Not very happy Cat

 

His sad, irritable frown is just disarming, it makes me want to hug him, but when I do it, he looks even more annoyed and grumpy 😉

https://www.etsy.com/pl/listing/1039504353/crochet-pattern-no-2108-not-very-happy?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Catbus tissue box cover

This fancy tissue box is designed to cover a large tissue box – 23 cm(9 inches)(length) X 11 cm (4.3 inches)(width) X 9 cm (3.5 inches)(height). I hope your household will love it as much as mine.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/644523732/crochet-pattern-no-1814-cat-tissue-cover?ref=shop_home_feat_1

Supervillains fingerpuppets - free pattern

Super villains  fingerpuppets pattern is finally here. I am sorry it took that long. I know some of You waited for this pattern, it was extremely hard for me to write it after so much time has past. I couldn't make any sense of my notes so if You will see that something is not right with the pattern please let me know and we will fix it together :)

Villains finger puppets set contains: Catwoman, Poison Ivy, Joker, Penguin, Riddler.

1. Cat woman

Materials:

• beige, black, red, grey yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)

Pattern:

Moomins - anti scratch gloves for babies FREE PATTERN

 Moomins - anti scratch gloves for infants. You can also use them as little hand-puppets later on...

 Let me guess after my few last posts You all thought I will not publish free patterns anymore.... You could not be more wrong :) I will still post some of my patterns free. I have to make some of them paid to make money for yarn and also I am hoping to make this little hobby of mine full time job. Will I make it? Stay with me and see :)

I made those gloves for my second son Leon, here he is:

Can You see how beautiful he looks without this ugly scratch marks on his face :) That is thanks to Moomin and his fiance Snorkmaiden (in Poland she is called "panna Migotka"). Do I even have to say I love moomins it's one of those tales You remember Your entire life. It's so original and lovely and scary and creepy all at the same time. What is there not to love, maybe just The Groke (Buka) brrr....

Materials:

• cream, white, dark yellow, blue, brown and black yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
•  white elastic
• hook 3 mm

 Pattern:

Two headed dragon - baby rattle PATTERN in my shop

My first paid pattern is available on etsy now.  You can see and buy it here:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/245955284/two-headed-dragon-baby-rattle-pattern-by?ref=shop_home_active_1




Two headed dragon-baby rattle. Lovely handmade gift for a baby shower - cute, colorful dragon with a few ribbons for little fingers to play with.

Rattle that I created was for my son, who was still in my belly then. I have put a huge amount of love in it and I must admit that I am very pleased with the final result, and although my son is still too tiny (3 weeks) to play with it now I hope that he will love it and one day will be grateful for a time I spend to create this unique gift for him.

Finished rattle from heads to the end of tail is 9.8 inches (25 cm), the base circle is about 4.3 inches (11 cm).

R.A.T

Crochet rat - wired rat I have made some time ago. He is super cute and is now sitting in an honorable place above the tv in my living room.

I made his eyes, nose and teeth from modeling clay, which I have painted later on. This topic actually deserve the separate post which I am planning to make someday. I wonder if You think it's better to make the custom parts or to use the ones available in shops. As You can deduce I am for making them Yourself but the fact is they are not perfect and even after some practice I can't achieve the perfect effect especially for the circular and/or bright elements, which meant every clay element in this project :).

The rat's fur is very realistic. I made and then brushed each gray, furry part of the rat. If You would like to know more about brushing amigurumi see my previous post here:

http://krawka.blogspot.com/2015/03/brush-brushbrush-your-amigurumi.html

He is fully wired inside so he is posing perfectly for the photos.

I especially love this next photo from the back. He is much more serious here when You don't see the cartoon eyes.

Chocobo!

What comes from a combination of fantasy and Easter - the largest known version of chicken - Chocobo :) If there is anyone who doesn't know Chocobos are super cute creatures from Final Fantasy video games. I can even remember them from a versions they were a bunch of yellow pixels, and let me tell You they were already cute!

I just finished him, it took so much time and so much yarn ... (I seriously don't have any yellow yarn in my entire house). I wrote down the pattern but I think it will take me some time to make the complete post with pattern. 

But after making these photos I could not wait to share them with you! He is all wired inside, so it is fully adjustable and therefore so photogenic. I am so pleased he can stand an sit and look great in almost every position. I think he will be the biggest decoration of our Easter table and when I say biggest I mean it :) He came up quite large but we will find the place, who cares about food, right?.

What do you think?

Easter is coming....

Easter is coming so, so fast so we all need to hurry with our Holiday crochet and table decorations. I am actually way forward because I menage to save some of my last year egg cozies. I made a lot of cozies last year :D Maybe I will menage to make one more this year! Do You have any ideas or requests? What cozies would You like me to make? Please write in comments.

Meanwhile I decided to clean up the last year patterns for cozies and here I will give You links to all of them.

