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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It’s time for a truly scary monkey – Halloween mummy monkey amigurumi!  So many M’s!!  mmm……mummy…

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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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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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Since I had to make up a pattern for Artoo and I didn’t write it down the first time, I had to clone him.

Twin Artoos!

And no, you are not seeing wrong.  Indeed, one Artoo is bigger than the other.  Let’s just say one is more "fit" for survival than the other in the womb.

Then, my dad asked me to make one for his co-worker’s son, so I cloned him again.  Now, for the time being, I have 3 Artoos! And for some funny reason, Artoo 003 got even BIGGER!  It’s ok, the bigger the better.

I must admit, it is kinda scary seeing so many Artoos.  It’s like having an army of Artoos, except they’re made of yarn and their main weapon is their cuteness.  Don’t worry, worse comes to worse, just throw ‘em at your enemies!  That’ll catch them off guard for sure!

Tea party with Artoo anyone?

Here’s a dramatic shot!

What have I learned after making THREE Artoos?  Just because you’ve made it “n” amount of times doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the same exact thing each time.  I would say I like the later 2 Artoos better, because my techniques got better.  Although my brother said he likes the original the best still.  To each their own, I suppose!

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