Day 77: For Christmas, a friend put together two build your own hedgehog kits for me, thinking (as she told me later) that it would take me about a month to make the first one (center). I had it done within an hour, and enjoyed it so much that I dug into my bead supplies. My next hedgehog's spines were multicoloured crow beads which, to my way of thinking, were less than attractive. That critter was re-homed, but I liked the one I made with white crow beads. The second kit contained a wild assortment of resin Murano-style beads which were substantially larger, but because I didn't have any bulky yarn on hand, I used the same hook and worsted that I'd used for the others. The resin beads were harder to work with, partially because of their size, but also because the facets on some of them dug into my hands. Nevertheless, the resultand hedgehog was cute and colourful. There's one problem: although they are supposed to be hedgehogs, I keep thinking of them as hagglets, baby haggises. Maybe I'm just hungry.
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