I‘m still on my amigurumi kick and now I’ve combined it with my cat kick.  I spent an afternoon scouring the net for cat amigurumis with some luck.  I found one cat that I thought was really cute but no pattern.  I decided to try it as my first adventure into making my own thing patternless.  The body and legs are super cute but then it was time to make the head.  I decided not too seek out a basic head pattern from another book which lead to me crocheting half a head and then pulling it all out to try again.  The poor cat nearly had a flat pancake for a head.  I see my understanding of going in the round to create a sphere isn’t quite up to par yet.  I tried again with better luck, no more pancake head.  Nope, now the cat has a slight conehead.  Oh well, a good adventure into making a head.  Then I had to figure out how to make an ear.  The ears are nice triangles but a bit on the long side, almost batty.  The next time I adventure into making my own head I will probably look at patterns for heads I’ve made before to avoid mis-shapen craniums.  I do very much love the little white ends on the feet, for me this is the key to cuteness is this kitty.

After that misadventure into patternless amigurumi making I tackled another cat.  The pattern I found at MarmaladeRose’s blog was a conversion from knit into crochet and very cute.  I started working on the pattern and after a few rows of the body realized that it was double crochet which wouldn’t stuff nicely.  I also had the problem of not having a small enough hook.  I was using a 3.75/F hook when it called for a 3mm hook.  The next smallest hook I have is a 2.25/B1 hook which is a lot smaller than a 3mm.  With the F hook it was going to be very large and have too much space between the double crochets in my opinion.  I pulled it out and switched to the 2.25mm hook and decided that I’d attempt to work the pattern in single crochet.  The pattern that MarmaladeRose made includes some great photos to help you along.  I’m such a visual learner that I was quite happy to just figure it out from the pictures.

I started by crocheting the head and then I went onto the body.  I sewed up the body and stuffed it up.  I was happy already with the turn out.  Then I sewed up and stuffed the head.  Oh my!  It was way too big which was really scary.  I sewed the head on anyways to see if maybe I could manipulate it in some way.  No dice.  I wish I had taken a picture of it but it just rubbed me to wrong way to even do that.  I decided to detach the head and pull it all out.  This was a lot of fun since I had already woven the ends in and hidden them nicely.  Patience my friend.

I started again on the head this time comparing it to the body size.  This whole ordeal was something like 2 hours of detatching and reworking but with successful results!  All I needed then was a tail which was like the cherry on top.  The next day I did a little photoshoot with my crochet kitty, my real cats and some afternoon sun.  Couldn’t be better.

My husband now wants me to crochet  one in black to be our little Onyx.  LOL!