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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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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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For our Thanksgiving monkey amigurumi, we went with the Native American look.  We could have gone with the pilgrim look but ultimately decided that a Native American monkey would allow for more decoration.  Since we already had a lot of Native American styled props lying around the house, why not use them here?

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Doesn’t our Thanksgiving monkey amigurumi look so cozy and right at home with all the props in the background?  Sometimes those random souvenirs you buy on trips really come in handy!

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By the way, the feathers on its headdress are parakeet feathers!  We used to have a couple of parakeets and when it came to cleaning their cage, we’d always have a nice supply of some pretty feathers.  We saved up quite a few of them, so that also gave us another reason to make a Native American monkey amigurumi. Yes I know, it should have way more feathers on its headdress, but our parakeets weren’t balding!

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Our Thanksgiving monkey amigurumi with its turkey friend.  Come to think of it, we didn’t even eat turkey this Thanksgiving… Instead, we ate…….duck. 

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Its face paint is actually red and white nail polish!  Could have just used paint, but I didn’t have a paintbrush and plus, I didn’t want to wash it afterwards either.  But since nail polish already comes with a brush, it was much more tempting and easy solution to my little dilemma hahaa.

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Now our monkey looks tall!

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And now it’s short.

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Hope you enjoyed looking at our Thanksgiving monkey amigurumi!

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This is our most festive looking monkey amigurumi to date!  For those of you who are wondering, yes, we are missing one monkey.  But don’t worry, our November monkey amigurumi will not be left out.  Promise!

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Our Santa Claus monkey amigurumi sits proudly on display in front of our Christmas tree.  All the little Christmas decorations we collected over the years really came in handy for this photo shoot.  The little house was just the right size for taking pictures with the Santa monkey amigurumi. Time for some side views!

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Since we couldn’t find a small white pom pom for the tip of the hat, we had to crochet a tiny ball out of another type of fuzzy yarn.  Not as round as a pom pom would have been, but it still works right? 

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For this monkey, we did some things differently…like the green hands and feet.  We wanted our Santa Claus monkey amigurumi to look like it was actually wearing gloves and boots.  Then to top it all off, we just lined them with some fuzzy wires.

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What’s also special about this monkey amigurumi is the white beard.  Instead of using something like cotton for the beard, we just decided to go with felt.  Using something like cotton for the beard probably wouldn’t last as long.  After a while, it’d probably start losing hair (or cotton fibers) there!  That wouldn’t be good…  Cutting the beard was very easy.  All I did was cut out a square, folded it in half, and cut only one side of the beard so that it’d come out symmetrical.

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We also made a Christmas tree topper this year too!

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Like our random Christmas decorations?  There’s a ferris wheel, nutcracker, house, and big crystal cubes!  Our Santa Claus monkey amigurumi is so festive!  It makes all of our previous monkey amigurumis look plain!  Don’t worry, there’s still New Years to outdo this Santa Claus monkey amigurumi :]!!

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Isn’t he so dashing?  Looking so sharp with a tux  instead of the usual heart chest piece, sparkly black buttons, and a nice little bow tie too.  So fashion forward!  He even holds a romantic red rose in his paw, handcrafted by my sister polarbear of course.  This little vampire monkey amigurumi is sure to charm his way into all the lady’s hearts!  Don’t get too excited though ladies…rumor has it he’s dating the little Witch Monkey Amigurumi.  Sigh, she’s a lucky monkey, I know…

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This vampire monkey amigurumi was by far the fanciest monkey we’ve made so far.  The cape was actually handsewn together by my mom (because we all know how horrible I am at sewing).  It was such a nice coincidence that we had the perfect materials lying around too, like velvet and satin, to make the perfect cape.  The hat is exactly the same as the St Patrick’s Day monkey amigurumi and Fourth of July monkey amigurumi.

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Another part of this vampire monkey amigurumi that took a lot of work was the backdrop.  Polarbear spent days painting and drawing the background.  She even cut up some of the same black chiffon material used for the Witch monkey amigurumi’s cape to make into curtains.  Our idea was to make the vampire monkey amiguurmi look like he was in a mansion.  For me at least, when I think vampire I think mansion…and of course a coffin!

