For two weeks now I’m working on a crochet top of an old vintage pattern  and I’m still not much further than the front. Takes a lot more time than I thought! But I love the result, so I think I’m gonna finish this one, no matter how long it takes. To break the mint color of the top a little bit, I hope to win a beautiful black dragonfly brooch in a giveaway by ChronicallyVintage , but in case I don’t win anything (bigger chance J ) I made a brooch myself in advance:         Shaped after my grumpy but nonetheless endlessly beloved black cat Sjakie, who isn’t among the living anymore for a while now, but still isn’t forgotten. You can see the mint colored top in the background. A picture of the total top follows after it's finished.        ~*~     And…. m y Fingerless Lace Gloves  are featured again!          This time by  Blissful Bucketlist !  Thanks, Sarah!         www.betweennapsontheporch.net