Sewing machine/ It's all my husband's fault !

Okey guys so You need a little explanation on Why am I so rarely publishing new posts on my blog. Here comes the explanation: It's all because of my husband!!! 1-st thing he made me two babies which are taking almost all of my time, 2-nd thing he bought me the sewing machine! I have to tell You I am in love in sewing it is so fast compared to crocheting. It doesn't mean I will give up my biggest hobby - crocheting it only mean I have a new one and I decided I will also share it with YOU.

So here is the list of things I have already made:

1. Elephant baby lovey - It's actually Frankenstein's monster elephant baby lovey to be precise and I absolutely love it. I made it for my youngest son to hug and love and watch colorful elements and play with different ribbons - long story short - He is not interested :D:D But it looks great, right?!

2. Hello Kitty Pillows - Two white Hello Kitty's were a present for my beloved sister's daughter who is the biggest fan of Hello Kitty's and pink :) The black cat Koko Kitty ?? is the version for my 3 yo son to not leave him empty handed ( He actually thought it's an owl - which is a good assosiation cause owl's are lately drawn with this kind of eyes) But my personal favourite is Stormtrooper Hello Kitty Pillow!

Mario Star for the top of the Christmas Tree

Mario Star as a top of Your Christmas Tree - isn't that a wonderful idea for every Mario lover (like me). I will tell You when I was young I had a GameBoy and only one game - Mario ( I think it was SuperMarioLand ?!) Can You imagine how much time I spend on this game.... Even I don't know exactly but I remember when You played the whole game You could play new game plus (with extra monsters) and then plus plus...  To be short I Love mario, so If You love mario and stars and Christmas You have to make this little star for Yourself.

Materials:

• yellow, black, green yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• cardboard
• bit of black and white material for eyes
• cotton wool or some other stuffing
• hook 3 mm

Make two yellow stars using this wonderful  crochet pattern by April Draven:
http://aprildraven.blogspot.com/2009/11/star-stuffie-twinkle-star-free-crochet.html

From the black and white materials cut the eye elements and sew them to one of the stars.

From cardboard cut two smaller stars . See the photo for reference.

Last year's Christmas tree ornaments FREE patterns

Hi guys Christmas is coming and I wanted to remind You last year's free patterns for Christmas Tree ornaments:

MR Snowman:

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/12/mr-snowman-christmas-tree-ornament-free.html

REINDEER:

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/12/reindeer-christmas-tree-ornament-free.html

Merry Christmas guys I am wishing You happiness everyday, may Your hearts be filled with joy and peace. From my point of view from all my heart I am wishing You a lot of free time for crafts :)

Moomins - anti scratch gloves for babies FREE PATTERN

 Moomins - anti scratch gloves for infants. You can also use them as little hand-puppets later on...

 Let me guess after my few last posts You all thought I will not publish free patterns anymore.... You could not be more wrong :) I will still post some of my patterns free. I have to make some of them paid to make money for yarn and also I am hoping to make this little hobby of mine full time job. Will I make it? Stay with me and see :)

I made those gloves for my second son Leon, here he is:

Can You see how beautiful he looks without this ugly scratch marks on his face :) That is thanks to Moomin and his fiance Snorkmaiden (in Poland she is called "panna Migotka"). Do I even have to say I love moomins it's one of those tales You remember Your entire life. It's so original and lovely and scary and creepy all at the same time. What is there not to love, maybe just The Groke (Buka) brrr....

Materials:

• cream, white, dark yellow, blue, brown and black yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
•  white elastic
• hook 3 mm

 Pattern:

Boots from Dora the Explorer PATTERN

 

Boots from Dora the explorer PATTERN is now available in my shop:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/246701658/crochet-pattern-boots-from-dora-the

Boots is a beloved character from Dora the Explorer, me and my son are actually a big fans of the show. In Poland Dora is teaching English and my 2,5 son is learning soooooo much, and sometimes there is even something for me to learn :P

Finished toy is 28 cm long (11 inches) from hair to boots :) 

Two headed dragon - baby rattle PATTERN in my shop

My first paid pattern is available on etsy now.  You can see and buy it here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/245955284/two-headed-dragon-baby-rattle-pattern-by?ref=shop_home_active_1




Two headed dragon-baby rattle. Lovely handmade gift for a baby shower - cute, colorful dragon with a few ribbons for little fingers to play with.

