Lariath- Live a Little.

I haven't blogged in ages AGAIN. Life is busy. A friend of mine is obsessed with Minecraft, I made her a  Crochet Creeper  a while back so this year to keep with the theme (and because I know nothing else about Minecraft) I made a Creeper card. I got the idea for the inside of the card somewhere on the Internet but now I can't find it..... The front of the card is a cut out Creeper face with black paper behind, the picture doesn't show the effect very well but the basic idea is there. The back of the card looked boring just being plain green so I added some 'pixels' just for a bit of interest. The inside of the card took me an extremely long time to figure out as I didn't have a template. I haven't made a pop up card like this since I was in primary school! The challenge of figuring it out was fun for me, I like trying to figure things out especially if it's for someone else. However, now I have many odd looking Creepers lying around. ...

So the crochet cubes turned into..... A Minecraft Creeper!  I finished it at last!  Definitely a challenging make; the hardest Amigurumi I've made, but I like a challenge.... Although I may not be making another of these any time soon.  I am quite happy at the result and my mate who loves Minecraft will hopefully appreciate the effort. I based the pattern on the free pattern here . I made a few of my own changes whilst following the 'smaller body pattern'. Great explanations and easy to follow it's just the sewing that's the hard part. I also had an issue getting the face right, it dind't turn out perfect but it will do. I spent ages trying to find a yarn which was a suitable Creeper colour and wasn't ridiculously expensive. In the end I used a yarn that was various colours of green and blue having to cut the blue out and joining the green part back on to carry on crocheting. This made making the Creeper a bit more difficult but determinatio...