It’s Beautiful.

Racoon Sanitation Worker

Made using a pattern by Bogusia.

The most complex thing I've attempted yet, given the number of accessories. I'm pretty happy with her overall, but issues are obvious:

NO CLUE what is happening with the face. I think I may have lost count when joining up the legs and never recovered (but the body is fine??) or maybe just lost the round end? I've restarted the face several times and it was just not having it so I just powered through it instead of abandoning the project but the wonkiness is obvious.

Colour changes themselves ended up looking pretty sus most of the time, and seemingly every 'improvement' ended up looking worse and worse. 🤷🏻

I'd like to try this pattern again (so she can hang out with the Rogue version) and I think I'd either try to reverse it (starting from the top) or do the head separately and then join the two parts.

On the plus side, I made this with a very small hook (1.8mm) so there's virtually no perceptible gaps. 🎉

This is also the first time I've been conscious about the 'right' and 'wrong' side.. yes it took me a while. But also, no one I showed my previous stuff to cared or knew the difference - you can't really count on amateurs to provide constructive feedback esp if they like you. From now on showing WIPs to my enemies *only*.

Not directly related to the pattern but I finally learned how to do a magic circle - goodbye 2 chain butthole looking centres. 🫠

According to the pattern the bin should be closed but I left mine open and the bin bag can be put into it.

The bin bag was surprisingly tricky, and the banana surprisingly straightforward.

The project uses a real mix of different yarns - fortunately everything is sort of in proportion but variation in textures does stand out a bit. I'm undecided if this makes it more interesting or looking a bit sloppy haha.

How cute are the little claws? And the gloves??? Oh my goodness!! >.<

This is my first thing that can stand by herself sort of confidently, thanks to the mahoosive tail. : )

It took me about 2 weeks to finish everything (mostly because of the face pattern but I think working with teensy hook was also a factor). I made simpler 4 things in the week since, but I really want to make the crow wizard and penguin pirate too \m/

AmiguruMay day 2 - My Crochet Place

Show us your favorite crochet hangout! Is it the couch, your desk, the train…

My most _common_ crochet spot is my sofa but as long as the weather holds and Picturehouse Central rooftop bar actually has seating available thanks to no film ticket = no entry policy, I will be spending most of my weekends there. 😎

Witcher time!!!! (Let’s not talk about how I thought I’ll be actually good at it this time but so much time has passed that I fucking suck again lmao)

Whales (crochet and needle felted)

My flatmate requested a 'whale in a top hat'. I originally wanted to do something in trans flag colours but the light pink yarn I started with felt a bit meh... I already had an order coming with some Hobbii Universe, so I went to my local yarn shop to try and find something suitable for the belly and Schwedenrot sock in Over the Rainbow* seemed to more or less fit the bill.

I think the yarns go decently well together and again, I have more luck than reason in that they ended up being similar (very fine for me!) weight and I could sew them up without the wee guy being horrifically misshapen haha. Doesn't really read trans in the end due to more green-ish elements than blue tho...

As I finally gifted him around St Patrick's Day the 'top hat' (the top of which likes to pop up making it not look like a top hat...) element is green, so his name is Wally O'Whaley! 🐋🍀🏳️‍⚧️

The needle felted guy is really just a cleanup, I must have started him 4-5 years ago, probably from a kit? I like the shape of the fins a lot!

Pattern:

Baby Humpback Whale: https://www.1dogwoof.com/humpback-whale-crochet-pattern/

*the sock yarn came in a hank - I've never had one before and it was a FUCKIGN NIGHTMARE to unravel and get into a workable state. I'd say never again but I already bought another nice hand dyed hank at stitch fest so I will just continue suffering?? 🥲

This is a good talk about measuring things with a great caveat which gets at the core of why a lot of my ‘delivery’ job often ends up being about ‘product’ things. 🫠

Maybe I should do a little Butler / automation for Trello training…

Made a Susie Deltarune amigurumi.

If you want more detail/other angles, peep this.

Terracotta zoomorphic askos, Greek, ca. 1725–1600 B.C.

Witcher 3 Challenge:Favorite Female Character

Queen Cerys an Craite