craftlog

Behold mechapanda. He and my miniBlythe are going to be arch-enemies and have fierce battles.

He’s from the Mechani-Panda pattern in The Cute Book, which the nice folks at Aranzi Aronzo sent me. I love this book. One of the first Japanese craft books I ever bought was an Aranzi Aronzo book, but this one has the significant advantage of being in English. For the patterns, this isn’t actually that much of an improvement, since the picture-patterns are so well done in both books. I would say the main bonuses are that I can now read the crazy captions, and that copies are available without going to/ordering from Japan. The mechani-panda looked like one of the harder patterns, and it was quite fiddly to do. I added the laser eyes, made the blinky panel lights colorful instead of gray, and made the arms poseable so he could be more threatening, but he is otherwise to spec. Took a few nights of handsewing in front of the TV. I think I’ll try a simpler one next, like the cute frog, or the cute bunny, or the kidnapper.