#squid makes

Huge thank you to @piescrossstitch, who did this first and told me where to find the pattern for it. I just added beads to the mix because why not. It glows when you add a tea light inside, too!

This one might take some explaining.

I have this Final Fantasy XIV OC, Dollmaker. Longer version explained here. Short version is that it's a voidsent that lives under the city, can swap out people's body parts at will, is in a situationship with Martyn the Blue Mage, and is real into Elegant Gothic Lolita.

(Yes, it looks a lot like No-Face from Spirited Away. Yes, I'm aware. Yes, Ghibli is probably sending lawyers after me. I should have made it purple or something.)

It turns out that when you write 31k words of fanfiction for your OC and commission a bunch of fanart for it, you get very attached to the OC. Unfortunately I'm not great at 2D art...but I did just get into amigurumi. When one cannot draw the OC, one must crochet the OC.

First was the Mk 1 Prototype Dollmaker, which just has a single wireset for the spine. It helps that Dollmaker's basically a long tube with legs, so the anatomy wasn't the trickiest thing in the world. The wires are actually a set of napkin rings I picked up at a thrift store.

The Mk 1 is pretty simple besides that, with the face embroidered onto a flat disc. The feet designs were taken from a friend's Wizard Lizard crochet pattern, while the arms are actually squid tentacles from a different pattern. A lot of it was a learning process. It's my first time making a critter by piecing together scraps of other designs, rather than going off a single coherent design.

Today I finished the Mk 2, which is a little larger and more complicated. The tongue on the Mk 2 is the leafy shaped wire end of one of the napkin rings wrapped in red yarn, with an embroidered red mouth. The legs also have wire in them, though the arms were a bit small for it.

And of course we have a little Martyn for Dollmaker to hang out with. This is a wooden fireman doll I painted, drew a goatee on, and made a little vest for. I'm hoping to do more doll clothes for him in the future as well.

Bonus cat photos for scale:

I cracked into an old USB trying to give my friend some pirated anime episodes and stumbled upon a clutch of not just my old high school fanfiction, but that time I did a photocomic for a class project because I was really into @waywardmartian's Insecticomics at the time and thought they were the height of humor.

So please enjoy 16 year old Squid's shitty digital camera and MS Paint skills as robot Lutherscream defies Vector Pope to nail his theses to a very large door.

EDIT: Forgot to include the guy this is a quote from:

I finally finished the needlepoint rug I"ve been working on for three months, and just in time for getting some new doll furniture to put with it!

A little crochet goobue friend! Free pattern here: