It's Alive!

Finally finished Sona Sackboy!

She isn't as detailed as I would have liked, but I've never tried to do anything free-handed before, so I'm pretty happy with her. Plus, I can always add more later!

Sona is the property of Riot Games.

Torchic

One of my friends recently had her birthday, so I made her a Torchic! 

He turned out pretty well, and he only took a couple of days! I got the pattern from this lovely blog: http://wolfdreamer-oth.blogspot.com/2009/06/torchic-plushie.html. It's full of great patterns that are clearly written, and I recommend it to anyone.

Torchic is the property of Nintendo. I don't own any of the rights or anything.

Sona

I decided to turn Sona from the game League of Legends--



--into a sackboy. The going has not been easy, and I was hoping to put up pictures of the finished product today, but she isn't done. She's mostly done -- I have the body, hair, and dark blue under-dress finished -- but those flaps over the dress that turn into sleeves are driving me nuts. Not to mention the instrument. I decided that she won't even have an instrument.

Hopefully a post with pictures of my work will follow soon.

Anarchy, My Dear

My favorite band, Say Anything, just released a new cd, and I'm writing this while listening to the first song for the first time. I love the feeling of new music, especially from my favorite bands. It's exciting, but also a little scary, because you want it to be just as good as the old stuff, but you also want it to be different and somehow better.

So far, so good. We'll see how it turns out on the whole.

I felt kind of bad about buying this new cd though, because I just found out that I've been accepted into the study abroad program I've been pining after, which means I should probably be saving up every little scrap of money I can. Fourteen dollars for a new cd felt downright extravagant.

I'll just crochet like a fiend I guess. But what to make? I'd like to sell something on Etsy, but I can't make my own patterns yet, and usually the free patterns don't allow you to sell the product. And because I'm a nice person, I'll listen. I mean, if I straight up told people I didn't want them selling things they made off my pattern, then I would be pretty upset if I found out they did it anyway.

I'm just not sure what to make. Or what to charge. I'm pretty notorious for not placing enough value on my time and effort. I'll think of something.

Ezio Sackboy

This is Ezio Sackboy.

Ezio Sackboy took me a pretty long time to make, because most of his pieces are sewn on to the body separately, rather than being worked together. For those of you who don't crochet, that means I spend a whole lot of time sewing things, which is pretty darn frustrating.

So, I guess it makes sense that I am extremely proud of this piece. I'm proud of all the things I've made so far, but this one especially yearns to be showed off. If you would like to make your own crochet, the pattern is available here: http://pigcorner.com/EzioSackboyPattern.html. This girl is awesome and is nice enough to make her patterns free to use.

Also, I'm pretty sure I'm legally obligated to let you know I don't own the character Ezio or the character Sackboy. They belong to Assassin's Creed and LittleBigPlanet, respectively.

Yet Another Beginning

I'm notorious for starting blogs, blogging passionately for a little bit, leaving the blog so long I forget my log-in information, then giving up completely. And every single time I start one, I start it the same way I'm starting here. "I'm actually going to keep up with this one."

We'll see.

If I do manage to keep up with this one, expect lots of things about crochet, maybe a few creative writing things, and general observations about life. But mostly the crochet.

Enjoy.