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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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I also submitted a pattern for a polar bear my sister fondly nicknamed Polar Lucibear, and it got chosen for the month of December too!  Never had the chance to take nice pictures of it before I had to send it in for the contest, but oh well, the professionals did a good job anyway!

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Visit here to take a look at the ebook.

Visit here to take a look at the calendar.

According to the site description, the patterns for the monkeys will be released for free download at CrochetMe.com during the first week of the month for which they appear in the calendar (my monkeys were chosen for the month of June).  If you don’t want to wait, you can always download the ebook now with all the patterns in the calendar at the link above.

Can’t wait to order some more calendars myself!  Definitely excited to give them away as presents to friends and family!   Thanks to everyone who gave me such nice feedback and for showing interest in my monkeys, it really means a lot to me.

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Yep, you guessed it!  Another monkey to kick off the start of a new month.  No, we will not stop until we have completed all twelve monkeys for all twelve months of the year.  It just wouldn’t be fair or right if we just decided to leave out the rest of the months and their representative monkey amigurumis now would it? 

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So here we have our Fourth of July monkey amigurumi in the signature Uncle Sam pointing at YOU pose.  He wants YOU and so does the monkey!  Does our monkey successfully resemble the poster in the background?  We even tried to coordinate the colors of the monkey to match Uncle Sam’s outfit.  We used an off-white colored felt to give the monkey an overall old school look.  Of course, to make it more festive we gave it a nice and crazy Fourth of July hat–that was very time consuming and painstaking to make.

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This is the top of the hat…very festive right?    First we crocheted the standard top hat and then cut out strips of white and blue felt which were glued directly onto the hat.  Then we used sequin stars to decorate the rest of it.  We even included a little bling on his hat with small crystal accents between the stars.

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The standard home-made flag.  Made possible by the combined efforts of a nice printer, toothpick, and tacky glue!

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Our Fouth of July monkey is a very busy little monkey amigurumi.  He may look carefree and all, but he’s busily planning away a July 4th celebration on his computer!  Yes, an old school computer for an old school monkey.

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He’s sending out invitations to his Fourth of July party.  Will you be there?  Don’t worry, he’ll call you when the meat’s grilling away on his BBQ GrillMaster 7411 in the backyard.

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No, he will NOT put down the flag.  Even when he’s grilling.

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Our Fourth of July monkey amigurumi just loves America that much! <3

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Who doesn’t like chi-hua-huas?? So, here is a free pattern for how to make an amigurumi of one!! Enjoy!!! If you do take time to make one from my pattern, send me pictures!!! I’d love to see!

Palm-Size Pup: Chihuahua

Materials:

• Size D/3 (3.25 mm) crochet hook
• Worsted weight yarn in cream and tan
• 1 pair of 9 mm plastic safety eyes
• Small pieces of tan, black, and pink craft felt
• Black crochet thread
• Sharp needle for crochet thread
• Tapestry needle
• Craft glue
• Stuffing

Head

• Color: CREAM yarn
• R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second ch from hook – 6 sts
• R2: 2 sc in each st around – 12 sts
• R3: (1 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 18 sts
• R4: (2 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 24 sts
• R5 – 8: sc in each st around – 24 sts
• R9: (2 sc, dec 1) repeat around – 18 sts
• R10: (1 sc, dec 1) repeat around – 12 sts
• Fasten off
• *Attach the 9 mm plastic safety eyes to the head. Eyes should be inserted between R7 and R8. The most ideal distance between the eyes is about 5 stitches, but it’s up to you!
• *Stuff the head with fiberfill

Snout

• Color: CREAM yarn
• R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts
• R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts
• R3: (1 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 9 sts
• Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the head

Nose

1. Cut out a nose shape from black felt.

2. With black crochet thread and a sharp needle, sew the nose felt piece on the tip of the snout, as shown in the picture below. DO NOT sew the nose piece in the center; leave enough room to sew a mouth.

3. Right below the nose felt piece, continue sewing a mouth

4. Cut out a small tongue shape from pink craft felt, and set it aside. Gluing the tongue to the mouth should be the last step to prevent it from falling off while working on other parts.

Ears – make 2 of these

• Color: TAN yarn
• R1: Ch 2, 3 sc in second ch from hook – 3 sts
• R2: 2 sc in each st around – 6 sts
• R3: (1 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 9 sts
• R4: (2 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 12 sts
• R5: (1 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 18 sts
• Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the head
• *Cut out 2 ear shapes from pink felt. Set aside.

Body

• Color: CREAM yarn
• R1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second ch from hook – 6 sts
• R2: 2 sc in each st around – 12 sts
• R3: (1 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 18 sts
• R4: (2 sc, 2 sc in next st) repeat around – 24 sts
• R5: (2 sc, dec 1) repeat around – 18 sts
• R6: (1 sc, dec 1) repeat around – 12 sts
• R7: sc in each st around – 12 sts
• Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the head
• *Stuff with fiberfill

Arms – make 2 of these

• Color: CREAM yarn
• R1: Ch 2, 4 sc in second ch from hook – 4 sts
• R2 – 5: sc in each st around – 4 sts
• Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the body

Legs – make 2 of these

• Color: CREAM yarn
• R1: Ch 2, 4 sc in second ch from hook – 4 sts
• R2 – 3: sc in each st around – 4 sts
• Fasten off, leaving a long tail for sewing to the body

Putting Everything Together

1. Using a tapestry needle, sew the snout to the head. The top of the snout should start at R8 on the head. Make sure to keep the snout as centered as possible between the eyes.

2. Sew the ears onto the head. Pinch the ears so that they become flat. The ears should be placed starting at R2 and ending at R5. Next, glue the pink ear felt pieces onto the ears.

3. Sew the head to the body.

4. Sew the arms vertically onto the body. The arms should be positioned right below the eyes. Arms DO NOT need to be stuffed.

5. Position the legs horizontally and sew it to the body. Legs DO NOT need to be stuffed.

6. Cut out a tail shape from tan felt. Glue the tail between the legs on the back of the body.

7. The final step is to glue the pink felt tongue onto the mouth. Simply line the top edge of the tongue with craft glue and place it in between the 2 black lines of the mouth. Hold in place for about 10 seconds and allow enough time for it to fully dry.

8. Decorate your new pup and enjoy!

You can use the same pattern to make different dogs a well. Just change the ears and cut out different felt patterns for coloring. These are some other dogs I’ve made using the same pattern.

A Doberman Pinscher:

A Golden Retriever:

The possibilities are endless!! Hope you enjoyed them!