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Polarbear also spent a lot of time handcrafting all the roses on the coffin and on the floor.  She even used glitter glue to outline some nice gold lines on the coffin.  Very decadent-looking, just how I had envisioned it ahh.  The coffin was actually made out of styrofoam from an old egg carton.  It was painted black and then nicely decorated.  And for you nitpickers out there, yes we are aware the coffin is a little bit small.  He sleeps sideways…because he likes to!

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I just had to include this picture because he looks like he’s using his hand to flaunt his luxurious cape haha!

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Of course, no vampire is complete without some bloody fangs!  The fangs were cut out from white felt, then painted very meticulously with red nail polish.

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Teethy~!

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That wraps up our monkeys of the month for October!  I hope you’ve all enjoyed our Halloween monkey amigurumis as much as we’ve enjoyed creating them. We went a little crazy because it’s polarbear’s favorite time of the year.  She’s been dying to get dark and spooky with our cute amigurumis since forever!  I just enjoyed living vicariously through the monkey amigurumis because I want to dress up for Halloween but can’t…sniff sniff.

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Nevertheless, our Vampire Monkey Amigurumi wishes everyone a Happy Halloween!!

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For those of you who appreciate scary/gory things…how’s this?  Is it to your liking?  :]

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Time for the side views…

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I spent a long time on this mummy monkey amigurumi.  I pretty much had free rein over what to do with this particular monkey amigurumi so I went crazy with it!

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The one thing that took up most of my time was the one eyeball.  It took me an entire day just to paint it like that.  First I had to paint the entire eye red, then yellow, red again, yellow, and then finally the black pupil.  That’s not the end of it though!  I still had to wait for all the layers of paint to dry and then I could finally go over all of it with clear nail polish to give it that shiny, glossy finish.

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Wrapping this monkey also took a long time.  I was cleaning out my sink cabinet one day and found this plain white t-shirt and thought, “hey, I could use this!”  So I cut up the entire thing into one very long strip and wrapped it all around the monkey.  I got really lazy so instead of cutting the strip into shorter ones, I just used the same long strip to wrap the entire monkey.  I only glued a few spots and somehow they stayed!  Yay.

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Our mummy monkey amigurumi has friends too!

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At first, this mummy monkey amigurumi was all white and had no red bloody spots on it.  It just didn’t look scary enough somehow so I couldn’t help myself any longer and just splotched it all over with red paint.  But even then, I still don’t think it’s scary enough… But I’m still satisfied with the end product!

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Hope you like our Halloween mummy monkey amigurumi!!

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Did you know the devil could look so cute and harmless?  Don’t you just want to pinch his pink little cheekies?  Yes, he’d like that.

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To make it look more devilish, we included the little black horns at the top of its head.  And then to top it off, we just cut out some black wings using a thin black foam sheet.

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The only problem with this devil monkey amigurumi was that our image of it was completely different.  Janama wanted it to look cute, but I wanted it to look evil…..and maybe cute?  At any rate, I couldn’t help myself and just cut out the wings so that they’d fit my image of the devil.  Sharp, pointed and fancy!  I figured that since the monkey’s face was cute already, I could probably get away with the wings that no one will probably pay much attention to.  Hehe..

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The felt face and chest pieces are a dark red color.  If you think about it, isn’t the devil all red?  We could have done white felt, but then it would just end up looking like a Santa Claus monkey… So instead, we just used dark red felt.  Does it look devilish enough?

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Such a happy devil! 

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I even tried to be fancy and cut an extra little edge on the upper tips of the wings.  Did you see them?  If you did notice them…yay.

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My black flowers that I bought a long time ago really came in handy here!  I really liked how they looked but could never seem to find a place for them.  Now they look happy and perfectly at home with our devil monkey amigurumi.

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There’s still lots more where this Halloween devil monkey amigurumi came from so we’ll keep you updated on the others very soon!

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I’ve been waiting many months just to post this one particular Halloween monkey amigurumi.  This is actually the original Halloween monkey that we made.  But Halloween’s the funnest time of the year, so why not just go all out and make a whole boatload of them?

