Great Title, Catchy Subtitle!

Well, I wouldn't say that I'm getting better at stuffed toys but I'm getting more forgiving of my own mistakes. The blue bear is for my daughter who was jealous of my husband's Totoro and requested a bear. What we learn from this project is that Simply Soft is a rotten yarn for amigirumi-style crochet, even if it's the only yarn in the house. He's from Dina's pattern at Crochetville. His feet aren't as misshapen as they are in the picture. Pretend he's strolling with his little avian friend.

The Baby Torchic is from Bizzy Crochet's great pattern. It's a Baby Torchic because the only orange yarn in the house is a really pale tangerine color. The body and feet are directly from the pattern, the neck feathers are slightly different (another row to make them stick out further), and the head feathers and beak are a completely different pattern because the kid wanted them to look more like this one; I still didn't get the spread on the beak right. The eyes are a no-yarn-in-the-house disaster: I have no worsted-weight black yarn, just thread (didn't work) and Shetland Chunky (didn't work) and I ended up making them in Patons Brilliant and they're just not right but they're for my kid's Youtube video and I am working on just letting this stuff go because I'm not trying to sell it and I have an idea what fate awaits this poor Torchic when he has to go into battle.