Amigurumi Pic Dump
Sep. 24th, 2014 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
soc_puppetYay, time for more pics of adorable stuff I crocheted!
I've got three "smaller"/simpler things in this post, and then I'm putting seven pics of the Big Gray Griffin in the next post, in order to hopefully cut down a bit on bandwidth usage/overload. I also plan to make at least the flying pigs and dolphins available on Etsy at some point.
Onward to adorability!
[Image descriptions: A pink crocheted pig with white wings and a silver nose ring. One picture features a six inch/fifteen cm ruler for scale.]
So my first "type" of flying pig can be found here, with the pattern also available on Etsy. After fooling around with yarn some, I thought that a popcorn stitch could easily make legs for a smaller crocheted animal. Using my previous pig design as a base, I tried to adapt it to something smaller. Trial and error eventually got me a smaller piglet made with worsted yarn that resembles the pics here fairly closely. Then Michael's had a sale on their "Charisma" yarn (chunky weight and oh-so-soft!), and I thought, what the hell? With only one minor stitch adjustment, I whipped up a chunky-weight piglet that took little to no more time than the smaller ones and whose size may even have made construction a bit easier. And then my friend Steve, the chainmaille guy, started adding nose rings to all of them, because they are pigs and he felt it was necessary :P
Anyway, that's the story of this piece. They've been selling rather well, actually, though the ones of different colors are somewhat more popular (saddleback and rainbow so far).
Available on Etsy
[Image Descriptions: A light blue dolphin in various positions, one pic with a 6"/15cm rule for scale]
Like the flying pig, I also have a previous dolphin design from worsted weight yarn. One nice thing about both this pattern and the previous pattern are that the dolphin and the pig (sans wings) can all be made with a single length of yarn; no sewing involved at all. It really cuts down on construction time. That was one thing on my mind when I wanted to try making the pattern.
Another thing was that I had been wondering for a while what it would be like to continue crocheting a popcorn stitch. This is one of those times when being a half-feral crocheter really works against me; it would not surprise me in the least if there were a specific name for what I was doing here, but damned if I know what it is. (For example, I didn't know that what I do to make the ears and feathers on the above flying pigs is called a "picot" stitch.) Basically, I'm crocheting into the individual stitches that make up a popcorn stitch as part of the next row/round, and then joining those stitches in the same manner as a popcorn stitch. So that will give me some trouble if I ever decide to sell the pattern, which I might yet.
Something else is that, until just the other day, I hadn't looked at any reference pics of dolphins to make the pattern. Whoops, turns out I've got the dorsal fin waaaaaay too far "up" on the body! Not that the average person is going to notice or care, but now I have and do, so I anticipate a bit of pattern tweaking in the near future.
[Image Descriptions: A crocheted stingray made from variegated blue-and-black yarn, one pic with a 6"/15cm ruler to show scale]
This one, at least, is a completely new pattern. I started it on Monday afternoon while I was waiting for my car to get its oil changed. I'd finished a few flying pigs and dolphins out of variegated yarn as a change/because they seemed to sell well at AI, and another customer had asked if I was capable of making a stingray and, if so, what I might charge for one. I answered that I was definitely capable of such a thing, and that provided I could use chunky weight yarn, I couldn't imagine charging more than ten dollars. She seemed both excited and pleased by the prospect, so I gave her one of my cards before she left and, a short while after that, started working on a stingray.
This is definitely another "simpler" pattern, though it's two pieces rather than one. The body is fairly straightforward, using elements from both the piglet and the dolphin: I used the method of increasing from the pig where I went from snout to forehead at the front, and then the decreasing from the dolphin where its body starts to taper into its tail at the rear. I finished that part off with a slip stitch tail. The fins are basically a flat circle in double crochet, but with some irregular increasing and use of single crochet in strategic places to give it an oblong shape. It has considerably more sewing than even the flying piglets, since I had to attach the whole body to the fins, but I think the end result is rather good.
Unfortunately, I didn't realize the implications of the variegated yarn until after I'd finished the ray: it rather resembles the Beanie Baby stingray of yore, which was "tie-die" in color. I'd also run out of the light blue I'd been using for dolphins a couple weeks back, which meant that using that instead was a non-option.
Look-alike issue aside, it turned out rather well. I'll have to make another one to figure out how much exactly to charge, but I'm currently estimating eight dollars.
*yawn* Another nice thing about splitting these pic dump posts up is that I can go to sleep in the middle of them and still feel like I've accomplished something. G'night!
