End of the Line

She's done. 34 inches. And no more. For now.

I remember how excited I was when I first started Mercurina. I remember planning a whole family of temperature snakes. I truly loved this little lady until about halfway through February.

Our weather has changed. I did not like using the same colors over and over. I wanted a variety, I didn't do a crochet temperature project (or even a digital one, for that matter) last year because I wasn't sure life would allow me the luxury of daily upkeep. I thought things would be easier this year.

On the bright side, she's done. And even though she doesn't have as much color variety as a typical Colorado January and February would have provided, she is beautiful. It's possible I might start working on another snake if things quiet down a bit. But for now, she's an only lonely child, and I'm so thankful to be done with her.

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Slitherin'

I'm still tempted to put a tail on this gal because she's just getting too long to work with comfortably. Plus, I have those awesome name ideas for five sibblings... or five offspring...

I'll decide in a couple of weeks whether to bring her to an end on the 28th. It will depend how much she curls around me while I work. I can only take so much snake love... :)

In the meantime, I was playing with crocheted temperature snake prompts in AI, and some of the images of the freebie programs are HILARIOUS.

My paid subscription generated much better quality images, including this little video that I think is just adorable! Makes me want to create my own stop motion movie with my own crocheted critters!!!

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Decisions

Last week, I asked my friends and family if I should begin shaping the tail so I can bind off at the end of January, start a new snake on February 1, and finish the year with 12 little unique temperature snakes about two feet long each, or keep going and wind up with a 24-foot snake at the end of the year. I got two responses, one that whatever I do will be cute as can be, and the other a warning to be wary of making a long snake if the forever home might one day be a kid who might play tug of war with it... I must confess, I never considered that second possibility. My eyeballs are still sort of rattling around in my head over that.

I was leaning toward 12 little snakes because one month of growth would be easy to tote around if, by chance, we happen to go anywhere this year. Nothing planned, but I do still keep hoping Lizard might be able to handle another trip one day. I also considered the possibility of making each snake two months long, which would be a pretty cool finished length, in my opinion. I'd wind up with six very unique four-foot-long snakes.

My mind was made up a couple of days later when I saw, for the first time, Planet June's temperature snake CAL photo gallery. I decided I want my own long, long, very long snake!!!

But then a couple of days later, I was trying to come up with a name for my snake. And boy, have I seen some cute ones! Caution Ramen, Fang Ramen, Assault Ribbon, Speed Bump, Slithery Shoelace, Hiss Tube. Suddenly, I was back on the monthly or bi-monthly kick because I wanted to use all the cute names I came up with...

Psychedelic Angel Hair, Lumen Udon, Bulging Bucatini, Plump Pappardelle, Tallow Tagliatelle, Tubby Tube, Paunchy Pici, Roly Poly Tuffoli, Stocky Gnocci, Stout Kraut, Chubby Buddy... I bet I could stay up all night and coin new names!

I briefly considered calling "her" (I think I've decided my snake is female... maybe so she can be bigger than whatever other temperature snakes I create, and she can be the mama mamba...) Desi because there are just too many decisions to make!!! I toyed with the idea of naming her Fredrica, Freddy for short, and I hope you pick up on the connection. I finally named her Mercurina. Because that's so much prettier than Mercury. And I've still got more than a handful of cute names for her offspring!

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