How did last weeks WIP fare?
1. I finished the Ouchless d4, and it's now up as a free pattern in the linked blog post.
2. I completed the manager of the Oceans, who was revealed to be a Portuguese Man-of-War amigurumi!
This week, I've got four more in-progress (two of which I had actually started before last weeks post, shhh. ;) )
Snowman!
I had this idea for a crazy little snowman (it would be a free pattern) but I can't get it to work right - I haven't had the time to figure out how to make sure it can stand. :)
Part of the fun of this snowman is that I want to be able to dress him up, so the one on the right is in fact a snowman dressed up as a ninja. Obviously. :)
Froggy
One of my treasured childhood stuffed toys is a frog:
I want to do an ami loosely inspired by this doll. I've only done the head (and it's not stuffed yet):
Shortstop for the Oceans
Now that I've mostly finished the manager for the Oceans (my all-undersea-creature amigurumi baseball team) it's time to move on to the third player: the short stop! Stacey from Fresh Stitches correctly guessed in a comment from last week what the manager was, based on my WIP image. Well, here's the yarn for the Shortstop:
I plan to start him this week. Anyone have any guesses based on the color? :)
Mittens
Lastly, I'm participating in a Ravelry competition group called Nerd Wars. We are all sorted in to teams based on fandoms we like (I'm on Team Rangers, for my love of Babylon 5). I've already completed two competitions for this - I designed the Andromeda Cowl for the "Nebula" inspired competition, and for the Valentine's challenge I designed and made an amigurumi that I have yet to share on the blog (but hope to in the next day or two, once I've finished a second draft of it). The next competition I'm tackling is the "Giving Geeks: Cold Hands, Warm Hearts" challenge - the purpose of this challenge is to donate a pair of gloves or mittens to charity. Since the purpose is charitable, we're actually not required to make them ourselves, but I figured it was a good opportunity to tackle a challenge. I've never made mittens before, and I'm making up a pattern as I go, but I started this morning, and I'm pretty happy with how they are going so far:
The next round will separate the thumb from the hands. :) Anyway, once they are done, I just have to figure out what charity to send them to. Anyone have any suggestions?
Want to see what other awesome stuff people are in the process of making this week? Check out Tami's Ami Blog and visit all of the other blogs participating in this week's WIP Wednesday!