Edit:*facepalm* Right. I'd forgotten I'd sized the photos with a mind to uploading them to Etsy. Ah, well. I can worry more about that tomorrow. Fixed!
I've got three "smaller"/simpler things in this post, and then I'm putting seven pics of the Big Gray Griffin in the next post, in order to hopefully cut down a bit on bandwidth usage/overload. I also plan to make at least the flying pigs and dolphins available on Etsy at some point.
Onward to adorability!
[Image descriptions: A pink crocheted pig with white wings and a silver nose ring. One picture features a six inch/fifteen cm ruler for scale.]
So my first "type" of flying pig can be found here, with the pattern also available on Etsy. After fooling around with yarn some, I thought that a popcorn stitch could easily make legs for a smaller crocheted animal. Using my previous pig design as a base, I tried to adapt it to something smaller. Trial and error eventually got me a smaller piglet made with worsted yarn that resembles the pics here fairly closely. Then Michael's had a sale on their "Charisma" yarn (chunky weight and oh-so-soft!), and I thought, what the hell? With only one minor stitch adjustment, I whipped up a chunky-weight piglet that took little to no more time than the smaller ones and whose size may even have made construction a bit easier. And then my friend Steve, the chainmaille guy, started adding nose rings to all of them, because they are pigs and he felt it was necessary :P
Anyway, that's the story of this piece. They've been selling rather well, actually, though the ones of different colors are somewhat more popular (saddleback and rainbow so far).
Available on Etsy
[Image Descriptions: A light blue dolphin in various positions, one pic with a 6"/15cm rule for scale]
Like the flying pig, I also have a previous dolphin design from worsted weight yarn. One nice thing about both this pattern and the previous pattern are that the dolphin and the pig (sans wings) can all be made with a single length of yarn; no sewing involved at all. It really cuts down on construction time. That was one thing on my mind when I wanted to try making the pattern.
Another thing was that I had been wondering for a while what it would be like to continue crocheting a popcorn stitch. This is one of those times when being a half-feral crocheter really works against me; it would not surprise me in the least if there were a specific name for what I was doing here, but damned if I know what it is. (For example, I didn't know that what I do to make the ears and feathers on the above flying pigs is called a "picot" stitch.) Basically, I'm crocheting into the individual stitches that make up a popcorn stitch as part of the next row/round, and then joining those stitches in the same manner as a popcorn stitch. So that will give me some trouble if I ever decide to sell the pattern, which I might yet.
Something else is that, until just the other day, I hadn't looked at any reference pics of dolphins to make the pattern. Whoops, turns out I've got the dorsal fin waaaaaay too far "up" on the body! Not that the average person is going to notice or care, but now I have and do, so I anticipate a bit of pattern tweaking in the near future.
[Image Descriptions: A crocheted stingray made from variegated blue-and-black yarn, one pic with a 6"/15cm ruler to show scale]
This one, at least, is a completely new pattern. I started it on Monday afternoon while I was waiting for my car to get its oil changed. I'd finished a few flying pigs and dolphins out of variegated yarn as a change/because they seemed to sell well at AI, and another customer had asked if I was capable of making a stingray and, if so, what I might charge for one. I answered that I was definitely capable of such a thing, and that provided I could use chunky weight yarn, I couldn't imagine charging more than ten dollars. She seemed both excited and pleased by the prospect, so I gave her one of my cards before she left and, a short while after that, started working on a stingray.
This is definitely another "simpler" pattern, though it's two pieces rather than one. The body is fairly straightforward, using elements from both the piglet and the dolphin: I used the method of increasing from the pig where I went from snout to forehead at the front, and then the decreasing from the dolphin where its body starts to taper into its tail at the rear. I finished that part off with a slip stitch tail. The fins are basically a flat circle in double crochet, but with some irregular increasing and use of single crochet in strategic places to give it an oblong shape. It has considerably more sewing than even the flying piglets, since I had to attach the whole body to the fins, but I think the end result is rather good.
Unfortunately, I didn't realize the implications of the variegated yarn until after I'd finished the ray: it rather resembles the Beanie Baby stingray of yore, which was "tie-die" in color. I'd also run out of the light blue I'd been using for dolphins a couple weeks back, which meant that using that instead was a non-option.
Look-alike issue aside, it turned out rather well. I'll have to make another one to figure out how much exactly to charge, but I'm currently estimating eight dollars.
*yawn* Another nice thing about splitting these pic dump posts up is that I can go to sleep in the middle of them and still feel like I've accomplished something. G'night!
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