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Today we’re celebrating Valentine’s Day with our nice, shiny, and bright Valentine’s Day Rabbit Amigurumi!
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We went to town with this one–white and pink rhinestones and all. The one thing that inspired us to make this Valentine’s Day rabbit amigurumi was the pink leopard print felt. We were at the craft store one day and noticed a couple of new felt sheets next to the usual solid colored ones. Our crocheter just couldn’t resist the temptation of playing around with one of them, so we ended up picking this leopard print one.
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She wanted this Valentine’s Day rabbit amigurumi to be loaded on the sparkle factor, so we glued on the rhinestones everywhere and anywhere we had a chance to. After seeing how our New Year’s monkey amigurumi turned out, we were excited to try the rhinestone treatment on something else. As you can see, we lined the ears and all other felt pieces with the pink and white rhinestones. We even stuck them inside the ears too–do you see them? Even the cheeks have rhinestones on them! Ah…rhinestones are just the BEST when it comes to going overboard on the decorating. Someday, we’re going to glue rhinestones all over our amigurumi! Don’t worry, we’ll keep you posted on that 
. It’s going to take a lot of patience, but we’re pretty set on it! Well, until we get our hands on some more of them…we’re kind of low on them heh heh.
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We tried to use the pink leopard print felt more than necessary…but we still have more than three fourths of the sheet left. What will we do with it??
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Instead of just making our rabbit amigurumi all one color, we decided to go with a pink fuzzy tail for this one. It makes it look cuter, right?
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That’s all everyone–Happy Valentine’s Day and thanks for looking at our Valentine’s Day rabbit amigurumi 
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Posted February 12th, 2012 at 4:16pm (Comments: 3)
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It’s way past the middle of the month, but we haven’t forgotten about our farmer monkey amigurumi for September! Here it is! Finally!
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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!!
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Posted September 25th, 2011 at 1:16am (Comments: 1)
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It’s that time of the year again–let’s celebrate it with a Rock Lee amigurumi!!!
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Spent all of yesterday celebrating our brother’s birthday at the beach! Was thinking about posting this sooner…but then he’d see it and our little birthday amigurumi surprise would be ruined! Just like how he spoiled his own birthday surprise a few years ago when he spotted our R2D2 amigurumi with his crazy hawk eye for anything Star Wars…but this time we were successful!! :d
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Rock Lee is from Naruto, a ninja anime that’s been going on for many many years now. He’s supposed to bear a resemblance to Bruce Lee in both looks and fighting style. Making this Rock Lee amigurumi was very hard! Sure, he looks pretty plain and easy to make, but those bulging eyes, thick brows, eyelashes, and hair were a big pain to cut and make! Especially since it comes straight out of an anime where everything is drawn so that the characters look the same everyday.
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Cutting his hair was a lot of work too. I used up a lot of black felt and trimmed away quite a bit as well. At first, his bangs were too long and were covering up too much of his thick, luscious eyebrows so I had to trim them a bit so that he’d look less girly and more like the charmingly ugly Rock Lee that he’s supposed to be. At one point, I felt like his personal hairdresser! And then at another point, as I was wrapping his arm bandages, I felt like a nurse! This was one high maintenance Rock Lee amigurumi!!
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I even tied it in the signature Naruto style!
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The lines on his leg warmers were drawn on with a sharpie…so yeah, that took a very very long time to do. Same goes for the little leaf. I had to draw that a couple of times before I finally got one that I was satisfied with.
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Oh and by the way, today’s background is our brother’s painting that he did a long time ago at school. We figured that the usual girly polka dot backgrounds would not mix well with this character, so we thought why not use something masculine looking that the birthday boy drew himself?! Doesn’t it look nice? Very nice and fitting for a Rock Lee amigurumi right?
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Posted August 22nd, 2011 at 11:57pm (Comments: 3)
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Hey everyone it’s Mother’s Day! Do anything special for mom today?
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Going along with our little monkey of the month theme, we decided to make a Mother’s Day monkey amigurumi! Surprise!! Yeah, not much of a surprise but hey it’s a good idea especially if you’ve completely run out of gift ideas for mom this year. Why not just make a hand-crafted and personalized monkey amigurumi for mom? Moms always like what their children make them. It’s like being back in elementary school and bringing home a teacher-forced-me-to in-class art project for Mother’s Day. And with nothing else to do with it, mom will slap a magnet on it and show it off on the sustenance box: the refrigerator!!!
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Well, hopefully you don’t think of it that way! We love our mommies and I’m sure they’ll love anything you try to do to thank them.
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But if you really want to do something personal and special for mom, then take the crochet mom a Mother’s Day amigurumi approach.
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Of course, this monkey would not be considered a mom if it didn’t even have a kid monkey to go with it!
