Kerbal crochet pattern

My friend is currently into watching Kerbal Space Program by Scott Manly









and I thought it'll be great to make him a little kerbal crochet.




Lucky for me, I found a really nice pattern from this website by Amiguruthi. I asked for her permission and I'm now uploading my own variation of the pattern.

Not much has been changed, so I do suggest trying out both patterns :)

Please be respectful that this is Amiguruthi's pattern and you have no permission to sell the pattern and you should ask her before selling an amigurumi made by her pattern!

(The same thing applies for my pattern as well)

The Essentials:

Hook: 3.5mm

Wool: Orange, white, black, yellow and mint green.

Also needed: Black and dark green embroidery thread; white, red and pink felt (depending on chosen face); 6mm safety eyes; detergent doser (from laundry detergent – one of those plastic cup things you measure out the liquid with)

Terms:
CH = Chain
Sc = Single Crochet
Dc = Double Crochet
INC = Increase
DEC = Decrease
BLO = Back Loops Only

Head

In black, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into centre of the magic ring [6]
Round 2: INC around [12]
Round 3: {Sc, INC} around [18]
Round 4: {2Sc, INC} around [24]
Round 5: Sc around BLO [24]
Round 6: 18Sc black, 2Sc green,2Sc black, 2Sc green [24]

Round 7: 17Sc black, 7Sc green [24]

Round 8: 16Sc black, 8Sc green [24]

Round 9-12: Sc around green [24]

"If you’re using safety eyes, add them now. They should sit just above half way up the head."

Round 13: {2Sc, DEC} around [18]
Round 14: {Sc, DEC} around [12]
STUFF
Round 15: DEC around [6]

Finish off and weave in tails.

"At this point, you can also add your Kerbal expression. John is smiling (make sure the mouth is quite low down the face) and Glenn is screaming. I used green embroidery thread even around the scream to look like lips. I also added eyebrows on Glenn to increase the scared look. Oh and apparently the accepted Kerbal name is Jebediah, I’m just going with what my customer has elected to call his!"

Body

In orange, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into centre of the magic ring [6]
Round 2: INC around [12]
Round 3: {Sc, INC} around [18]
Round 4: Sc around BLO [18]

Round 5-6: Sc around [18]

Round 7: {3Sc, DEC} three times, 3Sc [15]

Round 8: {3Sc, DEC} around [12]

Round 9: {2Sc, DEC} around [9]

STUFF

"Finish off leaving a long tail for sewing. Sew the open neck under the chin of your Kerbal. Embroidery a zip line down the front of his body in black embroidery thread."


Feet and Legs (x2)

In black, CH4

Round 1: Starting in the second chain from the hook, 2Sc, 1Sc, 3Sc in the beginning chain, (moving on to the other side of the chain) 1Sc, 1Sc [8 - 4 per side]

Round 2: INC around [16]

Round 3: Sc around BLO [16]

Round 4: 4Sc, 4 DEC (in BLO if you want more of a flat boot that I did), 4 Sc [12]

Round 5: {Sc, DEC} around [9]

Change to orange in the last stitch of round 5

Round 6-8: Sc around [9]

Change to yellow in the last stitch of round 8.

Round 9: {Sc, DEC} around [6]

STUFF

"Finish off leaving a long tail for sewing. Sew in place at the bottom of the body (make sure you get your feet the right way round – they’re slightly oval and you want them long ways forward)."

Arms and hands (x2)

In orange, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into centre of the magic ring [6]
Round 2: {sc, INC} around [9]
Round 3: Sc around [9]
Round 4: {sc, DEC} around [6]
Round 5-9: Sc around [6]

"Finish off leaving a long tail for sewing. Flatten the closed end slightly and stitch it flat (around round four or five). Stuff, and sew in place on the body."

Thumbs (x2)

In orange, CH3

Row 1: Starting in the second chain from the hook, Sc along [2]

"Finish off leaving a tail for sewing. Sew to the bottom of each flattened hand, slightly to the front of your Kerbal."

Helmet (optional - I have yet to make the helmet so this is just a direct copy and paste from her website)

Firstly, find one of these:


Credit: Good Housekeeping

Mine was more blocky than round, but that’s ok. The following is a guideline only, since your doser will probably be a different size to mine.

In white, magic ring

Round 1: 6Sc into the centre of the magic ring
Round 2: INC around [12]
Round 3: {Sc, INC} around [18]
Round 4: {2Sc, INC} around [24]
Round 5: {3Sc, INC} around [30]
Round 6: {4Sc, INC} around [36]
Round 7: Sc around BLO [36]
Round 8: Dc around both loops [36]
Round 9: 20 Dc STOP. Ch2 and turn. [20]
Round 10: 20 Dc STOP. Ch2 and turn. [20]

"Insert your plastic cap into the work now. Repeat row 10 as many times an needed to reach the bottom of your cap, then instead of stopping at the end of your 20 Dc, CH16 and join to the beginning of the round with a Slip Stitch."

