Alyssa's mom died of breast cancer ten years ago. Now that Alyssa is pregnant with her first child, she decided she wanted a Puppy for her yet-to-be-born. Unfortunately, she doesn't crochet. So she put out a request on Facebook to see if any of her friends could crochet Puppy for her. I volunteered, along with one or two other friends. Since I actually live near Alyssa, rather than several states away, I got first whack at it. Alyssa kept saying that if it was too complicated, she'd have someone else do it - that I didn't have to finish it if I couldn't. It made me a bit worried that the instructions would be incredibly difficult. She managed, by the way, to find the pattern book online. The wonders of the interwebz!
Happily, the pattern turned out to be incredibly easy. I whipped up Puppy and put him on Alyssa's desk to greet her when she came into the office.
Alyssa seemed very happy with Puppy. And I was thrilled to be able to continue the tradition for her. The dark teal yarn was a different brand, slightly thinner, so it gave a different gauge. I tried to make it as loose as possible, but I wasn't able to prevent it from spacing out enough to show the fiberfill between the stitches. Alyssa pointed out, though, that Puppy will soon get dirty. Very dirty.
It felt great to be able to complete the project before Alyssa graduated and moved on to her post-doc at NASA.
Here's original Puppy along with the larger, newer version.
