Angry Birds For My Little Brother

My adorable little brother loves angry birds.  So as an incentive for potty training, I made him his favorite bird... who kind of looks like Bert from Sesame Street... {made from a pattern I found online}.

Then for his birthday, I came up with a pig pattern and made him this adorable little guy and a set of cardboard towers that he can now set up, place the pig on, and throw his bird at.

My cat, of course, had to inspect my work.  It seems she was quite familiar with the game concept...

My little brother greatly enjoys his crochet version of Angry Birds.  I suspect, I may try to make him a few more birds/pigs for Christmas.

Star Crochet Blanket - Blues and Purples

This is the largest star blanket I have made at this point.  It is very soft and perfect for snuggling.  I finished it earlier today.

I have been working on this blanked on and off for three weeks and I am really pleased with how it turned out.

 

My four year old brother giving you a size comparison.

Edge detail - I really like how the edge turned out.

Edge detail again - this time in dark purple.

More Roxas Blanket Progress

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I finished the head in time to give it to Bevan for Valentine's day.  It's huge!  I was hoping to have the entire thing done, but it is taking longer to connect all the squares than I thought it would.  Still, I'm excited to see it coming together!

"Be careful. He messes with your head..." - Cloud [Kingdom Hearts II]

Roxas Blanket Progress

1/18/2012


Here are some progress shots.  I even arranged the squares for the head to take a picture.  Progress is being made.

Can you see the hair and face?  So excited!

The box holds squares with tucked tails.  The popcorn tin is full of squares I still need to tuck in.

The squares draped over the edge are already connected.

Kaylee, my cute little craft inspector, at work.

Roxas head.

 "Only you could have made it this far in one piece, Roxas." - Saix {He's not in one piece yet, but he is getting there.}

"That's really getting old." - Sora

Of Dolls and Princesses

So my little sister turned 6 earlier this month.  Her gift from me was a doll that looks like her and wears her favorite color - pink.  The week before her party I was telling my Mom about the doll and she asked if I could make K Rapunzel hair.  We sized a hat for her head and I took it home to use as a template for a winter hat that I then added long strands of yarn hair to, two strands at a time.  It was very time consuming, but my little sister loved the end result and it is a favorite for dress-up right now. Before the party was over she asked for it to be un-braided so that she could twirl around and have it fly around her.  It was cute.

Princess K in her Rapunzel outfit.

I made the hair.  It took 4 skeins of yarn looped through a yellow winter hat that I also made.

Her first comment after I put it on.  "It's too heavy!"

She had fun decorating it with flowers like the girls in Tangled decorated Rapunzel's hair.

My sister as Rapunzel.

She had so much fun wearing it.

Such a pretty princess.

This is a doll I made to look like my sister.

I think she turned out pretty cute.

The headband is one my sister can also use in her hair.

And my sister has named her Kendra.

The finished hair before braiding.

Front view.

Back view.

Kaylee inspects everything I make.

Front view on the table.

Back view on the table.

Side view.

Baby Blanket For My Niece

Project Name: Kalia's Star Blanket
Status: Complete
Pattern Source: Crochet Super Star
Project Type: Crochet, Blanket

   

I finally finished the baby blanket for my adorable niece, Kalia.

 

Here is the finished star.

  

This is my adorable Kaylee inspecting my work.

 Here are some close up shots of the blanket.  I had so much fun making it.  I can't wait to give it to her.

  

I'm very happy with how my first star shaped blanket turned out.

Project: Baby Blanket

Project: Baby Blanket for Melissa's daughter
Status: Complete
Source: Mom's ZigZag Double Crochet Pattern
Project Type: Blanket - Crochet



Finished the baby blanket for Melissa's soon-to-arrive little girl today! I'm so excited for her coming little girl and so happy to have finished this blanket. The blanket is so soft and I have just enough yarn left over that I may try to make a little teddy bear to send with it. I don't think I'd have to alter the Wookiee pattern too much to achieve the look I'd want. This blanket has been worked on off and on for a long time and it definitely shows the changes in my stitch tightness, but a lot of love went into it and I hope her little one gets many loving years out of this blanket.

My Mikey monkey kindly helped me by modeling the blanket. :) Love and miss ya bro!

Happy Pi Day!