done!
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i’m pleased with how this came out. i think it looks even nicer in person than the book, i hadn’t expected that.
i added an edging of three rows of single crochet. i think it makes it look more finished.
i don’t know how the one in the book was joined, but it was kinda lumply looking. i did whip stitches to keep the seams flat. it doesn’t show up because it’s all one colour.
but WHOAH this was boring.
Face design monkey blank
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I found this great yarn.. which reminded me of “sock monkey” yarn… and so I made a sock monkey… but I crocheted it.
Ronan asked me.. “Why didn’t you just use a sock?”
Which was a good point.
Probably the best sock monkey is Tony Millionaire’s Sock Monkey comic
http://www.maakies.com/SMChild/index.html
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Face design blank
Originally uploaded by feather.
I had tried, and ripped out some eyes on the bear. I was doing little eyes with french knots- and they were coming out all buggy. I was hoping to find little beads, but I think I should try felt applique.
Doing this in Photoshop takes a little time, but saves the pain of undoing work.
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This software is hilarious. I love the stuff the kids made out of the program. The variety and originality is great. Brilliant software!
View video and download the software: http://www.den.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~yuki/plushie/index-e.html
diamond-afghan
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I am determined to finish this afghan. I have 19 of 24 squares done. It was started for a friend’s wedding; needless to say she got something else.
Not sure why I didn’t like it. The pattern calls for a 4mm hook; the yarn calls for a 5mm hook. I split the difference and went for a 4.5. But the fabric is still too loose. I think I should have gone for a 4mm with this aran weight wool.
This is a test post from 
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Ooo… I’d actually like to go to this… WWKiP day…. World Wide Knit in Public Day.
However, I live in Sligo, not Dublin… and um.. I don’t knit. I try to knit! I really do. I could to a “knit looking” crochet stitch maybe? That could pass, right?
Knittingneels suggests making one up in your own locality if you don’t want to go to Dublin. I just don’t know if Sligo really has that critical mass. I’d be down in Shoots all by my elf with yarn in my hand, and Niall glaring at me.
I have been looking at lists of bloggers in Ireland; like this one at Globe Blogs: Ireland… I wish you could sub-search that just for “craft blogs”. Alas. I’m amassing quite a list of craft blogs in ireland though (at my delicious links).
All I want to say here is that an invitation from a publisher to create a book pretty much squelched by inspiration for crafting, and then of course blogging.
A writer friend of mine, more experienced with the publishing industry gave me some insight into how this all works. And this is my take on it:
Publishers are frantically trying to cash in on the independent creative energy that happens amongst bloggers. They see it as a chance to get ideas, and get people to create book for very low rates, under conditions that a professional writer or photographer would never stand for… and because they are dealing with enthusiastic amateurs, they have a seemingly endless pool of talent to use.
Anyway… I just wanted to make that statement, and not point any fingers. But let me tell you, if a “publisher” comes to you offering you to make a book, you’d better get a very good look at what they did before, and ask to talk to people who have done books with them before, and find out who the people on the team are. I would not do anything without meeting the management face to face.
I built a bridge and got over it.
I’ve still been crafting and making things… but just not blogging about it. Thought I’d like to start up again, since I got so much enjoyment out of it before.
Well… I’m not sure how things are turning out with the book. I’ve had a few people asking me about it. Surprisingly, you can see the amigurumi book on Amazon- and I think you can even order it, heh.
Right now, things are up in the air a bit! I wish I could say more 
Aw… another stop-action animation of a cute stuffed animal. This time, a bear.
ぼくはくま
Boku wa Kuma, Kuma (I am a bear)
Kuruma je nai (not a car!)
