New patterns, new tutorials coming soon!

I've been working on a couple of new patterns! I'm very excited to get them out in the public! Some for purchase and some free. There are some that will have drawn stitch diagrams. I'll also be illustrating helpful diagrams and posting photo tutorials soon!

I'm doing a redesign of the strawberry pattern with some changes to reflect how my professional patterns will look and read. That should be available for free in pdf soon!

Hamster Pattern is for sale!

Available for purchase now on Ravelry!

or click buy now below!

Things you need to know:

+Using single and double crochet stitches

+Increasing and decreasing

+Hand stitching (satin stitch for the eyes and nose) and weaving in ends

+Crocheting in the round with a magic ring

+Switching colors (optional)

Finished Size: About 4” x 4” at the widest point

Supplies:

+Worsted/Medium weight acrylic or cotton yarn (1 ball of each) in tan, black, pink (black and pink yarn is used minimally, you can also just use embroidery thread), or any other colors you want your hamster to be.

+Tapestry needle

+Yarn needle threader

+Stitch markers for counting

+Scissors

+Size H (5mm) crochet hook

Gauge: not important unless you need it to be a specific size or use different yarn. 2” square = 7 sc across and 8 sc rows down

New Year!

It's 2011! This is my first post of the year. I have a lot planned for this year and so many changes are already happening! I'm working on new projects and hope to have something to share soon!

I'd like to post a picture of the super cute necklace my husband got me for x-mas! <3


Also, one of the last crochet things I made of 2010 was a cute little Korilakkuma pouch for my friend!


I compiled some art to represent each month in 2010, to recap some of the things I've made. I mostly wanted to focus on drawing but I didn't always have a drawing to show. I really hope to draw as much as possible again this year.

Crochet Lights

I wanted some sort of decoration and x-mas is this week. I thought since I'm sorta late, cute crochet lights would be fun to hang up for the rest of the winter!
I'm really happy how they turned out and it makes the fire place all cute and rainbow colored ^_^

Blythe Bear Hat!

I have been in a crochet earflap hat making mood so I decided that Blythe sized ones would be cute! This one is inspired by Rilakkuma!

Available here

Crochet Hats!

Scott has a new crochet dinosaur hat. I am still deciding on which animal I want my hat to be. This was a super fun and easy hat. It worked up really fast. I didn't use any pattern but it really is a basic crochet hat.

Kitty Ears

Kitty ears! Now on Etsy

Undersea Dreams

http://www.etsy.com/listing/50068275/undersea-dreams-crochet-dress

Here's one of my Limited Edition Blythe dresses "Undersea Dreams". I have a whole line of sea inspired crochet dresses in mind and one should be in with the donations for Blythecon! I just have to figure out which one I want to donate ^_^

Yaaaarrrrrn!

Crochet pirate eyepatches for Blythe dolly girls!


I posted these on both my Etsy and Artfire stores. I have a bunch of new dress designs and other crochet Blythe items on the way. This is exciting. Moving to Portland and meeting so many talented ladies has really re-sparked my interest in making things for Blythe. I originally started to in 2007 and then stopped because of all the other things I was doing. This was before I knew crochet too. I feel like I'm getting back to making the things that I'm good at and make me happy. Now I'm combining crochet and Blythe, two things I think I'm really enjoying and good at. ^_^

Ice Cream Cone Headbands!

Rocket Pop!

I've been working on some new things. I want to have a bunch of new stuff up soon. I couldn't wait to post my new Rocket Pop pouch though. I just thought it would be cute for summer. I'm also making handbag/purse size pouches.

Faun's new dress

I have been working on new crochet dresses for Blythe dolls. This is version 1.0 of many to come! It is a basic fitted dress. I'm not sure what else I'm going to do with it yet. We'll see, but I hope to have some on Etsy soon!

More Hamsters

I'm really getting more into making these pouches. They started out as pouches to keep your menstrual cup in but they really are for anything small. I would like to do something more with them...bigger for small purses maybe. I love this hamster guy so much I'm going to turn him into a stuffed amigurumi too.

House Fly Pouch!

Yet another pouch! I have so many more to make that I have sketched out too! This one is a non cute one, but it's kind of cute at the same time. This is my first non girlie pouch.

I have some more hamsters coming up and some other cute animals. This post is so early, I may have another before the day is over. I have a lot more things to do.

Adventures in Pattern Drafting and Other Things

Yesterday I finished the back of the bodice. I was excited and started to cut my patterns out to test them. I realized that I drew the side a bit longer than it should have been. Because of that, the armhole is smaller than it should be as well!



I went ahead and cut the front out of fabric and I will need to remeasure and trim the back. I'm fine with messing up because I figured out what went wrong and how to fix it.

This morning we went for a walk and since we've spent all winter inside, I ended up straining my left foot. I haven't been able to work on my patterns because of this but instead I finished my crochet pouch I was working on.
It's a little tan hamster! I've been wanting to do different color hamster pouches, so here's the first one.




I also ended up making a logo for Scott in Illustrator for the new Amazon.com seller account. Our new seller name is Electric Lime Gaming.


Overall I guess today was productive even with a sore foot and more lounging than working! I am learning to love my blog! I haven't really ever been into blogging like I am now. You know what that means? New layout coming soon! My blog will finally look like a real, professional blog!

Totoro!

Now I have Totoro slippers too! These are for me ^_^ I LOVE them and they're super comfy! The pattern that I followed for these didn't seem to make sense and I know a lot of other people had problems with it too. It was from the fuzzy bunny slippers in the Stitch'n Bitch book. I made the Sgt. Frog slippers without a pattern but I looked at as many slipper patterns as I could to understand how to do it well and to fit the right size. All in all I'm pretty darn happy with how my character slippers turned out.

Sgt Frog Slippers are finished!!!!!!!!

I finally finished them. I had to take them apart like 3 times, but I got it right. They fit him perfectly. No pattern used. At first I wasn't super happy with his face but now I think it looks better. Scott reallllly likes them. Now it's onto finishing my Totoro Slippers!!!!!

Carrot!

I don't know if it's because I want spring to come soon or what but I crocheted a carrot pouch! ^_^ It reminds me of Bunnies and Spring!

Sweater

My first crochet sweater!

Halloween!

It's been awhile, things got busy and then I got the flu!! But I wanted to post my newest creations from Halloween. I'm currently working on a sweater for myself too!! It will be my first crochet clothing piece.

For Halloween I was a Neo-Victorian vampire slayer from the Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe.
I made myself a fashion corset and a crochet eyepatch. My dad made my Buffy weapon.



Scott was Rasputin and I made him a fuzzy crochet beard!