Rainbow swap: received!
Friday, February 13, 2009 at 2:54 pm | Posted in crafts+inspiration | Leave a commentTags: amigurumi, crochet, pattern, rainbow, swaps
I love coming home to mail surprises and that’s what happened a couple days ago. The said surprise was a very cute rainbow plushie from a Swap-bot swap. Also included was a pair of star earrings with a littlebrilliant thing in the middle. Too adorable!
And that made me work harder on the one rainbow I’m making. I wrote a pattern by myself alone for the first time ever, yey! Ok, experienced crocheters may think this is nothing, but it took me quite some time to work out how many increases there should be in each row. Yeah, I know you do 6 for a full circle, so theoretically it should be half this number, but making it was a bit of a problem, for some reason I have yet to discover. Anyway, the pattern is ready and the rainbow is 20% complete, I guess. Strangely enough, I have no orange and yellow yarn, so I have to go buy them today. But as soon as I get them, it’ll be a matter of 2, 3 hours to finish the whole thing.
Easy fortune cookie
Saturday, February 7, 2009 at 9:43 pm | Posted in crafts+inspiration | 1 CommentTags: amigurumi, crochet
It was a rainy afternoon, so I made a fortune cookie with the pattern I posted about a few days ago. Couldn’t have been easier! I used a bit of hot glue to make the two sides come together in a nice way, bu apparently I used too much glue, as you can tell by the picture. Well, I still love my cookie! =) Check out the project’s page HERE, where you’ll find the link to the pattern. Or just roll down to this post I made about amigurumi.
Edit: I changed the pattern a tiny little bit and forgot to mention that. In the last round, I abandoned the single crochets and worked only double crochets. I guess I made my stitches too tight, so the circle was bit too stiff and the borders were turning out weird. After the dc round, it was easier to shape the cookie.
Amigurumi: make a bunch!
Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 8:16 pm | Posted in crafts+inspiration | 3 CommentsTags: amigurumi, crochet, knitting, patterns online
Lately, I haven’t had much time for crafting, so I’m much more into crochet. As much as I love knitting, it usually takes me so long to get an item ready, that I feel that, for the time being, crochet is the way to go. It is much more quicker and its patterns are, most of the times, not so complicated. So I signed up for this amigurumi pattern swap and had to sort a lot of links and patterns out. The results are below; these are the links I sent to my partners. I sure hope whoever comes by this blog enjoys it!
Fortune cookies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Wmm6DX8qA
Easy to make, they would be great as party favors. As a matter of fact, I’ve seen this idea somewhere, but with cookies made of paper.
Octopus:
http://flickr.com/groups/octopusrevolution
The flickr group has this pattern up on their main page and hundreds of versions of the tiny animal on its archive. The image I chose to illustrate – a pirate octopus – was made by GlamCookie.)
Pocket animals and forest friends:
http://www.sarahanns.com/crochetworks/animals.html
Learn how to make not one or two, but EIGHT different amigurumi: mouse, rabbit, racoon, robin, owl, skunk, chipmunk and porcupine.
http://www.roxycraft.com/crochet_cherry_pickers.htm
Lovely cherries may look beautiful on a fruit basket, but these can double as a cute pair of earrings!
Cute little bunny:
http://www.geocities.com/thelibrarian18/bunny.html
This is just the cutest bunny I’ve ever seen. I guess there is one kinda like this on that Softies’ book.
Poo:
http://puchitomato.livejournal.com/16545.html
I still don’t really know if having a little poo on your desk somewhere is lovely or plain disgusting. But this is quite an adorable amigurumi, really.
http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2006/05/19/two-peas-in-a-pod/
This is, actually, a knitting project. I love small items of food, so I fell in love with this, even though I’m not one for peas (or any vegetables, in fact).
Interested in more patterns? Go have a look at this two links: AmiList e Coats and Clark.
Have a cupcake, will ya?
Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 10:56 am | Posted in crafts+inspiration | Leave a commentTags: amigurumi, crochet, cupcake, ravelry
I’m totally in love with making cupcakes. I got this recipe from a Ravelry user and it really rocks. I mean, making this batch was pretty much a piece of cake (no pun intended!). As I am a slow crafter, it took me about one hour and fifteen minutes to make each one of these, including filling and sewing. I was supposed to make a bird last night, but I’m sick and got very much tired halfway through it. I finished the crochet this morning, but I have to leave to meet my cousin, so I will only be able to finish it tonight. It is adorable, though and will be comfortably sitting in a little white metal cage I bought on Monday.
