Greetings dear community, I hope you are all very well and I wish you the best in your needle projects, this week has been very busy for me because I did not want to rest until I finished the project, because this is the second amigurumi that @damarysvibra commissioned me and With which I felt very committed to obtain the best result, it is the character Chilli Heeler, who is the mother in the animated series of a family of dogs known by the name of her daughter Bluey.
Getting to know this character was very interesting, first of all when I saw the reference image I was worried about getting the right shades of thread, because obviously the threads come in standardized colors and it has to be adapted according to availability, I was seeing what shades the color of the dog was under, if it was analogous with yellow, orange or beige, it was difficult, I was worried that using a thread color that was not close enough to the color of the drawing would completely change the image of the amigurumi, that is to say that it would not look similar to the character, I went to the yarn market and it was funny because I had to take out my phone to see the image and compare with the colors of the balls, while the seller waited. After being satisfied with the colors, I did some research about the character, I learned that it is a breed of Australian shepherd dogs of which there are two shades of fur, the black ones that also have a coat of white hair that end up looking blue, there I understood why the blue color of the husband and the protagonist daughter of the series, but I also understood that the other dogs like Chilli are called Orange Heeler or also Red Heeler, that is to say that they give the breed the name of orange due to the combination of his coat, so I felt good that I used a thread that was closer to orange than yellow, I found it incredible that the breed resulted from a cross between a sheepdog and a dingo, that blew my mind.
Everything seemed to be going well with the colors, so I started making Chilli's body, but what happened in the last post happened 🤭 I “ate” a stitch, which my crochet obsessive nature couldn't accept, so I disassembled and I started again from there, which slowed me down a lot but I was happy to get the right result, for that reason it took me 3 days just doing the body 😂
Then I made the legs, I must say that I loved this part because I was able to introduce wire inside, so the legs can be bent and placed in different poses.
Also in the tail I included wire inside, so that it can be bent, I loved the details of the pointed ears, for that I worked with brown and beige thread. I made the details in cream, like the muzzle, although this color tends a bit to light yellow.
I am really very happy to have met Chilli's goal in 6 days, because although it may not seem like it, every detail is important. I am very grateful for the opportunity to play this character and I hope you enjoy it a lot.
Imágenes tomadas con dispositivo Samsung A12. Portada editada en InShot
Pictures taken with Samsung A12 device. Cover edited in InShot
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