Continuing my series of amigurumi Star Wars characters from the instructions from the Star Wars Crochet craft kit, I decided to make Boba Fett.

I had been interested in making this one for a while, but I felt that I didn't have the right colors of yarn to make it work, especially the sage green and light gray that make up the bulk of the figure. But after I picked up some new yarn I got started on it.

The red might be a little brighter than is ideal, as is the yellow that gets incorporated a bit later, but since they're mostly highlight colors I think it works OK, and the main green and gray seem like good fits to me. One of the reasons I was excited to try this project was because it introduced a technique I hadn't learned before, pulling loops through existing crochet to form new slip stitches on top of it. It's used here for the vertical part of the red outline on Boba Fett's helmet.

I'm not sure if I've ever paid a ton of attention to all of the elements of Boba Fett's design, but he wears a belt with a lot of pouches. This design incorporates that via bobble stitches. I think you can sort of make it out, although maybe I should have popped them out a bit farther, or made a bubblier bobble.

Similarly, I'm not sure I ever noticed that he has yellow knee and shoulder pads, but when I compared the design to reference photos from the movies he does.

The pattern calls for gray pieces to be crocheted separately and attached to the head to form some of the helmet details. I tried following the pattern exactly but the gray pieces on the side were turning out too short for me, so I made them a few stitches longer than the pattern called for.

The last part of the design from the pattern is the cape/sash thing that hangs from his left shoulder.

And he's done!

I believe my crochet technique has been improving somewhat, although there are a few elements here and there that I could still improve. On the R2-D2 project I realized that I was doing some things backwards from the way the book expected them to be done (basically I had been going from the inside out, but now I realize I should have been going from the outside in), so I think this likely makes the color transitions work better. Adding the extra lines of slip stitches to the helmet detail was really interesting to me, before this project I hadn't even realized something like that would be possible. I'm not sure exactly what I would use it for yet, but it seems like it could be a powerful technique since I think it could serve as the base for additional structural elements rather than just being purely decorative like in this particular project.

And here's my whole collection so far:

What's next?

I'm not sure what my next project will be. I would like to try to design some more of my own, like with my Thing or my leprechaun, but I also feel like I want to develop a better way to visualize the designs before I start working on them so I can get details like hairlines or superhero logos to work more smoothly. I might also try another of the Star Wars projects, although I might need more yarn colors. One possibility I'm considering is revisiting one I've already done, such as the stormtrooper, to try applying the things I've learned and skills I've (hopefully?) improved to see if that makes a difference.