Stuffing For Brains

Pierogi are a small, Eastern European pastry snack usually filled with cheese and potato or meat and onion, perhaps spinach or mushrooms or... well, whatever you want to put in them! Basically, they're completely delicious.

A small town in northern Indiana, called Whiting, holds an annual festival called Pierogi Fest.

So here they are! A plate of my adorable little crochet pierogi.

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft, Bone
Pattern: Made up on a whim by me!

I went to an October craft group meeting and had to think of something befittingly Octobery to make, so I went with a winged pattern of little ghosties!

I made it up as I went along, then had to recreate it twice more! :X The only difference between the three is that one has big eyes, one has little eyes and one has o_O wonky eyes.

The wonky eyed one is my favorite. :)

Yarn: Caron Simply Soft, White

These ghosts were completed in October of 2009. Also, after this, all of the amis should be posted in real time, as they're finished.

Easter rolled around and I wanted to make my first holiday themed ami. I actually found the pattern for this egg somewhere on the internet, and I don't really remember where anymore. The pattern was a bit wonky, though, it had a few errors in it. The basket, though, I made up the pattern for.

I had this grand scheme that I was going to make eggs in all different colors and little baskets to go with them, doing little ribbons in complementary colors. Like most things when I'm crocheting, the ideas are often grander than the outcome. I only made a couple eggs, in the end (which I don't think I ever even photographed) and I think I only made the one basket. But I am in love with the basket I did make. In fact, here's a close up of it!

Those stitches are so awesome... they so resemble an actual woven basket. At least, to me. This is the same texture I use for cupcake tops and the reason I really like working in the back loops only.

I know this yarn is the same as the yarn used for the hedgehog, but I still don't remember what brand or color it was. :/ Sorry! The yarn for the egg, however, is Caron Simply Soft Brites, Rose Violet.

This egg and basket were made in April of 2009.

Painguin is a special sort of amigurumi. It was the most detailed and challenging amigurumi I'd made by this point. I was really excited about it when my friend/co-worker requested this particular guy. Painguin is his comic hero that he made up one day and draws all the time at work. Here is the execution along with the design he gave me:

I absolutely winged this pattern. I used elements from other patterns that looked similar to what I wanted. For example, the feet were made from a pattern for a lion main. A lot of things I also made up. This was the most embroidery I'd done to date, as well. I'm hapyp with everything on him, with the exception of how low the nose is. I was annoyed once he was finished with that the nose was so low, especially in consideration of how high it is in the picture. But it happened because it was the first thing I put on, before the eyes and tummy. My co-worker, however, was absolutely thrilled with the way he came out, so I guess that it's all good. ^__^

I think the blue yarn used in this is Caron Simply Soft Brites, Berry Blue, but it might also be Bernat Satin, Cobalt. I'm really not sure, as I didn't keep record of the yarns I used at this point. I don't know about the rest of the yarn.

Painguin was made in January of 2009.

...But he doesn't.

A friend of mine has this series of drawings she does called Squishies. One of my favorites is the comic with Mike and No. No is the one blushing and Mike, obviously, is the one with the bomb. Anyway, I had no idea what I was doing, but I just winged this as I made it: The gift package bomb.

I don't think I can even tell what yarn I used for this, it was just whatever I had around. My two favorite parts of it, though, are the bit "flame" at the end of the fuse and the yellow "tape" that holds the "gift wrap" together. It's kind of hard to see in the image, but it's right there under the bow on the bottom left picture.

The artwork featured in the corner is the actual image my friend made. You can see her other work here.

This bomb was made in January of 2009.