Rglglglglglrrrlglgglgll!!

What's this? Other WoW plush? Well, that's exciting. Intrigued by some comments I had gotten on my Voidwalker plush post a few months ago, I decided to google-search for more Warcraft plush, and -- tadah!


Definitely a different approach, since mine is much more abstract and, well, cute! Gobi's is interestingly "realistic," in a way, and I love how sculpted all his pieces are. The main reason my voidwalker is so simple is merely because I didn't know how to create such a perfect model of the demon's actual body.

If you check out Gobi's site, he's also done a murloc, complete with free pattern! I'm pretty sure I have to try this out.

A year of dinosaurs!

I really like making dinosaurs, because they're relatively easy and always a hit. I've been a fan of dinosaurs since I was a kid and briefly considered getting my degree in paleontology, even! Well, that didn't happen -- I graduated a week and a half ago from Western with a degree in English literature -- but I can still continue making them!


This is the first dinosaur I made, just about a year ago, for a friend's birthday (and it's her birthday again this Saturday! Happy birthday, Jess!). He's from felt and turned out really well, I think.


This fellow came to be last winter, as a present to myself. I used basically the same design as the previous dinosaur, but I used cotton instead of felt. Since the seams are exposed, he's fraying a bit, but he's very cuddly.


Now -this- guy I just made last week for another friend's birthday. While the other two are psuedo-stegosauruses, this one is something of a longneck dino, although my mom thinks he looks more like Nessie.

I've been commissioned to make a pink dinosaur sometime soon, and I might attempt a t-rex sort of guy for that one.

A gift!

Today's my birthday, and my beautiful and talented roommate gave me this amazing creation.



I wish I knew how to felt! Such a cute little amiguri. He's something of a pin cushion, and she felt the need to include a little strawberry, so I wouldn't have to impale the kitten.

So adorable! Thank you, Janelle!

Happy birthday, Mom!

My mom's birthday is tomorrow, and in addition to a few other things I got her, I crossed off one of her plush wishes and made her a turtle:



His head is a bit floppy, and she says he reminds her of a hat, but I think he turned out well. I really like his shell, which is made of fleece with felt patches.

Next on the list is a crab!

... Ahhhh I want this.

This adorable kitten is by Astulabee

. Her etsy shop isn't really open yet, but I'm going to have to keep an eye on it. This might be where my stimulus check goes. I adore her design and the details and -- well, everything! Unbelievable adorable.

Owl you ready for Mother's Day?

I made my mom a duo of owls for Mother's Day this year, as she's been making a list of various plushes she'd like. I think they turned out quite adorable. They're made mostly of fleece.

The finished product actually looks a bit different, as I added black buttons onto the eyes, for pupils. I think they look even cuter with the added buttons. She seemed to like them quite a lot, too, so I think I can count this as a grand success.

Curiouser and curiouser!

A close friend of mine is a big fan of Alice in Wonderland (as am I), and on a whim, while I waited for her to come over to watch some Disney movies with me, I decided to make a tiny Mad Hatter hat.



It's around three inches high, and quite adorable. Rather easy to make, too, and I'm excited to give it to her.

Cup of tea, anyone?

Late night creations

I literally didn't start this until 12:30am last night. I'm not even sure why I felt the need to craft that late, but I wasn't tired and I had this image of an adorable tiger pillow in my head.

I'm happy with how it came out, although it's made me question the present I made for my mom for Mother's Day. I based that design off of a tutorial I found, and I feel like it's not really my sense of plush design, but I don't know how to change it. I like it, definitely, but it doesn't feel like -me-. I'll probably just stick with it, because it is cute, and I'm sure she'll like it -- and no, Mom, I'm not going to say what it is, because I know you're reading this.

I need a name for my cat pillow. Anyone have any thoughts?

Braaaaains!

Braaaiiins!

I made this plush for a friend of mine who lives in Florida, and since she's gotten the package now, I can post the pictures! I had such a blast making this zombie, not only because I wanted to make something awesome for my friend, but because -- well, what a cool request! He has a lot of details, including exposed spine and ribs, and guts everywhere, and even wrappings around his feet and arms!



He's based off of a World of Warcraft monster, a ghoul, like I said before. I think the resemblence is pretty strong, but I added enough of my own style to make him into a cute little plush.



I put pony beads in his torso so he could sit up a bit, but he's mostly made of felt and fluff.

Easter!

