Amigurumi Optimus Prime Tribute Doll

Amigurumi Optimus Prime Tribute Doll
Originally uploaded by voxmortuum

Found Craft on the Web: Optimus Prime

Awesome Transformers amigurumi by awesome crocheter voxmortuum. It's probably the best one I've seen, but then again I haven't seen a lot of them :p  Check out his/her(?) other works, Pennywise is a creeptastic favorite of mine.

It always amazes me how creative people get with their crochet :3 and people still think its a grandma craft. Aside from the indirect homage to geekery this one takes me straight to my childhood :D

Xmas Crafts Gifted, kinda…

So I didn’t exactly make a craft for Christmas (btw I hope everyone had a Happy Holidays o/), rather I had made some things for my mom that I gave her for Christmas.

First off here’s some house slippers, otherwise they look a lot like adult booties.

1. Mom House Shoes 002, 2. Mom House Shoes 003,

3. Mom House Shoes 001, 4. House Slippers WIP

Yarn Used: Lion Brand Lion Wool Solids in Cocoa & Lion Brand Wool-Ease Solids & Heathers in Rose Heather

Skeins: 1 of the Wool Solids and a little tiny bit of the the Wool-Ease Heather.

Pattern:  Mary Jane Slippers by Lisa Gutierrez over at goodknits.com

How Long Did it Take?:  A couple hours really, but I stretched it over about a month, cuz I’m lazy like that.

Thoughts:  This was a super easy pattern, nice and quick to make, I think I’ll probably make a pair for myself either in the rose with a cocoa accent or ones identical to my moms.  She ended up liking them a lot but has yet to wear them around the house :p  The only real problem I had was with the pattern when you do the top part of the heal, but after all its crochet and easy to improvise as you go.

I’ll post present numero dos tomorrow, maybe :D

The Buko is Not Quite a Buko

So my first ever conceived softie is a buko.  Or a young/tender green coconut you cut open, stick a straw through the hole and drink.  So far I have my paper mock up, pattern pieces and fabric that looks way too light for buko.  I’m contemplating looking for a darker green or just going with the lighter one. Bleh.

Now the question is, if I get new fabric should it be solid or a patterned green?  And I still haven’t figured out how to do the straw.

Yet again…

I have bought two more craft books :p

• あみぐるみcollection Volume 7 : another amigurumi book.  I especially like the Kappaxile’s armed with toothpick wepons :D and the alligator.
• てあみのクローゼット-カーディガン&ジャケット (Let’s Knit series) : A knit book of cardigans and jackets.  I’m in love with the raglan cardigan on page 20

In another update, I wanted to crochet something in my かわいいレース編み (Let’s Knit series はじめてかんたんできちゃった!) book.  I was thinking either a cup/glass/mug cover or a cozy for my Japanese tea mug.  I have some garish orange yarn previously purchased at what was formerly a San Diego Daiso, but I didn’t have any hooks so I had to go out and buy my teeny tiny hooks.  For some reason the JoAnn’s near me don’t carry hooks small hooks.  They did have a .90mm one that I bought (!!!)  I was thinking I could try to finish up a tablecloth into my dotage and ultimately die by stabbing my eyes with it and bleeding to death.

I ended up buying two hooks at what was formerly a San Diego Daiso and two at my LYS.
and completely unrelated, but kinda not, are these things that I found hanging around my room.

          

Been a While

So yeah, I haven’t exactly been keeping up with my updates /understatement.  I’ve been busy getting my life in to order, and thankfully that I’ve been able to incorporate crafting into it :D

One of the things that happened is the hiatus (yet again) of my Godmother Shawl I dropped some stitches and had no idea how to pick them up.  To be specific they were “sl 1 k2tog psso” stitches and I figured it was a nice time to learn how to pick those up, just in case.  Turns out my lys person just fixed it for me while I wasn’t paying attention :/ lol.

Something else I’ve been doing, I’ve seemed to have acquired a collection of Japanese craft books and I have no idea if I’m even going to get around to doing anything in them.  Anyone who crochet’s seriously knows Japanese patterns are probably the most modern, cute, and wearable today patterns anywhere.  They also tend to be in the small hook sizes.  Unfortunately I’ve been mostly shopping at BookOFF and crochet patterns for clothes are rare, most of the ones I’ve found are dated :(

What I do have are miscellaneous crafty books and two books my brother brought over from Okinawa when he went to visit some friends.  I asked for an amigurumi book but he misunderstood and bought me a doily book and a felt gurumi’s.

• NHK おしゃれ工房 2008年 02月号 [雑誌] [雑誌] – NHK magazine, has a how to on kimono’s
• スカーフ・ストール・マフラー―“自分らし... 高田 恵美 - different ways on how to tie a scarf, tie or cravat
• フェルト羊毛で作る かわいい仲間たち – the feltgurumi book
• のんびり気分で作りたいもの―handmade ZAKKA – a Zakka book (duh~)
• かわいいレース編み (Let’s Knit series はじめてかんたんできちゃった!)– teeny hook book, kind of a doily zakka book, everything's really cute and pretty.  I even bought the teeny hooks to make something in it :D
• ホームクチュール+手芸をプラス 茅木 真知子- nice skirt and dress patterns (included), I just worry about shaping since I have latina hips (bust is fine, as in I don’t have one lol)
• 栗山武子のビーズ刺繍でドレスアップ―基礎... 栗山 武子 清水 行雄 - awesome beeding book, great for ideas, although I won't be doing any full lengh beaded dresses
• 基本からはじめる手ぬいのバッグ 高橋 恵美子 – cute bag and purse book
• アートクレイシルバーで作る純銀製のアクセサリー – precious metal clay book, bought it mostly for mom who want to start doing jewelry
• あみぐるみsweets―かぎ針で編んで作... (レディブティックシリーズ no. 2846) – super cute amigurumi sweets book, I especially like the Dango and Bon Bon rings
• 伝承のちりめん細工―明治・大正・昭和の女... (ハンドクラフトシリーズ 128) – Gamaguchi (kimono coin) purses from persimmons to lobsters to swaddled behbehs!
• かわいいフェイク・スイーツのつくり方 氣仙 えりか – similar to the sweets amigurumi book but this uses air dry clay, I’m going to try it with paper clay and see how that turns out.  They look super real in the book, makes me want to break a tooth on one of them…