Time for a new Make Over post!
This time around it is my alpaca pattern. I don’t recall if I ever posted about my alpaca on my blog, but I wrote this pattern back in 2013. That’s the same year I opened my Etsy shop and, at the same time, I was really into doing the monthly challenges in one of my Ravelry groups, Amigurumi Army. The theme at this time was fiber, so that meant we could make anything you could get fiber from such as llamas, sheep, alpacas, etc.
Also at this time I had just purchased the newest Harvest Moon which came (unbeknownst to me) with an alpaca plushie when purchased from GameStop. Typically, I don’t shop at GameStop because I hate their guts don’t care much for them, but I stopped by on whim to pick up this game. Luckily, they still had a few copies (and alpacas!) left and I was able to get my hands on ’em. Anywho, I attempted to make an alpaca similar to the plushie but wasn’t able to get it quite right. However, I still thought it was really cute and ended up listing it in my shop. Here’s what I ended up with:
I actually ended up selling it within a few weeks! This came as a shock to me because many listings end up being renewed at least once before they sell for the first time! I never made another one but had the pattern written down in my handy dandy crochet book (it’s one of the first few that I wrote in that notebook).
I probably wouldn’t have made one again, but a friend of mine recently asked me if I’d ever made a llama before because she is collecting llama items for a niece due in December. I told her I had made an alpaca and that it could probably pass as a llama (hehe) but I was willing to try to change it a little bit to make it more llama-like.
I’m no llama or alpaca expert (I know there are many differences between the two) but I know that one of the defining differences between the two are the ears. Alpacas have smaller more spear-like ears while llamas have long banana-like ears. So, I adjusted the ears from my pattern (which needed to be changed anyway. Yeesh!) to make them longer and more… floppy.
(Excuse my messy countertop)
Aside from the ears, I kept the rest of the pattern pretty much the same! In hindsight, I probably should/could have made it in another color (like brown) but my friend was okay with the white. Woo hoo!
Okay, okay.
So this is BARELY a make over. But I don’t post on here often enough and needed some new material. 🙂
Have a great week! ❤
PS – You may have already seen pictures of the llama on my Instagram. If you’re not following me yet, come find me! @pleasantplushies
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