A Beary Special Glowup

 Some time ago, my mum asked me to make her childhood teddy some new clothes since he started to look his age, and I was happy to help out. After some looking around online, I finally found a pattern that I liked, then proceeded to change a lot of details about it to actually fit this particular bear. But I am very pleased with the final outcame, and also to have used up some of that multi coloured yarn that I found deep, deep in my stash. Honestly, what else could you use this particular colourway for than some teddy pants?

    

Yoshi is back (an purple this time)

 A couple years back, I crocheted a blue Yoshi for a friend, and another friend asked for a purple version of him. As the pattern has a lot of small parts and was a bit of a chore to put together, I needed a break before tackling that, which turned into a pretty extended break, but I finally got back around to it. I think I have matured in my tolerance for many-pared amigurumi in the last three years, because this time, it didn't feel too bad!

So I actually really like how he turned out, even though he's not perfect, but he's very cute. I am kind of on a crochet-creature-trip at the moment, so you will be seeing a couple more in the coming weeks and months! 

 

When your dice have been naughty...

 ...you put them into solitary confinement, as to not give the other dice any ideas! A friend knit one of these solitary confinement dice bags for me some time ago, and I loved the idea, so I made some for two very close, P&P crazy friends. And then I loved the pattern and made six more for my whole role playing group! 

 I had these little 10g sample balls of Scheepjes Riverwashed in cute colours and these were the perfect projects to finally use them! But I think I'll need to get some more of some of those colours, they are so pretty...

A Mermaid and two Unicorns

 I didn't post about my Magical Creature Sampler in July, but I did stitch on it - so now you are getting a double feature! 

In July, I added Marina, the Mermaid. By what I am sure is sheer coincidence, she looks an awful lot like Ariel from the Disney movie...but she got some different friends, a jelly fish and an angler fish. Very summery and cute! 

 

In July, we got two new additions -  Rainbow Dust and Plum Sparkle, the Unicorns. I don't think there are Unicorns anywhere in the mainstream Disney movies, so no one to compare these to. These were so much fun to stitch, just look at all the pretty colours!

 I'm still really enjoying this sampler and looking forward to the next section to stitch in September. Hope you are too!

 

The Puppeteer - Row 1 done

 Over the last couple months, I've been picking up The Puppeteer (my most done full coverage design at this point) here and there. You might remember I stitched all the black in the design years ago, which got me to about 50% done, and now I am filling in all the other colours per page. I recently finished the first row of pages, which was going pretty quickly because there is a LOT of black going on.

 

Row 2 will be a little more work, but I'm also looking forward to seeing more of these spooky colours show up. 57.94% done now - I'll try to give it some more love this year to eventually push towards a finish! 

July WIPocalypse

 Let me make use of a rare break between heat waves to get out my WIPocalypse checkin for July...just *slightly* late! This will be a short one, and without pictures, but I got some pretty things coming up to update you on soon! 

So the question for July was What is your comfort zone regarding the number of projects to have kitted and in progress at any one time? Great question! I am currently in the process of figuring that out. I do not care about kitted projects - got a ton of these and I'll get to them when I get to them - but as for works in progress, I can only tell you that 53 is not the number, as I still feel a bit uncomfortable with that! I *think* below 50 (all crafts combined) will be better, but ideally, I'd like to see a number so I can actually work on everything in a year, and not keep smaller, quicker projects around for ages, so probably somewhere around 30?

So I already spoiled it, but my total number of WIPs is still sitting firm at 53. I finished the mimic, but started another crochet thing (that will be done soon), and as I got a long to do list of stuff to make for family and friends I am pretty sure each finished one will be swiftly replaced by a new one for a while yet. So if I want to get the number further down, I will have to work on a couple older things! There are a few candidates for being finished soon, though, so I am hopeful we can dipp to 52 or 51 in August. Fingers crossed! 

Don't touch these dice!

I don't know if I've told you before, but for about two years, I've been playing both D&D and DSA (the German equivalent) with various groups, and really loved it! For my birthday this year, I even got a book of D&D crochet patterns, and there are lots of fun things in there I want to make. One of the first things I started and finished isn't for me, but for a good friend. Meet Friedrich, the Mimic!

 Issn't he cute?! He's got a bit of an overbite, but that's okay. He needs a big mouth to eat all those pesky adventurers who are after his dice!

 So cool! Lots of fun things going on here, from the whole chest being stabilized by plastic canvas, over a wire-supported tongue, to magnets in the closures to keep this mouth shut. I had tons of fun making him!

Pattern is from 'Dungeons & Dragons Crochet: A Book of Many Patterns'.