Movember

Wikipedia says

Movember is an annual, month-long event involving the growing of moustaches/facial hair during the month of November

Otherwise known as No Shave November.  I've known about this for a little while, but it wasn't until I started making this blog that I found out that there are actually rules! Here's the pdf for any of you who wants to know what the rules are for Movember.

Well this all started when my boyfriend Kiiiirrrsss, wanted to do this for fun. I am also a full believer that by "fun" he means to see how long I could handle the whole idea of him not shaving for an entire month. The guy has super Germanic blood in him! I could also believe he has Viking ancestry also.( I call him my Viking). He can grow facial hair like nobody's business. He is in no way a clean shaven guy, he's just kept his facial hair all neat and trim. And I like it like that. But he decided it'd be sooo hilarious to grow it all out just to see how I'll handle it.

Aaaannyyway, what ended up  happening was I got bored one night and decided to have a bit of fun myself.

This little crafty project was pretty fun to do. By now I've gotten preeetttyy good at making beanies (seeing as how I couldn't stop making hats because that's all I knew how to do... work in the round..) so this project was pretty non-hectic. No patterns needed. No real thinking needed. Just crochet away. The mustache was a little tricky to figure out, but a simple combination of sc, dc, hdc, and tr I was able to figure it out in no time.

Funnily enough, it was also getting chilly so after I was done putting it all together, I got to wear it for the rest of the night...

Well sort of..

So this is my own take on Movember :)

Tentacle Moooonssstteeerrr

Alright, I think I'm ready to give away my first project ever.
Since this one is my first, I am still learning and trying to figure out how to do all of this so please spare some patience for meeee.

This is my cthulhu hat, not the first one I made since I gave that one to my sister (or more like she pestered me into giving it to her.... sisters...). But this is one of many, the reason why there are many is because each hat was made slightly differently as I learned how to crochet. This hat was made using a J hook (if that matters to any of you) and mostly done with double crochets. The last part just means that each layer is far apart (compared to other types of stitches like single crochet). The tentacles are also pretty long, there are 11 tentacles with the two outer ones coming up to about 15 inches.

And of course, as soon as I get ready to make this post my camera goes missing. So please excuse the poor quality of photos as I had to use my webcam.

 Here you can see the tentacle lengths

And don't forget about the ears that I made!

This is a terrible photo, but using the Lego Stormtrooper as a reference for size, you can see each "layer"

The "layers" are divided out with the stitch that goes straight across like a line

So, if you would like this hat, just press the button below!
Also, since this is the first one I'm making available, feel free to post back with comments, advice, tips, etc.
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Bomberman

I wasn't able to sleep tonight, so this is the product of my inability to sleep.

Story Time!
A friend of mine, Veena,  recently got a new job at Game Over. In gist, it's a video game store that mostly sells retro games. It is a new love of mine. Anyway, while on this trip visit to Veena, she suggested I made a Bomberman Hat. Now, I don't think this is the type of hat she had in mine, but this is what I have so far.

This was made with a N hook, worked in round and blah blah. Made a little ball out of red yarn, then back to white yarn, I made a "stem" to connect the red bulb to the hat.

In retrospect I think the N hook came out to be way too large, so either I'll find someone with a large head to wear this, or I'll eventually take it apart and redo it with possibly a J hook. At least I will if I continue to make a hat double crocheting (dc) the whole thing. I've made a hat/mask similar to this one using a N hook but instead of dc i just single crocheted (sc) the entire thing and it fit a bit better. Hats are probably a little more tricky for me to do only because I feel like I have a smaller head than average and I only have me to test it on most of the time. Trial and error is the way to go for me. So if any one has suggestions as to how I can fix this, it'd be great. I'm open to any suggestions to fix, or even suggestions for additions to the hat.

Cthulhu Sculpture

The sculpture you see before you was made by the one and only Jon and is also one of my favorite pieces. (clicking on his name will send you to his website fyi).

I've had this piece sitting around and this also was one of the reasons why I went ahead with my cthulhu  mask. Just so I could do that haha. I think it's awesome and I intend to do a lot more with it too.

Cthulhuuuuuu!

This is the first cthulhu mask I made. It had turned out a lot better than I had expected and it's also one of my bigger "projects" I had worked on.

Earlier this summer, I took a trip to Smoky Mountain with my family. A road trip. A 15 hour road trip. So what better to do than to crochet right? This being my first real project, it actually took me about 10 hours to complete. Loooootttsss of redoing rows... I kind of made it up as I went in my head. I think I have an unusual small sized head, so this mask is kind of loose. Fits well on other people though. So it's all good =)