From Darlica's Drawers

[Opsa]

They are so sweet! I especially love the hedgehogs.

[Griffin NoName]

Little treasures. Amazing.

[Darlica]

Thank you! 

They are little yarn doodles. I get an idea, perhaps do a quick sketch, and start crocheting. I don't have any patterns, I add or close loops as I go, if I'm not happy with the result I just re do it.
It's good for my brain to think in 3D. 

[Opsa]

Aren't you clever! I couldn't do these even if I had a pattern.

[Darlica]

Of cause you could!

Basic crocheting isn't very difficult. I only use the two most basic types of loops (I don't know the terms in English right now) and a little nifty trick called a "magic circle" (crochet + magic circle on youtube should do the trick).

Of to work!!!

Edit: Crocheting not knitting 

[Aggie]

Very cool... and cute!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

They look awesome, the hedgehog and the dinosaur are my favs.

[Darlica]

Thank you!


I've given away two little critters, one to a colleague and one to a friend, the rest usualy sits on a shelf in the living room.

When I came back after my summer holiday leave one of my colleagues "B" saw me work on the little owl and seemed to like it a lot. She also told me how she and her SO rescued a little baby hedgehog from some crows and nursed it back to health for a couple of weeks before releasing it again.
Since there are no medals for saving hedgehogs I made her one like the one in the second picture and gave her the next time we met at work.  
As far as I know it now "lives" in a little cosy nest on a shelf by her computer at home.

The other critter (see the picture below) is was a figure from Melbourn Metro Trains "Dumb ways to die" commercial/information film  that went viral last winter
My friend who also work in the underground albeit not in Sweden has a rather black sense of humour (sort of comes with the territory working in the underground) and liked that film very much and I thought it would be fun to give him one of the characters to hang from his bag.
I think it was appreciated.

[Darlica]

Aren't you clever! I couldn't do these even if I had a pattern.

Of cause you could!

Basic crocheting isn't very difficult. I only use the two most basic types of loops (I don't know the terms in English right now) and a little nifty trick called a "magic circle" (crochet + magic circle on youtube should do the trick).

Of to work!!!

Edit: Crocheting not knitting  duh

OK I've done some research...
These are all made only using only chain stitches and single crochet stitches
My preferred method of starting is called the magic ring or magic circle.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

Those are too cute.

I'm a wee bit jealous of anyone lucky enough to have been gifted one of your creations.

[Darlica]

Thank you Bob!

May I present the Lion...
He's not scary at all, he's a real soft belly...

He will be moving to my mother next week, she is as crazy about lions as I am about mice and hedgehogs...

Actually I'm starting to run out of ideas for the critters Teddy-bears ain't no fun, the same goes for rabbits and some other common toy animal stereotypes.
I'll happily crochet a cat or a dog if someone asks me to because they really want one but when I do them for my own amusement I like to do something slightly weirder (dragon, DWTD) or at least a bit unusual (owl, lion).

Any suggestions?  

[Opsa]

Love the 'Dumb' guy!

Have you done a squidling, yet?  

Fish and bugs are always cute. Except if they are down your swimsuit!.

[Darlica]

Love the 'Dumb' guy!

Have you done a squidling, yet?  

Fish and bugs are always cute. Except if they are down your swimsuit!.

No squidlings yet, I'v tried but the arms are a bit complicated, I'll try again.
Opsa: I got a vision of a bug in a swimsuit reading you post, that might be too hard to crochet but this little doodle is for you. Bugs in swimsuits are actually quite cute.

[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

A baby anything is always cute.  How do we know it's a baby?  Easy:  the head's too big for the body, and the eyes are overly large for the face. 

Think: Japanese anime art.

[Opsa]

That is the cutest ( and only!) bug in a swimsuit I've ever seen!