My very awesome friend Olga asked me to make some chemistry-themed crochet amigurumi for the WIMINS auction in Prague this year! It was truly a pleasure and they turned out super cute, if I do say so myself. Check it out!
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A friend in Florida had a very long-awaited baby girl, and I made not only a baby blanket but also some matching amigurumi toys for them! The dog is THEIR DOG! (: This one was really fun to make and I love the colors my friend chose. I send one of the two images below when making a blanket and ask people to pick either their favorite set of colors or specific ones (I don't actually use Brava yarn, but it's an excellent guide!)
I love making blankets, but adult-human-sized blankets take TEN THOUSAND YEARS (I've been working on one for our bed on and off for like 4 months...). When I found out my coworker was having a bebe, I immediately set to work. She chose not to find out the gender until her little bundle arrived, so I kept it gender neutral - but purple is her favorite color, so I knew I had to get it in there. The blanket follows this pattern I found on Ravelry (moss stitch is so pretty) with a crab stitch border. Super fun - took me about 2 weeks of commuting to make. I really think podcasts+crochet is the best train hobby ever. Also, I got super cute iron-on tags for crochet stuff I gift from this Etsy shop. They came super quickly and they look absolutely perfect. I drew the little logo myself in procreate.
I made the big Totoro basically during the course of our flight to/from Italy in April of 2022. It was my first amigurumi project and my third ever crochet project. It was so fun to make something like this that can be a shelf display object! The little Totoro was made during my commute without a pattern, and I'm pretty sure someone on the train thought I was making a bunny and was greatly amused by him. I followed a pattern for big Totoro I basically can't find anymore for free on the internet, so I'm attaching a Google Drive link to the PDF. If you want to make him, I would highly recommend this project to anyone, even at a beginner level! I also initially under-stuffed him, leading to a hilarious chunky, floppy, totoro. The eyes and stomach were also attached too low and not at all on his head. Thankfully crochet is a very forgiving fiber art, so it was just a matter of shifting everything up a bit and re-sewing his face on. Felt pretty evil doing it, but the result was worth it! And then for a colleague's birthday a while later, I used leftover yarn to make a teeny totoro version for her! I love how the mini version turned out almost more than the big guy. This one was following a pattern on Ravelry. I think this might have been the version I followed, but I'm not quite sure.
Also, buying pillows from Walmart and cutting them open for the stuffing turns out to be cheaper than buying stuffing from Michael's. Just a little crochet-pro-tip. (;
One of my coworkers had a baby shortly after I got into crochet. My first project was a scarf which I wear regularly but will not share as it's got some beginner issues (terrible tension control, lost stitches in rows and then had to get them back so it's a bit lumpy). I asked if I could make this for my coworker and got to work. It took a WHILE as I was learning as I went.
This was the tutorial I followed, and I can confirm - no twisting, and the starting stitch is not visible at all. This was also my first experience with weaving in MANY MANY ends, a task which I think every crochet enthusiast loathes. |
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