Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crochet. Show all posts

Thursday, November 10, 2011

The Majestic Narwhal

I made this little guy for my boyfriend.  I was planning on knitting him a hat but couldn't find any patterns I liked, so on a whim I looked up patterns for narwhals (my boyfriend's favourite animal and indeed the world's top real-life magical creature).  Credit where it is due; I got the pattern from Ramen Needles - here, have a link http://ramenneedles.blogspot.com/2011/08/narwhal-pattern.html . I made him using aran wool for the body and double knit wool for the horn,  the eyes are buttons that I scavenged off a top I haven't worn in a while (might regret that one).
This was my first time crocheting so it took me a while to get the hang of it, but there are so many helpful tutorials online (seriously what were we all like before YouTube? Going to the library like gobshites...).  I'm pretty pleased with him, amigurumi crochet was something on my hit list to try for a while so I'm delighted I got the hang of it.  I though that I'd find it difficult because I'm so used to knitting but they're really totally different.  The biggest thing to get used to was holding the wool in my left hand rather than my right...unless I didn't do it properly...