Morpheus Chupacabra

I had a Sculpy day with my friend Audrey and we made chupacabras together.  It was great.  Also, I took pictures in a place that wasn't my back yard!

Recently I redesigned one of my characters—Morpheus—and since she was on my mind I decided to make her into a chupacabra.  Her main colors are purples and golds.  For her horns I gave her curly little swirls based off of the crown she wears.  Morpheus also has tiny little wings on her ankles, so of course her cabra gets those as well.  I almost forgot to add them.

Those bigger wings though...  Wings always give me trouble, no matter what media I work with... though in 3D media more-so than 2D.  Morpheus wears some kine of weird feathered cloak covered in stars.  I didn't get quite the effect I wanted with the blues, but it still looks nice.

This chupa is definitely an improvement on my last figurines as she can actually stand on two legs.  Though her tail does act as a third point of contact, it wasn't needed.  Another improvement is that she has fingers and toes.  Oh. And wings.  Also, she gets cute little paw pads—on her feet and hands.

Here's the full set, Audrey made the blue cabra (Razul-cabra) as well as the zebra striped cabra.

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...