Brain Slugs Pattern

It's been quiet a while so I thought I would give you something to apologize. This is not a guarentee I'm back to posting regularly but it's a start. With no further ado...let's make some brain slugs!


Baby Brain Slug

These little guys are fun and make up in about 20 minutes or less.
You will need:
A small ball of Worsted weight yarn (this is a great scraps eater) in the color of your choice, but you'll probably want green
A G hook 4.0/4.5 depending on your tension. Make sure your fluff doesn't show
1 25 mm white safety or googly eye or felt to make an eye
A small handfull of fiberfill or yarns scraps
a yarn needle

1. Make a macgic circle 6 sc
2. inc around (12)
3. (sc, inc) around (18)
4-10. sc around
11. sc flo (sl, 2hdc, sl, sc, 2dc, sc) around (24) (you should have 6 little waves of alternating sizes)
add eye if safety eye and stuff
11b. Blo (sc, dec) around (12)
12. Dec around (6)
bind off leaving a tail to close off your 6 remaining stitches

Antenna
1. Pick up on stitch on one side of the head in the 3rd row out, ch. 6
2. 2 sc in 2nd stitch from end, sl down the rest of the stitches. sc in the stitch you picked up to chain into. Bind off and hind all ends

Repeat on the other side.

Using hot glue you can attach you slug to a hair clip, headband or unwitting family members. Enjoy!

Please let me know if you find any problems with the pattern or have any questions.

Project Update 1-23

Hello and welcome back my lovely readers. I hope you had a wonderful week. I do apologize for the lack of other updates I promise I am working on some less egotistical posts. In the meantime, here's some stuff I worked on this week! I appreciate you wanting to take a look.

I finished up this little cutie that I started last week. I will be honest with you, I think this is the cutest thing I have ever made!  There was a ton of felting work to it with the eyes and headpiece (still not sure I got the eyes right) and I will definitely want to make the ears longer if I make another one.  I think it is very important in our art to not be afraid to change a pattern as we go and truly make it our own, a pattern should always be seen like a recipe; as a good start that you can perfect to your own liking.


On the topic of pokemon, after finishing up the Sylveon above, I started on a new one. The ancestor of all pokemon: Mew! This guy came together faster than I expected which is nice. The head was a pain in the ass to get on straight, I had undo and resew it four times which is a record for me. I think I should have angled it down a bit more but I'm generally happy. Not happy was the fact that I broke another felting needle while working on the eyes an now can't finsh them until our car is out of the shop and I can get to the store. But in the meantime, just eyes and tail to go and still little guy wil be done. Next I am back to the Eevees with the fire type, Flareon.

Then more ponies, always more ponies. Still working on Princess Luna, I finally finished her mane (much MUCH rejoicing) I'm not proud of it but I don't think it looks terrible. Not to get the rest of the head pieces sewn on, finish the shoes, and get on the wings. I really enjoy making these wings so it's like my reward for finishing the plushie. I will just be glad to finally have her finished. Then just working on another little pony, trying to up my stock a bit honestly I figure y'all are bored with seeing the same half finished ponies over and over so I will spare you, it's just a hairless white pony.

Speaking of trying to up my stock, I've been working on more Cthulhus. I was just randomly playing around with some of my Deborah Norville's Everyday striped yarn the other day and I absolutey love how they stripe up with this pattern. I have a lot of this yarn to use up so I am thrilled to have found a project it goes perfectly with. I look forward to being able to put out a whole rainbow of these little guys at my next show.

if you're curious, It's sitting on the game map for Sentinels of the Multiverse

Trying to find some more little quick projects like my octopi and cthulhus I came across this little kitten pattern. It is a bit more sewing required than I want for the kind of thing but It's so dang cute I might keep making them anyway. Not much to say, just a cute tiny kitten amigurumi.



Finally I finished up the hat I was working on last week. If you missed it, this is based off a character from a webcomic called Homestuck. The character is the troll Sollux Captor known for wearing red/blue glasses so it just made sense for me to do the braids one in red/black and one in blue/black.  haven't done braided tassel hats before and I'm pretty happy with how it came out, way less work than the I-cord I've made in the past. I plan to start posting the patterns for these guys in the future but I want to perfect the horn patterns a little more first but please let me know if you are interested and I will speed up that process.

And that's it for this week. As you can see I'm really trying to work on more little projects as well as finishing up some old larger ones. It's definitely a nice feeling completing so many things, though my house is quickly being taken over by them! Join me again next week, I'll try and have a Monday/Tuesday post up (Its mostly written) but don't want to make promises. Have a great weekend and goo luck with your projects!

