Bears, if you cares!

My free-hand bear. I made this months ago but the muzzle/mouth was all wrong and made the poor thing look like a blue pig. Amigurumi World helped me with bear faces. I also made this more homely dude from the book: It seems when I follow patterns, the results are less than stellar. Noted.Yet the author is the one who started the putting-the-muzzle-above-the-eyes thing and I finally see why. She did it high enough on the head so it looked like the creature was looking up at you.  A lot of amigurumi-ers do this without achieving that affect. Example: one of the many many ridiculous bear cupcakes:

Sigh.

Gifts for the Grad

I found Amigurumi World in the library last week! So along with a promised strawberry for one of my future bridesmaids who graduates on Sunday, I made a cafe con leche with steam rising out of him which is from the book. The strawberry was free-hand. Both took an hour or less.

Hippy Hoppy Happy Huppy Heppy and sometimes Hyppy Easter

If anyone at the J-house ever wanted to make an egg this week they have to consult these things.

Bunny was from a Lion Brand Pattern “Egg Cozy” and chick was free hand.   OH NO I forgot a tail on the bunny!!!

Amigurumi Chick

Found this pattern among many awesome free patterns yesterday. Churned this little chick out in an hour and a half. Started out as a bear but became a chick when I realized the head looked really funky.

Tacky Kitsch the Amigurumi Penguin

This happy dude was so much fun. He had felt wings for a long time but I gave him a huge makeover last fall, including the chic rainbow scarf.  His eyes are beads on white felt circles. I liked the bug-eye effect.

Amigurumi Baby Penguin

I used textured yarn for this penguin and it went really fast. The yarn was really thick so I used a big hook.

Amigurumi Green Apple

And this is my very first creation. A green apple. No pattern or anything!  When I attached the stem, I pulled the tail of it through straight to the bottom and tied it there to create kind of a pucker so that it looked more like an apple.

Amigurumi Maggie Monkey

The idea for the face on this adorable monkey came from Maggie from the Facebook Amigurumi Page. She’s got some cool original work.

Amigurumi Bunny

I got the pattern for this from Lion Brand as well. I think I want to redo the face, though. The nose/mouth seem a little low now that I look at it. But I like the colors!

Amigurumi Meatwad

I love Meatwad. He is my favorite Aqua Teen Hunger Force character. This was my third project and it took awhile to get the face right. I had limited resources so I just used a sharpie and yarn for the eyes. I might redo that with felt.