I know, I know

I know I already posted today, but I just had to show you this:

My very first, real amigurumi! It's a mushroom (or toadstool? I really don't know the difference...), and I think it turned out really great for a first time. I really don't count the little french guy I showed you a little while ago, since that one was done in scrap yarn and stuffed with another yarn... I added a key ring to the top of the mushroom, but I'm not sure if I'm going to keep it for myself yet. Possibly I'll give it to my uncle, he has Down's syndrome and is basically like a little kid. I gave him the little french guy (but without the hat, so I guess i gave him a cat), and he absolutely loved it. He has been quite sick lately, so anything I can do to cheer him up is fine. He lives in Borås though, and I don't really know when I'm going to visit there again, but I guess sometime this fall. That just means I'll have more time to make more of them.

Now, I'm going to watch Watchmen with my hubby! Happy Saturday night to all of you!

/ Jenny

Transformer

I just had to show you: Do you remember the first crochet ball I made a couple of days ago? My husband found it, and immediately decided it would lok good as a beret on the crochet cat I made... So now it's not a cat any more, it's a little french guy! The fringed whiskers I gave the cat actually looks more like a moustache anyway, so this little beret just completed the transformation!

Now we (and by we I mean husband) are going to turn on the barbecue and cook up some meat!

/ Jenny

Stuffed animals

I haven't really knitted anything more since yesterday, but I got inspired by my crochet success. So I proceeded with the little ball I made yesterday, which was actually a head, and made this!

The photo is a little dark, but it's an amigurumi cat, and I actually think it's pretty neat. I didn't have any cotton or similar to stuff it with, so right now it's stuffed with more yarn (a cheap grey wool yarn I had in my stach), but I think it looks ok anyway. It wasn't at all hard to do, so I think I will have to buy more acrylic yarn to make the rest of the figures in the book.

When I took the photo of the cat, I remembered that I had actually made a stuffed toy before. When I just started knitting, I found a kit for knitting Shaun the Sheep, from Wallace and Gromit, and it turned out ok. It is a little bit floppy, but for being practically my first knitting object, I'm quite proud.

Now, I'll continue with the shawl. I only have little over a week left of my vacation, so I have to finish it before I start working again, otherwise I think I will never finish it.

/ Jenny