Let’s get into the tropical mood with a Hawaiian monkey amigurumi!
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Are we in a tropical mood yet? Let’s just drop everything and go to Hawaii!!! A little late with the monthly posting but here we go!
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Exactly one year ago, we took a family trip to Hawaii for a week, so to remember the fun times I decided to make a Hawaiian monkey amigurumi. When I got to thinking of what to do for the month of August, nothing came to mind but summery things and warm beachy places….like Hawaii!
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And our 360 degree view looks like this:
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Weee!
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Ah, now I’m dizzy.
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Like the coconut + plumeria + leafy headdress? The coconut was crocheted with a thinner yarn and took a very long time to make. Lots of work just for one tiny little coconut halve. Even though it’s small, it doesn’t mean that it’ll be less work. The plumerias next to the coconut are actually earrings. The last time we went to Hawaii, we bought them from ABCmart (very cheap and nice by the way).
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The plumerias on the grass skirt also came from that store and are actually one bracelet. I just crocheted the grass skirt and slid the bracelet on afterwards. Looks nice and festively Hawaiian right? Mm…a luau sounds really good right now. 
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And of course my Hawaiian monkey amigurumi needs some friends! Say hello to coconut amigurumi! It’s so smiley and happy in the background. Now I could really use a pina colada.
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Ah yes and before I forget, I also crocheted a small coconut palm to go with the Hawaiian monkey. Such a happy little tropical family~
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For this particular monkey, I tried to make it look tanned. Did you catch on to that? Well anyway, I used a darker felt for the face, chest, and ears, instead of the usual light colored one. I figured that if it’s going to be a Hawaiian monkey, why not make it look like it came straight from Hawaii? Exposed to all the sunlight and warm weather! It’d be weird if it were a pale monkey right? It just wouldn’t be genuinely Hawaiian.
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Happy summer! Hope you all enjoyed my take on a Hawaiian monkey amigurumi!
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Posted August 11th, 2011 at 2:14am (Comments: 11)
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Yes, we can do other things besides monkey amigurumis…like a tiger amigurumi!
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This tiger amigurumi is supposed to go along with the Chinese zodiac theme, but it seems like we’ll be doing the animals out of order and depending on our mood. I mean who can resist a tiger in the middle of the rabbit year? If we seriously decided to post the animal of the year in order and in a timely fashion then you’d have to stay tuned for another eleven years!! Yep, crazy indeed. But if you’d like to stick around for that long then you are more than welcome to! 
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So here is the side view of our tiger amigurumi…nice and round from all the rabbits he ate. Ha ha, no tigers eat better things… like human food!
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Mmm…junk food. I just realized, the only thing here that has meat in it is the piddly little meat patty in the hamburger. Apparently our tiger amigurumi has been feasting on other things…like rabbits! Such a ravenous appetite!
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The stripes were cut out of felt and glued onto the body. It was a painstaking process but it turned out looking like a tiger right? The tiger’s facial hair is also cut out from felt. Its weird enough that a tiger would need facial hair to look like one, but without it it just doesn’t look right. Without the hair, I’m pretty sure a lot of people would start thinking it was a Garfield cat of some sort. Either that or people would probably think it was some kind of striped dog-cat-bear. Yeah…we don’t want you to think that. Do you see the importance of facial hair?! Somehow I think it makes it look wiser…if not, old and seasoned. :]
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Thanks for looking at our little hairy, unshaven, but wise-looking tiger amigurumi!
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Posted June 20th, 2011 at 9:32pm (Comments: 8)
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What does that look like to you??
What about this??
The answers better be CAKES!! not HATS!!! So, these were some things I crocheted out of stringy thready stuff. They’re supposed to be cakes, but most everyone I’ve shown it to thinks they’re hats! The final count: 1/9 correctly identified these objects as cakes. Isn’t that sad?? Is it really that bad…
I made more, but haven’t found the time to take pictures of them. When I get around to it, I’ll post more. In the meantime, are there any suggestions I can do to make them more cake-like? I need them to be unmistakable!! No more “I thought it was a hat” business!
Each one is about 1 inch in diameter, and 3/4 inch tall. I even stuffed it with polyfil, so they’re nice and squishy! I used the smallest crochet hook possible – no idea what size that is…and some weird stringy thready thing that I don’t know what it’s called. Sigh, such is my amateur knowledge, I apologize. Most of the decorations are made of felt and random craft trimmings I found lying around my mom’s craft stash. The fruits I meticulously made out of cutting microscopic pieces of felt, gluing them together, and then sewing on lines. Lots of work for the fruit, but I think it’s worth it.
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Posted July 8th, 2009 at 5:19pm (Comments: 4)
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