This week's project was made as a gift for a fellow Illini's baby shower. I thought a teddy bear with a Block I t-shirt was a great idea since my 12th Fan teddy bear went over really well as a birthday present a few years ago. I wasn't super happy with the pattern I used for the last bear, so I dug around on Ravelry for a different one and came up with the Cross Your Heart Teddy by Anne Shuler of Crochet Between Worlds.

I was pretty bummed that Joann's was closed last Sunday since I needed some yarn for my next two projects. I had recently found Tessa van Riet's pattern for Jip the owl on Ravelry and decided it would be really cute in some leftover purple yarn (which is impossible to photograph accurately!) I already had in my stash, so I set to work on it instead.

You've seen my Alton Brown inspired giant and medium size crochet chickens on the blog in the past. Well, here's the medium size crochet chicken's second edition that I made for my friend, MP.

This post is going to come off as whiny, so if you're not feeling it go ahead and move along to something else. As I mentioned last week, I'm really struggling to finish my current project. It's like I'm stuck in this never-ending cycle of grumping at myself because it's not done combined with lack of motivation/disinterest because it's taking longer than my brain feels is acceptable. This results in me not touching the project for days which means it takes even longer to finish.