it was "trifficult"

 The biggest project I made over break what the crocheted Bluey. This was from "Chiliphilly" on the official Bluey ABC (Australian Broadcasting) website.

They warn it's a complicated pattern - yes, they used Bingo's portmanteau word "trifficult" (tricky+difficult) from the Favorite Thing episode. Also, there was one small omission for the snout on the .pdf of the pattern, but those lines were there on the html formatted pattern. (I had a printout of the .pdf but wound up having to look up the original on my phone when I hit a point where I didn't know how to proceed, because the instructions for about five rows were missing on the .pdf)

I didn't have the IDEAL colors; the main body is a bit greyer blue than it should be, and c3 (the pale blue) kind of doesn't blend well. But it's hard with US big-box stores; as it was I had to mix several brands of yarn that were of slightly different weights despite all them being labeled worsted/aran. 

In the end, also, I did the eyes of felt applique, since I had black and white felt, because at that point I was getting tired of crocheting and also wasn't sure I could make the "slip stitch them on and then slip stitch around them" to look good, so I just kind of freehand cut until things looked right and then appliqued them on.

She's not very big, but is a good size - maybe about 9" tall?

Also, you are kind of mosaic crocheting the color changes in, and that's fiddly to do and HARD to get right. The belly is a little off center and I admit were I designing the pattern I might have done the belly as a separate "patch" that you then applique on. 

Still, I think it was a good time to do the project - it took me the better part of a week to finish in around other things, and I had had the yarn since late summer. I wound up leaving the partial balls of leftovers up at my mom's to save room coming home in my suitcase

She has little fingers which are fairly cleverly made. Again, I'd recommend that this is a pattern best for really expert crocheters, ideally folks who've done that mosaic/intarsia style crochet before. I had not and I found it frustrating and I didn't get it right everywhere (fortunately the "center strip" of her nose is almost covered by the snout, and at least the place where it was off-center the worst was covered.)