crocheted Naruto

Three years and Counting – a Naruto Themed Anniversary Gift

Last week, I suddenly felt the overwhelming need to create my husband a gift for our anniversary this week. I have always made gifts for Mike since we started going out as couple and I stopped when we got married. Mike doesn’t want anything but service like a massage, a different food experiment, a coffee concoction, even a haircut. So I indulge him by providing him massage and cooking food for him. But then I realized that these things have been an ordinary token of love that I just have to make something not ordinary.

Since my husband is a very simple guy, it is harder to think of something that would really make him like, you see, he is very content and happy but I just want to see that hint of surprise in his eyes.

Mike always love Naruto. He is the one who even introduced the anime to me. So we used to spend days watching the series repeatedly.

And it is from that concept that I felt I have to do something inspired. But remember that I have already given him a Naruto crocheted coaster a while back? Doing something like that would not have anything “special” to it, so I have to think more.

Then I thought of the whole characters in Kakashi sensei’s team. It was a feat, of course as I only have five days to make the gift and I cannot crochet when he is around and I have work.

But I was able to finish the gift! And seeing him very happy with it filled my heart with delight :) I cannot remember now the day I woke up in the morning to crochet endlessly 😀

Here are the pictures:

Naruto Team 7 - Kakashi Sensei, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke - themed crocheted pillow

Naruto Team 7 – Kakashi Sensei, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke – themed crocheted pillow

Naruto Team 7 - Kakashi Sensei, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke - themed crocheted pillow

Naruto Team 7 – Kakashi Sensei, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke – themed crocheted pillow

Naruto Team 7 - Kakashi Sensei, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke - themed pillow

Naruto Team 7 – Kakashi Sensei, Naruto, Sakura and Sasuke – themed crocheted pillow

Mike holding the pillow with glee

Mike holding the pillow with glee

We celebrated our third year anniversary yesterday! Three years with a new baby in tow 😀

Happy Anniversary!

Happy Anniversary!

Crocheted Naruto Mug Coaster

I always love Naruto, and I love drinking coffee.
Don’t you think they go well together?

Crocheted Naruto Mug Chibi Coaster

Crocheted Naruto Mug Chibi Coaster

I have been spending sometime last week looking at this picture:

Naruto Chibi

Naruto Chibi

Trying to comprehend how can i turn my stitches so that it will form Naruto’s lively face. Initially I started by rows. That did not work out. The edges are ugly and ragged. Then I started in cricles which proved more difficult to shape. Come weekend, I retired the project but still the idea keep haunting me that I worked on it again and finally found the trick. Half circles!

So when I am done shaping the face, the rest of the head was easier to make. The details of the face were slip stitched into the sc mesh, with a bit difficulty. I was not even sure if the slip stitches would work out since I usually do embroidery with a needle but it’s a first to do it with a crochet hook.

The effort really paid off, because when my husband came home yesterday and saw the coaster, he was very delighted and wanted to take it with him to work.

My husband with the mug coaster

My husband with the mug coaster

Here is the crocheted mug coaster:

Crocheted Naruto Chibi (2D)

Crocheted Naruto Chibi (2D)