amagurumi and other crochet stuff

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about 40% done.
This yarn is like sport weight (size 3) so I'm having to use a smaller hook. Any time I have to make one of those narrow bits, it tires my hands out.
 
Receiving blanket in "mini-v" stitch. About 10 rows in, I noticed I'd dropped a stitch about 5 rows back. I figured the baby won't notice and didn't want to frog it. But I started taking my own advice and use stitch markers at each end for the rest of the blanket.
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I downloaded a pattern for crochet sushi. I didn't like the techniques or how they worked up. And i thought the shrimp looked pretty terrible. So, i said "Meh, I've been doing this like a year and a half. Surely I can design my own." Voila.

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Onto the next project. Gotta make about 70 little skulls, turn them into granny squares, and then make something from those squares. It's actually going faster than I anticipated.

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to follow up on the granny square skull thing I mentioned a few posts back: I decided to make pants, and found a model for those pants. So, now that I have measurements I can move forward with that project. Here's a bunch of granny square skulls laid out kind-of pants-like.

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That's super cool :) I wish I was good enough to reproduce stuff from pictures without a pattern. But I'm still a noob.

As it so happens, I bought an official pokemon crochet pattern book a few days ago owing to the fact that my local friends and I are getting back into pokemon go. I don't think it has all of these, though.

I also have recently gotten a book of little monsters where you flip the head/torso/legs for thousands of variants. Kind of like those flip books I used to play with as a kid, but for crochet.
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I've pre-ordered a similar book that's coming in April where you can mix and match features.
Amazon product

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I don't normally pre-order anything, but I've bought a number of patterns from this designer in the past, so I feel confident that I'll like what she has, and the mix and match feature is really appealing to me.
 
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So, it's taken about 6 weeks, but I'm almost done. I just have to weave in about 300 ends of yarn. I put most of them on the inside for the picture's sake. But right now, that shit has more fringe than 80's heavy metal kid's moccasin boots.

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On to the next project.

So far, every renaissance festival hood (with or without cloak) I've gotten has been absolutely huge. When they're pulled all the way up, the front comes way down past my nose. I can't freaking see! I can try to let them rest further back on my face, but then they invariably fall off or creep forward. I blame Lord of the Rings for this aesthetic.

What I *really* want is something close-fitting, like a gamebson hood--those quilted hoods you wear under a helmet. Something that will keep my noggin warm, won't impair my vision. and look decent. I found a "elf hood" pattern that's, you know, big and billowy. But it had the right features, including the neck/collar piece. So I figured I know enough now to make adjustments on the fly to size it how I want it.

So far, it's going well.

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