Cakes for tea time

I saw LionBrandYarn's pattern for frosted donuts a couple of months ago, and knew I had to make some for KJ's tea set. She also wanted me to make a piece of cake, and when I was googling for a pattern, I came across these patterns for mini cake sachets - so I made one, added a bottom, stuffed it, and voila -- a two-tiered pink icing topped cake. Of course, KJ wants all the cakes on the site, so Mom's back to work on those... I'm still looking for a good pattern to crochet a slice of cake, but I might end up giving it a go on my own... Yummy!

Mew

Our son S. just turned 9 years old, and his gift choice was for Mom to make him Mew. Of course, he wants me to make him EVERY Pokemon, but I asked him to prioritize please! Thanks so much to Biz for sharing her pattern!

Gotta make 'em all!

Hello Kitty!

Here's my first Hello Kitty for little KJ! I love the blog patterns posted by Armina, I'll be making probably every one she has on her blog.

Dinosaur

Made this dinosaur for my little guy S. He was the second pattern I tried from the Amigurumi vol. 6 book I bought online from saucylouise over in Japan, when I bought my Hamanaka Raku Raku hooks. He's larger than I thought he would be, but S. loves him!

Widget

I finished Widget at the end of April, she's more an ami pattern than Wubbzy was. I've started Walden, but have put him on the back burner for some other projects that have come up. My dh laughs at me and mostly rolls his eyes, because I can't seem to just work on one thing at a time, I always seem to have several going at the same time!

Grumpies

A grumpie for my grumpy gal M...

Free pattern at suncatchereyes.com

Creepy Cute Crochet - robot

After the Twi-DVD release night, I went back to Borders and picked up the few ami books they had there. One was Creepy Cute Crochet by Christen Haden. The figures are cute, though my heads turn out way smaller than the photos -- I must be doing something wrong. Well, little lady K. wanted Mommy to make her the robot, so here he is. I did fudge the head and widened it a bit, and it fit in the helmet way better.

Knock off imitation marshmallows!

Ok so I did get to make some, but not as many as I had hoped for the kiddos. Three chicks and six bunnies aren't too bad -- I sent one to my Executive Director as an Easter treat for her, lol. Chick pattern and bunny pattern. Thanks for posting. Make bunches for next Easter! They are quick, fun and oh so yummy! Maybe I'll get to make the felted nest next year, one for K. and one for myself -- I'll have to hide mine away from her, of course! :-)

Easter amis

I wanted to make special Easter amis for each of our kiddos, I had grand visions of making lots and lots of eggs, chicks, knock off imitation marshmallow chicks and bunnies -- and it just never happened. :-( Maybe I should start now, for next year -- after I get through this year's birthday and Christmas presents first! A hooker's job is never done, I'll tell ya! lol

Ok, K. got the traditional Easter bunny ami, made with Hobby Lobby's "I Love This Yarn!" so it's nice and soft. Here's the pattern - thanks to Britainy at craftymummy2two for sharing! Her arms and legs were tough to do, being so thin, but at least I didn't have to stuff them! I'm happy how she turned out, she's very cute and K. loves her.

S. wanted a blue bird when he saw the yellow one I had made, so here he is, perched on the Death Star shelf in his room. Someday, I'll finish the trench lines on the Death Star and post those pics - what I really did this Spring break! But that's another story.... And the pattern is here. Thanks to Hannah for sharing it!

For M., being a teenager, I wanted to make her something more edgy, so found this pattern for an Urbis - love it! Of course, now I have to do a pink and purple one for K.! It's on my list!!! Here's the pattern, and thanks to funkyflower for sharing it!

I might have to make her a cheerleader Urbis -- I'm still in search of the perfect pattern to make a cheer critter in her school colors...

Amigurumi World - eggs and chicks

For Easter, I made some eggs and chicks from "Amigurumi World," as well as some knock off imitation marshmallow chicks and bunnies (see separate post above), and some plain eggs. K. appropriated them all, of course!

Amigurumi World = 2 new amis

I made two more amis from "Amigurumi World - Seriously Cute Ami," pink bunny and a purple turtle for K. Did I mention that purple is her favorite color? She still wants me to make all the rest from that book, and oh yes all the animals from the other three books I just picked up at Borders, so she will be keeping me busy for just a bit!

