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Edgar Von Schuglehoffen

10/27/2009

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Edgar Von Schnuglehoffen, as the name suggests, is by far, my weirdest commission ever. It tops Painguin in sheer bizarreness.

This is approximately how the conversation went:
Me: [shows picture of hedgehog ami] I make things like this! But this hedgehog... I won't make again without charging an arm and a leg, because the spiny coat was [expletive deleted] to make!
Cassie: Aww! But it's so cute! What-- what-what if someone were to request a SHAVEN hedgehog?!
Me: It'd probably look like... a molerat or something.
Cassie: What if he had a frosting hat?! With a cherry! And sprinkles on top?!
Me: Well... that I could do... He might look funny, but...
Cassie: ^__^
Me: ^___^

Yes. So I made him. But I didn't have a needle small enough to fit through the beads I was going to use for sprinkles... so I used teeny, tiny jingly bells for sprinkles... which is really kind of a trade up. With such a strange creature, he needed a strange and fantastic name. During the making of, I decided on Edgar Von Schnuglehoffen.
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In a note from Edgar's owner, she wrote:
  • Edgar resides on my bedside table, just so ya know. My kitties are constantly curious about him, but I fend off their inquisitive paws. Not that I don't think he could hold his own! Mr. Schnuglehoffen is quite able to fend for himself, I'm sure. It takes a tough hedgehog to be able to confidently walk about in the buff with naught but a frosting hat that jingles. *sagely nod*

Yarn:
Caron Simply Soft: Bone
Caron Simply Soft Brites: Grape

Edgar was Brought into Existence in August of 2009.
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Cupcake Army!

10/27/2009

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People kept pushing to say that I could easily sell my amigurumi and a friend of mine, faaaaaaar away in another state, actually has a flea market booth. So I decided to spend some time making a bunch of little cupcakes. Because we didn't know how well they would sell, and because safety eyes can get expensive when you need a lot of them, I made the cupcakes all faceless. Here's the resulting army...
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Yarn used:
Caron Simply Soft Brites, Grape, Limelight, Watermelon, Berry Blue and Blue Mint.
Caron Simply Soft Tweet, White.

Pattern from Kelli Ronci's Kid's Crochet.

Cupcake army was completed in April of 2009. (As of October '09, however, none of them have actually sold.)
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Cuppy Cakes!

10/27/2009

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In the library I work at, we have a lot of crochet books, but not a lot with amigurumi patterns in them (well, we do now, but we didn't when I started making them). One book we have in the kid's section is called Kid's Crochet, by Kelli Ronci, with patterns for pillows, scarves and things -- but also a couple dolls and cute little cupcakes! The cupcake pattern was actually intended to be a pincushion, but I just made them for decoration. The pattern had little bead sprinkles and maybe a cherry on top, but I just put eyes on and left it at that!

The purple one was for my mom and the green one was for one of my friends.
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I was experimenting with textures when I made these guys. The green one's frosting was in my, at this point, standard texture. I made the purple one second, and decided to turn it inside out to use this neat swirly pattern that looked very frosting-like look to them. Every other cupcake after that was made with the swirly frosting texture.

The other thing I really like about these little guys was the yarn used for the cupcake portion of them. The moment I saw it in the store, I was like, "Oh man! This is totally like funfetti cake mix!" I had to buy it and make a cupcake out of it. So I did. ^_^

Yarn:
Caron Simply Soft Brites - Limelight
Caron Simply Soft Brites - Grape
Caron Simply Soft Tweed - White
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