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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A couple years ago, when my mom was into making polymer clay crafts and I stole some and played with it for fun, I made these little monkeys with tails that held bananas on their heads, backs, in the air…almost anywhere! Thinking back to those and how cute they were, I thought why not make a monkey amigurumi too? So, that’s what I did. Except, this time around the monkeys are 5″ tall, whereas the polymer clay monkeys I made back then were a mere 1″ wide at the most!

So, here are my monkey amigurumi.

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I even gave the monkeys different poses and faces. For the brown monkey I used safety eyes and gave it a waving pose. The gray monkey has those cute happy squinting eyes so characteristic in anime characters. It also hugs instead of waves. Same pattern, but both monkey amigurumis have a unique look – that’s what I really like about them.

I even got a special order on them from my mom’s friend for her daughter’s birthday (her daughter was born in the year of the monkey). That was exciting! She wanted a plush brown version of the gray amigurumi monkey, and a small plush monkey amigurumi cell phone charm. Here are the finished products.

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That’s a Nintendo DS by the way, because we all know how much monkeys like to play with DSes…

I put up these monkey amigurumi plushes for purchase on my Etsy. If you order one, I can make it in any pose, face, and color you want to make it uniquely yours! Even the bananas can be placed anywhere on the monkey to give it an extra cute edge!

I also entered these monkeys in the Interweave Crochet Me 2012 Amigurumi calendar contest. Let’s hope they make it into the calendar! That would be super awesome!!

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