I woke up this morning, Easter morning, with bunnies dancing in my head. I've had a few bundles of brown and pink fabrics for a quilty pillow I have in mind, but I decided to sacrifice a small portion of one of the fabrics for a little plush bunny.



He was deliciously simple to make, and oh-so cute. I especially like his little nose and mouth.

I'm still here!

Wow, finals hit me hard this quarter. At least I only have to go through that once more (unless I go to grad school.. Let's not think about that right now). I have been crafting, though, especially in the past few days.

As mentioned before, a friend asked me to help her design some crazy little dinosaurs. She actually came up to my apartment a few weeks ago and we set out figuring out the pattern and seeing what we could do. The first few, I'm sorry to say, turned out horribly, but by the end of the journey, she created a few really adorable little guys. My favorite is the "emo dinosaur", complete with black eyeliner and floppy hair.



This week, I made another Warcraft plushie, based off of a ghoul, as requested by a close friend. I'll put pictures of the fellow up here once she receives her package, since I don't want to spoil the surprise, but I was very pleased. He's quite possibly the cutest zombie ever. I'm planning on making another for myself.

Today, I started working on the twin zodiac pillow my friend requested for her birthday, to match her roommate's. It's looking pretty nice so far, since I have the experience of the first pillow under my belt and I know how to avoid some of the pitfalls that occurred before.

If I have time, I'm going to try to make that dino quilt on Monday. It doesn't seem very hard, as I was reading the directions earlier, although I don't have a "pressing cloth," as is requested. I figure I can just iron the seams like normal. I hope?

A pattern? Kind of.

Yesterday, a friend asked me for some suggestions on how to make a plushie based on this little guy:



I drew out some crappy images on Paint to give her an idea of what I imagined, but today I drew out some better, hand-drawn images. As a college student focusing on technical writing in my English degree, I feel a little ashamed of these instructions, but until I make my own crazed dinosaur plush, this is the best I can do. I am planning on making my own, because I think it's an adorable idea, and after I work the bugs out in my own process, I'm going to make up some new instructions, but until then.. this is what I got:



Since blogger cuts out the left side of pictures (boo!), you can see them here for the full size, too.

Once my friend makes her plush -- it's her first one, and I'm excited to see how it turns out! -- I'll see if she'll let me post those pictures up here. I'm going to make mine next week, after my finals are over.

Teachers, teachers everywhere!

My brother recently got his Master's in Education, and he started working as a third grade teacher last fall. I'm still not wholly used to the idea of my brother being a "grown-up" and having a real "career," but I figure I have the next fifty years to get used to the idea.

His birthday was early February, so for part of his present I made him a huge pencil pillow/plush. It was actually remarkable easy, just taking a few hours of an afternoon. The tip of the pencil is a little crooked, but since my mom is now insisting I make her one, I'll have another opportunity to figure out the mechanics of a cone.



My cat was very interested by all the photographing I was doing.

Well, he was supposed to be a cockroach.

One of the best -- at least in my opinion -- "Harry Potter" fanfics out there is an immense, beautiful creation called the Shoebox Project. Set in the schooldays of Harry's parents, it's simply divine. One of the most memorable segments depicts Christmas at Sirius Black's new flat -- a flat so crummy, so horrible, so rundown, that there are cockroaches named Hector that are as big as your head that clack their mandibles and say, in a gravelly and horrendous voice, "Wotcher, Sirius."

So, of course I had to make a Hector for a friend who's also a SBP fan.

Done around Christmas 2006, this was my second attempt at plush, and while it doesn't quite look like a cockroach, I think he's pretty cute.

Let's start this off right.

I first got into crafting about a year and a half ago, when I thought to myself, "What is my life missing? What should I do in order to be happier and feel that I'm living my life to the fullest? Oh! I know! A little felt Voidwalker"! Although I'd been playing World of Warcraft for almost two years at that point, I had only recently started to really enjoy it, when I started roleplaying. My character was a warlock, and her Voidwalker was a big part of my roleplay. So, I bought some felt, sat down for a few hours, and hand-sewed my first little voidwalker.

Since then, I've made them for people across the country (At least, there's one in Hawaii, California, and a few here in Washington). They're easy little critters, and they'll always hold a special place in my heart as the reason I got into crafting, and the first of my many felt animals.





This particular Voidwalker belongs to a close friend of mine, but I borrowed it back to take these pictures. The original Voidwalker, named Graz'nuz, is actually quite sad looking in comparison to the guys I made later, once I knew what I was doing.