Pencilcase

 Hi there! A long time has passed since the last post, more than a year. It was a busy year, believe me, we even move to another country. Thus, it has been difficult to find time to make new things, and to write a post about them.

Anyway, today I just want to show you a little pencil case, made with yarn scraps in crochet. It is very simple, just a kind of bag made on single crochet, sown to a frame, and a pink skull as decoration. The skull was made following the pattern by Crochet Nirvana:

http://crochetnirvana.weebly.com/blog/how-to-crochet-skulls#.Yl2VpyhByMQ 

Here you can see the result, it's so cool!!

 

 

A Christmas present

 Hi everyone!

I just want to show you a picture of a knitted Christmas present for my brother. It's a Star Wars beanie, I followed a pattern by Bobbie Jo, available for free in Ravelry.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/empire-star-wars-beanie

 It really turned out great, my brother was very happy with it. I made a i-cord cast on and I love it.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Unicorn slippers!

 My 6YO girl is always barefoot at home. So I made a cute pair of unicorn slippers for her. The look just gorgeous! I followed Glimmer Sisters Unicorn Slippers by Brenda K. B. Anderso, available for free in Ravelry. I just changed the colors, white slippers are nice but they would get dirty really fast. So here we are, violet unicorns. I made them with Drops Karisma yarn, and use a bit of antislip layer so my kid will not break a leg sliding along the floor. 

Great knitting web with free patterns!

Hi there!

I have recently discovered this great web with lots of free patterns, and I would like to share it with everyone! It is called Knitty

http://knitty.com/ISSUEff19/index.php

You can browse their past issues and check patterns included in there, or just go to the pattern library and search what kind of item you would like to knit and add what features you would like it to have.

Hope you will love it! I'm looking forward to finishing all the stuff I have started to choose one of these great patterns.

Crocheted bag

Hi there!

Summer has started, as well as the time spent in the park watching my 4YO girl playing with some other kids. Sometimes I am wishing I have simple and rather mechanical to do, so I can keep an eye on her and do something at the same time.

So I tried with this item, a crocheted bag useful to go shopping. Pattern by Drops Design, here you have the link:

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=9108&cid=19

I used some cotton/acrylic yarn, same as I used for scientific amigurumi. I used 50 g in orange color, and 100 g in green.

I am very happy with the result, it is very useful and I could do something else but being seated 😉

Scientific amigurumi

Hi there,

How are you? I hope very fine.

Today I want to share with you a nice pattern published in Ravelry. It is a crochet pattern of an Erlenmeyer flask. Here you are the link:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/earl-lenmeyer-the-flask

I am preparing a gift for a labmate who is about to defend her PhD thesis. And this amigurumi flask is just great. I crochetted it together with a test tube. The test tube it really easy to crochet, just make a magic ring of 5 single crochet stitches, make 2 sc in the next round and keep on crochetting as long as you want your tube to be. You can "fill in" your tube just using a colored yarn, and changing to white yarn for the empty part. When you think your tube is big enough, just stuff it, and decrease in each sc crocheting only in the back loop. The cap of the tube is also easy, make a magic ring with 6 sc, increase in the next round to 12 sc, and then crochet in the back loop in the next round. Make 2 or 3 more rounds and finish it. Your test tube is done!!

I hope you will like it.

Crochet backpack

Hi there!

Today I'm showing you my last crochet craft. It is a backpack showing Totoro motifs.

I used some Drops Safran surplus (the white background) and some Drops You. I made up the pattern based on this ravelry blanket pattern:

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Skirtyfyde/baby-blanket-latvian-garden

And in this picture:

  And I drew it using Stitchfiddle, which I think is really useful to make this kind of pattern.

https://www.stitchfiddle.com/en

Here is the pattern, in case anyone would like to use it. But please, do not sell it!!

It is also available in Ravelry:

Pattern in Ravelry