TOP 5 Christmas patterns by Krawka

 

TOP 5 Christmas patterns by Krawka:

1. Christmas CAT tree https://www.etsy.com/listing/650371812/crochet-pattern-no-1816-christmas-cat?ref=shop_home_feat_2

2. Polar BEAR https://www.etsy.com/listing/666201649/crochet-pattern-no-1817-polar-bear-with?ref=shop_home_feat_1

3. Reindeer https://www.etsy.com/listing/481633738/crochet-pattern-no-1640-christmas?ref=shop_home_feat_4

4. Frozen Snowman https://www.etsy.com/listing/577278969/crochet-pattern-no-1733-frozen-snowman?ref=shop_home_feat_3

and don't forget about the free Christmas pattern from my blog:
5. Gingerbread man http://krawka.blogspot.com/2017/12/gingy-gingerbread-man.html

Heart pillow for charity

 

I've made this little heart pillow for charity auction. The pillow is 20 cm long and 18 cm height. It's made from cotton/acrylic yarn. Pattern for this pillow (without the inscription - which is made from chains and was extremely time consuming to make, as you may have quested :)  will be available for free here on my blog very soon.I hope more heart pillows will be made by you, and maybe even some for charity reasons too.

For anyone who is interested the auction link:

http://aukcje.wosp.org.pl/poduszka-serduszko-z-logo-wosp-szydelkowa-i4096242

Four-leaf clover for luck - FREE PATTERN

Four-leaf clover for luck. I made this little clovers as a house warming gift for my friend. They are very cute and little and filled with positive thoughts and good energy and the most important: You don't have to water them :)

The whole project was inspired by this movie:

https://youtu.be/xfGAEZ-tiBY

so Thank You Bag-O-Day Crochet for this wonderful movie. Please watch it to see detailed instructions on how to make the upper clovers.

Materials:

• brown, lighter green, darker green yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• cotton wool or some other stuffing (I used green foam for this project, You can see it on the photos)
• black beads  ( 4 mm would be best)
• hook 3 mm 
• small flower pot
• small wire
• hot glue - to glue the ground to the pot.

 

Pattern:

 

Cowl - winter collection

Cowl collection I have made this winter for my friends and family.  As You already know I am sewing now from quite some time, my husband bought me my first sewing machine and since then I am torn between sewing, crocheting and my other activities.  I have million ideas per second and I am so proud this one - the cowl project came to life.

Cowls are made from tweed wool or cotton fabric outside and very soft fleece inside. Black border is made from vegan leather. For closing my cowls I used big buttons or snap fasteners.

The cowl is very elegant and modern looking. I am wearing one of them ( the bottom one one the upper picture is mine) and I am very pleased with it. I am wearing it on top of my black coat and it looks super elegant.

After Christmas time I made final three cowls which are now on sale in my shop. If You are interested please visit the below links. If You have any questions please contact me via etsy shop or email: krawka.blog@gmail.com

https://www.etsy.com/listing/265790004/womens-wool-cowl-scarf-neckwarmer-shawl?ref=shop_home_active_3

https://www.etsy.com/listing/265929440/womens-cowl-scarf-neckwarmer-shawl-with?ref=shop_home_active_2

https://www.etsy.com/listing/265824137/womens-wool-cowl-scarf-neckwarmer-shawl?ref=shop_home_active_1

Puff Quilt - mini tutorial

 

Have You ever tried quilting and even puff quilting? Let me tell You - it's fun. My favourite thing in this kind of work is You need to be focused when You are starting, but later on You will work on autopilot ( DO I have to tell You can watch Your favourite tv show when on autopilot...)

I have made my first puff quilt project this December. I made four chair cushions for my Mom as a gift. As I have said before the first one was a challenge, the next ones was pure fun with Vikings or Elementary I don't remember exactly...

