Blue Cherry Faerie: crochet

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Thursday, October 11, 2018

New items for Dim

So over the summer Dim of Dim n' Wit the Fairy Brothers had his costume suitcase stolen out of his car. Luckily, he didn't have his shirts in the case, but he did lose a lot of his costume pieces. I made him a few things to replace what he had.

Dim wears flags on his belt. He lost all of his flags, so I made him some more. I used my serger to add cool decorative thread called wooly nylon to the edges.

Closeups:

Here are some hats I made him until I can sew him some. The rectangle things on the bottom are fingerless gloves.

The other side:

Hand Modeling for ya!

Monday, January 9, 2012

Sara's Spirit Scarfs

My oldest niece is in her first year of college at Sam Houston State. Their colors are orange, blue and white so I decided to make her some spirit scarfs for her birthday. I found a spool of thin yarn at Goodwill of all places that was in those colors. So I used it by itself and with others to make a bunch of skinny scarves that can be used together or by themselves. I also used blue fun fur, some white fuzzy yarn, and some cheap acrylic yarn from my stash (odd bits that my mom had picked up at a garage sale and gave me).

I made a total of 6 in different lengths and patterns. Some were crocheted, one was done on a knitting spool and one was knitted. The result was fun, I think.

Mom's Christmas gift - Red Dragon Scale Shawl

I started mom's gift back in February. I had been on youtube and saw someone do the crocodile crochet stitch. I thought it was pretty and really lent itself to a shawl. Well a few years ago, mom had asked me to make her a shawl. Better late than never.

I did change the stitch up a bit. I wanted the stitches to look more pointed and less rounded. So I added an additional chain stitch between the 2 sets of 5 double crochets. If you are familiar with the pattern then you probably know what I'm talking about. I just did the stitch until I thought it was long enough. My mom was into WOW and other fantasy stuff so I made her a "Red Dragon Scale" Shawl. The points really do make it look more like scales.

I got on Youtube to look for the crocodile stitch pattern that I saw so I could link it for you guys and found where someone actually put together a video for how to make a shawl using this technique. I haven't watched the whole thing (I only watched the first 5 minutes), but it looks similar to how I did mine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LiH9Wk3rHc

This isn't exactly how I made mine, but it looks pretty close.

A gift for Lyla

My brother had another baby in October. I wanted to make something for her but didn't know what they needed, so I just made one of the octopus from my own pattern. It turned out well.

I meant to give it to them when I saw them at Thanksgiving, but ended up giving it to them at Christmas. Oh well. They got it all the same.

Monday, October 10, 2011

Tunisian crochet and other similar techinques

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Crocheted Heart Sucker Covers/Cozies

I needed something to make the kiddos' classes and teachers for Valentine's Day celebration (or as their schools call them "Friendship Parties"). I racked my brain and finally decided to write a pattern a heart pattern. I crocheted 2 hearts and then stitched them together, leaving a large hole in the top so the sucker could slide in and a small hole in the bottom so the stick could come out. I let my 10 year old pick the colors that he wanted out of my yarn stash. I made them out of cheap ole' Red Heart Yarn.

Picture of all of them together:

Maroon/Burgundy:

Purple:

These next 2 are made from the same varigated yarn with totally different looks. Of course we had to have some "MANLY" boy hearts, LOL.

Green, this is my son's favorite color, so we had to make some green hearts, LOL:

And last but not least a close up of the multi colored pink and red. This was the closest I had in my available stash to pink. I have boys and never needed pink cheap yarn, LOL:

I also made plain red and white hearts as well. Red crochet never photographs well for me and I forgot to take pictures of the white, but you can see them in the group shot well enough. They were a hit. I gave some to Speech teachers, Piano teachers and doctors before I took pictures, so I made more than what was pictured. They were pretty well received.

Monday, December 7, 2009

Baby Octopus

My youngest son is in Speech therapy. His therapist is pregnant due with her first baby. So I made this octopus for the baby and the giftbag that it will go in. The Octopus is made out of cotton yarn is stuffed with cotton yarn. The eyes are saftey eyes. I hope she likes it. Its my own pattern. I liked it so much that I'm in the process of making one for my neice as well, but we will see if I get it finished.

Here's the bag I'll put it in:

Monday, March 17, 2008

Crochet Chickens

I made Crochet Chickens for my youngest son's class for Easter.

They have plastic eggs inside them. My greatgrandmother made my brother and I some of these so I just had to make some of these for my kiddos. I made theirs 3 years ago and I use them every year.

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Snowman Instructions

Body

I used 1 skein of white Red Heart yarn and 1 skein of pearled baby yarn (left over from another project and didn't have the name of the yarn. Sorry). I used a size H hook.

