The Shtick I Do

Alrighty. Here are 2 things I had been working on that are now COMPLETED! Yay! I always enjoy working on a project and most of the time I'm happy when it's finished. Other times I am ecstatic! lol This is the raccoon amigurumi I mentioned a few weeks back. I absolutely loved the way he turned out. And the lady I made him for was very happy as well. You can't really see his tail in this pic but I promise it's there and it's striped. I used a basic animal amigurumi pattern and adjusted the tail, ears and face until I was happy. The only thing I might have changed would be his eyes. Maybe they could have been bigger but everyone in my family said a raccoon should have beady eyes. ^_^ His snout turned out to be just a cone shape with a black tip. The little whiskers you see here are just some pieces of scrap yarn secured on the inside, pulled through to the outside and I used a blunt needle to pull the "ply" apart. Then I trimmed them down with a pa...

So this is something I've been working on for quite some time now. A Facebook friend asked for a raccoon when she saw my post of Chip . Since I couldn't find an all-ready-for-me-to-use pattern, I've had to wing it. I think it's going well so far but we'll see when I get to working on the head. I was talking to my husband one evening while we were fixing dinner, basically complaining because I couldn't come up with anything for his head! *sigh* So just like a man he calmly says, "I think the head should be in a cone shape." <insert facepalm here> I really did feel silly at that point but I trudged on and started sketching a head on a piece of Store List paper. (You know, those note pads with magnets that go on the fridge?)  So, I'm saving the head for last but I believe I can do it!  At least I'm hoping I can . . .