Amigurumi Puuchuu

For those of you with no interest in amigurumi, anime, crochet or altering patterns skip this. The rest of you..

This started because I was hitting sites looking for ideas. Someone posted this link on ravelery. For a crocheted Kerochan from Card Captor Sakura. My first thought was OH! I could alter that to make one of the aliens from Excel Saga.

So the pattern alternation saga begins. I have the basic form done now. I have already altered one thing. I made the head a closed ball, it just seemed to not be round enough when attached to the neck. Next the ears, after some playing I decided to chain 25 crochet 1 row starting with doubles for 11 stitches, then half doubles then singles to end. I couled them, and sewed them on.

Next, the diaper.. I decided to make that as a seperate piece and sew that one as well. THe rug beater weapon is a straw witn a chained 'beater. But I am stuck on the antenna. Will post a picture as soon as I get it done.

Falling behind

One of my goals is to try and complete one thing a day that i have been falling behind on. Between the dentist yesterday and feeling not so great today, I have now fallen behind. So In order to keep up with my schedule, tomorrow I will working on a pair of pajama pants for DH. The PuuChuu toy and After my trip to the fabric store, the bathroom rug. Keep on me about this.

The list:

2 pairs of pajama pants for daughter
3 pairs of pajama pants for husband (1 completed)
quilt for fireplace
PuuChuu
Bathroom Rug
average of 1 batch of CP soap a week
Quilt for Queen-sized bed
Liz's quilt
Olive's quilt
H&I Quilt
Daughter's cosplay costumes
My Cosplay costume
Fleece pullover for daughter
Throw for daughter's bed
Stuffed animal hanger for daughter's room
Bathroom Curtain
Crocheted sweater for work
Crocheted tunics
soot sprite
boot slippers
crochet tabi (have to alter a pattern or convert a knit one to crochet)
sweater for self
sweater for daughter

And that is what I have started on or in the works. I need to clear some room in the stash areas, so keep on me people. Otherwise I will get lazy, again.

Stuff

Here is the Calicifer toy completed. The most difficult part was actually getting the eyes right. The second most difficult was finding the orange fun fur. I went out and bought the stuff for this because I wanted to make him, but I am finding that small stuffed toys are great for using up those little scraps of yarn from larger projects. So far the best sites I have found for patterns anad ideas are www.lionbrand.com www.ravelry.com and www,craftster.org.




The rug is almost completed, but what color to border it in? Seems like everyone is split evenly on this.. I think it may boil down to what do I have the most of in my stash?

Pajama pants are the big thing again this year, but why do they call them lazy or leisure pants now? It seems that flannel is not recommended for children's sleepwear because of a lack of fire retardation. BUT the fire retardant fabrics have been found to release a chemical that may kill children too. So LEGALLY it looks like we cannot put our children (Under age 12) in any clothing. Our government at work.