Ok so I've made a couple of simple crochet projects before but nothing where my stitch count mattered or that I actually had to pay attention to what I was doing. But for a friend's birthday I wanted to make her a Cthulhu so I had to give it a shot. The biggest problem for me turned out to be that there is a crease at the beginning of each increase round that after ripping it out several times I was able to reduce the crease but it's still there, mocking me.
Before I try my next project I'm going to do a swatch and try just skipping over the stitch you'd normally place a slip stitch in and see if that fixes it. Unfortunately I didn't have time to troubleshoot it for this project, due to the fact that I'm a horrendous procrastinator, and in true procrastinator fashion I didn't start the project until 2 days before her birthday, brilliant.
I used a 20mm eye instead of the recommended 12mm (because I couldn't find cat eyes in a smaller size at my local craft store). I think it worked out well, it looks more like an innocent baby Cthulhu, though from what I found out in net searches there really is no such thing.
Once I had all the pieces made, and the body stuffed...
I used sock needles to position the arms placing the left one strategically over most of crease from the increase rounds. I left the needles in to hold the arms in place while I sewed them on.
Then It was time to wrap it and head out to my friend's party.
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