RatCreature's, um... scrapbook?

[image: pencil sketch, Captain America/Calvin & Hobbes Fusion: a young Steve Rogers as Calvin with Bucky Bear, bringing down the Valkyrie, in his imagination and as a cardboard box. ]

[image: a pencil sketch of a Dalek working on a Scream like painting on an easel, a drawble for mekare]

[image: a pencil sketch of Batman on a psychologist's couch with a doctor sitting behind him, drawble for marcelo]

[image: a pencil sketch of Korra reading an X-Men comic, drawble for lilacsigil based on their DW interests "Legend of Korra + X-Men comics"]

[image: a pencil sketch of Venom looking at a scroll, drawble for mific based on their DW interests "Venom + poetry"]

[image: a pencil sketch of Cookie Monster with a Sherlock Holmes hat following a trail of cookie crumbs, drawble for goss based on their DW interests "Cookie Monster + Sherlock"]

[image: a pencil sketch of a hockey playing alien, drawble for schneefink based on their DW interests "aliens + hockey"]

[image: Rivers of London fanart, pencil sketch of Varvara teaching Abigail in the Folly library] I noticed I never posted the Chocolate Box sketch I did for reflectedeve from earlier this year here.

[image: a pencil sketch for jack-of-all-bullshit, Jon is sitting at a desk with a tape recorder and a file folder in front of him. Martin, wearing a Santa hat, smiles at Jon and hands him a mug of tea. In the background is Christmas tree decorated with baubles, garlands and eye ornaments.] @pilesofnonsense now has revealed creators. So here is the sketch I did for jack-of-all-bullshit. (AO3 work link)

I made a baby penguin amigurumi from the same book I used for the dog earlier. It is this one on the authors website. This being my second one, I had an easier time with the basics, but I accidentally bought the black cotton yarn a thickness of 0.5 mm less than the gray and the white, so it would not fit together when I worked according to the pattern and I had to adjust it by trial and error to make the black fit over the white, and it still doesn't look quite right. (I feel really disgruntled at the yarn store, because these were on shelf area all next to each other, seemingly all different colors of the same type of cotton yarn for crocheting, only the black not really it turned out! Next time I'll know to read the fine print *grumble*) I am not sure I understood the instruction for the feet and the schematic picture that supposedly illustrated it further was wholly incomprehensible to me. I assume it was some sort of crocheting notation, but the book never explained how to read that, even though the intro chapter even explains all basic stitches, like how you make a single crochet stitch (if you're curious, it looks like this). In the end I managed something that looked vaguely feet like, and I left it at that. I also did not use two types of gray and I didn't have a wire brush to comb the surface fluffy and frizzly, but IMO my penguin still looks cute.

I made a small polar bear from yarn pompons to get some use out of scrap yarn. I followed instructions from a book for the pompons, but they used something called "chenille wire" for the ears (which I didn't have -- it seems like pipe cleaners in different colors made for crafts?) so I used small felt pieces, and I didn't have a bigger pearl for the nose either, so I used a fabric covered button, which was slightly larger and also blue rather than black. The eyes are also blue wooden pearls because I didn't have black. I didn't want to buy a bunch of new craft supplies to use up leftover craft supplies. It turned out okay and quite cute, I think.

Crocheting an amigurumi dog turned out harder than I thought, even though I picked a pattern labeled "easy" in the instruction book I used. It does only use simple stitches, but you have to count stitches a *lot*. I lost my place several times and had to unravel stuff, even though I used a marker ring. And the whole thing took a lot longer than I expected. But I got to a dog in the end that mostly looks like on the pictures. (It is this dog on the author's website.) I didn't bother adding the tiny barrel.

[image: a pencil doodle for Berceuse, a new Bucky (Winter Soldier) Bear and a battered old teddy bear in a new Captain America costume] Inspired by wickedthoughts' story "Berceuse". If you go on to read it, you need to check the tags there, to see whether the kinks match yours, because my cute and harmless picture only reflects parts of it, and the story is Hydra Trash Party.