I’m sorry I don’t have pictures but I am working on a few things.
Well, I made my boyfriends mum a signature escargot but substituted the mushroom for two loop d’ loop cowls (free pattern on Ravelry), and a case for her new phone.
Also, after posting Totoro on my facebook I have been challenged to make more Studio Ghibli inspired amis. I chose the easiest thing I could think of – No Face from Spirited Away. It’s not looking too bad, but I’m not simply crocheting a cone/cylinder shape because that might end up looking a bit….dodgy, if you know what I mean, or maybe it’s just my mind.
Totoro went down a storm with my friend’s girlfriend and I have been helping her all I can in learning to crochet so she can make her own amigurumis. I recommended The Happy Hooker, which she bought almost straight away so I hope she gets past the tedious “sc into the base chain” test and gets into making amis. A girl I work with has also told me that her mum has become obsessed with amigurumi since seeing my pictures.
Seriously, I don’t really like giving credit to facebook, and I don’t mean to keep bringing it up, but it has certainly helped me showcase my stuff to people who wouldn’t otherwise have looked at it. Not only have they seen what crochet can actually do, and realised it’s not just a craft for old women, but some have even taken enough interest in it to start learning themselves. To me that is a bigger success than I could have hoped for. I quite like being the individual, but not being the only person within a 50 mile radius who even knows what amigurumi actually is will also be quite nice.
I started Uni last week so I might not have as much time to crochet as I did have, and I was slow to begin with, so my finished projects will be few and far between, although I’ll try and get pictures of the gifts I made and I also made a cowl for myself which I will post too. I will also tell any of my new classmates who will listen about amigurumi, lol.