Chell and friends

Although we don't get to see her very often, Chell is a big part of Portal 2.  The main part, if you will.  Without her and her stylish boots we would never be able to fall thousands of feet into the earth and sproing around on bouncy gel.  Wow, that makes the game sound kind of lame, huh?

Anyway, with all of the turret / companion cube love that goes around, Chell usually goes unappreciated.  But Nerdigurumi decided that was about to change.

I actually think my favorite part about this pattern is the portal gun.  It's amazing!

 I gotta be honest though--her eyes creep me out.  I would just use safety eyes (which I use for everything, I know) but I think the effect would be a little better.

And the best part?  The pattern is free!  That's right, you can make your very own set.  Finally something good came out of PSN being down!

Stay tuned!

Classier than the Mudflap girl, at least

So, ignoring the fact that Olly Moss totally stole my idea (well, sort of, but I'll save that for another post) this silhouette show is pretty awesome.

 

Whoa!  Look at all those silhouettes!  From a distance, I'm sure it looks like a fairly standard Victorian silhouette wall, right?  Well, let's take a closer look.

 Oh hello, it's GOB and Franklin!  "It's not easy being white..."  I'm pretty sure I saw a blue Tobias out there too (literally blue, not sad) but there aren't too many closeup pictures, so I can't be sure.

 Another sort of closeup; pretty sure that's Mulder and Sculley over there, right above the alien.  Makes sense, right?  Although I feel like if Mulder ever saw that alien (as in, Ridley Scott's alien) he would probably run away screaming "I don't want to believe!  I don't want to believe!"

 John McClane, complete with broken glass.

 And Boba.  Pretty standard by now though, huh?

Anyway, there are way more pictures out there of the entire show, if you are interested.  The show looks like it was packed to the brim with people.  I will post pictures of my silhouette wall later.  It's pretty awesome, if I do say so myself.

Stay tuned!

I've been published!

I don't know if you guys have had a chance to check out the Star Wars Craft Book written by Bonnie Burton, who probably has the best job on the whole planet, by the way.

It's a really awesome book, by the way. I am going to make an army of those AT-AT planter boxes and recreate the battle of Hoth in my front yard. Minus the snow, though, since it hardly ever snows here. And the little Bantha plushie, which is seriously too adorable. Anyway, check out the best part though:



Oh yeah, that's totally me! And my little dudes! When Bonnie contacted me a while ago and asked for permission to use my pictures I nearly died. I am so excited and honored to be a part of the OFFICIAL Star Wars craft book. Too cool. Go check it out today!

Stay tuned!

Link Pattern Now Available!

Alrighty everyone,

After a super long hiatus, I am back, and with a new pattern to boot! I've been in a little bit of a creative funk lately. I didn't want to make the same amigurumi's that I had been making; they took anywhere from 8-12 hours to make, and while I really like how detailed they are I wanted to make something simpler, yet still detailed. If that makes any sense.

So I made this Link! I felt that Link was one of the more difficult original amigurumis to make, mainly because of the insanely detailed sculpey work. So I wanted to make something that was crochet only--no sculpey, no sewing, no felt, just yarn--but still retain some of the really cool details.

Here you can see his sword and shield, which attach to his belt. I'm actually the most proud of his hat and hair, which I think turned out really well, although getting his legs to look right (if you remember, most of my characters don't have legs) was a challenge as well.

Anyway, the pattern is now available at my etsy shop, so pop over and have a look! Zelda is the next project I'm working on, so that Link will have a friend and after that...well, I have some vague plans after that, but I'm willing to hear suggestions! Let me know what you think about this new version of amigurumi in the comments.

Stay tuned!

And I am redeemed!

Alright everybody! I know I dishonored myself by posting that silly General Grievous yesterday, but I can make it up! Behold:
Check out this amazing Yoda! He is so detailed. His face is pretty amazing. And the little wispy hair on the back is just the icing on the cake.


And he's poseable! I love his little lightsaber.


And then Admiral Ackbar! He looks so cute and huggable, I just want to squish him! And the best part:

Well duh, Admiral.

These are all from the same amazing crochet artist featured in the post yesterday, Ravelry user guh-nome. I can't wait to see what other stuff she makes. I can tell you this--if she ever puts out patterns for any of these, I will be the first in line. Just amazing! Stay tuned!

