Crochet Caricatures

This is something I made recently as a custom order. I always find caricatures harder to do if they are of people I know well - is that strange? This one is of my sister and my little niece!

Custom Orders - The Happy Couple

Here's another custom order I finished recently. It was made as a wedding anniversary gift.

Crafty Peeps Swap

This is the second time I've been part of a swap hosted by StrumpetsCrumpets.

This time my partner was a candy loving, red headed girl from Poland. This is the gift I sent her. She makes the most amazing and beautiful notebooks which she sells in her Etsy Shop - Marysza.

She also has a great blog which you can read by clicking here.

The Bearded Man is finished!

If you read my blog regularly you will know that I was struggling to make a beard last week. Well I did it! and I'm qutie pleased with the result. This was a custom order. The customer sent me photos of her friends and asked me to make amigurumi caricatures of them. If you would like a caricature made of someone you love - or even of you then please contact me at my Etsy Shop.

The Bearded Man (work in progress)

This is for a custom order - a caricature of someone. I've been sent some photos and now I'm trying to make the man! I've only ever made bearded amigurumis twice before and those were with the gotee kind of beard that's only on the chin - but this guy has a round the mouth and under the nose type gotee. (hope you like my techincal explaninations!) This is now the fourth beard I've made, the first was too long and he looked like Santa Claus, the second was too wide and the third just looked wrong. I think this one's a winner although perhaps it just needs a little more trimming...

Custom orders in progress

I've got 4 custom orders to do in the next couple of weeks. They are all caricatures that have been ordered by people to give as presents. I was going to blog yesterday and show you this photo of work in progress - but I forgot! So now you get yesterday and today's work in progress pictures.

Nearly finished this one! only 3 more. I'm always a little bit scared when I'm making caricatures - what if the person is really offended by my impression of them! So far so good - so I hope it continues that way. And if you would like to order a caricature amigurumi doll then please contact me by clicking here or leave a comment with your email address and I'll contact you :)

Were you right?

you might remember I posted a blog a couple of weeks ago called Can you guess what it is yet?. Well now is your chance to see if you got it right! This is the gift I sent to my StrumpetsCrumpets Valentine swap partner Annie from www.wattlebird.com. When I am making dolls for specific people rather than just for my shop I like to make the doll a caricature of that person. This is easier to do when you really know someone but you can actually find out enough about someone just from reading their blog to make a pretty good go of it. Annie said that she was wearing almost the same oufit as this little doll the day she arrived! You can read more about what she thinks of this doll by clicking here and reading her blog.

Amigurumi Caricatures

These 2 were a custom order - the customer sent me some photos of her sister and brother-in-law and wrote a little bit about each of them and asked me to make amigurumi caricatures of them. They were great fun to make - and she said they were a big hit!

Happy Birthday Dad!

Today is my Dad's birthday :) My Mum and Dad love walking, they go somewhere pretty much every week and they like walking holidays too. My Mum asked me to make an amigurumi caricature of my Dad with his walking gear as a present for his birthday - and here he is! I'm pretty happy with how he turned out - although I have to say my Dad's hair isn't quite as crazy as this! If you would like a custom caricature amigurumi of yourself or of someone you know feel free to contact me here or through my etsy shop.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD xxx I love you lots :)