Dr. Strangelove

Cthulhu Army, Or: 

How I learned to stop worrying about yarn weight and love the Different Sized Plushies

 

Well not that I don't worry about yarn weight at all, it is important to make sure you yarn weight and hooks scale together, but I make a lot of plushies (as you may have noticed) and I make them in bulk because I sell at conventions and craft shows. As much fun as they are to make, you can only spend so much time making a pea green cthulhu plushie before it gets boring.
 

I love you but if I have to make one more of you I'm going to start stabbing things

So I tried making them in the same worsted weight, same f hook... 

I know you're chaos gods, but this is ridiculous

and forgot that different companies have very different definitions of "worsted weight" (thats a rant for another day. ) I was all ready to give up when I thought, why should I care? They are all adorable and with the different sizes they have their own personalities. 

I took off them there and I haven't stopped. Cthulhus in fingering to chunky weight yarn...

Goblins in a small worsted and a bulky weight

You can tell we were still working on proper eye placement

Octopus in a variety of weights 

Even a couple of ponies in worsted and bulky weight

Rainbow Dash, and Chaos Reins

I no longer dread finding a new pattern, knowing I will go mad making the same pattern in the same size until my brain oozes out my ears. Of course I make sure all the parts on a plushie are the same weight and I would always make sure to follow gauge for clothing. But getting to be creative and have fun with the patterns is a big reason why I mostly make plushies (and hats apparently). 

So I'm off to make another cthulhu he's dark green, and I have no idea why he's bigger than that little pea green one at the start of the post (the weight really feels the same) but I don't care. I will love him just the same.