BumbleBEE

This crochet bumblebee is 23 cm (9 inches) when finished. I have made bigger toys in my life, but this one seems huge :) It’s definitely the largest bee I have ever seen, and the cutest too. It was very fun and easy spring project.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/693813662/crochet-pattern-no-1908-bumblebee-spring?ref=shop_home_feat_2

The little prince and rose

I've made this rattle set for a very special newborn baby boy, who, I am sure of it, will be a huge fan of Little Prince, just like his mommy :)

https://www.etsy.com/listing/568417167/crochet-pattern-no-1728-little-prince?ref=listing_published_alert

Each rattle is around 23 cm tall (9 inches).

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Sunflower bouquet - free pattern

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1-pShG6170QeY2GTST2ORnGNQiLDoigXx

I hope you will enjoy this little free pattern for sunflower bouquet. I made it for my best friend's wedding, I thought it will be a beautiful addition to my gift, but actually my friend liked it better than a gift :)

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Man-eating plants in my home

I recently moved and wanted to make something special for my new home and myself, this bouquet is the effect of my work. I placed it in the hallway, so everyone who enters my house can see what a twisted freaky nerdy crochet lover is leaving here :) If you too feel a bit nerdy or freaky this project is made just for you! 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/508818064/crochet-pattern-no-1707-bouquet-of-man?ref=shop_home_active_5

Each plant in my bouquet is more or less 30 cm long (11.8 inches) I couldn't take proper measures because they bite :) One of them even ate the gnome :)

Four-leaf clover for luck - FREE PATTERN

Four-leaf clover for luck. I made this little clovers as a house warming gift for my friend. They are very cute and little and filled with positive thoughts and good energy and the most important: You don't have to water them :)

The whole project was inspired by this movie:

https://youtu.be/xfGAEZ-tiBY

so Thank You Bag-O-Day Crochet for this wonderful movie. Please watch it to see detailed instructions on how to make the upper clovers.

Materials:

• brown, lighter green, darker green yarn ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• cotton wool or some other stuffing (I used green foam for this project, You can see it on the photos)
• black beads  ( 4 mm would be best)
• hook 3 mm 
• small flower pot
• small wire
• hot glue - to glue the ground to the pot.

 

Pattern:

 

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

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:

Potted plant decoration - Flowerman

Flowerman - As always, he is not the cutest or the prettiest one, but certainly my favorite! He is so weirdly cute that he makes me smile every time I look at him. He reminds me of some old RPG games, where he would be one of the easiest, lame enemies You fight when You are level 1 :)

Materials:

• yellow, green, blue or pink 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:

Potted plant decoration - Ladybug

Materials:

• black, red  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:

Potted plant decoration - Silly Bee

I created this plant decorations to add a bit of color to my plants, which bloom but only occasionally. For the rest of the year when they are just green :) I like to make them more interesting.
Silly Bee is the first one of my "Potted Plant Decoration" series. Please see the pictures below for the sneak peek of other members of this family.

Materials:

• black, blue, yellow  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:

Egg Cozies Easter Project - Flower

Those spring, colorful crochet flowers looks great as a decoration not only for Easter table. I would love to see the whole set of them all in different colors to cozy a dozen of eggs.

I strongly recommend this pattern for everyone who is starting to learn crocheting. All You need is a crochet hook (3 mm) and few colors of yarn, 3 at least green, yellow and one other color for petals
( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches if You would like to know more please write me a message and I will tell You the exact yarn I use)
Back to pattern It's really easy to follow, very fast to make all the parts for flower plus it's not that much sewing which is important for the starting projects in which You don't have so much experience.

Abbreviation You will need to know to follow this pattern:

MR - magic ring - it's one of the most common ways to start amigurumi. It's easier to see than to write bout it so I would advise You to see how to make MR for example here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLUaywX0-WE
It's not my video I'm only providing a link cause I think it's very clear and easy to follow.

sc - single crochet

sc 3 - make 3 single crochets in next 3 chains

inc - increase, make 2 single crochets in one chain

dec - decrease, make 1 crochet from 2 chains of last round
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcycT1YmSSM
Again I'm not the author of this video.

When You now the abbreviation You can start to make parts of Your flower ( free pattern for each part below)

Egg Cozies Easter Project - Base pattern for cozies - FREE

 A simple idea for Easter gifts for family and friends - egg warmers :) or as You prefer Egg Cozies
Easter is such a wonderful time. I love this Christmas especially because of  color and flowers and warmth - well that isn't so sure actually two years ago we had snow on Easter, my godson was building snow rabbits in the garden :D. But what I like about Easter most of all is all the arts and crafts that comes with it.

Since I remember we were painting Easter eggs, for almost 10 years now me and my husband are competing whose eggs will be the best. I need to say my always won cause they were much more commercially friendly for the whole family to vote :) They were filled with cute chickens and bunny's while my husband painted hell hounds and crazy rabbits and whatever his crazy imagination told him. I actually always like his creations most and it actually tough me to think both:inside and outside the box :) In other words to make simple-obvious projects and creative-crazy too.

So beside the egg painting I was also trying to figure out other Easter projects that would give vent to my creativity and christmas spirit. That's how the egg cozies project was created. I wanted to decorate eggs in some other way than painting. Firstly I was going to make one pair of cozies for my table but I couldn't decide what to make I especially wanted to make Mickey and Minnie pair but I new it wasn't very Easter-y so I ended up making a bunch of cozies for my friends and family. I made sheeps, chickens a lot of rabbits, zombie sheep and rabbit :D

It's all based on one cozies crochet base (pattern below), which is very easy to make. I suppose there can be some differences in egg sizes (mine were quite big :) so when You will be making Yours please remember to try them on before making a lot of them.

If You like make Your own cozies with my base pattern or use ones I already made I wrote down the patterns:

Sheep
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/10/easter-egg-decoration-sheep.html

Chicks
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-kurczaczki.html

Flowers
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-kwiatki.html

Mickey & Minnie
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/projekt-jajo-myszka-miki-i-mini.html

and lastly SuperRabbit and Rabbitman they are a little differently made but are very very cute. I couldn't give them to anyone and I had to keep them :)
http://krawka.blogspot.com/2014/07/superkrolik-i-krolikman.html

I also wanted to add that this is such an easy project I recommend it to anyone who is learning to crochet, especially easy are flowers. Enjoy the free pattern and please don't forget to send me photos of Your creations.
And Happy Easter (if it's actually Easter when You are reading this:)

Materials:

•  yarn of the desired color  ( I use the yarn which gauge is 24.0 to 30.0 sts = 4 inches )
• 3 mm hook

Pattern: