hysterical manga rabbit amigurumi

This sweet yet with hysterically screaming contrast colours amigurumi was originally inspired by the pink mohair that I used as hair. That is, the pink mohair I tried to make look like hair. Not really that rabbits have hair... but... in the end it ended looking more like a hat i would say. This amigurumi I prepared for the workshop and exhibition in Sønderborg, Denmark earlier this year, in order to test the pattern and have some models to show.

The crochet heart on the front of the t-shirt is made following these instructions from Skip-to-my-lou

The rest of the yarn for this "rumi" came from some recent donations from my mom; the very fresh green and light pink on the head. The pink from the skirt came from some knitted towels I had. afraid it must have been an aunt or perhaps even my granny that once knitted that for me. But I don't like pink in my home, so I decided to sacrifice it. Finished off those feet/paws with some supersoft white mohair.

colour and yarn selection for the hysterical manga rabbit "rumi"

Delfts Blue Amigurumi (madam Blå)

Another "rumi" based on the pattern for the basic amigurumi pattern link. I prepared for this amigurumi a long time ago when I bought the blue colour-run/tie-dye blue cotton yarn. I also had another swatch of thin sewing yarn that also had a blue colour-run, bought even longer ago, perhaps almost 20 years ago. Anyways always thought they were the perfect match but what to make? So suddenly as I was preparing for the exhibition and workshop I thought, hey I will make a rabbit. and I was somewhat inspired because I had seen this Dutch porcelain clog with Delfts Blue pattern on it.

Delfts Blue Amigurumi Rabbit, the Delfts Blue flower pattern turned into a flower shawl, still wondering if I should embroider them onto the shirt...

the initial yarn selection and colour-card I made for the rabbit. again; I don't recommend to use those eyes, it didn't work well in the end.

As I was doing the works and also in parallel preparing for the exhibition; meaning cleaning up my image archive to create some posters, I suddenly came across the picture with which this had all started. it's a rather old baby-picture, an image a colleague send, and I remember I thought back then ah, I will crochet a Delfts Blue Singaporean Merlion ( this colleague lives is a Dutch living in Singapore) but as things went I never got to make the Merlion, and had also completely forgotten about the idea, until I encountered the image again.

Mik, 2007

Amigurumi hækleworkshop i Sønderborg

I forbindelse med husflidsudstillingen på Sønderborg slot den 19-20 Oktober vil Hanne Caspersen aka The Knitbitch holde en amigurumi hækleworkshop, søndag 20 Oktober 12-16 i Drabantsalen.  Amigurumi er Japansk for lille udstoppet dyr eller anthropomorphic væsen. Ordet er en kombination af ami som betyder hækle eller strikke og huigurumi so betyder udstoppet. I denne workshop skal vi hækle en kanin.







I workshoppen vil du have brug for hæklegarn, fx bomulds eller acryl garn (ikke uld, det er for blødt), du kan bruge nogle rester eller små nøgler, der er op til dig selv om du vil arbejde med en eller flere farver. Tag også nogle rester brodergarn, hæklepinde (4 og 1,5mm) knapper(til øjne) eller rigtige bamseøjne, fyldemateriale, stoppenåle, sikkerhedslåse eller noget andet til at markere omgange og knappenåle med. Når man hækler amigurumi hækler man meget stramt, så du dine hæklenåle skal nok være et halvt eller helt nummer mindre end du er vant til.

Du skal kende basis teknikkerne for at kunne være med i hækleworkshoppen. Der arbejdes mest med kædemasker og fastmasker, der er også et par enkle stangmasker. Vi hækler i cirkler/spiraler, og tager ind og ud. I workshoppen vil der være et hæklemønster, en tegning på rigtig Japansk vis. Der vil også være nogle donerede garn-rester som du evt kan bruge noget af. Workshoppen er gratis (der betales entre til Sønderborg slot for husflids udstillingen), men det værdsættes at du enten giver et financielt bidrag til at dække omkostninger eller en donation i form af garn-rester eller gamle hækle-, eller strikke-bøger eller blade. Til information, et print koster ca 2,5-3 kr for en A4. der vil også være noget fylde-materiale.

Tid og sted: Søndag 20 Oktober 12-16, Drabantsalen, Sønderborg Slot
Antallet af deltagere er begrænset til 12 personer, pga begrænset plads og for at kunne give passende opmærksomhed og hjælp. Ved ualmindelig stor interesse kan workshoppen evt også holdes lørdag eftermiddag.
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http://www.husflid.dk/arrangementer-og-udstillinger/details/408-udstilling-pa-sonderborg-slot
http://www.flickr.com/people/knitbitch/
Twitter: @theknitbitch

update fra 11 Oct omkring deltagere; indtil videre har jeg hørt fra
søndag:
Kirsten Bonde Sørensen
hendes veninde
hendes datter
Kis Christensen
og en veninde
Charlotte Braes
annette Brammann

evt loerdag
Jens Buch kone Helle og datter Tilde 
saa der er stadig plads til flere!

New amigurumi; Jo the rockbitch

For Jo's leaving party. jo is a biker girl, so I thought let's make a rockbitch, easy to make it look like Jo with all that hair. She's from Scotland, which you hear when she talks :-) so we gave her a celtic cross on the front of her t-shirt. The amigurumi is wearing the recognizable Jo signature elements; golden sneakers and leather jacket.

John helped brainstorming about the styling elements, Ozgur helped with the photography. It's Ozgurs LEGO bike.

rockbitch amigurumi

rockbitch amigurumi

rockbitch amigurumi

Jo and her rockbitch avatar

New Amigurumi: Sandy's miniature

Because Sandy was leaving us, I decided to crochet a doll for her. When Sandy's son was born I crocheted the first robot-amigurumi (thx to Elisabeth and Craft magazine) so it seemed just right to make one for Sandy too.

She's wearing bright yellow pants, pink t-shirt with skull-print a hoodie with miniature space-invaders and of course tiger-striped adidas shoes. Just like Sandy does. Sabine made this picture, I really like the posture.

The hoodie was the most difficult part. As I wanted it to be really color-ful I made only one stripe each for each color, which means I had to change color each time.
also this time, I tried to use gradient-yarn for the eyes, in the end I think that worked quite well.

the skull on the t-shirt is a simple felt-cut one, after gluing it on with textile-glue (yes, that's a dirty finger that got stuck :-() I stiched it down. It just makes it look more finished and it sticks better.

Pants have a thin jeans-wear stitch along the side and fly. and real Adidas 3-stripes on the shoes. That was really tiny work. To make the zebra stripes you have to crochet-stitch one stitch in white, then one in black. In the end it works quite ok, but would have been even better, if I would also have made the stripes on the bottom-part of the shoes. But gosh, that would have been extremely complicated.

Here she's in the gift-pack just before we went to the party.