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Sunday, October 14, 2012

Secret Project #2 FO! - Cute Cthulhu

So...It has been a while, but I finally was able to finish up my latest Secret Project!

A little recap about my Secret Project progress...and the big reveal at the end!

I had a lot of fun with my last Secret WIP posts that I thought I would start up another round here. Quite a few of my friends/family have caught baby fever over the past year and lil ones are popping up all around me. My last Secret FO was an 'Under the Sea' themed baby mobile that was unveiled at my Sister in Laws baby shower. Here it is installed in my niece's room:

Under The Sea
I am super excited about being able to FINALLY finishing up this latest Super Secret Amigurumi for this sweet lil one! Here are a couple of pictures of the "pieces" of the project I have posted along the way:

Hint...There are two of these!
Eye C U!
Look...it's a bird! it's a plane! it's...
LIL CTHULHU!!!

YES!...Super Secret Project #2 is an Amigurumi Cthulhu!


I got the idea to make this little guy from a co-worker who recently had her first lil boy. She described that they were decorating the lil ones room in a mythological creature theme...How cool is that? and...What better mythological creature is there than Cthulhu? A little bit about the Cthulhu mythos:

From wikipedia.org..."Cthulhu[1] is a fictional cosmic entity who first appeared in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928. The character was created by writer H. P. Lovecraft." "H. P. Lovecraft's initial short story, "The Call of Cthulhu", was published in Weird Tales in 1928 and established the character as a malevolent entity hibernating within an underwater city in the South Pacific called R'lyeh. Described as resembling "...an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature.... A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque scaly body with rudimentary wings",[6]the imprisoned Cthulhu is apparently the source of constant anxiety for mankind at a subconscious level, and also the subject of worship by a number of religions (located in New Zealand, Greenland, Louisiana, and the Chinese mountains) and other Lovecraftian monsters (called Deep Ones[7] and Mi-Go[8]). The short story asserts the premise that, while currently trapped, Cthulhu will eventually return. His worshipers chant "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" ("In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.")[6]"


     

I can't wait to deliver this super-duper adorable Cthulhu Ami...as I think they will be very happy!
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Thanks for reading!