Project Update 1-16

Hello and welcome back my lovely readers. I hope you have had a wonderful week. I know mine went too quickly, never enough time to get everything done. But I did manage to get some things finished and I hope you wan to see them.

I finished up my Celestia from last week, still unsure about some parts of the pattern but I will work on them more in the future. Really don't like how the cutie mark on this one came out. It's so detailed it's very hard to make it appropriately small. I will play around more and try and find better ways of doing the sun. I only got the one pony done this week because I got back to work on my giant Luna plushie after putting her aside for a few months. I am still working on the mane, I got back to work on it on Monday. I fear she will never be finished.

Then I finished up the Horsea I was working on last week. As unhappy as I was with the felting on Celestia, I am thrilled with how the felting on these eyes came out. The colors being so contrasting on each other really makes them pop. This guy was a lot of fun to make and I was very impressed with the pattern. I'm kind of sad to be finished with him.








Onto the next Pokemon plushie. I'm still trying to get all of the Eevee forms finished and I get to work on one of my favorites right now, Sylveon, the fairy type. I am a big fan of the bright pinks no surprise) and more girly colors so this is one I've wanted to make for a while. She has some difficult details that I'm not looking forward to, but the end result will definitely be worth it. 


As a geek/gamer girl, this little guy was really a requirement for me to make eventually, it's Yoshi from the Mario games! I've always loved the little green dinosaur so this guy was a lot of fun. He was definitely a challenge though, with 16 separate pieces, he's a lot more work that it looks like. This is always worrying when I'm making pieces to sell as a simple looking plushie that is complex is hard to justify the price on. But the work was worth it as I think he is just adorable.



The last project I have been working on this week definitely shows you how much of a geek I am. You might have heard of a little comic called Homestuck? Probably not but it's pretty popular with the younger geeks and I've recently been really enjoying it. Anyway several of the mane chaarcters are trolls (it's complicated) and, therefor, have horns so I have started making hats based off of the different trolls and their horns. I'm starting with Sollux and hope to make 1 for each of the 12 trolls (because I'm kind of crazy like that). I didn't find any patterns I like so I'm making them up as I go along, I might put them up on the blog eventually for you all to enjoy.

So that's about it for this week. As usually I have a few other little things in the works but they are mostly too incomplete to be worth showing (If I've shown you one amigurumi that's only the first 6 or so rows you know what they'll all look like) but you will get to see them next week. Have a great weekend and I will see you back next time!

Project Update 1-9

Hello and welcome back my lovely readers! I hope you have all had a wonderful rest of your week and aren't being hit too hard by the post Christmas blues. As I said last time I am finally back into my normal routine of Crocheting and feeling very happy to be back to it. I've been picking up a few new patterns I have been excited to try and trying to refill my inventory for the events for this year. My business partner and I are trying to hit a lot more shows so I am trying to find the balance of adding new things and making sure I have enough of my big sellers.

Speaking of big, after I made the big goblin for my friend I just had to make another, this time with an actual crown. I just couldn't resist using the adorable speckled pink I picked up a while ago in a grab bag for the pants. I don't generally like multicolored or variegated yarns so goblin pants is a good place to use them up. I think the crown pattern still needs work (I doubled up a gold yarn and did 2 rows of straight stitches then a ripple of sc, dc, tr, dc, sc) but it's definitely a good start.





I started work on another Princess Celestia plushie after the last one sold and I'm playing around with giving them shoes. Not sure how much I like it, maybe less rows in the yellow? Definitely another pattern I will have to play around with in the future. I am also thinking of giving them a bit longer of necks (currently 2 rows , thinking of going to 3 or 4) if you are so inclined, I would love to hear your thoughts in the comments.  If you missed me talking about it before, these guy have actual necks, longer legs, longer torsos, and longer horns and wings than the usual ponies, so far I have had a great response from them, definitely worth the work.

Then I'm still working on Pokemon but trying to branch out a bit and make something other than Eevees (though I still have more of them to make too.) I found 2 wonderful resources for pokemon patterns, Wolf Dreamer has a bunch of wonderful free patterns in her blog, and this list which shows all the pokemon and if there is a pattern or not. It does not seem to still be updating, but there is still an amazing amount of resources there.

Last week I had just come home from the store and had picked up a skein on yarn. My husband and I sat down to watch TV so I only had the yarn I had with me to play with  (because I am rather lazy) so I decided to pull up Wolf Dreamers page and just start on the first pokemon I found that needed that bright blue. I'm not a huge fan of this guy, Horsea but I think he's coming out pretty cute. I always enjoy giving myself a challenge and working on something new, you always learn something new.

