Showing posts with label commission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commission. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Berry girl amigurumi

Welcome the newest addition to my amigurumi family. Berry was born just yesterday as a gift for a baby, born in the distant lands of America. She will be traveling there soon to meet her baby friend.

Berry's name comes from Strawberry, which was the original idea. Look at her hat, it looks just like a top of the strawberry! And like a true lady, Berry already likes shopping and high teas.


She is brave too, climbing trees and hanging on branches. She loves nature and flowers, and she insists that all her clothing items have flowers on them. Even the bib.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Special gifts for special people

Phil's sister is having a baby, and he's been looking for that perfect gift for her and the baby. That's when I was giving a presentation about my interests, and I included some photos of the amigurumi dolls that I make. Next you know, Phil asks me for a commission. And I gladly accept.

This particular doll had a lot of special requirements. It's for a baby, so no sharp or chokable parts. Yarn needed to be fluffy, but washable. On top of that, the gender of the baby was not known, so I had to come up with "gender neutral" colors and design.

I called him Huggles (cause he is VERY huggable). For the yarn I picked Lincraft Fairy Floss, which is only available in limited colors now. Sad, cause I love it! And I've altered a Japanese pattern I had to make it bigger and more interesting. The result is this adorable and quirky Huggles. He is pretty big, probably the size of the baby! Phil was very happy :)

You can see, he is as tall as the chair back.


And here Huggles is taking a nap...zzZ


Chilling on the Ikea chair, my favourite reading chair.


Inspired, I also finished another Amigurumi I was making for Anne, I called him "office buddy", but Anne came up with an even better name, "null object." Hahaha!



Look for null object on Facebook!