Death, Now With Scythe

Here we go. Blurry pic, but I didn't feel like setting up the light box tonight. The scythe is made from Sculpy clay, with SIL's help. I made the blade out of a mix of black and white clay, but it turned out as a dark grey. Fortunately, SIL had silver paint, so that solved that. Yay!

Lots of Stuff

I set up the light box again, so here are pics of a bunch of things I've been meaning to get to.

This is a knitted scarf I did in December. I'm particularly pleased with it because it's one of the first times I've improvised something just because I wanted it. In this case, I needed a black scarf to go with an outfit for an Xmas party. I can wrap this around my neck a couple of times and still have enough length to knot it. It took me about 1 day to do:



Ravelry link for technical details.

And here are the better pics of the fez-wearing monkey amigurumi:





Ravelry link for technical details.

And improved grim reaper amigurumi pics. I still need to figure out the scythe, though:





Ravelry link for technical details.

And something new - a baby penguin! Addicted to amigurumi? Maybe. This one is for J.:





Ravelry link for technical details.

By the way, I thought the penguin eyes were blue, but be damned if they aren't green. I double-checked the yarn label and got M. to look at it too. Huh. I never have been all that good at telling green from blue.

And last, a crocheted dice bag I improvised for myself. I admit, there's a ball of yarn in there along with the dice just to show the shape:



Ravelry link for technical details.

Remind me not to let these stack up again...

Monkey with Fez & Grim Reaper

Pics aren't of the best quality since I'm at work without my spiffy light box, but here they are. The reaper still needs a scythe and the monkey's vest is a bit too big, but other than that I'm utterly delighted with these.

Grim Reaper, front view:


Grim Reaper, side view:


Monkey, front view:


Monkey, side view:


Monkey, back view:


I'll get technical details up on Ravelry soon, and maybe replace these with better pics.