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Chewbacca

15 Thursday Nov 2012

Posted by guhnome in Amigurumi, Crochet, Star Wars

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Here he is… the mighty Chewbacca!!!!

Chewbacca!
Side View

Back view

I used a brushing technique to get him “furry”. The body was stitched the same as you would for a normal amigurumi then brushed to oblivion with a wire brush I got in the pet section at the store.I finished him while on route to Star Wars Celebration VI for our Honeymoon.

Chewbacca: Cool as a Cucumber

Isn’t he cute? He has his Bowcaster and his Satchel. When sitting he’s about a foot and a half tall while sitting and when standing he is 2 feet tall. He’s become one of my all-time favorite creations so far!

Close up of Bowcaster
Smilin’
He needs some Burt’s Bees
C-3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han Solo: That’s ’cause droids don’t pull people’s arms out of their sockets when they lose.
Wookiees are known to do that.
Baroo?

Chewie’s mouth opens completely to reveal his beautiful teeth and my favorite part, the tongue. The tongue is attached to the back of the mouth and moves wherever I want it to go. It makes posing a little more fun and gives him some attitude!

What a healthy mouth!

WHARBLGARBRRLRRLRL!

Now he just needs a backpack with a mangled C3-PO to carry around πŸ™‚

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I’m in a BOOK!!!

08 Friday Apr 2011

Posted by guhnome in Books You Should Buy, Crochet, Misc, Star Wars

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Hello friends, I wanted to announce that I have been blurbed about in an official Star Wars Book!!

OOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!!!!

Β In Feb 2010, I was interviewed via email, by Bonnie Burton, to be featured on the Official Star Wars blog. I had been checking that blog every day for 9 months and was somewhat disappointed that I hadn’t seen anything on there yet. Then I got the email that perked up my spirits… She had chosen to put me in her newest book, The Star Wars Craft Book! It came in today…..and here I am!

AAAHHHHH!!!!!!

If any of you get a hold of the book, I’m on page 102 and am featured for my General Grievous. As a Star Wars fanatic, I can’t tell you how honored/excited/awesome it feels just to have that little blurb in there πŸ™‚
Aside from me, there’s some awesome crafts that I think I may do in the near future. My faves are the Cantina Band spoons and Ewok Hat. AHHH, I want to make them noowwwww!!!! I was like a nerd at Comic-Con. ( BTW, I will attend in the near future). Other features include blurbs about Sammi Resendes, Kayla Kromer, and Amanda Jean Camarillo. All of which have made some pretty awesome things.Β 

All in all, the book is a great book for adults AND kids, I highly suggest you purchase it.

P.S.
Speaking of Star Wars, I have a new shirt to show off:

DAWWWW.

A surprise gift from my friend Travis of Debugging-Life It has become one of my favorite shirts of all times. Thanks man!

Phew, What a day… What. A. Day. πŸ˜€

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Darth Maul Amigurumi progress

03 Thursday Mar 2011

Posted by guhnome in Amigurumi, Crochet, Star Wars

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GRRRRRRR!!!

Β I’ve been working here and there on Darth Maul’s face since winter break started, and decided to scrap what I had originally made to make a new one. Here’s the original flub:

it’s truly disgusting.

See how grotesque it is? It looks like the clown from the SAW movies with red and black detailing. Gross!

After inspecting my fail, I decided that I used the wrong hook (which is why the thing was as big as my own head) I was color changing wrong and I didn’t really think about what I was doing while making it. This time I’ve thought it through, am color changing correctly (I think?) and I’m using a much smaller hook, which produces much cleaner results πŸ™‚

Here’s what I’ve got so far:

muuuch better.

I’m able to get a little more detail and sharpness in the lines about his face, all due to the smaller hook. The rest of the detailing will come with embroidery, as there’s no way to get such lines in color-changes.

