A Turtle

I finished this guy a couple days ago. I had been wanting to crochet something but didn't know what..  I saw a turtle someone had posted in a group I'm in, it was using all granny squares. The pattern was over $7 though. I got to thinking, "I have a square-ish shell pattern!" I've had it forever, and never made it. My Grandma had one of these on her bed. I asked her one day where she got it. She said my step-Mom had given it to her for Christmas. So I (got up the courage to) asked my step-Mom about it, and she showed me the pattern. It's from a really old pattern book "Toys to Knit & Crochet" by Coats and Clark. And the yarn colors I had never heard of some of them. "Blue Jewel"..  So I googled them and came up with the closest colors there are now.  

                       This was pre- Amigurumi days. Also, the pattern did NOT make sense in some parts. I almost gave up, but I put it away for the day then would come back to it.

                                                   I think he is really cute. He's pretty big, too. 

 The top of the shell. I used the colors the pattern stated for the shell. The body I used what color green I wanted to. I like this green for him. I will have to come up with a name for him..