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[Deadcraft.Com]: Star Wars: Luke Skywalker (and a Star Wars baby mobile) A slightly late addition to the list of Star Wars crochet characters I have around - featuring (finally) Luke Skywalker himself! This was actually requested by a customer as part of a Star Wars mobile he wants to make for his baby - which is either the cutest, or the geekiest, thing I have ever heard.

I tried to fashion what the Star Wars baby mobile was going to look like; it's not the actual baby mobile, but it's a general idea of what it's probably going to look like:

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/12/28/star-wars-luke-skywalker-and-a-star-wars-baby-mobile/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Final Fantasy VII / Advent Children: Reno Doll

A very belated Merry Christmas to all! I took a week or two off for some personal time and actually stopped crocheting within that period. Crocheting is always fun, but I guess taking a very short break is a good thing too; my poor hands get a chance to rest, if anything else. But now t's back to sporadic posting!

I think I was supposed to showcase some of the Final fantasy dolls I've made here, but I keep on getting sidetracked. Also, I am running a lot late on posting here because custom orders have been taking up most of the time that hasn't already been allotted to work and writing and other kinds of crap. So while I'm assembling the others, here's a big plushie doll of our favorite Shinra Turk Reno, all 8 inches of him!

I mean the doll, by the way.

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/12/28/final-fantasy-vii-advent-children-reno-doll/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Dir En Grey: Kyo & X-Japan: Yoshikitty Dolls A few more Japanese rock-themed crochet dolls for your enjoyment! I mentioned a couple of posts ago that I've crafted quite a few dolls based on popular J-rock band Dir en Grey; well, someone specifically requested a couple more Dir en grey dolls; this time of an 8 inch high Kyo! To showcase the different looks Kyo has had throughout the years, one doll sports a pretty shiny tracksuit, while the other sports a little eyepatch, from his Vulgar era.

And if that's not odd enough, a friend has also requested that I make a Hello Kitty version of Yoshi from X-Japan. As most X-Japan fans know, little Yoshikitty is not a new concept; back in Japan, Hello Kitty versions of Yoshi has been sold out all throughout the year, no kidding.

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/12/15/dir-en-grey-kyo-x-japan-yoshikitty-dolls/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Pirates of the Carribean: Jack Sparrow

With all the yummy Johnny Depp characters coming up in movies nowadays (and let's not forget that he's also 2009's Sexiest Man of the Year? Take that, Brad Pitt!) it's hard not to want to make something based on him to some degree. So it's probably best to start out with the character that he is currently most known by - Jack Sparrow from the trilogy Pirates of the Caribbean!

This little tyke is going to be making its rounds frequently over at my deadcraft store in etsy. Bug me if there isn't one in stock!

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/12/11/pirates-of-the-carribean-jack-sparrow/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Dragonball: Son Gohan Crochet Doll A large 8 inches high Son Gohan doll that I had commissioned for a customer in the past, based on the character from the Dragonball series! And of course, being the absolute masochist that I am, also agreed to do Son Gohan's more complicated Chineseque suit instead of his regular martial arts garb. And let's not forget the monkey tail!

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/11/29/dragonball-son-gohan-crochet-doll/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Twilight Crochet Dolls I'm going to be honest. I am not a fan of the Twilight series. When I think of the perfect, ideal man, my heart shall always remain entirely with Pride and Prejudice's Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. As an admitted bibliophile who grew up with monsters on the brain, as you can probably see with not only my dolls but in other artworks I've made / stories I've written, I like the writing styles of Umberto Eco and Jeffrey Eugenides, and am probably too old to be fully regaled with a four-book romantic story geared primarily for teens. However, I do have a lot of friends who are stark raving mad, crazed to the point of wtfness huge fans of the series, and I have eventually learned to deal with their moments of squee-ness if I am to maintain the friendship, despite their sometimes inability to deal with my poor fanpire-related barbed quips at their expense. They are also the same lovably exasperating people who had first requested me to make Edward Cullen dolls in the first place, so you also have them to thank for the series of dolls shown below. I have been making Edward Cullen and Jacob Black dolls for awhile now, and one out of every five customers who make the purchases inevitably asks me: "When are you ever going to make a Bella Swan doll?" While I could confess to a certain level of procrastination there, along with a truckload of other priority commissions and custom requests that took up most of my time for the better part of a year, one glaring reason it took me so long to make Bella was simply because she didn't have particular features that could easily be showcased in a doll and therefore easily observed to be a "Bella". Edward has his golden eyes and manly pomade. For the Jacob Black doll I settled for adding a tiny paw print on his lower back. But unless I stitchedthe word 'Bella' right across her shirt, I didn't know how people could easily discern her to be a Bella doll. A few people suggested Bella in her prom dress, or of her wearing an engagement ring. But she only wears her prom dress for a couple of scenes all in all and would have no further basis in later books, nor is a ring easy to do in miniature. The requests for her doll increased; in my Ravelry account, my Bella doll was still a work in progress, without any pictures to show, but four users had it listed as their favorite, and the entr viewed over a hundred times without my ever promoting or showcasing the attempt in groups. In the end, I decided to just make her without any "Bella" markings. I supposed that if Stephanie Meyer intended for her to look plain and normal and doe-eyed (and oddly enough, to also look a lot like Stephanie Meyer) then I supposed this would just reinforce the statement.

