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It's May and I will soon have made another successful trip around the Sun, so to celebrate, I am holding another #CazimodoCrochet competition for a free custom made crochet toy with free postage to anywhere in the world. The same rules apply as before:

1. You have to follow me
2. Post a photo of what you would like to have made with the hashtag #CazimodoCrochet
3. It can be anything you like as long as it is a single object.

I will choose the winner at random on the 31st of May.

If you entered the February competition, but did not win, then I'll automatically take your entry into account for this run, unless you prefer to change it, so be sure to let me know if that is the case.

I would post the photos from the last competition winning entry, but it's currently travelling to the USA so I want the new owner to have the fun of seeing her new toy first 🙂

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the first mold half for our evil robot keshi toy has completed successfully, so I took a quick trip over to the makerspace and started the other half - now streaming at https://communitymedia.video/w/mRHVWvh2XarauLFYt1CdK4 for the next 29 hours or so!

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photo of an aluminum block on the laser's base surface with a half an evil robot embossed deeply (12.5mm) into the block

the same mold half, held in my hand showing the details of the embossing job.

Fewer than eight hours remain on the first half of our evil robot keshi mold!

https://communitymedia.video/w/mRHVWvh2XarauLFYt1CdK4

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The laser livestream is back up and running with a new mold being cut, this time for our keshi-style evil robot!

Follow along here if’n ya like watching lasers blast metal away: https://communitymedia.video/w/mRHVWvh2XarauLFYt1CdK4

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didn’t get to see it myself due to feeling sickly and not wanting to spread that around, but @ajroach42 took video of his walkthrough of REDACTED as part of our expansion plans. so very excited to share more info with y’all in the next few weeks! #toymaking #makerspace #NEHI

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Sometimes I crochet things just for my own enjoyment and amusement. Like Puddleduck, a duck in a puddle 😊 His feet tuck into the hollows in the puddle so that they are hidden when he is "swimming".

#Crochet #Crocheting #Toys #Toy #ToyMaking #FibreCraft #FibreArt @crochet

A yellow crochet duck with a big orange beak and large, googly eyes, sitting on top of a crochet puddle with a blue surface to indicate water and brown underside to indicate earth.

The same yellow crochet duck now out on the floor next to the crochet puddle. His large orange webbed feet are now visible and two hollows in the crochet puddle are now visible. This is where his feet are tucked into when he sits on the puddle.

and here’s a couple shots of the build-in-progress pneumatic vise for our pneumatic injection molding setup! #toymaking

photo of the vise build in progress - there's a lot of machined aluminum parts and a SC100x100 pneumatic cylinder on top.

the completed vise build atop a rolling stool because that dang vise is heavy af for real

hell yeah hell yeah, @ajroach42 got us covered and took photos!

here’s the chungus in all its glory (and me, in all of mine) direct from the Ellijay Makerspace earlier today. #toymaking

a photo of me, wearing reflective (not laser safe!) goggles, a respirator mask, and a hackers.town hoodie that has little bits of aluminum all over it as I hold up one of the mold halves I just took an angle grinder to to get it flattened out appropriately.

a small chungus of a sasquatch toy in orange rubbery plastic from the side view - he's thick!

the same small chungus of a sasquatch toy from the front view - it looks great! all the details are there, it's a fab toy.

the two completed mold halves still on the laser bed and covered in aluminum powder that the laser dislodged from the aluminum block.

Here’s a screengrab of the current job’s layout if you want to take a gander at the depth map we’re blowing into this block of aluminum. #toymaking

A photo taken through our fiber laser's built-in top-down camera showing the work area, the bar of aluminum, and the depth map of an upside down back of Nosferatu along with a couple keying holes and the fill sprue off to the right side.

3D Printing Video Wall

https://communitymedia.video/videos/watch/bac9dd57-8ba3-44ce-a806-f24460ee199b

Here's a recent quirky crochet make. He's a Gaming Shrimp, because even shrimp like to relax with a bit of gaming from time to time 😁

#Crochet #Crocheting #Toys #Toy #ToyMaking #FibreCraft #FibreArt @crochet #Gaming

A photo of a crochet shrimp sitting on a little owl beanbag, wearing a grey and blue headset with a microphone and holding a white gaming controller similar to an XBox controller.

