Labubu

I have recently discovered Labubus. I think they are very cute, but they are so very expensive I would never buy one. I have been looking around for a different patterns to create my own. I found one that looked almost exactly like a real one. It was a knitting pattern which, I am not nearly as good at knitting as I am at crocheting, but I am proficient enough to do this pattern because it had very easy stitches. There was even a link to get the silicone face and hands and feet. To my surprise when I went to purchase them, they were $1.06! As a first time customer, they are much cheaper and no shipping! I bought the yarn at the dollar store for $1.25 I believe. It could've been $1.50 but no more than that. It didn't even take one skein of this 65 yard skein. It is chenille... super chunky. Anyway, even though I followed the pattern exactly the body was fatter than the video showed, and did not taper up toward the neck as it also showed. And the head was much much much smaller than it showed. I don't know how to "fix" knitting mistakes, so I just added some crochet stitches on the head to make it larger and it doesn't even show. After some finagling, I think she turned out very cute! So I have my Labubu...named Hope...and she cost me less than three dollars!

Getting ready for Halloween!

I started a bit early on some Halloween projects, because somehow I always end up not getting anything done in time! So here we have.. Creepy Jack...

He turned out much larger than I expected but I do really love that he is this large. It's about 10 inches high counting the crow. He was a pattern from ravelry called creepy pumpkins. Next we have Sparky... from the movie Frankenweenie I don't remember where I got the pattern but it is called Halloween dog... by Marina Borisova

Next we have something I saw on Pinterest I just made myself without a pattern. I have subsequently seen others I liked better, so I might have to make another. But here is floating goes by lamp post....

And last but not least… Because there will be more for more posts... This is Farley Frankenstein and Janice

Farley and Janice are also a pattern on Ravelry. they also have a brother/cousin called Zed the zombie... which I made last year. Janice was supposed to have a big button for an eye, but I chose this monster eye because I thought it would make her look cooler! And I think I was right! OK more to come soon...