Saturday, June 4, 2011

Herro Kittyyy

So my first attempt was a failure in my eyes because it wasn't up to my ridiculously high standards for myself:
It was also much bigger than I anticipated.
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So I tried again making my own pattern. It was more of a success:"
Before the face
After the face (Felt. I'll touch it up when it's dry.)


SO HERE'S THE PATTERN FOR THE HEAD OF HELLO KITTY. 
Head:
Ch2, make 4 st in the second chain from the loop. (4)
Row1: 2 sc in each st around (8)
Row2: sc in first st, dc in the second. Continue around. (12)
Row3: sc in first 2 sts, dc in the third. Continue around. (16)
Row4: sc in first 3 sts, dc in the fourth. Continue around. (20)
Row5: sc in each st around. (20)
Row6: Sc in first 3 sts, dec in the fourth. Continue around (16)
Row7: Sc in first 2 sts, dec in the third. Continue around (12)
Row8: sc in the first st, dec in the second. Continue around. (8)
Row9: dec in every other st. Tie off.
Add the face and the bow.

Bow:
For the bow, all I did was ch 10 and tied the ends together. Then I took that circle that was made and tied yarn around the middle to make it look like a bow and sewed it on.

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Dabbling in Amigurumi

Amigurumi (編みぐるみ?, lit. crocheted or knitted stuffed toy) is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small stuffed animals and anthropomorphic creatures.
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This is my first attempt at trying this, but with a little help from the wonderful patterns of nerdigurumi.com (this is your shout-out!) I have made a DOMO!
FEAR MY SKILLZ.
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And now, introducing the Mini Domo! He's a keychain! :)
Companion Cube!!!:
Pattern from Nerdigurumi. Awesomeness from me of course :D
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Pokeball, Go! This took me half an hour. So fast!
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1up!
Pattern from AmiAmour.com <3

In making Pokeballs for my man to walk around A-kon with,:
I decided to see how small I could make them.:
 My first attempt at the mini ones, I used paper(for lack of supplies where I was) for the middle, then I wised up and started peeling apart my 4-ply yarn to make the centers.