CROCHET PARTY!!!

Classes are just about over, so what do I do to celebrate??? Throw a crochet party. . . duh! Last night I was helping my brother work on a paper for finals and I was crocheting, he asked how I do that so I showed him. So today, he came over to work on another paper and my friend Jessica came over to escape her roommates. I had promised to teach her to crochet too, so my room turned into a giant, crochet-Wii-chinese food-party-ignore finals-party spot.


I recently finished watching the anime series Death Note, so I created this amigurumi apple. I got the pattern from the Lion Brand website. My brother and Jessica are working on their first scarves. :D It has been a fun day.

FINALLY!

Happy Easter, all! And what says Easter more than new crochet guys. I am finally back to crocheting after about 7 months of nothing. If you have seen my previous posts, I was diagnosed with tendinitis about 6 months ago and it has taken all of this time for the pain to fully go away. I've done a few stitches here and there over the months, but my first full project since the diagnosis was yesterday. I am making two of my little guys. Here are some pictures.

If you can't tell the first one is Edward Cullen and the second is Dracula. I made the body for Edward about a year ago. It was actually intended to be Captain Jack Harkness, but A) these are presents for a friend of mine and B) I didn't have time to make two new bodies and C) the colors were right (although I wish Ed were a little paler). I made the hair yesterday and it took about 45 minutes. For the record I HATE working with fuzzy yarns, but I think Edward's hair is perfect. I found some really great tips here at PlanetJune.

I started Dracula yesterday and finished him today. Let me tell you, his hair was a pain, but I think he finally looks really good. He has a felt cape that I sewed together, and awesome little fangs.

The only problem now is Edwards eyes. Once that is done, these gifts will be complete! I can't wait to see my friends face. I hope she likes them.

And the lesson is...

So, once upon a time...

An evil scien-temptress created an amazing being. And his name was Frankenguy. She worked tirelessly for two weeks to give him the perfect body. After hours of labor she believed her work to be complete. She finished her creation, and stitched him up.

Weeks went by and she realized that Frankenguy's body was not being shown to it's full potential. He sagged in places that should have been svelte. There was only one thing to be done... surgery.









The surgery was long and painful. It took two long hours, but in the end her work done she believed that her creation was even better...


Now children... what is the moral of this fairlytale???

Always over stuff your projects the first time. Don't try to resort to open crochet surgery weeks later... the ending may not be a happy one.

I really liked the idea, but...

I enjoy spending time online finding crochet patterns and crafts. Let me tell you that there are some extremely creative people out there! One of these people inspired me quite a bit. You can find her work here.

Her flickr page shows many of her little people. I must say that I think they are absolutely amazing and I love them. That being said, I was not a fan of the pattern she posted for her people, so I decided to make my own, that's what Frankenguy is. He is the pattern that I needed to make a present for a dear friend of mine.

My friend is a HUGE fan of anime. When I e-mailed her the pictures of the Serenity cast she made a comment about wanting the characters of InuYasha. It took me three weeks, but I was extremely happy with the results.


It took me three weeks, because I needed to make a pattern for the bodies, figure out the best way to do their hair, and come up with patterns for their clothing.

This is a picture of my friend. She didn't like the picture, but I wanted to show as much of her reaction as possible, so I blacked out her eyes for her.

This is what happens when I don't have a job.

This is what happens when I don't have a job. If I don't feel productive in life I start to produce tangible objects that prove I'm not just a bum. In the last week I have made a hat for my dad and created a amigurumi "doll" pattern. It took three attempts, but he is complete. He is an abandoned scarf that found second life as practice yarn. I present Frankenguy.

I MADE A CUPCAKE!

I crochet! My mother taught me freshman year in high school and I love it. It makes me feel productive when I sit on my butt and watch TV for a couple hours, because at the end of watching Psych and Monk, I have a brand new hat, or in this case a cup cake. I found the pattern here:

http://amigurumipatterns.blogspot.com/2007/05/cupcake.html

I had a blast! And I have posted my outcome.