I have finally completed the Hemp Flowers Necklace from the Fall 2005 issue of Interweave Crochet, which I started over a year ago. I think the results are quite nice.

To refresh your memory, here is an old image of the photo from the magazine and an in-progress shot of the large flower and my yarn.

The necklace was a gift, as is the following creation. It's another Cellphone Cozie (patern from Knitting Pretty by Kris Percival, though pretty easy to improvise if you're good at that sort of thing). This was made for my friend, Anna, by request after she admired the one I knot for myself years ago. I like how I just happened to have a button that matched the colours perfectly.

And, of course, here's a pic of Suki-cat. You will be seeing quite a bit of her on this blog, I imagine. This was taken this morning. She's admiring the snow, and watching Dave shovelling the driveway (haha).

My friend, Joanne, who recently travelled to Japan, told me that Suki means "love" in Japanese! How appropriate!