the angry birds recruited!

updated 3 september 2011: karla fitch has discontinued the sale of these patterns. i am one of the lucky few who managed to nab them, but i can't and won't resell them. so please stop contacting me with offers to buy them. hope everyone understands... :)
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i can't seem to get enough of the angry birds. not the game, but the amigurumi! :D
here, they've recruited 3 more members to help them in their fight against the green pigs...

angry birds: yay, more recruits into our gang!

green pig: yikes!

i find this white bird particularly hilarious (please excuse the dark photos!). coz when we squeeze it...

...it'll lay an egg! lol!

ok, from this post, now everyone can roughly guess how much drama series i've been watching, right?! :P

the angry birds gang!

updated 3 september 2011: karla fitch has discontinued the sale of these patterns. i am one of the lucky few who managed to nab them, but i can't and won't resell them. so please stop contacting me with offers to buy them. hope everyone understands... :)
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firstly, i do not own an iphone. so i don’t really play this game. heck, i didn’t know what are angry birds just a month ago! i only got to know about this famous game when my friend posted her crocheted angry birds in her facebook album. and i thought they’re real cute! so i decided to make them as well.

angry birds: (whisper, whisper) strategy (whisper)
green pig: *gulp*

unlike my previous amigurumis, i made these without any idea of what i’d do with them after they’re done. i was chasing the tvb drama series of no regrets (which by the way, is a super duper great drama! i’m so in LOVE with it!!!) and i like to keep my hands busy while watching my dramas so that i can be delusional and feel as if i’m not wasting my time by watching dramas. hehe…

angry birds patterns are by karla fitch.

hoo goes there!

updated:
here's how i packaged my owls, the tutorial of which i from here.

recycled envelope...

i made more of these delightful sleeping owls over the weekend. i love it that they're so easy to make, and i can just whip a couple up in mere hours!

3 'lil owls sleeping in a row...

my artist had a birthday last month, and other than a small ice-cream cake, i thought i'd make her a 'lil pink owl too. hope she's not superstitious about owls, coz the chinese community has so many superstitions and owls are not one of those animals with "good omen" attached to them.

another one of my colleague had a birthday last week. this colleague has been helping me a lot in translating documents from english to the local language here, so as a token of appreciation, i thought i'd make him an owl too! i experimented with the number of stitches a bit, hence this 'lil blue guy is slightly smaller than the rest.

ok, this last fella is not a birthday gift, but more like a farewell gift. it's also for a colleague, who has tendered her resignation. actually i've been wanting to make something for this colleague, as i sort of caused her to loose some money. you see, i was on my way to another city for training, and at the last minute, i realized that i didn't have enough cash on me for the taxi fare. so this colleague lent me some and when i got back, i kept wanting to pay her back, but i didn't have the money in smaller denominations. and as she's always on duty when i met her, she didn't have any change on her to give back to me. after a few weeks, i went to just pass her the cash while she was on duty. so she stuffed it into her uniform's inner pocket but when she sent her uniform to the laundry, she forgot to remove the money! and that's the last we saw of it. i know it's not my fault, but i felt somewhat responsible for setting her back a few hundred $... (her resignation has nothing to do with this incident. at least i hope not!)

angel amigurumi

this angel was requested by a friend, who is fighting breast cancer and at the time when she was rather down in the dumps, she wished that she has an angel to watch over her. so i’ve decided to make one for her, but i was out of yarn supply and the yarns sold here in this country are all for making clothes, hence they’re very very expensive! so i sought my best friend’s help to buy the yarn in malaysia, and i was only able to get them when i went home for the chinese new year recently.

anyway, i’m glad to say that my friend is not longer depressed… but was still very happy when i showed her the photos of the finished angel. the angel will be making her way over to my friend very soon!

i purposely didn’t sew in a mouth for her, coz i suck at embroidery! didn’t wanna spoil its cuteness… and anyway, my friend didn’t mind it at all, saying that angels shouldn’t be talking anyway, they just need to listen! hehehe…

the back view. i feel the hair part takes the most of my time…

still unable to weave in the hair neatly… need more practice!

