Floppy Bunny

Here's a bunny that I finally finished for Anne's baby. I started making it back in September, thinking I should be able to send it to her before the baby arrived in December since it's a small bunny and theoretically should take me a week's worth of evenings to compete - LOL! I finished it in early June and was able to give it to her precious baby when they visited my home while vacationing in NC.

This floppy bunny is crocheted in the amigurumi style from Floppy Friends pattern I bought from etsy.com. Mine still isn't as cute as the original, but I think I'm getting better from my previous amigurumi attempts.

I have another friend with a baby due in November and baby showers for her at the end of Aug and beginning of Oct. I'd love to have something crocheted to bring to one of the showers, but at my current rate, I don't know if it's going to happen. A crocheted gift would be especially meaningful since this friend taught me to crochet and I got her started in knitting. Now she mostly knits and I mostly crochet, go figure.

My Amigurumis

Last fall I learned about these adorable stuffed animals crocheted in a Japanese style called Amigurumi.  I finally tried it out myself.

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This poor blue frog was my first attempt.  He's blue because I had extra blue yarn.  But apparently not enough blue yarn because I had to use another color for one of his fingers and the backs of his eyes.  Unfortunately, I lost the magazine where I found this pattern, so I can't show you what the frog is supposed to look like.  The frog in the magazine is very cute, and although I'll admit that my frog has personality, it's not anything like the adorable frog in the magazine.  My blue frogs eyes are uneven and his arms and legs are attached awkwardly and the look on his face is just goofy.  But Coulson likes him, so that's enough for me.

 

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I just finished my second and third attempts at amigurumi, this time with a smaller scale project.  I got this pattern from a store on Etsy and if you follow the link you can see what they are supposed to look like.  I think these "Roly-Poly" animals are just adorable.  They're like a crocheted version of Weebles ("Weebles wobble but they don't fall down!")  I think these little guys came out pretty cute!  It helps that I used plastic eyes for them so they didn't turn out like the poor blue frog who has problems focusing. 

In June, my mom's family is having a big family reunion.  About 100 people get together every three years in Townsend, TN and it's always a lot of fun.  To help offset some of the costs, and to have some fun, we hold an auction at the reunion of stuff that we all bring.  I'm hoping to have a set of these animals to sell at the auction, if I can get enough done by June 20th.

I got lots of other adorable patterns from Etsy and I can't wait to try them out!

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