My girlfriend made me a Reddit Alien for Christmas. Having shared it with Reddit, I was asked a couple of questions, including "how big is it?" and "how did she make it?"

The first question has an easy answer: about 50cm from top to bottom. But just posting that answer would be no fun, so here's a photo of the two most important people in my life for comparison:

How did she make it? Yeah, not so simple, apparently. Here's a sketch she made while trying to plan it:

(Click to see the full 'WTF' image)

It doesn't help that I know nothing about crochet, and she only started to learn the terminology after finishing the project, but she described it like this:

Ingredients: (or what ever you call them)

~100g (but it might have been 200g) ball of double knitting white yarn

small amount of orange and black yarns

4 mm crocheting hook

0.5m of white satin lining

500g mung beans (or your choice of something else small and weighty)

1kg toy stuffing

A long wire used for cleaning blocked drains

Three polystyrene balls in different sizes for feet (largest), antenna and ears (smallest)

Recipe: (or whatever we call this bit)