Category: Craft

Amigurumi Yubbla Creature

Amigurumi Yubbla

Etsy seller lucyravenscar crocheted this wonderful creature Yubbla,

a creature that lives in mossy areas around tree roots and rocks. Yubbla hop around, eating bugs and fungi; peaceful unless attacked, when their horns prove most effective at deterring predators. However, if approached carefully and presented with edible gifts, they will become very friendly. It is wise to encourage them in the garden, for not only are they pleasant company but they will make themselves useful by eating pests such as slugs.

Yoda Hat + Market Bag

My friend Heather Mann is always making great stuff (like the Star Wars finger puppets Renee posted about last week) but my favorites from her lately have to be her Yoda crafts. She made this fantastic fleece hat and wrote a tutorial for it on her Dollar Store Crafts blog — the total cost for the project is under $1!

Heather also did a Star Wars swap over at Craftster recently and made this awesome appliqued Yoda market bag in Jedi robe colors for her partner. You can use her instructions and this free morsbag pattern to make one for yourself, too.

Heather’s hat tutorial has totally inspired me to make a head-to-toe Yoda costume for my one-year-old daughter Pearl for Halloween. I’ll post more pictures when I’ve made my version — I’m figuring out the robe, snake and walking stick right now!

Kill Bill Halloween Costume

gogo-yubari-costume

In honor of my movie-geekness (and love of all things Tarantino) I am featuring this amazing Kill Bill Halloween Costume I found on Flickr because it’s awesome and a little too soon for any good Inglourious Basterds costumes. FlemingBonaparte made this GoGo Yubari costume a couple years ago for Halloween. It appears doable with some decent thrift store finds, some tinfoil and enough creativity to get a wooden plank to stick to the side of your head. I love it!