Toothless Amigurumi

DRAGONS!!!

If you know me, it doesn't take long to figure out that my favorite movie is How to Train Your Dragon.  Hands down.  So I was stoked about the sequel!  And I'm still stoked about it because HTTYD 2 was fantastic!

What better way to celebrate the second movie than with a Toothless crochet?  I've made a plush, I've made someone else's pattern, and now I've made my own version of Toothless!

II pretty much based the design off of my Otachi design.  Only, instead of separate pieces for the body, head, and tail... I did it in one fell swoop.  

The wings... were a pain to figure out.  My eternal war against crochet wings!  But heck if they don't look good.  

I normally don't write patterns down, but for the wings I kept detailed notes.  It was a good thing too!  The tail fins and the... mid wings(?) are basically shorter modified version of the wings so those notes came in handy.  The skull on the tail fin is painted on.

All the spikes on his back and tail are surface crocheted.  This was a much better choice than individually making each spike and then sewing them on.

Eyes are made of felt and sewn on.  I used Malabrigo - Pearl Ten, and it took three skeins.  Three.  That's the most yarn I've ever used!  I had to run out and find another skein, and luckily the store had the same dye lot, as I'd bought the yarn a couple months prior.

He stands on his own!  I love it.  I love him.  This is certainly my best project to date!

Kero-chan

So back when I was crocheting some lawyers I binge watched Cardcaptor Sakura.  Let me tell you, crocheting and reading subtitles is hard!  But as I was watching I got it into my head that I needed to make some CCS crochet.

I mean, he's literally supposed to look like a stuffed animal in the show!  So his design was very easy to translate into crochet.  I'm pretty sure that there were pre-existing Kero patterns out there, CCS has been around for a long time, but at this point I'm so used to making my own stuff that I just went for it.

His tail is a chain + pom pom, where the pom is slightly shaped so it's not completely circular.  I think the wings were just tubes that I crocheted together.  I can't recall it was a while ago when I made him.  (I've been so lax in cross-posting everything to this blog.)

Ace Attorney: Miles Edgeworth

Whoops, this is a wee bit late.  I actually made Edgeworth before Phoenix!  Just forgot to post him on here.  Man I had way too much fun with these little lawyers.

His hair was much easier to manage than Phoenix's... though it's actually quite similar!  I just flipped the shapes in different directions.  Like I said, Miles was the first one that I made so I bounced off of his hair design until I was able to come up with something that I liked for Phoenix.

He also doesn't stand on his own... my human crochets just don't have that much stability or balance.  That's okay, they're cute.  Probably my favorite part was crocheting his little cravat.  It was super extra cute!

  Here are some of him posed like his talk sprites or whatever:

Ace Attorney: Phoenix Wright

Okay, onto more recent projects!

Been replaying the Ace Attorney series, and felt the overwhelming urge to pick up a hook!  Also got to do a tiny bit of embroidery in his eyebrows and lawyer badge... I'm not really that great at embroidery so it'll have to do.

This'd be Phoenix Wright himself.  The star of the first three games.  His signature look is that gosh darned spikey hair... which is hard to capture with crochet.  I'm terrible with hair in general, but I managed to get something I was satisfied with.  Based it off of some wings patterns I recalled from a couple years ago.  I think.

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Now he doesn't actually stand on his own.  Sadly.  Instead I have impaled him with a knitting needle that is propped against the wall.  This is beginning to sound like one of Phoenix's crazy cases...

His arms and legs, however, are pose-able.  I stuffed them with pipe cleaners meaning I could have tons of fun posing him in the same manner as some of his talk sprites!

Pacific Rim: Otachi

Oh wow, it's been a long time since I actually updated this blog.  Though... I haven't done many projects so there hasn't been much to update with!  But I did do a fairly big one late in the summer of last year.  I took on a Kaiju!

When Pacific Rim came out last year I became completely enamored with it.  Just.  I absolutely loved it!  Giant robots... giant monsters... what more could one ask for?

The answer to that is of course, a crochet kaiju!  I chose the kaiju that got the most screentime: Otachi.  She's kind of like a flying-lizard-ninja or something.  Absolutely fab.

Of course there were no patterns to follow at the time so I just... winged it.  ;) It is one of my bigger projects, as I've said before.  I actually did a draft of Otachi before hand resulting in my room being littered with various kaiju parts... much like a certain scientist.

