When I received the info for my match, I have to admit it took me some time to figure out what to make out of it.
The colors she liked:
- red
- pink
- gold
The things she liked:
- cats
- shining things
- weightlifting
- ocean
- backgammon
- roses/orchids
- USC football
- karaoke
- old timey clocks
I couldn't find one thing that really inspired me. As my craft is crochet and I mostly make amigurumi, "cats" was a good starting point. Making a cat amigurumi would have been a really straightforward project, so I decided to incorporate ALL THE THINGS!
I drew a couple of ideas, which at some point was: a cat, standing on a backgammon board, which itself was on top of a football and a dumbbell, in a raft kind of way (to represent the ocean... right?), with a mic in one end for karaoke, and a bouquet of roses in the other ones, and a clock in its pocket.
As you can guess, it seemed a little bit too much, so I decided to make 2 cats, and split the different elements on each. Such as the 2 cats would represent 2 aspects of my match.
One ended up with what I would call a romantic side: roses for earrings, old timey clock for belly with music notes on the back, scarf with backgammon hints. Its name is Romeow.
The other one ended up with a more sportive side: a football-belly with notes for stitches, lifting weights, with a baseball cap (turtle logo for the ocean, because why not?). Its name is Cathlete.
While the cats are white, I used a sparkly yarn, and I crocheted most of the other elements with pink/red/gold yarn.
I was so late with the project due to both my daughters being pretty sick for 3 weeks, that I had to finish Romeow and Cathlete during my lunch breaks at work, hence the bad quality of the pictures, and the few amount of them :(
The result is a silly duo of cats, that I think the recipient enjoyed :)
Let me introduce you to Romeow and Cathlete!
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Oh and also, the awesome made-up box to give them away:
