The Very Hungry Caterpillar

I recently became an Aunty to the most beautiful boy that has ever graced this earth (ok, so I'm a bit biased).  My mum was telling me that she was reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar book to him and he was engaging with the book and the colours.  He's only 5 months old but this is terribly exciting and I wanted to make him a little security blankey that he could have for keeps, or until he gets bored with it. Either or.

I saw someone on Instagram had made one but I cannot for the life of me remember who it was so I can't credit them with the inspiration unfortunately.

The method I used is very simple, just a big granny square and an amigurumi head of my own design.  The head is sewn on to the blanket with black yarn.  I blocked the blanket before sewing the head on to make it softer and drapier.  See that? I just made up a word.  I have to say, I think it turned out pretty well.  It still needs a little fine tuning but I already have an order for another one so I know where to do things differently. Make sure I have yarn in all the same shades for example.  You can't see it in the pictures but the first few rounds of light green are different to the rest.

Have some pictures!

Details for fellow hookers: 4mm hook used for blanket, 3.5mm hook for amigurumi head and 100% acrylic DK yarn.  Blanket measures approx 56cm x 56cm after blocking.

I'd love some feedback dear readers :)

Tawashi

Dish scrubbies! Again it's Japanese like amigurumi. This one was soooo simple and a good way to learn how to increase stitches.  I made two yellow circles, 2 white circles and 2 blue circles for the eyes, sewed them onto one yellow circle then whip stitched the 2 yellow circles together.  My partner's mum has a fascination for smiley faces so this one went to her. It was subsequently nicked out of her car when she did the Variety Bash earlier this year.  I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry!  Of all the things that could get stolen, this was it!

Hooot HOOOOT!!

Little owls. I actually made the first few for my fabulous mum and sent them to her.  She has a bit of an owl fascination.

These critters were made from this pattern.  It was my first experience doing a stitch other than a single crochet into a single crochet. The base of these owls  requires that you single crochet into the back loop only (BLO).  It confused the hell out of me until I worked out that I just had to put the hook through one loop of the single crochet.  I think I even had to look it up.