Round [11]: {4Sc, DEC} around [30]
Round [12]: DC around BLO [30]

"Finish off and weave in the tail. Make sure your plastic cap is positioned within the work so that you can see through it clearly at the front (so you can’t see the measurements if it has them printed on). Secure around the edge of the face panel using a glue gun (optional)."

"Cut two long strips of red felt and glue them across the top running backwards down the helmet. Cut two shorter strips of red felt and glue them to the sides."

"Pop your helmet on your Kerbal and we’re almost finished."

Backpack (This I have also yet to make... been a very busy week)

"Or I suppose it’s actually compressed oxygen really.

In white felt, cut a cross shape as shown below:





Sew this up the edges to create a cube shape. Stuff it slightly before sewing up the final edge.

In black, Ch 10 (approximately – check on your own Kerbal).

Sew one end on the chain to the bottom corners of your backpack facing your Kerbal’s back, and the run the chain around the arms and sew to the top corners of your backpack facing your Kerbal’s back to create straps.

Kerbals finished and ready to be splattered on the moon!"

Star vs. the Forces of Evil review

It's depressing to know that I've grown up. Well I'm depressed regardless of that fact, but that's not necessarily the point.
Adults have an awful lot of responsibility on their plate and part of it happens to be cleaning up the mess children make and dealing with children's episodes. In this case, there seem to be a lot of mess and a lot of episodes. Gone are the days where I can just see the fun side in shenanigan and tom foolery. All I can see is an annoying child who creates havoc wherever she goes.

When I got into Steven Universe by a recommendation from someone, it lead me to searching for more animations with a similar light hearted cartoon with some deep plot behind it. The first cartoon I've come to love next was Gravity Falls. Then when I finished watching that, I searched for my next fill and Star vs. the Forces of Evil came to my attention. I've often seen short clips of it on 9gag and other social media and it seemed alright so I gave it a go.

Star is annoying, compulsive, uncaring (except for some selected people of her interest it seem. Then it's not even 'caring', it borderlines into 'obsession') and just idiotic in general.
There's a lot of partying and sexualisation which I find weird as well.

I think this person summarises why I hate the show so much pretty well http://beachcity.proboards.com/thread/275/star-forces-evil-plain-sucks

Sword art online review

I usually dont watch the full series of anime anymore. Sometimes I can bear it if it's only about 13 episodes long, but for anything longer and mainstream, I lose interest by the time I'm about a quarter way through or my anxiety kicks in and I want to avoid the whole series for some mysterious reason. So usually when I end up watching a whole series like SAO, it's usually because someone I know is forcing me to sit through it with them.
I probably don't have the rights to even review on the anime. During most of the series I was fixated on my phone or ds trying to deal with an unspoken anxiety and i don't remember the full series well.
It all began with a abridged series that was on youtube. I loved the abridged series. I love those types of parody humor and it just made fun of the whole scenario and my friend who also saw it decided it would also be great to watch the actual SAO series. I was interested what the fad was about for sometime as well so I obliged although I would've happily just not watched the series having watched the abridged.
About 1/3 of the first season was interesting (I gave up watching the second season btw). The scenario was interesting and I enjoyed watching different people's reaction to the situation and how they started handling it. When the girl suffered from hopelessness and depression, it was relatable. When groups formed up to get to the top as fast as they can to get out, it was also believable. The loss and guilt Kirito felt was also good.
But after that though... since Asuna got the second highlight, the series just lost something. Things like emotions and reactions started feeling forced and unnatural. Then suddenly we started to see more unrelateable crazy-ass characters, that felt so forced into this world to make it 'interesting'.
Like that group at the dungeon who had a leader that was pushing all his members just to carry on even though they're tired. The overly evil female character who doesn't mind killing other characters for some reason or those random characters who started being fine acting like a total npc in this world. It all just felt like a large joke than something to be taken seriously. This is why I enjoyed the abridged series. It showed that the whole scenario and character development was ridiculous. But to try and watch something that's that ridiculous is a serious manner was unenjoyable.
Then there was the ending of the first series. They destroyed the whole computer game, they got out and I wished that was the end of it. But alas. I guess the author was making a lot of money and needed to keep going. He made another universe. A universe more unrelateable, more forced to drag on the series a little longer. A universe where Kirito's sister falls in love with his brother for some poorly explained reasons. A series where Asuna is forced, yet into another game... um... then later on starts living in it basically? I mean, at some stage in the second season, she even says something along the lines of 'come back as soon as you can, since you belong in this world', like as if she's given up her life in the real world, which goes against all her character build up of how she wanted to get back... Anyway we're at a new game now with elf ears. For some reason Kirito's randomly strong again. The magical, digital 'daughter' Kirito and Asuna has, solves all the complicated problems the main characters face in the new digital world. By this time, I knew the conclusion and I knew it was shitty and I just wanted it to all end.
I won't even go into the second season of this ridiculous show and how much more it just covered itself full of shit to extend Kirito's gaming adventures by introducing guns this time, but really it was just hard to shallow.
In any case, I enjoyed the beginning of SAO and I enjoyed the forces romance between Kirito and Asuna since I am a girl of romance, but otherwise, I lost interest soon after the character development.
I'd probably give it a 6/10