Here are photos of my first big crochet project. For Christmas of 2003 I made afghans for all my family members. I used a large Q hook and two strands of yarn, so all these afghans worked up very quickly and were also very thick and warm. This is my niece and her afghan...

...my sister...

...my niece...

...my sister and her husband...

...my brother and his wife...

...my niece, her husband, and her step-daughter...

...my mother...

...and my sister.

This is a doily I made. Thread crochet is very fun, and I think doilies are beautiful.

I made this afghan for my cousin.

This is an afghan I made for a little girl. The name of this pattern is "Happy Hearts." Isn't that a cute name for this afghan?

This is an afghan I made for a little boy.

Here is another afghan I made for a little girl.

This is my husband's aunt modeling the afghan I made for her.

This is the afghan I made when I participated in my first friendship afghan granny square swap.

This is a wild hippie afghan I crocheted.

Here are our two cats, Mr. Bean and Amy, quality control testing the wild hippie afghan in progress. (They gave it the quality stamp of approval.)

Here is our Rottweiler, Hansi, when we first got him. He was just eight weeks old here and weighed about twelve pounds. Hansi is now 100 pounds.

Here is Hansi with Mr. Bean. Mr. Bean weighs eighteen pounds!

Here is Hansi with two tennis balls in his mouth. He was trying very hard to fit them both in and he was very proud when he finally did it.

Here is a picture of my husband, David, with Hansi on his first birthday.