This Year's Crochet: 2025 Edition I had a nice lineup this year of Yugioh, Bubble Bobble, Lolo, Hamtaro, Pokemon, and Echoes of Mana. (With guest appearance by [A Regular Duck]!) I usually only make one big thing a year, but Radish Horse and Knitwit King both called out to me this year. #crochet

I find this a little hard to believe, but I seem to be the only person in the world (or at least the Internet) who has ever crocheted Rainbow Kuriboh. Surely Zexal wasn't *that* unpopular? I think Yu-Gi-Oh just isn't very common among crocheters, which is a shame. #yugioh #crochet

I watched #yugioh Arc-V recently and decided I must have Performapal Radish Horse. So I spent the last 5 days working on this and once again surpassing my expectations of myself. I don't consider myself great at making leaves, but I guess I've really gotta stop doubting myself 😅 #crochet 🐎🥕

When Stardust Dragon faces a problem he can't overcome with strength alone, he removes himself to get a better look at the situation, allowing him to negate the problem and get rid of it. Then he can come back feeling refreshed next turn. In your difficult times, be like Stardust Dragon 💪🐲✨

My puzzle game fixation led me back to Lolo 2, a game I've had since I was 5 and never beat. I recently played it again and finally beat it, and now I feel smart. It's surprisingly fun for how difficult it is. I decided he was very craftable, and I love how the tail came out! #crochet #lolo

I've been having car trouble this week and getting rides to work, but my coworker declined my offer for gas money. But since I felt bad about troubling him, I made a Wooper as thanks. #crochet #pokemon #wooper

I've been in a Bubble Bobble mood and also needed a new bag, and realized I haven't cross-stitched in a while, so I made this over the past 4 days. I scrapped some work pants for the lining, and made the candy button from clay and painted it. I really love how it turned out! #bubble_bobble #crochet

I had a random mood to play Puzzle Bobble this week, I used to play 4 on GBC a lot when I was 10 or so. But Bob was always my favorite when me and my brother used to play Bubble Bobble as kids, and I can't usually play him unless there's two of us. So I made a lil plushie about it 💙🐲

I was almost too late to post this for #trialsofmana_30th_anniversary ! I was never very good at the game when I played "Secret of Mana 2" as a kid (I was 7), but this track [Little Sweet Cafe] stuck with me for years until I played the remake and gave me so much nostalgia! #manaseries #music_cover

I realized I haven't been on here in like a month. I've still been lurking and enjoying people's art, but I haven't felt super motivated to create anything myself lately. Just been practicing music here and there and playing a lot of Pokemon Pearl remake. I would like to crochet more soon though.

I played Pokemon Sword for 5 minutes today because I needed to catch Passimian for my Scarlet Pokedex, and literally the first one I found was shiny 🤣 I was gonna have my lv100 guy use False Swipe to lower it to 1 HP, but I decided to hold off. So glad I did because it immediately used Take Down 😅

I hit a 1500 day streak on Amaru yesterday, the self care app I've been using by @fogofmaya.bsky.social I once hit a consecutive 64-note run on the memory bell game, and while I can't break my record, I've been easily doing 25-30 in a row this week. It's a fun way to stretch my short-term memory.

Happy 34th Anniversary #seikendensetsu #manaseries! I haven't made anything new recently, but here's some of my creatures of Mana. Flammie was made 7 years ago this week, so happy birthday to Flammie too! (He has been well loved since then) The Salamando and Rabite are hair clips I made for fun.

I made this for a friend whose name means "snail" in another language. When I looked for inspiration, I was disappointed to see just how many ai-generated "crochet" (it can't be actually done) snail images there were, so I decided to use a real snail for reference. I rather like the result! #crochet

Today is my brother's birthday! While I wasn't able to do anything new this year, here's a Booskaboo (Vuscav) plushie I made him a couple years back. I think he's still one of my best creations! #seikendensetsu3 #trialsofmana #visionsofmana

I would like to help send him on a journey through bluesky! Be free little one! 🧙‍♂️🪄🏳️‍🌈 Share your colors with the world!

As someone who enjoyed and dearly misses #echoesofmana, I was really happy to hear this song again in #visionsofmana Julei ended up being my favorite character, he's got so many great hats 🌱🎩 (I did the harmony on shamisen and then played clarinet over it)

"What's a Rabite doing in a place like this?!" I made this a little while back, when I made the button for Knitwit, and finally remember to paint it last night. (Randi is real, he's from the SoM Collector's Edition) #secretofmana #manaseries #SNES #seikendensetsu

It's been 2 years since I stayed up til midnight to see you off 😭 You're just an echo now, but I'll never forget you 💔 #echoesofmana

One year ago today, I bought my mini shamisen. I've been practicing it almost daily since then, and while I am by no means a prodigy, I think I've done pretty well considering there are very limited learning resources over here. This song is from the GBC #hamtaro game and I tabbed it out myself.

Okay how does Yuma getting the Chaos Emeralds help him play card games better 🤣 that's silly Now anyway let me tell you about how awesome it was when Yusei flew into space on his motorcycle and turned solid gold in order to summon a dragon he just made up, that was peak writing 💯 #yugiohzexal

Okay since @feetstroganoff.bsky.social allowed it, here's Piss Crow! I told them about the time I had to say "Go-P" was the word for "friend" as a kid. I imagined him as this handsome crow that assists Hamtaro when you "Go-P" and I sent the chicken pic as a reference. "Piss Crow" just kind of stuck.

