Sorry the blog has been quite lately. It's been a busy time between work and home. My son has recently discovered the Lego Ninjago cartoon series. When he discovers something he goes all in for a while and watches the episodes on Netflix repeatedly. He had a birthday recently so I attempted to make a ninja cake. If you check out some of the google images results for a ninjago cake search you will see that the sky is the limit for making a complicated cake design. I choose to do a more simple version. I made a double layer, 10 inch round white cake using a box mix. Some people may be able to make a cake from scratch, however I am not one of them. The one time I tried to do that, it came out hard as a hockey puck. Little dude loves the color green so it had to be the green ninja. I used Wilton food coloring in leaf green to get his green. I think the yellow was labeled lemon yellow. I free handed the eyes so they are a bit wonky but overall the end result came out ok.
I made up my own pattern to cut out oogey boogey and just crocheted a cylinder to make the cheesy guy from Jonah without following real patterns from someone else.
He hadn't expressly asked for a stuffed ninja but I knew he would like one. I found a crochet pattern to use to make one. Even though I don't care much for crochet I attempted it anyway. I have issues with loosing count of stitches and things coming out shaped completely wrong.
I did a Ravelry search and found a pattern for a ninja. I finished him in about a week and surprised him with it right before bed (right after I finished off the last stitches on his black belt thingey he wears. My son was very surprised when I presented it to him and asked for a couple modifications: to give him hair and to attach his hood to him so it doesn't fall off. I will get right on that...
