Thank you so much for the tag, @zwiazdziarka 🩷
rules: talk about something creative you're working on of any kind.🚦
green: what is it about, what excited you about it, what sparked the idea?
orange: slow down and share something from it: a photo, a few words, some more background info etc.
red: what is the roadblock currently? what is one thing that is a necessary evil in making it?
This year I decided I needed a challenge, so I'm trying to design a new amigurumi each month. I have a loooong list of characters I want to crochet, and this month I decided on the protagonists of Bride, by Ali Hazelwood. I've read almost every book of Ali and Bride was one of my favourites from last year. The protagonists are a vampire and a werewolf. The vampire has lilac eyes and blood, which means she blushes lilac. And the werewolf has green eyes and blood, so he blushes green. I know it's silly, but you have no idea how excited I am about using colourful eyes and painting their little faces with lilac and green
Right now I'm working on the vampire, Misery. I started last night because I've been swamped with other projects and... well, life and its usual chores. However, I think I'm making great progress and this is how the body looks at this point
The book opens with the protagonists' wedding (which is an arranged one, btw, to try and bring peace between the two species). Misery wears a white jumpsuit. At first I was worried it would look dull because I don't have that much space to work with, but I'm really happy with how it's going! There's some details still missing, but I've been working on this for two evenings only, so this is great progress
Tbh the roadblock was starting. I struggle a lot with this. Sitting down, looking for inspiration, sketching, writing down some instructions and ideas, looking for the perfect colours... I had that done for two weeks now, but actual crocheting? Not so easy. Luckily that's in the past now lol but I know I will struggle again when it's time to embroider the face and start the hair (I usually wing it while stressing over it not looking exactly how I imagined, which is awful but I can't help it)
Well, we'll push through. Or as I like to say: we've come here to play (in Spanish though, I don't speak randomly in English at home 😂)
And that's all. I have other projects still in the making but none of them were particularly interesting or advanced enough
Anyone who sees this and thinks it's interesting can do it! Because I don't know who to tag, if I'm honest
Have a great morning/afternoon/evening!