This was from a kit (it came from KnitPicks) I got for Christmas and just never found the time to start. When I was packing last week I spotted it and thought "this is small and will be quick, why not make it up over break?"
It was a pretty quick project. The yarn is designated dk weight but it felt closer to a fingering. It's all cotton, which I had never used for amigurumi before, and now I get it why a lot of the Japanese makers use cotton yarn....it works up pretty easily and it does not split like wool or some acrylics. And it's smooth, which is kind of pleasing, and it makes firm shapes because the cotton doesn't stretch.
Anyway, it's a tiny orca
The kit has literally everything you need except for scissors - a pattern booklet (with links for video tutorials if you need them; I did not), and the yarn and stuffing, and the little lock washer eyes, and a pretty good quality crochet hook and a nice tapestry needle and even a couple of locking stitch markers.
My only complaint is *working on black yarn*
it's hard on the eyes and hard to see the stitches. You can see the base of a small LED lamp there I borrowed from my mom for supplementary light where I was sitting.
Anyway, the orca is really tiny, I carried her back in a pocket of my backpack
The little white patches were hard to attach and I know I did it imperfectly, they're uneven, but I'm trying not to care about it. If I hadn't been pressed for time (finishing it late one evening), I might have taken time to pin them on first to be sure they were even.
But maybe on something so tiny it doesn't really matter?
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