Mini Cake Amigurumi, Not Hats!

What does that look like to you?? What about this?? The answers better be CAKES!! not HATS!!! So, these were some things I crocheted out of stringy thready stuff. They’re supposed to be cakes, but most everyone I’ve shown it to thinks they’re hats! The final count: 1/9 correctly identified these objects as cakes. Isn’t […]

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July 8th, 2009 at 5:19pm

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Amigurumi, Food

Hobbes and…no Calvin…

It was a family friend’s birthday party last weekend and I decided to make her an amigurumi of Hobbes as a present because: I am a poor grad student I noticed on her wish list that she wanted Calvin and Hobbes comic books Therefore, she MUST like Hobbes Instead of getting a gift straight from […]

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June 29th, 2009 at 2:21pm

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Amigurumi, Comics

Kaitlin from Animal Crossing

Ever since I started playing Animal Crossing 2 years ago, I’ve been playing that game EVERY day. Yes, I am that devoted. Actually, it’s my nighttime lullaby – puts me to sleep in an instant! But anyways, what I really wanted to talk about today was Kaitlin, the mommy cat who visits your town searching […]

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June 19th, 2009 at 4:42pm

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Amigurumi, Animal Crossing

K.K. Slider Amigurumi from Animal Crossing

k.k. slider amigurumi with guitar

Since Brian turned out so well, I went on to the next white cartoon dog I could think of, which was K.K. Slider!! As a religious Animal Crossing DS player, how could I resist not making him? I was unsure at first how K.K. would turn out. I modeled him after the phone charm from […]

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June 18th, 2009 at 7:43pm

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Amigurumi, Animal Crossing

Brian and Stewie Griffin Amigurumi from Family Guy

brian griffin amigurumi

So my sister LOVES watching Family Guy on Cartoon Network everyday, and originally, I did not care for that show at all. When it first came out, I thought the characters were utterly obnoxious and crude. I didn’t like the simple animation style either. Yet, slowly but surely, after many many nights of seeing my […]

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June 10th, 2009 at 8:14pm

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Amigurumi, Family Guy

Behold an army of Artoos!

Since I had to make up a pattern for Artoo and I didn’t write it down the first time, I had to clone him. Twin Artoos! And no, you are not seeing wrong. Indeed, one Artoo is bigger than the other. Let’s just say one is more “fit” for survival than the other in the […]

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May 18th, 2009 at 5:39pm

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Amigurumi, Star Wars

April showers bring May flowers!

sunflower amigurumi

This series of amigurumis began with the birth of Bolt the friendly raindrop. It was mighty hot this April and there were barely any showers in SoCal. Where did all the showers go?! How will the May flowers grow? Thus, Bolt came to the rescue! And since it is now May, I thought it would […]

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May 18th, 2009 at 5:38pm

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Amigurumi, Gardening, Spring