1. Create a magic ring and sc 6 sts into ring. Or ch 2, crochet 2 into the 2nd ch from the hook. (total 6 sc)
2. 2 sc in each sc; repeat until you get 12 sc
3. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next sc; repeat until you get 18 sc
4. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 2 sc; repeat until you get 24 sc
5-8. 1 sc into each sc.
9. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 2 sc; repeat until you get 18
10. sc2tog, 1 sc into next sc; repeat until you get 12
If using safety eyes, now is the time to place them.
Take time to stuff head now
11. 1 sc into each sc
12. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next sc; repeat until you get 18 sc
13. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 2 sc; repeat until you get 24 sc
14. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 3 sc; repeat until you get 30 sc
15. 2 sc in next sc, 1 sc in next 4 sc; repeat until you get 36 sc
16-21. 1 sc into each sc
22. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 4 sc; repeat until you get 30
23. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 3 sc; repeat until you get 24
24. sc2tog, 1 sc into next 2 sc; repeat until you get 18
25. sc2tog, 1 sc into next sc; repeat until you get 12
Take the time now to stuff the body.
26. sc2tog; repeat until you get 6.
Tie off leaving a long piece of yarn. Use yarn needle as pull 6 stitches together, tie off and finish.

Nose

I used 2 skiens of orange embroidery floss together as yarn.

The directions for the nose are approximate, since its up to the creator to determine how long they want the carrot.

1. 4 sc into magic ring
2. 1 sc into each sc
3. 2 sc into 1 sc, 1 sc, 2 sc into 1 sc, 1 sc
4. 1 sc into each sc until carrot is as long as you desire.

After tying off leave a long enough piece so that you can use it to attach to the snow man's head.

Assessories.... I made a scarf out of 2 pieces of wool/rayon blend felt. One piece was 11 inches and that went around the neck. The other piece was 9 inches and was tied around the first piece of wool. But you could easily crochet or knit a scarf for it. Or you could crochet a top hat or even sew one out of felt. You could also use buttons for eyes or wool felt for that matter. These are very easy to whip up and dress.

Have Fun!!!

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Christmas Crafting and Decorating

I know, I know I haven't been very faithful with my blog. But I've been busy I swear!!

Here are some decorations that I've put up this year:

Snowflakes on the windows

I found these snowflakes at 99 cent store last year.

More snowflakes

I made the beaded snowflakes here. I also used some store bought snowflakes. Since I've taken this picture, I've added some clear glass ornaments to the arrangement. They look like bubbles.

Nutcrackers

Every year we try to get a nutcracker for the boys. I like them displayed on top of the TV

Window treatments

Last year I had the snowflakes on these windows. I think I like them better with the balls. This looks much better in person.

My Peppermint Snowman tree

I'm planning to make a head for the top so keep an eye out for further post for my white tree.

Poinsettia

I saw this in a magazine this year and just had to make a few. I love the way they turned out. Sorry I can't remember what magazine. They are just made with pipe cleaners, embroidery floss and beads.

Garland

Okay this is mainly what I've been working on. This was made on a six prong spool knitter. Actually its the Clover wonder knitter that I used. I think it turned out awesome.

Beaded snowflakes
These are just a few I've made for decorations for around the house and the trees.

I made some snowmen for one of my son's teachers to give to her students. She only has 5 students.

I think they turned out awsome.

I made some monster personal tissue holders for my other son's classmates.

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Aliens have landed and they are taking over our trash!!!

I made this cute space ship using those clear containers that come out of gum machines that usually hold junk. Well when we go to HEB, my son gets a buddy buck every week and uses the machine to get stickers for buddy points. Well I haven't been able to throw the containers away, but I didn't know what to do with them. One day I was looking at them and thought they would make the perfect dome for a spaceship. So I used the yarn in the picture, some embroidery floss and a pipe cleaner and came up with this...

And yes that is an itty bitty pompom alien. I think he needs eyes, LOL. I'm thinking of making some more for his Christmas tree, but we will see. Its low on my project list. It might not get made in time for Christmas.

Friday, November 23, 2007

Pony Diva Fashion Show

Well here are the latest pony fashions I've made. I'm not sure what I'll do with them all but atleast some of them will be Christmas presents.

Green dress. I need to add button to it.

Multi colored ruffle cape and hat. I may add some yarn to the hat so that you can tie it on. I haven't decided.

Just the ruffle cape

Multi colored cape blanket with fringe

Multi colored cape blanket with cap

White ruffle skirt and hat. I may add some ribbon or yarn to hat to tie it on. I need to add buttons to the skirt.

Multi Pink fitted cape blanket

Pink Diva Cape made on flower loom with crochet edges

Purple fitted cape with fringe

Full Body Robe with collar. These robes remind me of those moomoo dresses or house dresses from the 70's, LOL.

Circus style cape blanket made on flower loom

Green and blues cape blanket

Pants and Top

Cape Blanket

hat and skirt

All of the coordinating blue pieces

Well I have more but I'm tired of posting now, LOL. I made all of these without patterns so I can't reproduce them exactly. But they were fun to make.