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Official Blog Post Joke: X-mas is like normal Mas, but uses league average home run rates! A-hahaha.

While I am, fear not gentle reader, diligently weighing hot stove options and winter meeting possibilities, for later posts, today I’m just here to prepare you for the Holiday Season, with another Reds themed crochet project.

This one I’m pretty proud of, as it was more than just running an image of the reds logo through a grid generator and adding a small border to it. But, to be fair, I did borrow from Deborah Atkinson’s pattern “Changling Flake” over at snowcatcher.net.

For the Cincinnati Reds Snowflake, I started with a wishbone-C shape in the center, did some of the snowflake-y bits, and then added bats and gloves as the snowflake ‘spokes’. Well, they kind of look like bats and gloves. Ok, so once I’ve told you that they’re supposed to be bats and gloves, you will recognize that that was in fact what I was going for. But the wishbone-C really does look like the Reds logo. Without further ado, here’s the Cincinnati Reds snowflake!

“Those don’t look like baseball bats or gloves at all!” “Well, ya see…ya gotta squint, and sorta turn your head and Ooooooh! It’s just so baseball-y.”

Isn’t this the perfect thing for your Reds themed Christmas tree or Yule log? Or maybe just a seasonal decoration to hang from your rear view mirror  that says “I have too much time on my hands!” Here’s the pattern after the jump

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Yeah, that’s right, my extremely silly, old lady crochet, reds themed project has finally come to completion. I didn’t end up going on quite the scale that the pattern on my previous post did. I don’t know about you, but I really balked when it come right down to doing 150 rows of filet crochet essentially for the purposes of a joke. Anyway, here’s the finished product.

Yup, I mean, I bet you didn’t even know how much you needed a red doily with the Cincinnati wishbone-c on it until right this second. But now you want one more than anything. Well, too bad. (I mean, unless you can crochet. It’s not that hard. Here’s the final pattern I used. In any case, this beauty really deserves to be sitting under some baseball-themed tea set or something like that, so I’d better get to work.