And finally this is the only project I was working on at all last week while I was taking some time off, Spyro the Dragon for the video game series of the same name. I really enjoy the games so I had a lot of fun making this guy. I was really impressed with the pattern, I think it is the more accurate to the character pattern I have worked with so far. I hated having to work with wire for the wings but I think it was definitely worth it.

I have a couple other projects in the works but they are just started so nothing really interesting to show yet, come back for those next week. For now I'll be finishing these guys up over the weekend and on to more fun things. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I will see you back next week!

And We're Back

Hello and welcome back my lovely readers! It has been a while, hasn't it? I hope you all have a wonderful Holidays and New Years. I ended up ting some unplanned time off between finishing up Christmas presents and then just spending time with fiends, reorganizing some things in the house, and working on some less fun business stuff after the holidays. But are back now and I do hope to be updating for you more regularly this year. Today I just want to talk about some things I'm working on and get back in the swing of blogging.

I mentioned I was working on a bunch of christmas presents, sadly I don't have pictures of everything but I will show what I have.
My Grandmother-in-law absolutely loved the shawl I was working on for her. Seeing her face when she unwrapped it was absolutely the most magical moment of the holiday.

Most of the family got hats, a helmet style,super warm hat in his favorite football teams colors for my father in law, a monkey hat for my nephew and a bright green and black fox hat for my husbands uncle. His work requires him to wear neon colors so I had to make him a neon hat. I sadly did not manage to get a picture of all the boys in their hats yet. The I made a Green Lantern plushie for my husband (Who has hidden it so no pics of that either) I spent a lot of time looking at pictures of his favorite version of the character (Kyle) and making sure the uniform was just right, and it definitely payed of. Finally I made a Gir plushie (from Invader Zim) for my Sister-In-law, he was so cute I almost didn't let her have him.

the bottle is a necklace made by my business partner Kristel's Kreations

 Then there were a few presents for friends, a fox plushie for one friend who is a huge fox friend, a Sam Hain plushie for his wife (which came out way more adorable than a horror icon has the right to!) and a pair of goblin for my buisness partner. I've given her a couple of my regular sized goblins before so I had to add to her army with a tiny goblin (not tiny enough, next time will use fingering weight) and the goblin king made from bulky weight.

It was a lot of fun working on presents and getting to make some things that I wouldn't normally be able to either due to obscurity or them just not selling well (like shawls, I love making them but they take forever) but it's good to be back to my normal fare. Back to pokemon and ponies and video game characters.

Sorry this post was a bit short, I will be back later this week with a more normal update. I hope you all have a great week and good luck starting those new years resolutions!

Project Update 12/13

Hello and welcome back my lovely readers. I hope you had a fantastic week. I apologize for the late post, yesterday was my husband's birthday so I was a bit distracted and my Saturdays tend to be very busy, hence why this is going up so late. But I have been working on finishing up some projects for tomorrows event, a Browncoats (Firefly fans) meetup which should be a lot of fun as both my business partner and I are pretty big Firefly fans ourselves. Of course I decided to work on a new project last minute so I have been frantically crocheting. Here's what I have been working on.

Making some ponies as usual. I had to finish off my set of big ponies. I decided to do the shaped hair for Rarity this time, while it does take a bit longer I just love how the curled hair looks so it's worth it. I also forgot to mention last time, I am so happy I finally got a new order of eyes so my ponies have consistent size and color. With as many of them as I make it's just easier and makes them more id friendly to use safety eyes rather than felt them on. Though I still think the cutie marks look best felted.

So my big last minute project was with this event in mind. Knowing I'm more likely to run into pony fans I decided to make some of the other ponies for the weekend. I started with the fan favorite Derpy Hooves (Or Ditzy Doo if you prefer) which was easy enough as she follows the basic pattern. Then I decided to play around with the pattern a bit and make some princess ponies (If you have not seen the show I'm sure this all sounds crazy, sorry about that).  I elongated the legs, torso, wings and horns as well as giving them necks. I have to say I am pretty happy with how they came out. I might do the wings a bit wider in the future and maybe go a touch thinner on the bodies but that's about it. The manes and tails are a pain as they all have very shaped hair that is just not possible in this size (take a look back at my big Luna plushie to see what I mean) So I did my best and I think they look alright. Working on a Twilight as well but she will probably be done last minute.

I  showed you two pokemon plushies last time, an Espeon and a Glaceon, well they're both finished now. I looked at the Espeon (purple one) for 2 weeks trying to figure out what was wrong, I had the whole thing backwards so I had to take the legs and head off and re-sew them. I also finally finished the tail. I took a long time deciding how I wanted to do it. I ended up just doing two pieces chained down and HDC back with a hook one size larger, slipped a pipe-cleaner between them so it will be pose-able and whip stitched them together. 