A recent crochet toy, made for a wee two year old. I think this chap is just fabulous daahling! 😊

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A drawing of a very long chap with skinny yellow arms with purple long four-fingered hands, long skinny purple legs with long skinny yellow feet, and a long body with a yellow and white striped top. He has a large round yellow head with two large round white eyes with black pupils and highlights in them. He has a little red button nose and is wearing a skew half moon pink smile. One of his eyes has a purple square patch underneath it. He is wearing a purple sun hat with a white band and a large, floppy brim and a purple neck tie with white polka dots.

The crochet version of the long skinny chap in the first image. He is sitting on a little owl bean bag next to a red wall with one of his legs crossed over the other and his hands splayed at his sides. He is looking directly at the camera.

Here is a fairly recent ( I really must get around to updating my website with these!) Kids' Drawing story make for a wee girl, who was very specific with her instructions to me on the drawing, and then also via her Mum who ensured I made the head cream and not yellow, gave her blue eyes, and added in the brown fringe 😊 I decided to also add the rest of the hair and make the hoodie removable from the head and added a little green skirt and some black shoes.

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A child's drawing of a figure with a very large round yellow head and a tiny body. The face has two large black eyes with long eyelashes and a button with freckles over it, and a big U shaped mouth. The head is wearing a green frog hoodie with two frog eyes on top. The drawing is covered in written instructions from the child.

A photo of the crochet version of the drawing. In this version the face is cream and the eyes blue with black pupils. There is also a visible fringe of brown hair. The body is small in relation to the head, but larger than in the drawing. It has the green hoodie top and a skirt in a slightly different green shade as well as arms and legs with black shoes. It is sitting on an owl bean bag on a wooden surface next to a red wall.

This is another photo of the same crochet doll, taken from the side this time, showing the hoodie top removed so that the brown, wavy hair, made up from strands of yarn, is visible.

A recent Kids' Drawing Toy crochet make. I just received a lovely photo of the wee boy with his toy smiling away, which always melts my heart 😊 Note that the green used for the toy is actually close to the shade in the drawing, but my phone camera always seems to change green for some reason.

#Crochet #Crocheting #Toys #Toy #ToyMaking #FibreCraft #FibreArt @crochet

A child's drawing of a green, rectangular monster. He has an orange line down his left side and also an orange flash on the bottom right. He has two purple squares on the top of his head and a large square eye outlined in purple, with a black and purple pupil. He is smiling a devious smile made up of green, blue and orange and has two small blue outlined hands. He has three toes on each side, the outer ones being green outlined in blue and the middle one all blue.

A photo of the crochet toy made to resemble the child's drawing in the first image standing against a red wall. The green in the photo looks to be a different shade, but it's down to the camera and maybe the red background. In the drawing the second set of toes is obscured by a scribble, but they are visible on the crochet toy.

our #3dPrinting escapades continue apace with about 24 hours left on our 500mm tall Nosferatu print on the OrangeStorm Giga, live streaming here by the power of the fediverse: https://communitymedia.video/w/fzCLcsCLBaDYHkTBtMYfTA

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This is a recent custom crochet Kids',Drawing Toy for a wee girl. His name is Tangy, and doesn't he just look delicious! So clever of her 😊

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A child's drawing of a creature with a triangular body that looks like it has been stitched together. The left side is yellow with green stitching and the right side is green, also with green stitching, apart from the green right arm, which has yellow stitching it has a round nose, also divided in the middle with yellow on the left and green on the right, and two round black eyes. It has a yellow left arm and leg and a green right arm and leg, but in the head the left ear is green and the right yellow with an orange outline. It has a green X at the bottom of its torso and a white label with its name - Tangy- in black on the lower right hand side.

This is a photo of the crochet version of the child's drawing standing on an owl bean bag next to a red wall. In the crochet version the label with the name Tangy is draped over the right arm as it is left loose so the child can remove it if she wants to.

#toymaking continues in #mountaintowntoys land our monstrous minis and pocket protectors are now available on our website ( https://mountaintowntoys.com ), we're prepping to release new designs, our plastics supplier is formulating yet another blend of functional additives for us to test which should be ready before the end of the week.

We've built, destroyed, and rebuilt our new pneumatic injection molding machine. We're designing new molds, and working to further automate our process.

It's Good.