Saturday, January 3, 2009

Ackbar for Christmas

Merry Christmas form my mom. The Amigurumi (or crocheted doll) below was made by her.
"We have no choice General Calrissian! Our cruisers can't repel cuteness of this magnitude!"

After she'd completed my Cthulhu, the pattern for which came from Creepy Cute Crochet, she asked me for a gift idea for my girlfriend. And of course I thought who is there better to immortalize in amigurumi than my second favorite aquatic killing machine, Admiral Ackbar, the true hero of the Rebellion. After some quick interwebing I found that an amigurumi of Ack already existed, however the pattern did not. Lucky my old lady's a wiz and whipped one up in no time herself.
She also had time to make Matt his own Cthulhu, who is slightly more menacing due to his longer and larger tentacles. I'm working on a pattern to make an even better Cthulhu so if an
yone has any ideas of what might make a creature of unspeakable horrors like Cthulhu more unspeakably horrible please try and find someway to articulate it in the comments. Also, if you have any other ideas of who or what might make a nice Amigurumi let us know.

Here's a delightful little song that Matt's girlfriend Stef (of Snowden's Secret) wrote about his new Cthulhu-

"Who had a head that is full of fluff?
C'thul-lu, C'thul-lu!
Who has beans up in his butt?
C'thul-lu, C'thul-lu!"

3 comments:

Paul Arrand Rodgers said...

I want an Ackbar!

Anonymous said...

The googly eyes detract slightly from the unspeakable horrors of Cthulhu; they are just too cute. Perhaps replace them with horrifying buttons?

Caleb said...

Good observation. With Ackbar the googly eyes he initially had were too much- I looked for fake fish eyes but in the end the dark brown buttons you see him with now worked the best for me. They also give him a slight Coraline look. I will have to be on the look out for more horrifying buttons.