hmm… her skirt was supposed to be long enough to support her to stand by herself. i guess i made it too short… but it’s ok, coz aren’t angels supposed to fly? :P

hope this little angel will be a good listener for my friend, as well as be her guardian angel to watch over her! :)

animal clips!

these are just something i whipped up over the weekend, for want of something to do, using normal plastic clothes pegs.

makes good decoration for gift packages and such, where we can clip on a message or note onto the gift, don't you think?

hoo... hoo... who?

first of all, just to let everyone know that i've settled down nicely in the new country and getting a hang of things here... my new life and new job here. 


oh, and the stuff i sent over via shipment has finally arrived, which includes my big box of crochet yarn! my fingers were just itching to hook something, so i decided to make these simple yet delightful owls!

it being december, i decided to use a more festive colour combination...

sleeping owl... if i had a christmas tree, i'd hang it up as a bauble! :)

rupert the owl pattern is purchased from reeneegurumi.

more wrist bag!

this seems to be a popular item, huh? i've received lots of requests for this wrist bag, both in pattern form as well as the finished product. well, here's another one, in "earthly blue & brown" as requested.

a simple "lunch tote" for a friend, who will be starting her new job real soon!

anyway, i'm sure most of you have noticed that my crafting output has dwindled down to a pathetic trickle... well, just to update everyone what i've been up to recently...

1st, i moved to a new apartment in july, so was busy packing, unpacking and organising my new nest. 

and then roughly one month later, i received a job offer in another country! so i'm now busy packing up again, settling all my other private and not-so-private affairs... :D

but not to worry! i'll be shipping all my crafting stuff over, and crafting will resume when i get settled down in the new place... stay tuned! :)

wrist rest kitty...

my junior designer is leaving us soon, so i made this little wrist rest for her to bring to her new work place... something for her to remember me by everyday! hehehe...

actually, this is my 2nd attempt making something for her. when she was interning with us previously, i made a little something for her at the end of her internship but it turned out rather hideous! so in the end, i bought something else for her instead. i'm glad it turned out ok this time round!

the eyes are supposed to look like this: n_n smiling happily. but i suck at embroidery, so i just went for the easy inverted "v". see, even the rounded "w" for its snout looks crooked and not symmetric! :P

this length should be ok...

what the tag said...

good and positive vibes in every stitch, here's wishing JR all the best in her future endeavors! :)

cat toy: chubby the fish

recently, i found out from a good friend that her cat, milo, has been diagnosed of feline leukemia... it's so sad, especially so for my friend, who's battling with cancer herself!

even though i've not met milo, i feel as if i've known him for a long time, as we get nearly daily updates of milo's antics/condition/progress/decline etc from my friend on facebook. sometimes it's good, sometimes bad...

so i decided to make a little toy for poor milo, in the form of chubby the fish. this free pattern was sent to me by another friend, who made one for her niece. i like the colour combination she used, so i used the same colours for milo's chubby.

chubby the fish for milo...

but this is to be a cat toy, and as we all know, cats are very fussy creatures. i was worried that milo might not like his new toy, so thought of stuffing some catnips into chubby. but then another idea came to me: how about making it like those doggie toys where we stuff food into them to torture let the dogs figure out how to get the food out?

so i made a slight modification to the original pattern, whereby i added in a hallow kinda tube that extends from the tail into chubby's stomach. that way, the catnips can be replaced often with fresh ones. milo's human can even stuff kibble or some cat biscuits into it, depending on milo's preference! :)

some minor modification in the tail...

but alas, sad news... before i can finish this, i got news that milo has passed on. well, i guess i should be glad that milo's misery has finally ended :'(

anyway, this chubby will be inherited by milo's successor, a certain grey stripey kitten called "abu dhabi labu labi"! :D

custom request: a very christmassy snowman!

my friend was looking through my craft album when she chanced upon a snowman that i made for another friend. immediately she requested for a similar snowman, but with an extra christmassy scarf, all green, red and gold!

err... a snowman in the middle of april?? ah well, whatever it takes to make her happy! :)

hope this is christmassy enough!

initially i had this idea of making pom-poms instead of balls for the ends, but they're so small and gold thread is so hard to work with! so in the end, had to crochet them into balls... came out quite well, though! ;)

the pattern for this snowman is free from lion brand yarn.