Every cozy is made from the base and other elements
The first link is for the base of cozy:

BASE COZY

Links for each cozies:

1. Sheeps

SHEEP COZY

2. Flowers

FLOWER COZY

3.Hens

HEN COZY

4. Superbunny and Bunnyman



SUPERHERO BUNNY COZY

5. Mickey and Minnie Cozies

MiCKeY and MiNNie COZIES

6. Yellow chicks

CHiCKEN COZY

Mad Hatter's Little Hat by Crazy Hairclip Maker

Recently I feel like a little mad hatter myself, well maybe not hatter but a crazy hair clip maker. When I bought a set of eight hairclips in store I fought I would use two maybe three, but it's so freaking hard to stop yourself once You start making them. I have so many ideas for hairclips and I am so excited to make something girly again :) well as girly as I possibly could, Mad Hatter is girly, right?!

Anyway do I even have to write I love Alice in Wonderland? Is there someone here who don't?.... Yes I fought I would here an awkward silence :)

Please enjoy the pattern and as always send photos here if You would like to share the results.

Materials:

• dark grey, white, ginger, putrid green yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• cardboard or a roll from a toilet paper

 Pattern:

Hat's crown - make 1

dark grey yarn

R1: 6 sc in MR (6)

R2: inc around (12)

R3: * sc, inc * X6 (18)

R4: * sc 2, inc * X6 (24)

R5: * sc 3, inc * X6 (30)

R6: * sc 3, inc * around (37)

R7: * sc 3, inc * around (46)





R8: BLO (back loops only in this round) * sc 6, dec * around (40)

R9: sc around (40)

R10: * sc 5, dec * around (34)

R11: sc around (34)

R12: sc around (34)

R13: * sc 4, dec * around (28)

R14: sc around (28)









R15- R20: sc around (28)

There is a BLACK cat on my head?!

I made the black version of a hairclip from my previous post for a custom order. I hope Marta will be very happy about it and will wear it everyday to work :P

If anyone missed the post with pattern here is the link:
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2015/02/there-is-cat-on-my-head-hairclip-free.html

I have to say I am extremly pleased with how he looks like ( a bit demonic) and I am so tempted to make one cat for each color of yarn I have, but who have the time :(. So if anyone of You will make one of those cats from my pattern please send the photos to: krawka.blog@gmail.com.

Maybe we will make a kind of "hair cat" gallery :)

Reindeer Christmas Tree ornament - free pattern

I made Reindeer to keep company to Mr Snowman from my previous post. They look great together on a Christmas Tree.
Finished reindeer is 13 cm tall.

Materials:

• light brown, dark brown, beige yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• plastic ball (mine are 5-5,5 cm diameter) and stuffing for the body. If You don't have ball don't worry just stuff the head with some light stuffing.
• a bit of thin wire, like 5 cm max, for the loop on top of the head
• a bit of black material for the eyes

Pattern:

Potted plant decoration - Monarch Butterfly

I don't know how long I have waited to write this post. There was always something else to do and the butterfly, which is pinned to the flower in my bedroom, was looking at me with silent accusation. So ok butterfly! I am writing! Are You happy?!

The monarch butterfly is the last in my series of potted plant decoration. I made my butterfly monarch so he is orange but I would love to see it in a different color. Butterfly's are easy this way that You can make them any color You like that will fit Your room or Your plant or anything else and it's still ok.

Materials:

• black, orange, white yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• hook 3 mm
• white sheet of foam (mine is 1 mm thick) for eyes
• 2 black beads ( 4 mm would be best)
• clothes pin - the best would be the smaller version - 3 cm 
• hot glue gun
• cotton or something else You will use as filament

Pattern:

My Christmas Tree - crochet Christmas Tree ornaments

I present my Christmas Tree. At first I made the characters there are:

• Snowman
• Reindeer
• Two angels one with brown hair, one with red hair
• Santa
• Santa's hot wife

And If You are one of those who ask "Why they don't have hands?" The answer is I really don't know I just imagined them like that :) More pictures and patterns for each character later this month. If anyone is particularly interested in some characters write me so I can make this pattern first. 

The idea for this ornaments came with a huge bag of plastic balls for ball pit we have. My son had the ball pit in his playpen but grew out of it and we were left with a huge bag of balls. So the first thought I had was to make Christmas Tree ornaments from them. I had to make the pictures fast cause they will probably make a little gifts for my family, but it's so hard now to say GOODBYE :(

I think I will leave the snowman for myself, he is the first one I made and kind of my favorite, I love the angels too but I already promised them to my mom.

When I made all these characters I started complaining to my husband that I can't make photos until he will go to the basement and bring the tree. We dressed the tree only in plastic balls and ornaments and noticed that we don't have anything for the top of Christmas Tree. And that is how the Mario Star tree top came to live.

Why the Mario Star? Probably because I spend my whole childhood playing Mario on my GAMEBOY! and when I think star I see Mario Star with these cute eyes ( That was the only game I had at the time, I remember later on I also had the POKEMON but only n french :(

Mario Star looks amazing on the top of the tree and I will not give it up, but I will definitely write the pattern. It was very easy and so fast to make If You are a bit geek like me I challenge You to make Your own star. The only problem You could have If You also have a husband who is a bit geek is that he may demand the whole tree Mario style and You will have to make more ornaments and give away the ones You already made cause they will not fit convention.....

 The last photo is my son's face when we lit the lights on the tree :) I think the Christmas get the new meaning when You have kids :) Merry Christmas everyone!