Today is apparently also Crow and Raven Appreciation Day?? I appreciate Crow from 5D's, I think he's a really wholesome bro. I found some Blackwings at a card shop once, not even knowing it was from the show, I just like crows. So we're also deck buddies lol. Also actual crows are Cool and Good lol

I've updated my bio to include my DeviantArt link. I think someone found both pages and thought this one was stealing, but I am in fact the same person 😅 I've just been on there way longer. I decided to go with a different name on here since I didn't want to just be a direct mirror of the same page

Here's my King Knitwit with his "sword" (I didn't make it yet so he fights with a crochet hook, but it's fitting for him) #echoesofmana had some amazing character designs that I'd love to see again someday, but I'm glad the fans can keep it alive through art #manaseries #seikendensetsu #crochet

Today is #echoesofmana 3rd anniversary! I miss this game so much 😭 Here are some critters I've made to carry on its memory: King Knitwit, Ramy, and Baashear! 🐏 Ramy's design was too good to go to waste, so I had to give her 3-dimensional form, although everyone deserved it #ecomana3rdanniversary

I went to a local Chinese Lantern festival with my brother and a friend this weekend and it was really cool! I've always loved lanterns, and anything with a bird or dragon aesthetic. Also took a pic of my zodiac animal, the snake 🐍 (I'm 1990 but Chinese New Year was after my birthday that year)

Today is Easter so here's some Rabites! #secretofmana #manaseries #crochet #seikendensetsu

Tomorrow is Easter, which I don't really celebrate, so here's some Unsolicited Deck Pics™️ This was a joke "Easter Bunny deck" I made like 12 years ago so I'd have a weak deck to teach my step sister how to play. But I liked it so much I've kept it built all this time lol. (It is not a good deck 🤣)

Since I'm not actively working on new things as much as I used to, I'll occasionally post old works too. I've been a huge Dragon Quest fan since I was a kid, and Rain Hawk was always my favorite monster. It took years for my skill to reach this point, but I was finally able to make him!

You ever just get home from work like:

Today is my shiny Houndour's birthday! 🎉 I caught her originally on Crystal in 2003, but I got one on X the same day 11 years later (11 years ago now). I actually spent 2 years off and on trying to hatch another, and the very last egg, at 11:55 that night, ended up being the one.

#onepiece anime is back!! To celebrate, I'm posting my best hat I ever made 🎉 If you've seen this before, congrats, you probably know me on deviantart. I made this hat almost 10 years ago and it's my most popular work on there. Raise your flag and stand tall, everyone! 💪

Man, Jotaro looking rough after Stardust (Dragon) Crusaders 😂 (From Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds) #yugioh5ds #jojosbizarreadventure #isthatajojoreference

A lot of folks justify using AI because they "can't draw". Yeah I can't draw either lol. Try a different hobby. It was sad for me to accept that I just don't seem to grasp drawing the way I want to, but then I picked up a hook one day 17 years ago, and now I make some of the most amazing things.

It's happeniiiiiiiiiing!!!

This is an old photo that came up in my memories, of a kitty I had 8 years ago. I was using fabric glue to stiffen one of my hats and she kept trying to eat it. After the fifth time I grabbed her, she just sulked in my arms. I promise I'm only doing this because I love you kitty! 😭

Something I always thought was a neat touch about the GBC Hamtaro game, is that the game boy dress up accessory you can buy is different depending on what type of GB you currently have the game in. Which isn't too weird considering this was made after the GBA existed, but it's cool all the same.

I was playing Hamtaro last night and got to the crow, and I remembered how when I first played it when I was 12, the only word I knew here was "Go-P", so if you tell him that's the word for "friend", he calls you that for the rest of the game. "If you ever need my help, just shout Go-P!" 😆

Sharing this because it's a mood lol, even though my art isn't *drawings*, my crochet is just "a thing I do" and suddenly people started liking it one day 🤯

I've been wanting to play Hamtaro for GBC lately but I thought the battery in my game died and wouldn't save anymore. Apparently I never actually checked again to confirm this, because not only can it hold a save, but it still had my nearly completed save from over 15 years ago 🙃

Next month is special for me, since it's the anniversary of two shinies I caught on Pokemon Crystal as a kid. On 4/5/03 I caught Meowth, and the very next day I caught Houndour! I felt so lucky! I just finished Houndour after finding the perfect yarn the other day. #pokemon #crochet

I've been wanting to make a Ham-Ham forever! The only one I had colors for was Sandy, so here she is! The stripes came out a little wonky but I still love her. Hamtaro was always such a comfort show for me as a kid, and the games are all wonderful little adventure games. #hamtaro #crochet

I occasionally make little ducks when a coworker I like leaves, but I got the wings a little janky on this one, so if I just stick one of them up slightly it looks like it's saying "my turn! I draw!" 😆

I have these cute white cherry(?) trees near me that have been flowering this week, but we're about to get a nasty storm here so this might be the last I see of them 🥲

Been seeing this meme going around so I had to make the Heroes of Mana version 🤣

24 years ago today, on Pokemon Silver, I caught my first ever shiny, a Swinub. I was still playing on my brick GB too, so if I hadn't happened to have the sound up, I wouldn't have even noticed! Then strangely, years later on Heart Gold, my brother caught his first shiny and it was Swinub too! 🤯

Today marks the 18th anniversary of Heroes of Mana! This game is very dear to my heart despite the jank mechanics, and I loved it so much I made Roget's hat! The photo is from a couple years ago when I made cake Ra-bites to celebrate. #HoM #manaseries

I forgot I was working on this little dude like 4 years ago, he's been sitting in my closet like 90% finished all this time. I finally remembered today and decided to finish him. It's Potamon! From the 2020 Digimon Adventure remake I just love this lil dude and his innocent love of French fries 🍟

So, I play hobby-level shamisen, I've been learning for almost a year now with this mini one. I made my first cheaply layered video last night by playing the backing track on a second phone sitting near the first one. Anyway this is Sunflower Park from the GBC Hamtaro game, "Ham-Ham's Unite"