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What do you think? Does the apron on our Mother’s Day monkey amigurumi make it look motherly?
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What’s mom going to bake today? Cakes, cupcakes, pancakes?
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How about all of the above. If any of you remember from my first few posts, those are NOT hats!!! They are cakes!
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They can hold hands too! Well somewhat…
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This is mom’s favorite lipstick. And here is our little kiddie stealing mom’s lipstick and going for a joy ride~
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Oh, and don’t worry this family is still not complete yet! Are we forgetting someone? More monkey amigurumis to come!
Thanks to all of you for looking~ Happy Mother’s Day! Maybe I should go and get a I<3MoM tattoo! hahaa…ouch.
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Posted May 7th, 2011 at 11:44pm (Comments: 3)
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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: 1)
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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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Since it’s Halloween today, I thought it’d be very appropriate for me to post one of our older creations…the mangy cat! First, I drew up this…
janama crocheted the parts and I sewed them into this!
Don’t you think the hanging eyeball is the cutest thing you’ve ever seen in the world?! If you hold it and shake it around a certain way, the eyeball spins around its epicenter like a helicopter blade! Isn’t that cute?! ;D
I saw roadkill on my way home one time, so that’s what inspired me to make this. Happy Halloween!!
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Posted October 31st, 2010 at 7:03pm (Comments: 1)
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Ever since I started playing Animal Crossing 2 years ago, I’ve been playing that game EVERY day. Yes, I am that devoted. Actually, it’s my nighttime lullaby – puts me to sleep in an instant!
But anyways, what I really wanted to talk about today was Kaitlin, the mommy cat who visits your town searching for her lost daughter, Katie. You only get these characters when you visit another friend’s town, so they’re pretty special characters. Plus, I got her phone charm when I was playing with the coin machine again hehe. I just so happened to have recently bought a lot of yellow yarn too, so I was finding ways to use it up, and Kaitlin was what I came up with. Here’s her original picture in case you have no idea who I’m talking about:
Now, before you fall asleep reading my blog, here are the pictures of my finished product:
Unfortunately, she doesn’t stand on her own. This is what happens when you try to copy cartoon characters to a T. They inherit the impossibly skinny limbs that are supposed to support the fattest heads in the world. So out of proportion! But it just wouldn’t look like her anymore if I hadn’t done that. Oh well, there’s only so much you can do I guess.
I also got lazy again and didn’t make her a spatula. The hair my sis helped me out with again. I cut the hair out on my own first, then showed it to my sis, only to receive this utter look of disapproval and disgust hahaha, so she ended up taking care of it instead – thank God!! She also glued together the apron – although I did the little white fishy! See, I can cut felt too…
With 2 Animal Crossing characters done, of course I couldn’t resist taking a picture of them together!
Kind of an odd couple, but whatever, they’re both cute Animal Crossing characters!! If only I had the patience to knit a house…that would really complete the picture!
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Posted June 19th, 2009 at 4:42pm (Comments: 6)
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Finally, the R2D2 amigurumi pattern is OUT!! You can find it at my etsy shop: janama.etsy.com
The story behind R2D2:
My brother’s birthday was coming up, and I needed to give him something. Buying presents for him was always a challenge, especially since I am still a poor grad student and he’s already working. It just so happened I started crocheting as a hobby, and decided making him something meaningful would be nicer than buying him something lame and cheap.
I knew he liked star wars a lot, so I started thinking of all the star wars characters I could make out of yarn. I surfed the web for star wars patterns, came across a lot of yodas and ewoks and other characters, and was blown away by their cuteness. I thought Artoo would definitely be cute since he’s a robot and no one would expect a robot to be made of yarn! Started searching for the pattern, and unfortunately, didn’t find any. So I was determined to make my own!
Of course, I needed some help. I had only started crocheting 2 months ago and still didn’t know how to sew limbs onto amigurumis very well. So I consulted my little sister, who is much better at sewing and cutting and being extra neat, to help me out. After much trial and error in getting the right proportions, and painstakingly cutting out laser-precise felt pieces, Artoo was finished.
But, before we actually gave it to my brother, we were adding some finishing touches, and he happened to catch a glimpse of it before I could smoothly hide it away! He immediately identified it as Artoo, and our surprise was spoiled, but he was still happy to have him finally on his birthday. He blogged about Artoo on coderetard.com, others blogged about it, and eventually Artoo made his way to the Official Star Wars Blog. It was truly an honor.
So, what started out simply as a birthday present for my star wars fan brother has become something I never would have imagined could happen. To have so many people see Artoo and enjoy him is very meaningful to me. Many thanks for everyone’s feedback and comments!
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Posted May 15th, 2009 at 1:37pm (Comments: 2)
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