Yarn Porn Hawaii

Tails! Lots of 'em.
Have a pile of these little guys to put on ankle socks and barretts. Little girl sets for Christmas. Most are simple two row granny squares done in crochet thread or sock yarn, using a real small hook (1.65 or 1.3 mm). I started making the squares as tight as possible so they would be smaller. Problem was, they wouldn't lie flat, and my 5 yr. old noticed. So started to loosen up my crocheting and the squares lay flatter. I use the variegated yarns because I just love to buy variegated and because I'm too lazy to change colors every row. The pattern still comes out nicely with variegated.

One sock yarn leftover I used had long runs of dark blues, so to jazz up the motif, I added a few beads. The beaded ones will be for baretts only since those won't go in the washing machine.

The younger one likes to carry these around by the long tail, calls them balloons.