She took quite a while to make.  And physically she's one of my largest amigurumis to date.  While not too complicated she does have a couple tricks.  Toes. Those crocodile scales on her back. Moving joints in her wings.  All a challenge.

But she turned out fantastic!  And fabulously floppy, she's a joy to play around with, and a good travel companion.

I also went out and got some nice yarn for her.  No Red Heart for mama Otachi.  I forget the brand but it was a nice pretty wool. uwu

Now, part of the process of amigurumi is simplifying the design of the intended product.  I can certainly say she's been simplified!  The real otachi has so many spikes and glowy spots... I tried to capture the overall feel with the more prominent ones.  The parts that helped make Otachi's design feel so awesome.

Still... there were sew many parts to so on!  Of course this is probably because of those dang blue spots.  I could of embroidered them on... but I'm not comfortable with my embroidery skills.

She turned out absolutely fantastic!  She's been my pride for almost a year, and I still think she's one of my most daring projects.  Big mama Otachi.

Deep Sea Angler Fish Amigurumi

Whoa, it's been a long time.  Haven't done much in the way of crafts since my last post though.  I did pick up a crochet hook and I made this little guy:

I thought that the pattern looked super cute, but it turned out a bit disappointing.  Not enough crocheting and too much sewing stuff on.  I made up the teeth since I didn't have any lace on hand, and I think I used a different pom-pom technique than the pattern.

With her mouth closed she looks like a doofus.  She's turquoise because... WHY NOT?

Colorful Dragon Amigurumi

I was going to title this post Rainbow Dragon, but there's a DragonVale dragon by that name and I didn't want any confusion there.

Pattern here. This was a fun little guy to work, and really very easy.  At first I tried it with one of my random fluffy yarns but it was too difficult to work with so I switched to the normal kind.  I ended up changing the spines on the back a little bit, to give them an extra little point!

At first I think her tail curled up a bit, but when I added the spines it flattened out and I was a bit sad about it.  But she's still very cute!

Flying Whale Amigurumi

Here's another case of making something just because it's cute.

The pattern is pretty simple, but when I got to the little whale tail I was very confused as to what I was supposed to do.  In the end I just kind of made something up.

Hippogriff Amigurumi

I've still got quite a few crochets from the week before last to post... it was a productive week.

Today we have a hippogriff from this pattern.  I'm not entirely sure how I found the pattern, but it was in my queue so I went for it.  Originally I had intended to use grays, but as it turned out I didn't have much gray yarn left in my stash.  In the end I decided to instead use brighter colors and came out with a cute foxy hippogriff.

The pattern was pretty good, I only found a few mistakes in it, though I don't remember where.  I think they were just a few stitches that I thought should be changed, not even mistakes at all.  The ears I crocheted with two strands of yarn which I think was a good idea because they stand straight instead of curling.

Also, I used my own design for the wings.  That's about all.

Erlenmeyer Flask Amigurumi

Sometimes I make stuff just because it's cute. This is one of those times.

Found the pattern here.  Luckily my sister has a chem major friend so this little guy already has a home to look forward to!

Seahorse Amigurumi

I've had this lovely blue yarn I got in a trade with one of my friends, but haven't gotten to use it until recently!

It really is just the prettiest shade of blue.  It made for a nice Seahorse from this pattern.

I'm running out of places in my backyard to take pictures.  I need to find a new location.

Armadillo Amigurumi

Continuing with my Ravelry queue... have an armadillo.

The pattern is only available on Ravelry (as far as I know at least.)  It's worked in mostly in HDC which was a surprising change, but nice since the crocheting went faster. 

I changed the pattern up when I was knitting his feet.  For some reason I can never get the "puff" stitch to look any good so I resorted to formatting my regular method of toes.  I also reversed one of the ears so that they mirrored each other.

Yes.  This is the main reason I made this guy.  So that I  could roll him up into a ball.  He looks like a little pill bug!

I named him Tom Bombadillo. Sice I'm reading Lord of the Rings...

Mushroom Amigurumi

I like mushrooms, they're delicious. And cute.

I'm just going through my Ravelry queue right now and these knitted mushrooms popped up.  The pattern is simple and worked in one piece so you don't have to sew anything together.  I though that was pretty neat.

At first I used my smaller needles, I think they're a size 3.  This ended up with a tiny mushroom.  Then I decided to go ahead and make another mushroom with my size 7 needles.  

I ended up with a button mushroom and a cremini mushroom. Ehehehe.