Ninja turtles

Looking for teenage mutant ninja turtles (TMNT) crochet patterns on the web, I found quite a few:

• http://wolfdreamer-oth.blogspot.ca/2011/03/tmnt-michaelangelo.html
• http://knittedtoybox.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-tmnt.html
• http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=209461.0#axzz38zEvPrR0
• http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-crochet

However, I ended up paying for this pattern on Etsy, because it was just too cute. Baby mutant ninja turtles, yeay!

I received loads of help on this one with sewing them all up and creating their little weapons. The weapons were not in the pattern, nor was the belt and the elbow/knee bands, which come on handy to pose the turtles with their weapons.

Leo's katanas are made from an old saw blade spray painted silver and partially covered in yarn to simulate the hilt. Raph's sais are paperclips twisted into shape, again with yarn wrappings for hilts. Mikey's nunchuks are chunks of cocktail sticks joined by an old key chain part. And Donnie's staff used to be a twig found on the road that was whittled down and wrapped with yarn in the middle.

Beware, your pizzas are no longer safe with these around...