Despicable Amigurumi

Here are the wonderful Gru and his minions made from wool in an Amigurumish way. There are some beautifully made ones out there from people who are much more precise at the art than I am.

It was the three minions dressed as a pretend family that fascinated my son so I had to try my hand at those. 

Ours live in a cardboard box dolls house with furniture made from odds and ends...Oh and I had to make the three little kittens from the dreadful story Gru had to read to the children at bedtime.

Goth, Emo, Zombie?

Different style to my usual sock creations and, although I enjoyed making them, they felt a  little too like normal shaped toys from shops and less like something of mine. Couldn't decide if they were goth, emo or zombie-like...hence the title question. What would you reckon?

Cute AND scary. Nice combination  = )

Skateboard Dude

Back to the socks...naturally. This  is one of my new batch of socklets with accessories. He is a cool dude and has a pull-back skateboard that can get up to quite a reasonable speed.

He bears a passing resemblance to the Maki sushi chef from the Valentine's day post... but he'd hate it if you pointed that out.

Super Mario Amigurumi

My son is a big Super Mario fan so these were made for him, cos it's easier and cheaper than finding and buying the toys. Bee Mario was a particular favourite.

Being Autistic, he is often into TV programmes, films and computer games which were either made many years ago or which never had a toy franchise in the first place. Either that or the things that take his interest would never be noticed or wanted by anyone else, so making them is sometimes the only option.

Amigurumi

As a child I was always freaked out by knitted toys...still am if truth be told. Its something about their huge lifeless, vacant forms and the knowledge that they are probably stuffed with years-worth of old ladies' tights that does it!

However amigurumi are something different. They are very cute and so small there's no room to stuff even the leg of a pair of tights in them. Phew!

They are little crocheted creatures that, with skill, can be formed into many different shapes, small enough to be grasped round the middle by a small fist and squeezed.

 Here are a couple of mine...more another day.

Little Weirdos

Most of us love a tiny bit of  weird  in our lives...and these are really tiny.

Made from clay for fund raising craft fairs, they stand about 1.5cms high on average...all colours and expressions catered for. People spent ages finding the Little Weirdo that matched their personality!!

Can you find yours?

Do you know, the longer you look at the word weird or check that you've spelt it right, the weirder the word looks?

Fluorescent attack!

Here's what they get up to when left unattended...

and then...

and finally...

(For more info, see Fluorescent Chefs 2 days ago)