I'm kind of leaning towards, "Short & Scout." It would be a play on my girls' names. "Short" being for Harper and "Scout" for Darcy Scout. I admit, I'm a little apprehensive to change simply because I don't want to lose any readers or downplay the info here on the EBS blog. What do you think? Consider a blog name change / "re-branding", or leave it alone?
So I mentioned before that I started crocheting, and I've actually been doing a lot more crochet than embroidery lately. Today I'm ready to share a couple of crochet projects with you!
Darcy and I have been in love with Lalaloopsy dolls for a couple of years now, starting back with they were "Bitty Buttons" dolls. My friend Dana shares a love of Loopsies with me too, so it's fun to go ga-ga for Lala together. (Hi, Dana!)
Anyway, Allison Hoffman of Crafty is Cool came up with an amazing pattern for Lalaloopsy inspired amigurumi dolls. I wasn't confident enough in my amigurumi skills to try making the doll, but I did think I had the skills required to make the dolly dress. Darcy only had one Lalaloopsy doll, Pillow Featherbed. She's the one who wears pajamas, so I decided to make the dress to see if it would fit a real Lalaloopsy doll.
It does! Darcy and I were both very happy with how it turned out. Allison’s pattern suggests using a baby weight yarn, but I didn’t have any on hand, so I used a worsted weight yarn (Vanna's Choice) & an E hook. Since the worsted weight yarn made the dress a little bit bigger & bulkier than the original, I dropped 1 row on the sleeves and the bottom layer of the dress.
I definitely want to make more of these dresses, but try using a finer weight yarn next time. The worsted weight does seem to make the dress stiffer than I'd like. Darcy and Harper received a few new Loopsies for Christmas, so I have justification to make more dresses. ;-)
Over the weekend, I decided I wanted to try making an amigurumi doll, and used Allison's doll pattern as somewhat of a guide. I referred to her pattern for the head and the undies.
I wanted the scale of my doll to be considerably smaller than Allison's, so I made the arms and legs pretty tiny. I'm attempting to make an amigurumi Lalaloopsy Littles. They're the new little siblings of the bigger Lalaloopsy dolls.
Aren't they cute?! This week I'm working on getting the hair and face just right, then I'll start working on her outfit. I am very nervous about the hair, since I've never done it before. I worked on it quite a bit yesterday, and I was not happy with how things were looking. So today I'm probably going to remove the mess I made yesterday, and start over with the hair.
Maybe I'll come up with something I like by the end of the week, so I can share a new progress picture with you.
Happy Stitching!
Amy
