Amigurumi de Chimmy: Mi Experiencia 🌼 [ENG-ESP]

Hello! I introduce myself in this nice NeedleWorkMonday community. I'm My Teenages and I recently started here on Hive. Today I'm pleased to share with you my second knitting project. I'll show you the first one later.

A few years ago I found knitting quite stressful, seeing that I had to do the same movement for hours and not finding a shape for my projects quickly was very frustrating, plus I've always been more about following my intuition and my imagination and not taking directions. In knitting, if you're a beginner, it's pretty hard to do that. I learned it the hard way, so I inevitably gave it up, until the beginning of the year when I decided to try new hobbies, among them knitting. That's how I tried making my first amigurumi, which was a gift for my friend (I'll tell you more about it in another post). One of our friends saw it and liked it a lot.

After a few days, he wrote me a desperate letter asking me to please make him an amigurumi for his girlfriend, since February 14th was coming and he still didn't have a gift. She is a big fan of BTS. I thought about it a lot because I'm still a beginner and the design he asked for was more elaborate than the one I had already made, but the truth is that the extra money wasn't bad for me and he accepted the risks of my inexperience, so I got down to work, looked for a tutorial, needle and thread and started.

Tutorial que seguí para la cabeza de Chimmy

From the beginning I noticed the change of difficulty, I started with the head, which I unknitted 4 times in one day, that's why I don't have many pictures of that process. The head has an irregular shape, so it took a lot of decreases and increases. I lost count many times and had to retrace my steps to know where I was going, so much so that I could tell you that any time you turned to look at me, you could find me counting.

The cowl was also a challenge, because when the video said "Half double crochet" and "Half double crochet decrease" you can imagine my face. And yes, the tutorial was in English because, apparently, I didn't find it challenging enough and increased the difficulty even more, so I had to look for other tutorials with the translation and how the stitches were made.

Already on the body part it was much more relaxed. At this point, learning to change colors was nothing for me. I think this was the part I enjoyed the most. The body was very small and that caused me quite cuteness until I put it together with the head and saw that the size was really disproportionate, but I tried to convince myself: "That makes it even more cute" "There are cartoons that are like that" "It's bad to judge" I would say to myself.

Tutorial que seguí para las orejas y otros detalles

Now all that was left was the details and little else. With the ears I came across my first graphic and, try as I might, I just didn't get it. So I slowed down the video and mimicked what the girl was doing. At this point it was 2 a.m. and I had to hand it in the next day, because it's already a habit to leave everything to the last minute, that's very teenager of me.

Then, the face, I don't really remember much of this process other than my tears, I didn't know how to do it and it all seemed pretty ugly considering how cute the character is and add to that the pressure of it being my first paid project. It didn't help. To tell the truth, in desperation, I asked my mom for help and she did what she could.

I wiped my tears and put it all together. I put a little blush on it and I feel like that saved his little face a little bit. I packed it up and took it to my friend. He liked it so much that he didn't want to give it away. I also got some compliments from other friends and a few orders. At the end of the day I felt very proud because, even though I stressed a lot, I proved to myself that I can do more elaborate things and, although it didn't come out as I expected, I had the persistence to finish it and I know that I will improve little by little. I still have plenty of time (or not), since I'm in My Teenages.

Thank you for reading me and giving me a little of your time. I hope you liked this project and were entertained by my suffering.😅 I wish you have a nice life, bye!

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