Designing Fool?

Well I have been crocheting for about 12 years, and have been testing on and off for about a year or two.....and the other night I was doing 12" square for a wish in a group I am in.....I could not find another pattern I wanted to work, so thought, "hey, why not just make one up as I go" sounded easy!!! Really, the first one was pretty easy......only frogged a row or two a few times.........but I hate............HATE writing that out......time consuming and man are my fingers cramped up!! LOL Anyway I did this top one, and you can't really see too many of the details, I might try to do it again with a lighter color...I did my first one in Watercolor, then red.......and then the Raspberry, the only reason I worked with these colors, is because Carole wanted 12" in Watercolor and light purple, did the purple ones already, and the red and raspberry.........well frankly I was too lazy to walk into the bedroom and go through all those totes full of yarn to find one best to photograph. LOL ok so I got it done, 3 of them, and corrected the few errors I saw on the pattern, and will ask for testers soon.

So my design kick was in full force...........I wanted to make a smaller square, and had been wanting to design on with dragonflies for a long time. I was thinking of my boys and how I really want something that represents them to me in crochet........I love dragonflies, call them my dragonflies......So I wanted to make one.....but wanted it to be a bit different as my boys are unique.....to me anyway! LOL

So here is the 7" square.........it has two dragonflies one two sides and a shell stitch on the other two sides, reminds me of waves, so maybe a name change might be in order......Dragonfly Waves? umm not sure, but I had more of a challenge with this one..........man!!!!! I frogged the whole thing so many times.........drove me batty............I was determined and then frustrated when I had to stop.........had to take my mom to the dr, and Aiden and I dropped her off and had lunch, he was so darn cute the whole time, got back to the drs, and then AJ calls from the neighbors house.............he was home.........omg I felt horrible!!! I lost track of time, I was so use to my mom having late drs appts, that it just didn't seem that time! So we went to see if my mom was done and tell her I was going to get AJ, and she was pretty much done, just waiting on her prescriptions. So off we went to get AJ, and home again so I could drive myself crazy. LOL Finally got it done and printed out the pattern from my handwritten notes............SEVERAL of them.........LOL

Then redid the square in a light blue..........I am really proud of this square...........one because I made it with my boys in mind......this is dedicated to them..........two.....it did come out really pretty.......and I don't really say that too much about my work....I don't brag, but this just really meant a lot to me to design this. Found a few errors in pattern, but will correct them and rest a bit.