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This one took quite a while to make.  It was me who kept pestering our crocheter to make this monkey.  I was looking forward to making this the most!  So I couldn’t help myself and changed a few things about it.  I painted one eye all white and the other with a single red pupil to give it a more creepy (but cute!) look.  Changed the mouth, added a bunch of stitch work, and cut out the shape and face of a jack-o-lantern for the chest piece.

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Cutting out those tiny triangles and teeth on that pumpkin shaped chest piece was a lot of work but it still came out okay.  It was like carving a real pumpkin but out of felt!

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I really wanted this Halloween monkey amigurumi to have two distinct personalities.  The left side (picture above) is the cute and happy side and the right side (below) is the scarier/crazier side.  So if you look at these two pictures separately, they’ll look like two different monkeys!  All in one! 

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And here are our side views~

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It looks like our Halloween monkey amigurumi is growing out of the…..Heart of Darkness!!  Hahaha kidding~  Yes, I read the book…but don’t remember what happened.  Hehe.

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Its castle.  Very small castle–and yes, it can support the weight of an entire monkey!  Such a strong little fortress its got there.

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And now with a friend!  Pumpkin minion?

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I was so happy about making this Halloween monkey amigurumi that I even took the time to paint a background for it.  Don’t know if you can see it, but there’s actually purple bats flying in the background.  I also painted the little fortress/castle-like thing too.  That was actually a white styrofoam box that housed six eggs in its nice foamy grasp.  Putting this set together took a whole afternoon!  But I’m pleased with the end result. Still more monkeys to come!

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Sweet dreams everyone!  Hope you all enjoyed our Halloween monkey amigurumi!!

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We’ve been waiting many months for October to come.  Anything Halloween-themed is just so fun and exciting to do!  At first we only made one Halloween-themed monkey amigurumi, but then recently decided to make more.  Why not, right?  As for the other Halloween monkey amigurumis, we’ll keep you posted and up to date so stay tuned!

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When it came to making this witch monkey amigurumi, we were stumped on how to make the broom.  But then one day when we went to the craft store, we spotted a large wooden/straw broom hanging on a shelf with a lot of other Halloween related decorations.  So we went back home, gathered some small twigs from the backyard, cut a wooden chopstick in half, tied the little twigs around it, and there you have it!!  Broom!

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But anyway, enough about the broom.  For this witch monkey amigurumi we really wanted it to look like a witch–unmistakably like a witch.  So we used neon green felt for the face, chest, ears and purple yarn for the body.  Purple and green–the perfect witch colors right?

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This monkey is so fancy too!  It even has this nice little witch hat with a pretty little green bow tied around it.  Janama’s pretty bow-tying skills.    If you look closely, the cape isn’t just a regular cape.  I had to sit there and cut out tiny triangles from the edges of the cape so that it’d look more witch-like.

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Looks like our little witch has a minion–Skeletroll!  Witch monkey named it…not me.  :] I don’t come up with dumb names like that!

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What kind of monkey business are they up to?  For some reason the monkey looks a bit evil in the picture above…how cute!  We love cute but dangerous things~

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There’s much more to come!  Hope you enjoyed our Halloween witch monkey amigurumi!

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What will he be harvesting today?

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In making this monkey, I wanted the body to have a hay-like color to it.  Actually, the name of the color for the yarn was “hay”!  At first, I didn’t know what kind of monkey to make for the month of September.  But then I saw this yarn and thought why not make a farmer monkey amigurumi? When I think of September, I think of things like fall, farmlands, and harvesting crops–especially pumpkins for some reason. 

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Looks like our farmer monkey is ready to start another busy and laborious day out in the fields!  All the extra props were things that I found lying around the house.  They really came in handy this time!

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We didn’t want the hat to be too fancy…it just wouldn’t have that organic feel to it.  Sometimes if you overdecorate, it just ends up looking unfocused and sort of like a mishmash of different ideas going on in the same amigurumi.  So the simple approach was what we were going for.  Besides, have you ever seen a farmer working out in the fields with a totally decked out straw hat?

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Harvesting some vegetation?  Looks like he even sprinkled some fertilizer. 

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We even decorated his overalls with some patches of cloth.  Did you notice them?  One was on the front and two others were on each side.

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Looks like he’s harvesting some…crab grass!  We just love crab grass, don’t we?

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Well, that’s it for a busy day in the life of our farmer monkey amigurumi!!