I finished my lil’ hero! Say hello to Link! So far things are relatively peaceful in Hyrule, but he’ll be ready when the occasion arises when Zelda manages to get herself kidnapped again. 
Sword neatly tucked away.
Ready for battle!
Ganon’s got nothin’ on this lil’ bundle of yarn. 
Just thought I’d post a quick progress photo of something I’m working on. So far he looks like a generic elf-dude. 
In other news, I got Skyrim last week. And holy crap, it’s every bit the digital crackrock everyone’s hyped it up to be. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna get back to destroying my social life while fighting dragons.
I found out that I had Monday off, so I decided to take a last minute trip to Austin to visit some friends. And because I apparently have a crocheting problem, I decided to whip up a critter for adoption while I was at it too. 
Coffee cup reprise.
Forgive the crappy phone camera quality. I left this lil’ guy at a popular coffeeshop named after a composer. As usual, I’m awaiting responses!
Credit: pattern for coffee cup is from Amigurumi World by Ana Paula Rimoli.
No breaking news today (as if crocheting could bring anything groundbreaking to begin with, ha!), just thought I’d mention that I’ve added a new page: Critters across borders.
It’s a map marking where my adopted critters have gone! So far they’ve all stayed in North America (one ended up in Mexico!)…maybe someday I’ll be able to expand that map.
Last week I started on the unibrowed Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba (or is it “Yo! Gabba Gabba”? I don’t know) for Kim’s little niece. BEHOLD! THE FINISHED UNIBROW-NESS!!
Put yo’ hands up in the aiiiiir, and wave ‘em like you just don’t caaaaare!!
Little Brobee is ready to rock! I looked for some clips when I started out to do some research, just to see if there were any must-have characteristics that I should include. I ended up finding this:
And now I can’t get that stupid song out of my head. Damn you, Brobee, and that party in your tummy!!
I’ve been working on a Brobee from Yo Gabba Gabba for Kim’s 18 month old niece. I don’t watch the show, but I can say this much…
…that unibrow makes a HUGE difference. Hoping to have a finished product by the end of the week!
So I’m sure most of you have noticed that pretty much all of my lil’ critters have these lil’ beady eyes:
Yessss…..gaze into those beady lil’ eyes!!
Those eyes are made possible by little plastic safety eyes like these:
The black part is inserted into the weaving of the crochet work, and then a washer is snapped on so that it’ll fasten the eye in place. It makes them pretty much impossible to pry off once the washers have been snapped on. So logically, 2 eyes = 2 washers to go with them.
Perfectly paired!
Sooo…imagine the “oh crap” moment I had when I recently opened up my crochet box o’ love (ok, so I don’t REALLY call it that, but just humor me here) and found this:
So I’ve got 2 washers left. No problem, that just means that I’m running down to the last of my eye supply. Two washers mean I should have two – WHERE ARE THE EYES? This is the part that worries me. Most likely I’ve misplaced the corresponding eyes, and they’re rolling around somewhere in the apartment. The scenario I’d rather not think about is that somewhere there’s a critter with UNFASTENED eyes. I’ve checked all the critters that I’ve kept for myself, and all of their eyes are tightly attached, so if that’s the case, then it’d have to be on one of my critters at large. 
So uh…if anyone out there is in possession of one of my critters, DON’T PULL THE EYES OUT. I can’t imagine anyone doing this deliberately, but I’m throwing it out there anyway. Don’t yank ‘em out…at least not until I’ve located the lost eyes. Then you can yank to your heart’s content (minds out of the gutters, everyone).
