From the first time I watched through Portal, I wanted a Companion Cube. A lifesize plush one that would take forever to crochet. I even started designing one, but stopped halfway through because I had to move across the country and a lifesize plush Companion Cube wouldn’t fit in my luggage. I eventually started designing a smaller one–one that would sit on my desk and be my companion.

Then I came up with an even better idea–make a Companion Cube into a tissue box:

Somehow crying is a lot less sad when a Companion Cube is handing you a tissue.

I made all four sides using this pattern (adapted from a perler bead pattern I found here http://kandipatterns.com/patterns/misc/large-companion-cube–3449):

I was half thinking about making this into a coaster, hence the black border. This was ignored to make the cube however. I made a top with the same chart, just with a slit down the middle where the heart should be. I slipstitched the edges into a cube shape.

Unfortunately the way I designed this pattern was disproportionate to a normal tissue box so I ended up constructing my own:

“The Enrichment Center reminds you that the Companion Cube cannot speak. In the event that the Companion Cube does speak, the Enrichment Center urges you to disregard its advice.”