Chewbacca

Here he is... the mighty Chewbacca!!!!

Chewbacca!

Side View

Back view

I used a brushing technique to get him "furry". The body was stitched the same as you would for a normal amigurumi then brushed to oblivion with a wire brush I got in the pet section at the store.I finished him while on route to Star Wars Celebration VI for our Honeymoon.

Chewbacca: Cool as a Cucumber

Isn't he cute? He has his Bowcaster and his Satchel. When sitting he's about a foot and a half tall while sitting and when standing he is 2 feet tall. He's become one of my all-time favorite creations so far!

Close up of Bowcaster

Smilin'

He needs some Burt's Bees

C-3PO: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han Solo: That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose.
Wookiees are known to do that.

Baroo?

Chewie's mouth opens completely to reveal his beautiful teeth and my favorite part, the tongue. The tongue is attached to the back of the mouth and moves wherever I want it to go. It makes posing a little more fun and gives him some attitude!

What a healthy mouth!

WHARBLGARBRRLRRLRL!

Now he just needs a backpack with a mangled C3-PO to carry around :)

Darth Maul Amigurumi progress

GRRRRRRR!!!

 I've been working here and there on Darth Maul's face since winter break started, and decided to scrap what I had originally made to make a new one. Here's the original flub:

it's truly disgusting.

See how grotesque it is? It looks like the clown from the SAW movies with red and black detailing. Gross!

After inspecting my fail, I decided that I used the wrong hook (which is why the thing was as big as my own head) I was color changing wrong and I didn't really think about what I was doing while making it. This time I've thought it through, am color changing correctly (I think?) and I'm using a much smaller hook, which produces much cleaner results :)

Here's what I've got so far:

muuuch better.

I'm able to get a little more detail and sharpness in the lines about his face, all due to the smaller hook. The rest of the detailing will come with embroidery, as there's no way to get such lines in color-changes.

The contours of the head and face are also
very nice this go 'round

Contour. This is something the original dearly lacked. It was really just a big ball with color changes that I stuffed and cinched to get somewhat of a face and produced a weird lumpy head and nasty, nasty face. This one looks much better :) I'm hoping to finish the head by Friday. Woo!