13 posts tagged “amigurumi”
I'm really excited about quite a few things this August.
The first thing is that my project for the Amigurumi Veggie and Fruit series are coming along great. Also, I started a new line of products called berryHaze. We'll have cozies, jewelry, tee-shirts, and other products that have a high degree of "kawaii-ness" (cuteness). Here are the two projects for the Amigurumi Veggie and Fruit series that I've finished recently.
The patterns and actual toys will be on sale at my etsy shop www.deebunny77.etsy.com
The second thing that I'm excited about is that after cleaning up Mike's computer (which I was using to do some graphic illustrations a while back), I found some of of my drawings. I want to give many thanks to dearbarbz. She posted her illustrations on her blog and so I think I will do the same...
This first illustration is a 5x7 drawing....
As you can see, the illustration is quite small and the I've added a calendar on the top left hand corner of the drawing.
Since I was cleaning up like crazy on Friday and Saturday, I found these awesome magnets that my mum bought me when I visited her in San Francisco... I think I may start an amigurumi series on these as well...
I was going over my stash and found some Lily Sugar and Cream left over yarn. It gave me an idea of making a cozy for my iPod Touch since it ends up in my everyday bag. Despite the fact that the iTouch already has a protective case to it, I decided to make one for it for more protection.
I wasn't sure how the pattern was going to turn out, but I had a pretty good idea of what I wanted. It's a simple pattern, but I added my artistic flair to it....
My Favourite food...(makes any bad day at work better!)
The second installment in the Amigurumi Fruit Collection
Okay. I really love those round things and made an orange one to attach to my bag, but Ashlynn swiped he charm before I could even claim it as my own. Thank goodness I took a photograph of it to remember what I had lost....
Another first in another series of amigurumi fruits. As with Mr. Tex Rex Pepper, I've committed this to paper as well. When the set of fruits and veggies are finally finished, they will be posted on Etsy for sale.
He is the first in the series of amigurumi veggies that I'll be making. He wasn't hard to make at all and I didn't make the same mistake I did the first time. I committed him to paper, after all, I am selling the ami and the pattern.
I had a hard time coming up with a name for him, until the Pace Salsa commercial came on. I ended up with "Mr. Tex Rex Pepper" and the name seems fitting since jalapeno peppers are added into salsas....
I have a Toki Doki duffel bag and purse to match, but unfortunately, the last time I used it, the keychain broke off when it went through the x-ray machine at the airport. I was so mad, but there was no use in crying over spilled milk. Since my bag had some cute characters on it, I decided to make the little round charms from Sachiyo Fukao's Leisurely Amigurumi pattern book. These two were perfect since their colours are already on my bag!
After I made them, I was surprised at how many people I knew wanted one. They said they'll even pay me for it. How I wish I could sell those, but I wasn't the original designer. I wasn't going to commit copyright infringement and plus, I am a designer myself so I respect other designers that I would only recreate their patterns for pleasure and not profit.
Mike wanted some serious amigurumi scuba divers made for a while. He gets these bright ideas and tells me that I should create it. I get scared out of my wits whenever he gets these ideas. The last one he had was knitted Scuba Flag blanket. It took me a full season to make the blanket and a lot of hair pulling in making the blanket. I have the wall marks to prove it (I hurled the project quite a few times across the room).
So, he wanted an amigurumi scuba diver. I made the first one and it didn't turn out quite right. He didn't like it and was somewhat afraid to tell me. I knew he didn't like it, I could just tell from the look on his face. I asked him what can be done to make it better and he said to add skin colour to it.
I made the next round and surprisingly, he loved it. The bad part is that I didn't commit it to paper and gave the new and improved scuba ami to one of my students (which she loved). I don't have the amigurumi to reference to if I made more. I guess I have to wing it all over again....
I made this little pudding for a co-worker who promised me a ball of yarn if I made her something. She wanted a the frog to hang in her car, but it was too much work and not worth making for just one ball of yarn. So, I made this little pudding amigurumi for her and she absoluetly loved. it.
The pattern was easy to make and it came from Sachiyo Fukao's book Leisurely Amigurumi.
With the semester finally over, I was able to let my mind and my hands wander. I mulled over my books, trying to decide what to make. It wasn't until I found some left over green yarn from two years ago, that I had the urge to make this little cutie.
I somewhat started the project unwillingly, but I needed to do something when I finished reading Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris. At first I thought the frog wouldn't turn out like the photograph in the book. The head was too big, but then I remembered that all amigurumis aren't proportioned, with the head always bigger than the body (that's what makes them so cute).
After crocheting for hours and days on end causing some pain on my left arm and wrist (where a ganglion cyst was removed last year), I finally finished.
