and other craft related stuff

Hello everyone! I’m back home after my trip to the UK. I had an amazing time! Nature is so beautiful there. I was a little sad to return and end my vacation. But, coming home has its charms of course . Nothing beats your own bed

I didn’t crochet whilst on vacation. Wasn’t really an option to bring yarn and hooks in a bag nearly weighing 20 kgs, which I had to drag to another location every three days. So, no crocheting, wouldn’t have found the time anyway , but I did crochet something small before I left. Something I haven’t shown here yet.

It’s another variation on my Phat Cat. These are the original cats:

Later I made this little trial of a coloured, maring Phat Cat:

And this one I made before I left on vacation, a Phat Pig:

It’s a white pig with a pink cherry blossom theme, because when you say pig, you say cherries ? Whatever

Today I finished the smurf I showed a couple of days ago.
He measures about 18 cm and he looks much better than I had dared to hope!

The hat was a bit of a pain to get right. Only after the 6th try did I succeed. It’s not perfect, but I think it resembles the original smurf-drawings by Peyo very well .

I’m also very proud of the shaping of the shoes. They are like little clogs.

The tilted behind is also just like I wanted it. If you look at it from the side, the back curves in an S-shape.

I had to contemplate a while about how I would do the arms. Normally a Smurf has 3 fingers and a thumb, but fingers are really hard to crochet. So in the end I settled for just the thumb, but I made the hand more oval shaped than round.

And then the face.
First I wanted to use googly eyes. They looked nice, but I was bothered with their roundness. Smurfs have more oval-shaped eyes. So I tried crocheted eyes instead, and eventually liked the crochet result much better than the googly eyes.
The mouth is embroidered with black yarn.

So what do you think of the finished product?

Cheers,
Charlotte