And so little Bella joins the cast of little deadcraft Twilight dolls. Apologies to everyone who waited for over a year for this! Here's my small attempt at an apology.

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/11/17/twilight-crochet-dolls/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Dir en Grey Crochet Dolls I don't always have the opportunity to collaborate with a lot of other people in this crocheting business, so when you have friends over in Japan who also happen to maintain one of the best and most popular Dir En Grey websites on the web, then you tend to jump all over their offer to do something in tandem with the fandom. And so presenting, the current incarnation of Dir En Grey!

Given that the band look tends to change often in the same way seasons change, this is their current Autumn 2009 regalia. Of course, a few people who'd been with me way back when I was crocheting long before I'd had a website know that this isn't the first time I've crocheted Kyo.

Risu and Nao have been kind enough to promote these little dolls for me at their Dir en Grey site, http://www.orchestrated-chaos.com - and to my surprise, the dolls promptly sold out in a matter of days. So if any of you guys would like to purchase more Dir en Grey dolls, either with their current look, or in any previous costumes / wardrobes, head on over to their site and put in a request! They do a far lot better job at organizing these things than I could ever do!

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/11/12/dir-en-grey-crochet-dolls/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Odin Sphere: Gwendolyn and Oswald Dolls Odin Sphere was my favorite game of 2008. Okay, so maybe God of War 2 was my favorite game of 2008, but this was a very, very close second. Ingway is possibly the most adorable character that no one has ever heard of. So you can say that this was something of a labor of love, because I nearly broke my brain making two of its five main characters, Oswald and Gwendolyn. Not since my Valkyrie Profile Lenneth Valkyrie doll had there been so many details that I'd willingly made on something roughly 4 inches tall. I'm pretty happy about how then result is though, although Oswald's armor was harder to imagine than Gwenolyn's feather-and-armor affair.

Gwendolyn and Oswald

Gwendolyn

Oswald

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/11/03/odin-sphere-gwendolyn-and-oswald-dolls/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Gensomaden Saiyuki Dolls

I've already mentioned making my little Genjo Sanzo doll, and have even showcased him in an earlier post - so I figured, why not make the whole gang instead? I remember being absolutely hooked on this TV series not too long ago, and while Saiyuki Reload and Saiyuki Reload Gunlock were good enough, Gensomaden Saiyuki was the series I always adored. Genjo Sanzo - the only Buddhist priest who smokes, drinks, plays mahjongs, shoots at people, is nastily rude, doesn't care whether his friends lived or died, is unrepentantly trigger-happy, and still POPULAR.

Sha Gojyo, possibly the only kappa character I am aware of in the history of anime, and he has a sob stepmama-tried-to-kill-me story to go along with it. Who can't resist a redhaired kappa with a sobby stepmama-tried-to-kill-me story?

Cho Hakkai - I notice that with each character the angst just increases like a thousandfold. Hakkai's the obligatory human-turned-demon of the main cast, and he had to do so in order t save his beloved, who'd been carried off by lusty demons. He failed, by the way. Ouch.

Son Goku - the most annoyingly 500 year old brat demon ever. Also the most powerful of the quartet, how's that for irony?

All dolls are available at my deadcraft etsy shop!

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/10/26/gensomaden-saiyuki-dolls/

[Deadcraft.Com]: Tim Burton's Nine Doll In honor of the awesome new Tim Burton movie out, here's my version of its main character, the lovable Nine doll (voiced by Elijah Wood)I tried to get most of the details as I was able to, and I'm proud of actually being able to scrounge up some push buttons for the eyes, especially. This is deviating slightly from most of my other dolls in that this is roughly 6 - 7 inches high, with a pattern I made up on the spot while I was crocheting. And on a slightly related note, anyone as excited over the new Alice in Wonderland animation coming out as I am, too?

This was specially made for a customr, and can be seen in my deadcraft etsy shop!

http://www.deadcraft.com/2009/10/22/tim-burtons-nine-doll/