Rattle that I created was for my son, who was still in my belly then. I have put a huge amount of love in it and I must admit that I am very pleased with the final result, and although my son is still too tiny (3 weeks) to play with it now I hope that he will love it and one day will be grateful for a time I spend to create this unique gift for him.

Finished rattle from heads to the end of tail is 9.8 inches (25 cm), the base circle is about 4.3 inches (11 cm).

My little etsy shop

I finally opened my own etsy shop with handmade crochet items. You can visit me here:

MY SHOP

For now I am selling a collection of my framed crochet pictures. Every picture is designed, drawn and handmade by me. Each of them is made with great care and attention to details. Every picture is a unique piece, I never make the same design twice, that is probably because I have too many ideas for this series to go back to pictures I have already made :P

Each piece of the picture is crocheted with a 55% cotton and 45% acrylic yarn and 3 mm hook for anyone interested in details of how I made each pictures contact me and we will discuss it more :)

Size of the framed piece is 25x25x5 cm (10x10x2 inches). There is a front glass in the frame. Weight is about one kilo. The frame is ready to hang. And let me tell You they look great hanging on the wall both from far away and from near when You can see all the amazing details and the crochet texture I personally love as You all probably already now.

I am planning to add more items soon so please visit me in the future. I will add more pictures and other items too, maybe some complicated and hard crochet patterns that will not find a place on my blog, and let me tell You I have a few of them... :)

Please wish me luck as I would love to change my blog writing hobby into full time job in witch I will make at least some money... :)

FOX brooch -free pattern

I am back :) with a brand new free pattern for this cute fox brooch. The brooch is adorable and I have got a lot of compliments when I was wearing it. It looks great on a dark background which is especially great If You like me like Your jackets dark or black. 

I designed it as a brooch but You can use it in any form You like as an applique or hair accessory I am sure it will look great anyway.

Materials:

• orange, white, black yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• 2 black beads  ( 4 mm would be best)
• hook 3 mm
• brooch or safety pin

Pattern:

Head - make 1


orange yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)


R2: inc around (12)

R3: * sc 3, inc 3* X2 (18)

R4: sc around (18)

R5: sc around (18)

R6: * sc 4, dec * X3 (15)

R7: * sc 3, dec * X3 (12)

R8: sc around (12)

R9: sc 10, ss 2 (12) FO

Finger puppets 2 - SUPERVILLAINS sneak peek

Do You remember these guys?:

When I was making the superheroes finger puppets I had so much fun I promised myself I will make more and what is a better pair for superheroes if not super-villains.

I chose villains from the Batman movies cause there is so many colorful characters to chose from, the ones I made are probably my favorite ones. So there they are:

Cat woman

Poison Ivy

Joker

Penguin
















Riddler















I will make posts about each and every character with pattern to crochet it yourself. When? I hope soon - as soon as my 4 weeks old son will sleep a bit more than half an hour ( he is always hungry :) I hope You will like the supervillains set as much as You loved the heroes. I also hope it's not the end of my finger puppets series of crochet characters, I don't have the theme yet, but I am sure something will came out.
Maybe You have some brilliant idea on set theme? Please write if You do.

We are home :)

My second son is almost two weeks today and we are finally home from the hospital. He is a healthy 3,5 kg boy and he's name is Leon.  As You can see we already made our first photo session with the anti-scratch gloves I made some time ago . I can already tell he will be a wonderful model :)

We would like to thank everyone for a good words and best wishes and messages and emails.  We definitely felt all the good energy that was coming from all over the world, thanks again :)

R.A.T

Crochet rat - wired rat I have made some time ago. He is super cute and is now sitting in an honorable place above the tv in my living room.