I also finished up the Glaceon. Way too much colorwork! I ended up making a few changes from the base pattern and will change more in the future. While I love the body and legs and her tail pattern is definitely better than mine, I ended up doing the head pieces I made up for my own Glaceons. I also think in the future I will use the head you see above, it fits on the same size body and it just looks a bit nicer. I'll be sure to show you when I have that done.

Then I worked on some of my old quick projects, tiny top hats that I glue on little hair clips, and more goblins. I have more of each but cannot seem to find where they went, probably already packed. I tend to get a bit frantic right before an event. I love making these little guys, they are both simple projects that use up spare yarn and I am trying to pair down my stash to only the most used yarns. I had a habit in the past of just picking up yarn from thrift stores, which was fine while learning, but a bit useless now.













That's about it for now. I am off on another adventure tomorrow that I will tell you about next week. I hope you all have a great weekend and hope you have those Christmas presents all about done. If not I'm with you, on Monday I start working hard on presents. See you next time!

Project Update 12/5

Hello and welcome back my lovely readers...there was a post here on Monday, it's gone now. That is really annoying. There may be a double post next week if I can find it again. Anyway welcome back to another exciting episode of "what have I been making this week!" Except it's more like 3 weeks so expect lots of stuff. Let us see where we left off.



Let's start with ponies. I've been trying to finish up that set of big ponies I started for the last show and really have not gotten enough done on them. I finished one Pinkie Pie, I'm doing some things different with her. I found a darker pink that works better for her main and tail and I'm using double strands and a K hook instead of just doing a ton of long curls with  a single strand. I think it looks better. Then I'm working on a Rarity and Fluttershy to finish off the set. They still need heads. Still very slowly working on the giant Luna but not enough to share new pictures of her yet.



I've been working on a few more Pokemon plushies, I think I'm a bit obsessed. I even picked up a forth pattern for them. One of my favorite designers, Nerdy Knitter, has started making patterns of the eeveelutions. Of course I had to start with the Glaceon. Then I also finished up an Espeon I ended up doing the pieces under the ears in just brushed out yarn, I think it looks better than anything I could have done with making up a crocheted piece. My biggest problem with these is always finding the right color, they seem to vary so much. I went with the pinkish purple for the Espeon because I just thought it looked the best. I'm working on another eeveelution but that will get it's own post it's an interesting project.

I ave also been really trying to increase my inventory of octopi, they are my namesakes after all. I have been using them as a way to get through some yarn I picked up at goodwill over the years and is just not consistent enough for character plushie work. I had my husband pick me out a color at random and he picked out this orange almost skin toned color which I decided would be a bit weird for the whole plushie, but I had a lot of fun pairing it with other colors.

I also had to replace a giant dapper octi I sold an decided to make use of some multi-colored chunky yarn I had. I'm not generally a fan of that kind of multi-colored yarn where the strands are just twisted together, I prefer stripes, but I think he looks pretty cute. And finally I am finishing up another pokeball octopus. I'm glad I finally got some more yellow eyes for them, I just think it sets off the red/white/black nicely.



I am not really a fan of amigurumi dolls, as you know I am terrible at and hate colorwork but these patterns are just so cute! I have another pair or Batman (the other one is already packed up so he didn't make it into the picture). I've been watching old Justice League episodes so haing a lto of fun making these. Then I was playing around with the pattern, reworking colors and elongating some pieces and made a Finn from Adventure Time. I think it's a good start but definitely needs less neck next time.




And I have finally finished up the shawl for my husband's grandmother. I am sure it will look a lot better once I have washed and blocked it. I love making shawls but I can't seem to sell them so at least I can still make them as presents. Unfortunately this is the only Christmas present I have finished so far, so once I finish up my last event of the year next weekend I will be going a bit present crazy. I think I will have to show those off after Christmas because while I know my Grandmother in law doesn't read my blog, some of the others I am making presents for might.

Well that's about it for this time folks. I feel like I did not get much done for two weeks, I've been spending a lot of time with friends, and Thanksgiving got in the way. Things always get busy this time of year. I hope all your Christmas presents are going well and you are more prepared than I. You may have noticed the change in location for my pictures. I hated how messy they were in the background before, having my office in our bedroom makes it very hard to keep tidy. So I cleaned out some room on my yarn shelf. For those who are curious this is what that looks like. (art in the background is from the webcomics namesake, discord, and  Johnny Wander not all of which are safe for work so read responsibly) I hope you all have a wonderful weekend and I will see you next time!