See the project page here. There, you can find the link for the pattern. Its author, Hannah, is listed in my link page. Click here and you’ll be directed to her blog, BitterSweet.
(in the picture, three of a set of five cupcakes. i used different yarns, so the pink topping was smaller and I had to make it bigger. that’s why it looks kinda crooked – it ended up flatter and bigger than the others, because I enlarged it too much. =p )
Soon: rainbow stuffie pattern!
Monday, January 26, 2009 at 5:45 pm | Posted in crafts+inspiration | Leave a commentTags: amigurumi, stuffies, swap-bot, swaps
I was kinda missing doing all those swaps where I’d send various themed goods and got great things from all over the world back. So I decided to get back in action and joined a few music swaps. Then, I spotted the Rainbow Stuffie Swap and thought it would be a great idead to sign in for it. So, I’m on it but I still don’t really know what I’ll be making. I guess it’ll be a crochet doll, as my crochet is way better than my sewing. Anyway, expect a few updates on the matter AND a pattern after the whole thing is complete. Yay!
(image: getty images)
Crochê pop
Friday, July 18, 2008 at 9:10 am | Posted in crafts+inspiration | Leave a commentTags: amigurumi, batman, crochet, joker
E a correria anda tanta que eu quase esqueço de fazer um post sobre essa descoberta pra lá de fofa. Bonequinhos de crochê do Coringa e Batman, pra comemorar o lançamento do novo filme da saga do homem-morcego. Recebi o link de um co-worker e adorei. Se meu crochê fosse um pouquinho melhor, até arriscava fazer umas versões. Por enquanto, só me resta admirar o trabalho alheio e querer MUITO um desses. O Coringa, pra ser mais exata, embora esse daí me pareça muito sorridente e alegre.
Links, links e mais links!
Wednesday, April 4, 2007 at 1:01 pm | Posted in crafts+inspiration | Leave a commentTags: amigurumi, bento, polymer clay, pompoms, rubberstamps, swaps
De qualquer jeito, o fim de semana foi razoavelmente produtivo. Comecei com essa história de amigurumi e ainda fiz um monte de pompons, com a receita tirada do Superziper. Descobri esse blog durante o fim de semana e adorei, já checo ele todo dia para ver as novidades. Mais tarde coloco as fotos e um link direto para a receitinha, ok?
Como estou de “férias” da faculdade nessa semana, estou aproveitando para colocar meus estudos em dia e ficar mais longe do computador. Mesmo assim, ando entrando bastante no grupo Carve Your Stamps, do Flickr, para ter idéias para novos carimbinhos. O ruim é que eu sou péssima de desenho – meus círculos saem quadrados, minhas linhas retas saem tortas e a grande parte dos desenhinhos que eu faço acabam parecendo arte abstrata. Enfim, depois também tento postar umas fotos dos que já estão prontos.
E já que eu falei do Flickr, aí vai uma listinha de grupos do Flickr que eu gosto imensamente:
Bento Boxes – imagens dos bentos de um monte de gente. Destaque para os coloridinhos e alegres que são fofos além da conta, e para as comidinhas apetitosas que os recheiam.
Amigurumi – bichinhos feitos de crochê. Ótimo para se inspirar e fazer os seus próprios, se você já tem um certo domínio do crochê. Quem ainda está começando pode usar as ‘receitas’ que algumas garotas colocam junto com as fotos.
Carve your stamps – se você procurar, encontra uns tutoriais bem explicadinhos nas discussões do grupo. Precisa de bastante habilidade manual para fazer os mini-detalhes, mas a coisa vai ficando mais fácil conforme você treina (claro, né?).
Fimo – depois que eu descobri a cerâmica plástica, minha vida nunca mais foi a mesma! Uhu! Brincadeiras à parte, mexer com esse material é uma delícia. Adoro coisas coloridas e dá pra encontrar Fimo em cada cor linda… No grupo, você pode ver como eles usam as massinhas e o que é que pode ser feito. Tem também dicas de uso (por exemplo: se for “encapar” um recipiente de comida, cuidado para que a massa não fique em um lugar onde a comida vai encostar), de queima e muito mais.
Coloriffic swap-o-rama – trocas sempre baseadas em grupos de cores. Só participei da última (lavender, cream, black), mas sempre adorei ver o que o pessoal mandava e recebia. Haja criatividade!
Crafter’s central – lugarzinho para todos os tipos de crafters.
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