All My Ami - to date

A friend asked how many ami I've done so far, and I had trouble trying to count them in my head, so here they are all pictured here, minus the 7 Cub Scout Bear heads in progress, the 5 schmuzzies for Scotty, and my large project that I can't post yet, but safe to say it's almost 60, in less than 2 months. Yes, I'm ami-sessed! :-)

In the immortal words of Jack Skellington, "Confound it all, I love it though!"

Seriously Cute Ami

At the Twilight DVD release party, M. and I were waiting impatienly and reading some books while we were there eavesdropping on the Twilight quiz that the other revelers were participating in. I found the book "Seriously Cute Amigurumi," and had to buy it. The turtle is for our son S., and the mouse and baby lion are for K. She has since requested that I make all of them, the babies and mommies and daddies too. I'm still trying to get my Cub Scout Bears done for our May meeting, so we're in negotiations!

Gnomes

Mr. and Mrs. Gnome are done, thanks to the pattern I bought at Roxycraft.com. Mine are taller and not as squat as the sample photo that comes with the pattern, not sure why. They're cute though, and of course little K. has claimed them, and I'll need to make myself another pair!

Bella has hair!

So our daughter M. and I went to the Borders DVD release party for Twilight -- and that inspired me to finally try putting hair on Bella - it's a bit thin, though I used 2 skeins of floss, it's long so I will probably redo it and use 4 skeins next time. Also crocheted her a head band, as she wore one in most scenes to keep from looking like cousin It with the extra hairpiece she had.

Edward Cullen

"Look after my heart, I've left it with you."

Ok, I will be the first to admit that I am a hopeless Twimom. I had to make an Edward, and although I want to add more detail to his pea coat and style his hair a bit more, he turned out ok, thanks to the human patterns at GeekCentralStation.

Yes, Bella is next -- I finally finished my first large project-which-shall-be-nameless (for now), and hope to get Bella started this weekend. Then of course I'll have to make Alice and Jasper, Rosalie and Emmett, Esme and Carlisle, not to mention Jacob and the other werewolves, and can't forget Charlie and Renee... I hope to make a set for our teenager, as she's as Twicrazy as I am (though she won't admit it). We are counting down the days until the DVD release, so we can pick up our reserve copies! :-)

We're also working on our car for our Cub Scout Pack's pinewood derby, so I have to step away from my crochet for a bit and finish up the car with our son. Weigh-in is Thursday. I'll post pictures after the race next Saturday.

3/14/09 Update: Bella is made, she's just bald right now until I sew her hair on...

Master Yoda

"Judge me by my size, do you? And well you should not, for my ally is the Force."

Master Yoda was next, again thanks to Sami at her GeekCentralStation blog. I still have to make his cane out of sculpey, but it's on my list of things to do!

I admit, I bought her patterns for the Rebel heroes, as well as the pirate. They're on my list of things to do! I have to make a set of Rebels for myself, as well as for our son, since we're going to redecorate his room, Star Wars-style, complete with the Death Star all over his wall. Will post pics of that, when we get it going!

Latte

I found this pattern for a latte at Harugurumi's blog, and I had to make myself one! Of course, our youngest kiddo has since claimed it, and it's now a cup of hot cocoa. Yes, she's pestering me to make some mini marshmallows to put on top. :-)

Blue Totoro

When I found the totoro patterns, this one caught my son's eye first, and I told him I'd have to wait a bit to get it started, as it's so large. I actually got him done in one day, pretty much one sitting over the weekend. I just get so engrossed in them, I want to push on to get them done, no matter how sore my right hand and shoulder get!

He lives in his room now along with white totoro, pikachu, and torchic, far away from little sister's greedy hands. Thanks again to Heavens Hellcat for posting the patterns! Our little guy loves them!

Grizzella the Bear

Here is a bear I made for my husband. Her name is Grizzella, and she's dressed in our winter guard's uniform this year. Used the same free amigurumi bear pattern at LionBrand.com, that I'm using for the Cub Scout Bears.