Hat 61!

Happy Mother's Day! Here is hat 61 I did recently and it has become one of my favorites. I've always loved crochet flowers but have a hard time actually doing them. I found this pattern, Butterfly, Flower and Leaf, over at Craft Passion and they were just so fun and easy to make I made a few just to keep around. So I made a simple HDC stitch hat with some off white yarn and put a few flowers on it with some of the same yarn tied around to make a thin band. I think it turned out very nice and plan on doing a few more with the flowers since I love those small little flowers.

Princess Peach Amigurumi

So after making those Mario Mushrooms and sending them out, my friend's daughter requested a Princess Peach. I only found a couple patterns online but nothing that I really liked since I wanted something a bit more simple. So decided to try it out using a different pattern.

First I tried using the Kokeshi Dolls pattern to make the Peach doll. I figured something a little different. It turned out okay, but not exactly what I was looking for. So that little princess went to my niece who seemed to love it.
I then took that same pattern and fiddled with it a bit and added arms. I even made the arms movable which I thought was pretty neat. I sent off the Princess Peach and I'm hoping she likes it. I'm very happy with the way it turned out. Both dolls I used the Caron Super Soft since it has so many bright colors.

Cthulhu and other Amigurumi

So decided to try out some Amigurumi since I always think they are so cute.
All of these are from Patterns and I'll put the links on the bottom of this post.

Cthulhu - The first one was the big green one which I used some Red Heart Supersaver. I showed it to some friends and a couple requested their own so I made another green and a purple one. Those were made with the Caron Supersoft which I thought turned out much cuter since they ended up being much smaller than the first one.

Mario Mushrooms - I made the mini one and then a friend asked if she could have it. So I made her 2 more to go along with it. All done with Red Heart Supersaver yarn.

Striped Turtles - I made the big one first and gave that to my nephew but they were so cute I had to make more. I made them a little smaller than the pattern said and used Red Heart on both of the smaller ones.

Octopus - He was a nice and easy guy to make. I haven't given him away yet, but he's pretty darn cute. Red heart yarn again!






































Thank you to everyone that posted free patterns!
Tiny Cthulhu -http://cthulhucrochet.blogspot.com/2008/05/tiny-cthulhu-free-pattern.html
Mini Mario Mushroom - http://amysodyssey.wordpress.com/2009/12/01/mini-mario-mushroom-amigurumi/
Mario Brother's Mushrooms - http://wolfdreamer-oth.blogspot.com/2009/05/mario-brothers-mushrooms.html
Tiny Striped Turtle - http://kristieskids.weebly.com/patterns1.html
Octopus - http://www.knit1mag.com/patterns/2007/winter/k1w07_30.pdf

Hat 60!

Hat 60 was made using the Lion Brand Easy Sideways hat pattern (need to sign in) with a little change on the end of the pattern. Instead of weaving it together I made a cinch tie on the top and attached a couple of pom poms. It can be worn as both a hat and a cowl and I've seen similar patterns online before. I would like to do this type again but next time using the Convertible Hat pattern. Yarn used was Michael's Loops & Threads in Neopolitan.

Hat 59

After doing Hat 52, I still had a little of the poofy yarn left over. So figure I'd just finish that last little bit off by pairing it with some regular green yarn I had. Nothing too complex, just something simple.

Hat 58!

So about a month ago I saw someone on craig's list selling some yarn. I went over to her place and she had a nice big tupperware full of all different types of yarn, from expensive silk to red heart. I gave her one price for everything and went home with all types of new yarn! This was one of the yarns that was in there.

Hat 58 was done with a HDC stitch. The yarn is actually a few yarns plus threads to make up a nice bulky yarn. I loved how the pattern in the colors turned out in this hat. I added a bit of simply soft Caron in natural to add to the overwhelming pink. There are a couple of rolls of this type of yarn that I have so expect to see similar yarn in future hats.

Hat 57

So I'm a bit hooked on joining yarns together. It makes the work go so much faster and I love the looks of 2 different yarns twined together. Here on hat 57 I had a very pretty pastel yarn and paired it with some Caron simply soft eco in Natural. I especially love joining yarns with the Caron simply soft line since I always found it to be slightly too thin but always loved how soft it felt. Whole hat done in a HDC stitch.

Afghan for Auntie!

I started working on this afghan over a year ago and got most of it done before I ran out of yarn. I bought the yarn, but never got back to working on it again until a year later. Finished it up and sent it to my Aunt Janice for her birthday in January. The pattern for this is "Wind Chime Afghan" and can be found over at Lion Brand Yarn. Though I did like the colors for it in the original pattern, blue is my Aunt's favorite color so used Vanna's Choice Yarn in White, Sapphire and Denim. I just realized now that I didn't do the edging around it, so I guess next time I visit her I can bring along some yarn and finish it up.

Hat 56!

Happy Valentine's Day! Here is hat 56 for mom! Simple hat using a HDC stitch and just some Caron simply soft eco in Chocolate and some pretty white yarn that has a slight sparkle and texture joined to form a neat design with a little bit of shine. I was able to make this hat rather quickly because of the joined yarn and I really like the way it came out.

Hat 55

For hat 55 I used 2 different yarns held together for the top. The colorful one was a puffy ball yarn I had and I just held it with a Vanilla Caron Simply soft yarn. I ran out of the color yarn so just finished it up with the Caron yarn on the bottom. All done with a HDC stitch.