{"id":3181,"date":"2011-01-23T14:44:22","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T14:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=69"},"modified":"2011-01-23T14:44:22","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T14:44:22","slug":"finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/?p=3181","title":{"rendered":"Finished!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It took me much longer than anticipated to finish this little amigurumi which I started when Little Miss Bossy-Boots was ill. Life just suddenly filled up with everything but time to sew or crochet.<\/p>\n

However, here’s the finished project: Xolpoth, the Alien.<\/p>\n

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I started making amigurumis last year after receiving The Encyclopedia of Crochet Techniques<\/em> by Jan Eaton and seeing a picture of “Binky Rabbit” in the gallery section. It was love at first sight and I decided to try making something like that. I didn’t have a pattern and that was quite evident when I looked at the finished project. It was a very strange looking “thing” that could only be identified as a rabbit because of its ears and tail and it ended up in the bin.<\/p>\n

Analysing the “thing” made me realise where I had gone wrong and I sat down straightaway and tried again. Lavinia the rabbit was the result.<\/p>\n

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Not the prettiest rabbit, I admit, but lovely enough to generate some interest and an order for two rabbits for two little boys!<\/p>\n

I gave Lavinia to Little Miss Bossy-Boots who was over the moon for about 5 minutes and then put her in the toy box where she has lived ever since.<\/p>\n

I made Xolpoth the Alien for a little baby boy who was born on the 3rd of January. When Little Miss Bossy-Boots saw Xolpoth, she claimed him as her own. I’m in two minds now. Should I let her have him or should I put him away for baby Se\u00e1n? We won’t see Se\u00e1n before the beginning of February when we go to Switzerland for a week so I could make something else for him. A robot maybe? I’ll mull over it for a little while before deciding.<\/p>\n

I am also hoping to make a patchwork cushion cover for little Se\u00e1n. I had hoped to find enough different materials in my stash but I don’t have that many blue ones. Somehow my stash has become “pinkified” since having a little girl and mostly sewing for her and her little friends. Oh, what a chore it is to have to buy some nice material…..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It took me much longer than anticipated to finish this little amigurumi which I started when Little Miss Bossy-Boots was ill. Life just suddenly filled up with everything but time to sew or crochet. However, here’s the finished project: Xolpoth, the Alien. I started making amigurumis last year after receiving The Encyclopedia of Crochet Techniques… Continue Reading Finished!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[78,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sharksdinner.ch\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}