Crochet Challenge!! Day 20: Favorite Item Made

The theme of today is favorite item ever made. My favorite thing I ever made is definitely the little hamburger amigurumi I made. He is super adorable and I made the pattern myself. Also he just so fun to make.

He comes completely apart and each of the pieces still looks like what it is even when he is not assembled. I feel like he would make a cute kids toy or just a desk decoration. The top of his head is based off the top of a monsters head and the bottom is two circles sew together and I think I put a round piece of cardboard in between them also. You can see in the back the other version i made of the bottom bun. 

One hornonary mention for favorite item made is the blanket that I made Magan and Kyle for their wedding. Its definitely the biggest project I have ever done, I think the finished blanket was 7' by 8'. It took a while to make all of the granny squares and attach them.

You can see the challenge on usscrafty's blog:

Baby Gift for my Cousin

           My cousin was expecting his first baby. So I wanted to make him a nice gift for the baby. Normally it would be pretty simple, a pastel or rainbow colored baby blanket, because where I live and where most of my family lives it is a useful gift. When I suggested this to my Aunt she reminded me that he is stationed in Hawaii and that even though they may use the gift it would be very rarely.

           I was then thinking of making a crocheted mobile, but this posed problems, because I did not know how they were going to hang it and my Aunt did not know what theme if any they were using for the nursery.

           I then set my sights on making some sort of toy. This is a little harder, because the did not intend to find out the gender of the baby. This ruled out any blue or pink stuffed animals. I then thought maybe I'd use that interesting camo yarn because my cousin is in the military, but I'm not sure how they'd feel about that. So that idea was also out.

           I was almost about to give up the whole idea when I thought of just making a simple color cube. Colors are good for brain development so I always try to make baby items colorful and I think this fits the bill. It also has a rattle in the very middle, so it makes noise as you shake it. I placed the sides so that each of the secondary colors was next to the two primary colors that produce it. This is easy to make because you only need 6 squares of any color(s) which you then stuff and sew together.

           Over all a very simple baby gift that I hope my cousin will like.

(This is a post from a couple years back that I never posted . He now has two children, but I still wanted to share the simple idea.)

Hamburger Amigurumi

               Finished this little guy at 3 this morning :) he's so cute. I didn't have a pattern, I just thought it up as I went along

Dad's Rubber Ducky

             My Dad loves rubber ducks. He has a huge collection. He has over a thousand ducks and he has a whole website dedicated to it. http://www.rubberduckpond.com/ Not all of his ducks are on his website, but a large portion are. My sister Magan, who is at art school and took a glass blowing class, made him a giant glass rubber duck. I've been planning to make him a duck for a while and was suppose to make him one for Christmas. He found the pattern online by himself after I had already started it, so I took that as a sign that I should finish it =) Below is the finished product and the result of a random rubber duck photo shoot I did while I waited for my friend to be ready to go to lunch =) I used the free pattern on the pixie kitten website http://www.pixiekitten.com/

                   

               Rubber Ducky on a throne of Duck Tape. Seems appropriate. 

                       
                      Looking out at the sun shine. Enjoying the beautiful day.


                       
                     GIANT RUBBER DUCKY!!!! jk not really =)


                       
                                                    Duck Butt

                       
                                             Just a Rubber Ducky
                     
                                         
                       
                          He's looking at the camera. Not camera shy at all


                       
                             Whatever is outside has him very excited.

                       
                                          Enjoying a little bath time.

                       
                          Looking out the window. Waiting to meet my dad.

                       
                                     Duck Butt. Looking out the window.

                       
                                  Sun Bathing. Can't forget those cheeks.

                       
                 Ducky with his good friend Swampy from "Where's my water"

                       
                                             Ducky and Swampy

                       
                                               Bath Time Again

                       
                                                Sunny Windowsill

                       
                                      Ducky in a Mosh Pit. Rock on!

                       
                                He see's you and seems a little surprised

                       
                                          Wow Bath time again! =)

                       
                                                 Self explanatory

                       
                                        Just sitting on my laptop

                       
                                                       Boo!!

                       
                                                     Just chillin

                       
                                                       Bubbles!!

                       
                                                    One Bubble

                       
                                                So Many Bubbles

                       
                                               So Happy Ducky!

                       
                                                      Friends!

                       

  OH!

Rubber Ducky

Your the one

You make bath time

Lots of fun!

Rubber Ducky

I'm awfully fond of you! (bobobodeo)

Rubber Ducky

Joy of joy

When i squeeze you you make noise

Rubber Ducky

You're my very best friend its true

Every Day

When I make my way to the tubby

I find a little fella who's

Cute and yella

And chubby

Rubba dub dubby!

Rubber Ducky

Your so fine

And im lucky that your mine

Rubber ducky im awfully fond of you

Finished Ninja

Hey =) So you know how I said the ninja turtle was gonna be a "craft along"? and I would update my progress about every other day? Well that didn't quite work out as planned. I went a little nuts and finished it in 12 hours. Half of those 12 hours were spent away from my work in the cafeteria. I guess it took me about 5-6 hrs while watching movies. I started out taking step by step pictures, like the ones below, but then my camera battery started to die.

By the time it had charged enough to take more pictures, he was completely done. One of the things I like is that even though I know his bandanna shouldn't be tied on the side and I didn't do so on purpose I think I like it better that way. If memory serves the red one had a lot of attitude in the show too, so it displays his roughness.

 The color in the pictures above and below have and odd color to them

 The bandanna is more of the color it looks in these pictures