I have been working on perfecting my embroidery floss crochet skills this summer, so here are the little creatures I have come up with! All of these creatures were made without patterns, just figuring out what to do next as I went along. The first few are made with standard embroidery floss, and the rest are made with a pack of cheap floss marketed to kids for friendship bracelets. The later floss was easier to work with because it was not meant to be separated like standard floss.

I created this dragon for a friend after making one for myself in purple.

This one is the biggest, measuring a bit over 5 inches from nose to tail.

I created this zombie octopus for my partner (faemystique) for round 6 of the One Tiny Stuffie Swap.


Next I tried to use some of my pink floss, making this pig.


I worked on this truly tiny angler fish while on family vacation.

See the thimble for reference in this and the next two photos.

For my partner (Makaylalee) in round 7 of the One Tiny Stuffie Swap, I made this pastel peacock.

I tried writing down what I did for this peacock to make a pattern. To text the pattern, I made another peacock for myself.

Unfortunately I learned that I have no future in pattern writing since I had to ditch the pattern halfway down the neck.

The biggest thing I want to change/work on is eyes. I have just embroidered eyes this far, but I would like to start using beads or plastic eyes of some sort. I just don't know where to find such tiny safety eyes.

Comments and suggestions would be appreciated!

This little lady came to life under my fingers over the past couple of days.



She began as a pile of embroidery floss with plans of becoming a hippo, but as I finished her eyes, she told me that she was a dragon.



Who was I to argue?



(Comments are appreciated)

Ahh, summer! What a better time to craft and work on some of those projects that have been abandoned over the past  few years.

This little gal has been in my WIP bag for a while, and yesterday I finally finished her!



Then she went after the plants in the yard...



She's just over a foot tall, and her legs are strengthened with pencils (I didn't have any stiff wire), but her neck supports itself with the stitches and stuffing.

I guess this picture needs a little background... I was competing on a team in a radio competition back in March. I was leading the group for scavenger hunts, and there were three scavenger hunts during the 26 hours of the competition. One of the items for scavenger hunt #3 was a picture of Star Wars in the American Revolution. Since nobody on the 50-member team had one laying around, I had to produce it... in an hour. Here is my interpretation. The judges voted this painting the best of the 10 or so teams that created a picture for the occasion!


The picture is 8" x 8"

The inspiration for the "American Revolution" part:


Of course it's not perfect, it was completed in under an hour! It was fun to see everyone else's interpretations of that item as well

I made this pillow a while back and thought I would share since I'm really happy with how it turned out! The pattern is based off of this (http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/90360AD.html?noImages=) free Lion Brand pattern, but I adapted it to create a pillow rather than an afghan. For the front I did one repeat of the tree pattern, and for the back I repeated the divider motif from the pattern. I used close to the same border as well, with some minor adaptations.

Front:


Back: