Gifts from my Crochet Pen Pal

I belong to a web group that assigns pen pals and then challenges each month for those pen pals to make for each other. December's was called a Magic 8 Ball, where you take a skein of yarn and hide gifts inside. January's was to make a hat or scarf. These are the lovely gifts my pen pal made me. I have a pic of the gift I made her for January, but won't post it until after she's received it :)

Square #4

completed 1-8-10

Square #3

Square #3 of the Gourmet Crochet "Variations on a Theme" mystery crochet-a-long. We are stitching our squares in any color yarn we want. I'm going for variety!

Square #2

Square #2 of the "mystery crochet-a-long" I'm participating in. I completed it yesterday.

"Variations on a Theme" Crochet-a-Long

I found this website -- the Gourmet Crochet blog -- where this crochet designer is posting a crochet-a-long. She is posting the pattern for one square each day, and when completed they can be assembled to make an afghan. I thought it would be neat to try. This is square #1. Today there will be a new square instructions posted.

The site is:
http://gourmetcrochet.blogspot.com