Happy New Year everyone! I hope it’s better for you than 2015 in every possible way 🙂
It’s been a while since I posted here but I was very busy around Christmas. Mostly because I decided to crochet toys for three of my friends and didn’t really plan my time properly so I fell behind and was going a bit crazy right before Christmas, trying to finish the toys. Lesson learned!
Remember the fluffy sheep I mentioned in my Archimedes the Owl post?
I recently finished it, after struggling quite a bit. The fluffy yarn recommended in the pattern (DROPS Puddel) has been discontinued, so I bought DROPS Alpaca Boucle which wasn’t a great substitute 😦
I ended up having to hold it double with Stylecraft Baby DK yarn and make the body that way. I also had to crochet the feet with a smaller size hook to compensate for the difference in the body size. For some reason I didn’t do the same for the head and it ended up a bit big.
Initially, I was a bit sad with how my sheep turned out but now I think it’s actually cute. 🙂
So…I made a thing. My wrist doesn’t hurt any more but I realized that I can’t work on the blanket for long. It’s the same thing over and over again and I get bored.
But I found a pattern for a fluffy sheep and ordered some yarn. Unfortunately some of it was out of stock so while I was waiting I had the idea for Archimedes the Owl. See, the project I’m currently assigned on at work is called Archimedes (after the Merlin’s owl from Disney’s “The sword in the stone”) and has an owl as a logo. So I decided I wanted to turn it into a stuffed toy.
MegiBits 