The contours of the head and face are also
very nice this go ’round

Contour. This is something the original dearly lacked. It was really just a big ball with color changes that I stuffed and cinched to get somewhat of a face and produced a weird lumpy head and nasty, nasty face. This one looks much better πŸ™‚ I’m hoping to finish the head by Friday. Woo!

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Boba Fett Amigurumi Pattern

06 Sunday Feb 2011

Posted by guhnome in Amigurumi, Crochet, Patterns, Star Wars

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Hello all! I am pleased to announce that I have officially published and made available one of my Star Wars Amigurumi Designs

The pattern is for my Boba Fett design and costs $9.00 to download. The entire Boba consists of 37 pieces and is 14 pages long. Just click the button to buy if you wish!

Should I buy the pattern?
hmmmm….I think YES!!! πŸ˜€

Next on the agenda for patterns will be an Accessory Pack for Boba Fett (Complete with Jetpack, gun holster, weaponry, etc) and I’m currently working on Darth Maul.

Chillin’ with Darth Maul πŸ™‚

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Stash Hats

27 Thursday Jan 2011

Posted by guhnome in Crochet, Hats, Winter

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#1

The past few weeks (well, months, really) I’ve been on a crocheting kick. It started mid-December with a long overdue project a student in my choir has been bugging me about for the last 2 years. She has told me over and over again that she would like a hat…. A pointy one. It’s her senior year and her last year in the group, so I figured I would give in to her pleas.

This is what I made her:Β 
A very pointy hat.

It took only a few hours to do because it’s a relatively simple idea. I chose the purple Caron Eco-Friendly yarn I had in my stash to go with her coat and I think that purple is a good color to describe her; happy, funky, and original. The hat is my own design and is about 2 feet in length. I think she looks adorable in it. Don’t you?! She’s such a tiny little thing; so it looks all the cuter on her πŸ™‚

Just chillin’ with my gnomies

#2

Then my friend Travis came back to Athens for his Christmas Break and told me “You still owe me a hat”. I completely didn’t know what he was talking about and he informed me that it was mentioned a long time ago that he wanted me to make him this hat:

Jayne Cobb, from the TV Series: Firefly

That hat is knitted of course; and alas, I cannot knit at the moment. So I compromised and made a hat kinda similar to a knit look with the help of a pattern on the internet that I cannot re-find for the life of me.

Cunning? Very.

It was all done the very evening he “reminded” me of it; with scrounged up yarn I had in my stash. I made it while watching the BBC Version of North and South,a GREAT miniseries, and gave it to him the next day with his Christmas present. I think someone had an awesome Christmas… wouldn’t you say? πŸ˜‰

Β #3
Β Last week I was inspired by a lone piece of ribbon and decided to whip up a hat for myself! Yay! The ribbon has some really wonderful blue and green hues and couldn’t get idea out of my head. So, I looked through my stash and found some yarns that would go beautifully with that very lovely ribbon.

πŸ™‚ Smile, Amber! C’mon,
we know you can do it!

Altogether it’s 4 different colors and 3 different types/weights of yarn; bamboo fibers (the blue, and ohhhh so soft), Caron ‘simply soft’ (the dark green, very soft as well), Red Heart Super Saver yarn (the 2 lighter greens, itchy and scratchy and stiff) and the Ribbon of Inspiration (which can be seen in the 3rd photo)

This is how I normally wear it

I was a little nervous at first working with yarns that I’ve never put together before but I think it worked! I started with the middlemost spiral then switched yarns and stitches when needed. It consists of alternating single crochets, double crochets and puff stitches in different rows to get most of the effects.

The back… a “hipster snail” as one of my friends
called it

In 6 hours I had a fabulous new hat!!! Now that the basic bit is done I kinda feel like I should add some more things to it. Hmmm… Maybe some more ribbon? Beads? Embroidery? I don’t know. It needs a little something to give it some”pizazz“…..Or maybe I’ll just wear it like this?

…like a Crown!

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