First thing You need to do when making a puff quilt is cutting Your material to squares. I made the quilt with two different patterned materials - dotted and stripped. The other material is only used on the back of quilt and it will not be seen, so You can use the material You hate, as I did :)

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:

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).

java's DUKE - free pattern

I made this little DUKE mascot, on my husband's request, for a friend who is a JUG's member in our city. If anyone would like to see the archetype with my city's proud logo here it is:

I am wondering is there anyone else in this world geek-y enough to make crochet DUKE, If You did that or planning to do that with the pattern below You have to e-mail me the results and let me know I am not alone on this planet :P

Actually I think the mascot turned out great and I recommend it to anyone not only java enthusiasts. It's so friendly and funny looking that he doesn't even need eyes to be cute. It reminds me of the older versions of moogle's, because of the nose probably.

Materials:

• white, black, red yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• bit of wire if You want hands to be adjustable
• cotton wool or some else filament.

Reindeer Christmas Tree ornament - free pattern

I made Reindeer to keep company to Mr Snowman from my previous post. They look great together on a Christmas Tree.
Finished reindeer is 13 cm tall.

Materials:

• light brown, dark brown, beige yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• plastic ball (mine are 5-5,5 cm diameter) and stuffing for the body. If You don't have ball don't worry just stuff the head with some light stuffing.
• a bit of thin wire, like 5 cm max, for the loop on top of the head
• a bit of black material for the eyes

Pattern:

My Christmas Tree - crochet Christmas Tree ornaments

I present my Christmas Tree. At first I made the characters there are:

• Snowman
• Reindeer
• Two angels one with brown hair, one with red hair
• Santa
• Santa's hot wife

And If You are one of those who ask "Why they don't have hands?" The answer is I really don't know I just imagined them like that :) More pictures and patterns for each character later this month. If anyone is particularly interested in some characters write me so I can make this pattern first. 

The idea for this ornaments came with a huge bag of plastic balls for ball pit we have. My son had the ball pit in his playpen but grew out of it and we were left with a huge bag of balls. So the first thought I had was to make Christmas Tree ornaments from them. I had to make the pictures fast cause they will probably make a little gifts for my family, but it's so hard now to say GOODBYE :(

I think I will leave the snowman for myself, he is the first one I made and kind of my favorite, I love the angels too but I already promised them to my mom.

When I made all these characters I started complaining to my husband that I can't make photos until he will go to the basement and bring the tree. We dressed the tree only in plastic balls and ornaments and noticed that we don't have anything for the top of Christmas Tree. And that is how the Mario Star tree top came to live.

Why the Mario Star? Probably because I spend my whole childhood playing Mario on my GAMEBOY! and when I think star I see Mario Star with these cute eyes ( That was the only game I had at the time, I remember later on I also had the POKEMON but only n french :(

Mario Star looks amazing on the top of the tree and I will not give it up, but I will definitely write the pattern. It was very easy and so fast to make If You are a bit geek like me I challenge You to make Your own star. The only problem You could have If You also have a husband who is a bit geek is that he may demand the whole tree Mario style and You will have to make more ornaments and give away the ones You already made cause they will not fit convention.....

 The last photo is my son's face when we lit the lights on the tree :) I think the Christmas get the new meaning when You have kids :) Merry Christmas everyone!

Potted plant decoration - Flowerman

Flowerman - As always, he is not the cutest or the prettiest one, but certainly my favorite! He is so weirdly cute that he makes me smile every time I look at him. He reminds me of some old RPG games, where he would be one of the easiest, lame enemies You fight when You are level 1 :)

Materials:

• yellow, green, blue or pink yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• white sheet of foam (mine is 1 mm thick) for eyes
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• clothes pin - the best would be the smaller version - 3 cm 
• hot glue gun
• cotton or something else You will use as filament

Pattern:

Potted plant decoration - Ladybug

Materials:

• black, red  yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• white sheet of foam (mine is 1 mm thick) for eyes
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• clothes pin - the best would be the smaller version - 3 cm 
• hot glue gun
• cotton or something else You will use as filament

Pattern: