Snowman

At Christmas, I learned that one of my nephews loooooves snowmen. My sister has a 3' snowman that she puts by the door every year, and he kept going over to it and either staring at it or talking to it (or grabbing its nose). =)

Jackson's birthday is right after Christmas, so I decided to make him a little snowman of his own. This was a pretty easy thing to whip up, although I skipped out on making the top hat and went for a beanie instead.

He loved it! My sister-in-law sent me a picture of him sleeping with it a few weeks later. Yay! =)

Tractor

I made this tractor for my 3 year old nephew who is OBSESSED with tractors and cars. He has one of those motorized John Deere tractors that he rides around on in the back yard, and that was the inspiration for this little crochet guy.

I had some trouble making the body square up, so I ended up running strings from one side to the other (on the inside) to sort of give it an infrastructure. It was slightly awkward to stuff, but all in all it came out pretty cute. =)

Also, I wasn't sure whether or not to put eyeballs/headlights on it, but I sent out a text message survey, and most people said yes. So 20 minutes before I was to leave for the party I frantically cranked out some eyeballs and a little smile.

Ready for the bag. =)

Birthday doll

I decided I would make a doll for my niece's birthday. I wanted it to be a fairly proportionate doll, so I drew a picture to block out the body.

Sadly, I left that picture at work, and made the doll at home, so what I ended up with was the longest torso'd shortest legged doll ever. I was going to make it a pair of shorts and a shirt, but as it turns out, I had to do a dress to cover up the tragic misproportion of the body.

It's my first "person" creation though, and I'm really proud of the hair, I worked for at least an hour trying to get the hairline fixed so that it looked somewhat realistic.

The dress just sort of created itself as I went, and it turned into a ballerina looking thing, so I went with it. I had some trouble figuring out how to create underwear (one try looked like a dolly thong), but in the end I got it together and ended up with a pretty nice looking ballerina doll. I added the pink ribbon to make it look a little fancier. =)

My niece loved it! Yay!