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

Bunny key chain

I don't know what is it about Easter season that everything looks like cute little bunnys and fluffy yellow chickens, but it may be just because I am pregnant. Anyway this month I made more bunnys and rabbits than in my entire crochet carrier :) So I proudly present my newest creation - Key chain bunny.

In early design phase he was suppose to be a brooch, but I decided on key chain later on. I think I will make another one for brooch as soon as I will get some time. That is the greatest thing about such small projects they don't take that much time to make and You can see the effect very soon.

I was looking for the other elements in store that could be used for crochet I already made: hair clips, brooch ( I have a few of these left so wait for another projects) and now the key chain.

Materials:

• grey, pink, orange, green yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• cotton or something else You will use as filament
• key chain element if You want it to be the key chain

Pattern:

Head - make 1

grey yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)


R2: inc around (12)

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

R4 - R5: sc around (18)

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

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

R8 - R9: sc around (12)

stuff

R10: dec 6 (6) FO

Chocobo!

What comes from a combination of fantasy and Easter - the largest known version of chicken - Chocobo :) If there is anyone who doesn't know Chocobos are super cute creatures from Final Fantasy video games. I can even remember them from a versions they were a bunch of yellow pixels, and let me tell You they were already cute!

I just finished him, it took so much time and so much yarn ... (I seriously don't have any yellow yarn in my entire house). I wrote down the pattern but I think it will take me some time to make the complete post with pattern. 

But after making these photos I could not wait to share them with you! He is all wired inside, so it is fully adjustable and therefore so photogenic. I am so pleased he can stand an sit and look great in almost every position. I think he will be the biggest decoration of our Easter table and when I say biggest I mean it :) He came up quite large but we will find the place, who cares about food, right?.

What do you think?

Brush.... Brush.....Brush.... your amigurumi....

Did You ever wonder what happens when You will brush Your amigurumi with dog brush?.... Yes, I didn't too until few days ago when I came across this wonderful post:

http://tamiesnow.typepad.com/roxycraft/2009/06/tutorial-making-brushed-amigurumi.html


I bought my brush right away. Actually I lied few lines above when I said "dog brush", because I bought a brush which was ideal for bunnys :) So I knew right away what I am going to make. You can see exactly how the brush looks like on the pictures , I am sure You can get it in every at store and even supermarket. The effects are different for different kind of yarn or even different colors of the same one. In the tutorial I mentioned few lines below I red You can use any natural fiber yarn except cotton, my yarn was cotton and I am still pleased with the effect. You can always make a little piece to try it on. One thing that I noticed I had to brush the cotton yarn for a long time and when I used the different one later the effect was pretty much the same for a shorter time.

Anyway it all depend on the effect You want to achieve I have to tell You the photos from this tutorial do not reflect exactly how cute and cuddly and soft and furry this bunny is. So I highly recommend to try this technique and experimenting on different yarns.

Happy crocheting!

Few things You need to remember when using dog brush on Your amigurumi projects:

• Brush parts individually before sewing them together.
• Depending on the effect You want to achieve You may want to brush in different or only in one direction
• If it's possible You may want to brush the back side - it make the front one more furry too.
• Before brushing Your amigurumi You may want to try on small test part.
• If You are using not cotton yarn and making a long fur You may want to brush it with the regular brush or the brush for infants to form the exact hairstyle You want.
• If You are using a cotton yarn it may take a while to see any effect

If You have any other tips please share in comments and I will write them here..

My son brushing the bunny :) You can see now who is really doing my projects :) In all seriousness please remember to use the brush on each part separably and before assembly.

Bunny pattern:

Easter is coming....

Easter is coming so, so fast so we all need to hurry with our Holiday crochet and table decorations. I am actually way forward because I menage to save some of my last year egg cozies. I made a lot of cozies last year :D Maybe I will menage to make one more this year! Do You have any ideas or requests? What cozies would You like me to make? Please write in comments.

Meanwhile I decided to clean up the last year patterns for cozies and here I will give You links to all of them.

Every cozy is made from the base and other elements
The first link is for the base of cozy:

BASE COZY

Links for each cozies:

1. Sheeps

SHEEP COZY

2. Flowers

FLOWER COZY

3.Hens

HEN COZY

4. Superbunny and Bunnyman



SUPERHERO BUNNY COZY

5. Mickey and Minnie Cozies

MiCKeY and MiNNie COZIES

6. Yellow chicks

CHiCKEN COZY