January 22nd, 2012

Duck Amigurumi

» Posted in amigurumi, animal, crochet at 5:12 pm

Was in the mood for some duck hunting, so this time I made duck amigurumi!

No, I don’t really go duck hunting. If I want to eat duck, then I’d just go buy it! Anyway, on to some more duck amigurumi pictures?

Crocheting this duck was actually very easy. I was originally making a cat’s head (in my cat amigurumi post) and found that if I just sewed up the top ends of opening together, it can become a body for other animals! It sounds a little confusing but it works! Could you tell that the body of this duck was the same as the cat’s head in my previous post?

I just added on a head, duck feet, beak, and ended up with this duck amigurumi! Just the duck by itself without any embellishments was very plain, so I had to add a few accessories to liven things up.

Big duck and small duck!

Yes, that little tuft of hair is supposed to be there. I was going for the more baby-like look with the extra tuft of hair on its head.

I also made other duck amigurumis in different colors too!

I guess you can say this is a more manly duck?

I just went to town making these duck amigurumi. There’s so many things you can do with them and they’re really easy to make too.

The bonnet was really fun to crochet too. It’s like another blank canvas for me to decorate on!

For this duck amigurumi, I added a little pink butterfly to match its pink bonnet. The butterfly was something that I found lying around the house. Yes, again something random I found in the house. I just realized that I make myself sound like I have a lot of things in my house! That’s not true though! I clean everyday and keep things in their rightful places!

I actually had more pictures of this last duck but accidentally deleted them! Ha ha oops. Next time when I take pictures, I’ll retake this one and show you more of its bonnet. I spent so much time decorating it too! I crocheted a bunch of little flowers and sewed them on too… Next time, promise! Well that’s it for today, hope you enjoyed my duck amigurumi!

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September 10th, 2011

Rabbit Amigurumi

» Posted in amigurumi, animal, crafts, crochet at 2:29 pm

It’s time for some more amigurumis–like rabbit amigurumi!!

Making these rabbits was quite easy! They’re small so they don’t require much time to make or sew together. Good on the eyes and good on the hands~.

Instead of just having a plain black line as their eyes, I wanted them to have a more glamorous and ladylike look. So I had my daughter cut some black felt into the shape of eyelashes and also some light blue felt eyeshadow to go with it. It took a long time to cut out the eyelashes. I wanted them to look nice, long, and luscious!

Just the black eyelashes by themselves was a little boring and typical, so that’s why I added in the eyeshadow.

I wanted some variety in my rabbit amigurumi so I made this one lying down instead of sitting straight up. It’s much more sturdy than one that sits up. For the one that’s sitting, I had to make sure that the legs and the tail were placed and sewed onto the proper areas so as to ensure maximum sturdiness/balance. When you sew on the legs and the tail, you have to make sure you sew them on in tripod fashion. Otherwise, it’ll just topple over onto its face. -_-

How do my rabbit amigurumi look? Do they make you feel nice, cozy, warm and fuzzy?

Okay, now it’s time for a change in scenery!

Maybe I should have used this backdrop for the cat amigurumi that I made in the previous post. Haha oh well, too late. Too lazy to go back and retake pictures. I just really wanted to find a way to use this background…

…Rabbits and cats don’t really go well together do they? Note to self: don’t use this background ever again! It’s distracting! >(

Ah…there we go, much better. Well, that’s it for rabbit amigurumi!

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August 29th, 2011

Cat Amigurumi

» Posted in amigurumi, animal, crafts, crochet at 5:23 pm

So instead of crocheting girl amigurumis, this time I decided to make cat amigurumi!

This is the view from the front:

Making cat amigurumi was very easy. I didn’t even bother crocheting ears for them! All I did was crochet a sack-like head, stuffed it, and sewed up the tops of their heads into that particular shape. The ends of it just twist up like that so making ears was not something I had to worry about. Besides, from past experience, making huge ears for cats just never turns out the way I want it to. They always end up looking really scary. They become cat-bats! Making the ears smaller is what really makes it look cuter, in my opinion. Sometimes it’s just best not to make your amigurumi look too much like the real thing. Sometimes it’s just better to simplify them so that they don’t look so scary…or just plain ugly!

And this is the view from the back:

The pink plush heart was sewn by my daughter. She cut the heart shape out of felt, stuffed it with regular stuffing, and sewed it shut. Easy!

As for the tails on my cat amigurumi, I just stuffed in a bendable wire so that I could get that signature cat look with the whole curling tail thing. When you look at a cat, they never move unnecessarily. The only thing that moves as they’re sitting is their tails. A little unsettling to see but hey, that’s what makes them smart…looking?

Hope you liked my cat amigurumi!

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