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 It's the second half of the year. Time for another award: Doll By Request Year 2022. The award goes to Dad Tiger! In the first half of the year I designed a doll of my choice, Nana Platypus. This time I am designing by request, so someone else got to choose.  Here's a...

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Fun at Hobby Lobby💖 Jodi yarn substitutionSince Michael's got rid of Jodi's main yarn color by Red Heart Soft (Toast brown),  it's been difficult to find anything similar. I used to enjoy the walk to shop at Michael's.  Good news is that Hobby Lobby is just 5 miles away. It turns out that...

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 Crochet hats and hoods for playtime and to stay warm. ...

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 They fit! I can't get over how this box of 12-count Great Value brand of Toaster Pastries  fits in my IKEA cubby. If you sit two boxes next to one another it fills the space nicely. If you cut the top flaps off and lay the box down on its widest side it...

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Here is the shrunken 2021 style of my Katerina Kitty Cat doll (made by request). Not fully satisfied with the outcome. What comes to mind is to improve the head on my next attempt.  Here's how she looked in a larger version (one of my favorites 💖). This is really how I want the...

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So I just made up a deadline for the award 🌟Doll of the Year 2022🌟.  It's May 8, '22. Three months have passed since that blog post mentioning this 'nomination'. It was intended for Nana Platypus from the start so it's not really a nomination. Here are some honorable mentions as well for...

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How do you find working with fur yarns? Is it fun or not? The last time I posted about this topic was ages ago, around 2013. I even still have some of the yarn since then. A Better Way To Use Fur YarnMaking amigurumi with fur yarns can be a challenge.  Maybe I have...

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 Ok, this challenge was just sprung on me 😏. It's Miso the Owl by Sago Mini. This new character premiered in Fall '21 for a back-to-school sort of theme. The colors are shades of teal, I'd  say.  It was 'fun' after it was done (a learning curve indeed for me). If I get...

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Prince Wednesday's complete. O the Owl tagged along in his shrunken new design. They have been sent on their way. Yay!  ...

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 March 13, 2022Yesterday morning it was as low as 8°F here, then it went up to 18 degrees. But this is in March! Well this may be the last of this blast of cold that we have to take for sometime. The 40's are on the way.Meanwhile,  I finished a request for 5...

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Here's the duet, #tigey and #pinktigey. These are for a very special someone. They have been sent on their way. I await their arrival to find out how well they're received. It was a treat and a blessing to be asked to make such huggable gifts. For this I am thankful. For a while...

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Let's fast forward into a 2022 custom request. Here's a sneak peek of it. It's a sweet work-in-progress, like eye candy. The request is for a new color Tigey, in pink. I hope it will be a treat. Let's see how it turns out. ...

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To capture the source of the Nana doll request would be an exercise in futility.  I can't recall who it was. Nevertheless, it has become part of my quest in '22. It just may turn out to be the Doll of 2022. I'm off to a slow start in January.  Well sometimes I...

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Many requests were left over and spilled into the New Year! Where are the shoppers at now who made the requests? Will they return in 2022? That is the mystery.  I'll just check-in for the first time this year with a step back in time. It was last month that a Prince Wednesday...

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