This goes against my better judgment.

Alright, anyone who has been reading my blog for any amount of time probably knows that I hate the new Star Wars trilogy. (On a mostly unrelated side note, which will probably turn into a long and rambling story, I am a team leader at work. That being the case, I decided to do the mature, appropriate thing and force everybody to call me "Galactic Empress" and I then forced them to choose nicknames for themselves. It was going so well--I had a Jedi Knight, an Imperial Walker (I call her "atat" for short) and a Wookie Overlord. I even had people who were not on my team who wanted in, and so I even acquired an honorary Ewok and Rebel Fighter on my team. I swear, they picked the names themselves! Seriously! Then, my last team member decided that he wanted to be Jar Jar Binks. What. The. Hell. Who in the hell chooses to be Jar Jar? In the end I had to drop the whole thing. It was so embarrassing.) Anyway, I hate almost every single thing about the new trilogy. That being said, I hope you guys will appreciate me posting the following creation made by Ravelry user guh-nome:


Yeah, it's General Grievous. They might as well have called him General Bad Guy. Maybe General Evil. Okay, that's enough! This little guy is seriously awesome though. He's all poseable and looks really great. I am envious of the mad crochet skills going on here.

Anyway, I wanted to post this little guy because I think it is (another) awesome crochet project. I like crochet; it's pretty easy to make shapes and forms and I think I did pretty well creating a nice body shape for my little dudes. But some people can do way more amazing stuff! And the detail on this is incredible. Stay tuned!

Bioshock!

Check out this awesome Big Daddy! For being made entirely out of crochet, it is incredibly detailed. Full disclosure here: I've never played Bioshock. I tried to play it, but I couldn't get over the first person view (I hate first person games) and how scary it was. Call me girly, but I like games that are bright and pretty. Like Assassin's Creed. It was bright and I loved climbing all over the buildings and jumping on people and stabbing them in the neck. That's also why I couldn't get behind Fallout 3 either, it was too gray. Alright, enough rambling, back to the craft!

I love the little drill. It's amazing that you can get that kind of effect with different crochet techniques!


The best part about this is the creator put up the pattern for free! So go and create a crochet army! Stay tuned!

And Happy Valentine's Day!

Lesson 101: Star Wars

These minimalist posters are really cool. I would love to hang them all over the house! At the same time, they look like really old covers to really old boring textbooks. You know, if they made textbooks about Tatooine. Can't you just imagine some poor kid on the border planets being forced to take "Tatooine Early History--From 157-1597: The Rise of the Sand People." Alright, that sounds pretty cool. But you know, to some backwater kid who spends all of his days writing graffiti on moisture vaporators I'm sure it's pretty boring. "Moooooom, why do I have to study the history of the stupid Sand People? I want to go pick up some power converters!" You know how it is.


::Read in boring, monotone lecture voice:: The forest moon of Endor is home to many small creatures known as Ewoks. The topography of the moon, as well as the constant threat of predators, leads the natural inhabitants to create their cities high in the treetops. First we will discuss the Ewok Rebellion on 1295....
Let us take a look at the different kinds of ice crystals the sixth planet of the Hoth system has to offer....

Bespin is a giant gas planet. (pause while the audience snickers at a fart joke). One of the main mining materials comes from....

Okay, I think all I've proven here is that anything about Star Wars is interesting, even if it is talking about the Ewok Rebellions of 1295 (I just made that up, but it sounds awesome).

You can check out the rest of this guy's work over on his Flickr page. It sounds like he might be offering prints eventually, so if anyone is interested be sure to keep an eye out! Stay tuned!

Thundercats!

Sorry about the lack of posting lately, as some of you probably know Mass Effect 2 just came out and that has been eating all of my free time. Anyway, in between my brief respites from the game, I found this cute little kitty!

Oh I'm sorry, I mean manly kitty! Oh wait, that's kind of creepy. Anyway, I like the red fuzz that loveandsandwich used for the hair. And the little sword is attached by velcro!

This little guy is available on etsy for $200 (!). I don't know if there are any die hard Thundercats fans out there (I'm sure there are) but that seems a little steep. Anyway,I've made it through my first play through in Mass Effect 2, so a semi-regular schedule should be returning. Maybe. Stay tuned!