projects means I might end up with handmade things to actually wear instead of piles of unfinished summer tops. ;-)

Proto-minion

My husband recently requested a Minion for his new office.  I found a lovely pattern. I dug around in the yarn stash and found some acrylic in appropriate colors and away I went.  When I finished the body the other day, Husband dubbed it, "Proto-minion".

I'm sure you can see why. He is larger than the pattern states as I held the yarn double.

I also found a pattern for Gru, which Husband also wanted.  How else was he to keep his Minion in line? So yarn was also obtained for Gru, who will be cast on once the Minion is complete and my hands have recovered from knitting at such a tight gauge.  I do love the finished toys, I just don't like making them particularly well.

There is a toad in my kale

I had been noticing holes dug in my pots of salad greens the last week.  I figured the squirrels or something had been digging in the pots; irksome but a hazard of gardening.
When I went out to water the plants yesterday morning I discovered the true cause:

Can you see him?

Maybe this makes him easier to spot?
I carefully watered the greens and left him to his business.  I'm glad he's there, talk about awesome organic pest control!