I know it’s way late, but Happy Dragon Chinese New Year – and now let’s celebrate with a Chinese Dragon Amigurumi!! I actually made this Chinese dragon amigurumi last year, and if you liked my Facebook page you’ve probably seen it already. Sorry if it’s a repeat for some of you, but I thought it just had to be a part of my blog too!
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Making this Chinese dragon amigurumi was like making a mini-Bowser. I never really realized it before, but Chinese dragons have deer antlers – did YOU know that? What do they need antlers for anyway? I just crocheted small tubes and sewed one perpendicularly in the middle part of the other and attached the combined unit to the head.
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What I like best about this Chinese dragon amigurumi is the felt work. My sister had to cut out so much felt for the dragon’s mane, eyebrows, and fins.
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The redness of the fins and mane make the dragon amigurumi look like it’s on fire!! It looks pretty fierce thanks to my sister who likes to put her own scary spin on my cute amigurumis…making it’s eyebrows slanted so it looks like it’s frowning, and giving it fangs. It’s ok, for this dragon amigurumi, a little bit of scariness is just what it needs so I’ll let it go this time around. 
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It almost reminds me of a dinosaur at this angle!
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Here it is posing with a Chinese girl amigurumi my mom crocheted. For the whiskers, I just crocheted a chain and attached it to the sides of the snout. Later, my mom sewed a golden thread into it too to give it some extra shine.
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I do have a pattern for this Chinese dragon amigurumi too, but just haven’t written it up yet. It will be up soon for sale on my Etsy. Please wait for it! 
That’s it for our Chinese dragon amigurumi! Hope everyone who celebrates it had a great Chinese new year, and we wish everyone a prosperous and healthy year!
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Posted January 28th, 2012 at 8:42am (Comments: 1)
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Let’s celebrate the new year with a bright and shining New Year’s monkey amigurumi!! Happy New Year everyone!
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This is our last monkey amigurumi!! Yay! It’s been a year since we started on this idea of crocheting monkey amigurumis to represent each month of the year, and we’re finally done! It sure was a lot of work to do but the process was definitely very fun and exciting.
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For our New Year’s monkey amigurumi, we wanted to go for the sparkling and glamorous look so we went all out on the decorating this time. Gluing every single piece of crystal onto its face, ears, and body was very tedious. But in the end, it came out way better than we expected! We really wanted this monkey to stand out from the rest so we used as many crystals as we could in decorating it.
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We recently went on a trip to Las Vegas so that might explain our more glamorous approach to our New Year’s monkey amigurumi. 
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The crystals were originally for decorating the interior of your car. They came as a whole sheet of adhesive crystals where you could peel off chains of them and stick them wherever you want. Mom bought them a long time ago but only used a few of them on her own amigurumi and other creations you can see on her amigurumi doll site. So she threw the remaining crystals at us and we went to town with it!
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Lucky for us we had a boat load of Mardi Gras beads all jammed together in a tiny plastic bag buried in our Christmas tree decorations box so the concept for this monkey was pretty much decided after we discovered it. They were all collected from dad’s company parties over the years and we just got a few more this year too!
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Looks like our New Year’s monkey amigurumi had a blast in Vegas too!
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Posted January 18th, 2012 at 12:01am (Comments: 6)
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