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Continuing on with the springy animals…today we bring you sheep amigurumi! Not yetis. -_-
We’ve waited a long time to get our hands on this expensive fuzzy yarn, so when our mom collected enough Joann coupons in the mail, we bought two squishy balls of fuzzy black and white yarn. I love black and white! You can never go wrong with it. So I sat around and tossed the yarn from one hand to the other and thought “if I could juggle, I’d juggle these”. Hahaha no. What I really thought was “ah…soft, squishy, soft, squishy…sheep!” And there you have it. Black and white sheep amigurumi.
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The semi-drooping ears and extra fluff on its head gives it the signature “sheep” look, right? Well at least that’s what we were aiming for because without the ears sewn on, it really did look like a yeti. I mean yetis are nice–with their cute faces and all–but nah, maybe next time!
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Of course we can’t forget a fuzzy little tail to our sheep amigurumi!
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Here’s the black sheep version
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Now the black sheep amigurumi was pretty funny to make. When I sewed on the ears, for some reason I just really liked to pinch the bottom ends of them inwards to make it pointy. Why? I don’t know…I just like to see sharp and edgy things…? But anyway, I handed it back to the crochet master for her approval and she said, “WHAT? Why is it that when I give things to you they always turn out sharp and scary looking?!” And then she quickly molded them back into its cuter shape. Yeah, the dark colors and the sharp ears without the round pink felt pieces in them really made it look…devilish. >]
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But don’t worry, they’re happy little friends! Cute, soft, and fuzzy! 
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Thanks for looking~
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Posted March 26th, 2011 at 2:13am (Comments: 2)
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Today, I would like to start a monthly tradition of “The Monkey of the Month” – and since I made a Valentine’s monkey for the month of February, I’m continuing with a St Patricks Day Monkey Amigurumi for the month of March!!
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Actually, my real goal was to make a monkey of every color of the rainbow, just for the fun of it! My sister was always nagging at me to make a green monkey too, for what reason I have no idea…so St Patricks Day came just in time for me to make a green monkey. Of course, every proper leprechaun should wear a nice hat too, and I even decorated the hat with a nice gold buckle! The buckle is actually just some small pieces of gold trimming I found lying around the house.
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It’s so fun when you can make good use of random materials you find in your house that you never thought you’d end up using! This happened before too when I made the R2D2 amigurumi. All the silver trimmings and screws were cut from a silver wired ribbon roll we had bought so many years before.
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Another example of my thriftiness with this St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi was the heaping pot of gold. Doesn’t it look so shiny and plentiful…and also a lot like Mardi Gras? Yes! I coiled a string of Mardi Gras beads on the top of the pot of gold to make it look extra shiny! I was pleased with it, but later became a little sad when all people would remark about my St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi was that darned pot of gold!! “Oh, nice monkey – whoa, is that a pot of gold?!” was my most common critique. All that hard work to make a nice St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi complete with a nice leprechaun hat and cute 4-leaf clover felt plushy…and all people see is the GOLD!
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And of course, when I showed it to my dad, who is a die-hard Lakers fan, all he had to say was, “WHAT?! Why did you make a Celtics monkey?!” When I tried to explain it was for St Patricks Day and not associated with Boston or the Celtics, he said, “They’re the SAME THING!!” I felt like I had committed treason and was to be banished to another planet when all I did was crochet a harmless St Patricks Day monkey amigurumi…I swear if I left it somewhere with him, it’d probably disappear mysteriously <gulp>.
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Hopefully, others will look past it and see that this monkey would just like to celebrate St Patricks Day happily! This monkey is available for purchase at my Etsy. Thanks for looking!
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Posted March 1st, 2011 at 3:49am (Comments: 3)
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