I made his eyes, nose and teeth from modeling clay, which I have painted later on. This topic actually deserve the separate post which I am planning to make someday. I wonder if You think it's better to make the custom parts or to use the ones available in shops. As You can deduce I am for making them Yourself but the fact is they are not perfect and even after some practice I can't achieve the perfect effect especially for the circular and/or bright elements, which meant every clay element in this project :).

The rat's fur is very realistic. I made and then brushed each gray, furry part of the rat. If You would like to know more about brushing amigurumi see my previous post here:

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2015/03/brush-brushbrush-your-amigurumi.html

He is fully wired inside so he is posing perfectly for the photos.

I especially love this next photo from the back. He is much more serious here when You don't see the cartoon eyes.

My little Pony - crochet hair clip FREE PATTERN

Crochet hair clip - My little Pony, if You know a bit about Pony's ( and I have to tell You I don't) You will get that he is inspired by Rainbow Dash. I chose him because of the vivid rainbow colors which looks great together. I think the hair clip will look great on every hair color and the pony itself is so cute and lovely.  I hope You will follow the pattern below and make one pony for yourself and another ones for Your daughters or nieces or mothers or anyone else You can think of.

I made this little Pony hair clip for my friend. She took him to work the next day and he vanished. I just hope he ran away to make world a better place, not to do evil :)

I am curious what will happen to Your pony's, that I hope You will make with my pattern (below), if any of them will have some other interesting stories please write me an email and as always, even if Your pony will not suddenly revive and run away to the world, I would love to see the photos of Your creations. I am collecting all of the photos You send and I hope to make a wonderful gallery someday.

 

My Little Pony is another item from my collection of hair clips, previous posts about hair accesories:

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2015/02/there-is-cat-on-my-head-hairclip-free.html

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2015/02/there-is-black-cat-on-my-head.html

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2015/03/mad-hatters-little-hat-by-crazy.html

Newborn Hats - photo props

Time is running so fast and before I even realized I am eight months pregnant and there is so much to do for this little new baby, not only things to buy and clean and prepare but also so many CROCHET THINGS I could make for him (I am having a second son by the way). So as I made the list of things we need to buy for the baby and for me when I go to the hospital and so on, I made a second more private list of things I want to make with yarn. Lets be serious - the new baby is a wonderful excuse to make all those funny and childish and little things. 

So the first on my list were the hats and I am really proud of how they present themselves I almost can't wait to see them on my little model. When my first son was born I also had the phase of making the hand sewn hats from polar. I made like 20 of them, where the most were for the newborns and to be completely honest I didn't even tried them cause I was so panicked he will be too hot or they will make him scratch or the picture will be made with flash and it will hurt his eyes and so on and so on....that I didn't made any photos ad now I don't have a wonderful memory photos to look at. I will not make that mistake this time. I will make sure to keep a few rules when making a photo session. I wrote them down If anyone would be interested:

• make sure the baby is not hungry!
• make sure the room where You are making photos have the right temperature.  
• make sure the lightning is good. Choose the time when there is a lot of daylight. Try not to use flash, even when baby eyes are closed.
• for Your first session preferably choose the time when Your baby is sleeping.
• If You are worried about rash, wash all the photo props in child safe detergent before using.
• Don't worry if You will fail the first time or Your baby will get up too soon, You can always try again tomorrow. Be very patient and it's a good advise for many aspects when it comes to babys :)

When I will finish my baby photo session I will post the photos and maybe some additional tips.

But back to the hats I made three. I used 5.5 mm hook and suitable yarn for this hook size. 

The first one is Aviator hat. I love ear flap hats and that is probably why this is my favorite one I think it will look wonderful on photos.

Second one is a variation on popular elf hat and i would like to call it Gryffindor Elf, my husband called it that  as soon as he saw the colors I choose ( I hate the combination of green and red together BLEH.. )

By the way it's the first pom-pom I made in my entire life, well second one to be honest I made one for practice before I used the right yarn.

Last but not least is the Viking hat - made when watching the Vikings show, which is amazing! I didn't exactly see anyone in the show wearing this kind of hat exactly but I imagine they would if they would have one :) So I am waiting for proposition I can make this kind of hats for the entire crew. Can You imagine this photo, where they are all wearing them :D