Fibi the fox!

It's about time I finished up this one! Fibi the fox is a crochet amigurumi doll, designed by Lalylala that I started back in february.

Pickle gave me the pattern for the fox one for me to try out before I started buying all the other patterns that I wanted to make. I'm not a crochet person and I have huge problems reading crochet patterns and understanding the stitches, but I wanted to make one of these dolls so bad that I just had to try it out. With good help from Pickle, I did manage to work it out and make Fibi here though. Took me forever, but I did it! I am so danged proud of myself, you have no idea!

I wanted to do a photoshoot of it outside in the grass, but it's impossible for it to balance on its own, so I just had to give up on that part.

I used Senjagarn from Gjestal on this one, 75% wool and 25% nylon. The scarf is knitted while the rest of the doll is crochet.

The biggest erros on Fibi here though, is the fact that the tail ended up WAY to short and stubby compared to the pattern. The hood are also a bit too big for it, so it keeps falling down. Once I can dig up my felting needles, I'll stick it to its head.

The whole body's a bit wonkey and bulky, so it's far from perfect, but I still love it. I'm so impressed that I managed to make it.

I've bought the sheep pattern allready, so I will be making that one at some point too, but right now I'm currently trying to crochet a Vaporeon amigurumi, and after that I'll try and use this Lalylala body style and make a Honeydew dwarf doll...just because I'm SUPER into Yogscast at the moment...

Now, this does not mean that I'm all of a sudden a crochet expert, far from it! I'm still having great problems reading patterns and I need to relearn each stitch every time I pick up the project again... So it'll probably take years before I'll be comfortable enough to try something a bit more complicated...

BUT THIS IS AWESOME!!! SOOOO PROUD OF MYSELF!!!! *self five*

Progress of the last couple days - 21th and 22nd jan

My sleep schedule has been upside down again so sorry for not pumping out these progress of the day blogposts for the few of you whom follows my blog.

As you may know, my sweater went to hell and I went to hell with it... All sad and tears and shit... But I did manage to frog down to the first raglan decrease again so I will continue it when it has cooled off some more.

In the mean time, I did actually manage to start two new projects...which I really shouldn't have concidering how much crap I got going on allready all over the place... The first thing I started was a squirrel amigurumi. Some time ago, I got this eyelash yarn in a yellow ocre color which I had no idea what to use for, but as it turns out, it'll be a good color for a squirrel's tail! and since the 21st was international squirrel appreciation day, I decided to make one from this Ravelry pattern.
Now, I've never been very good with 3D objects in knitting and ami's really aren't my thing, that's more suited for crocheting anyway, so ofcourse the squirrel looks like roadkill. I got one arm done and need to make the other before I sew them on, but for now, I got the body stuffed and attached the ears.

I was thinking about doing a couple, one in a grey winter coat and the other in a more "all year round" coat, but I might just stick with the brown one. Making another one doesn't really tickle my fancy right now. I'll also have to wing the tail probably, cause from what I see in the pattern, the tail looks like it's just brushed yarn.

The second project I started is more of a mindless knitting thing. I promised Tiff that I would show her how real wool socks are, and then make her "raggsokk"s whenever I had enough superwash wool lying around. Though I'm not sure if I still have enough, I started her pair anyway.
I started with burgundy and a nature white color, who knows what will come after this? I've done several ugly scrap yarn socks in the past, and these will be ugly too, just a heads up... That's what scrap yarn's for!

Hopefully, I'll be able to finish both of these new projects and then return to my Jackie sweater and finish that bastard off!