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♥ Christmas CAL 2019; Part 1

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Hey Lovelies! It’s here! The first part of the Christmas CAL 2019, I hope you are ready! First we are gonna make the Christmas tree. Not that hard to make, but read carefully, at some rows you have to work in back loops only, if you forget this, you won’t be able to make the branches. I guess, you don’t wanna start over haha.

Christmas Tree

For this pattern you’ll need:
♥ Green yarn. (I used Greengage from StyleCraft Special)
♥ Crochet hook 2,5 or 3 mm.
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Stitch Marker.
♥ Yarn Needle.

Stitches used (US Terms):
Magic Ring.
CH = Chain.
SLST = Slip Stitch.
SC = Single Crochet.
DC = Double Crochet
Picot = Chain 4 and make a SLST in the 3rd loop of the first chain.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
BL = Back Loops.
FL = Front Loops.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern

Base of the tree.

For row 2 -14, at the start of every row you’ll crochet 2Ch, this will count as the first DC. You’ll close all these rows with a SlSt.
Row 15-21, I crochet continuously, without closing of the row. (Just like Amigurumi).

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: *1DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [9]
3: BL, *2DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [12]
4: *3DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [15]
5: BL, *4DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [18]
6: *5DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [21]
7: BL, * 6SC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [24]
8: *7DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [27]
9: BL, *8DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [30]
10: *9DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [33]
11: BL, *10DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [36]
12: *11DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [39]
13: BL, *12DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [42]
14: *13DC, 2DC in the next st* repeat 3 times. [45]
15: BL, *13SC, dec* repeat 3 times. [42]
16: *5SC, dec* repeat 6 times. [36]
17: *4SC, dec* repeat 6 times. [30]
18: *3SC, dec* repeat 6 times. [24]
19: *2SC, dec* repeat 6 times. [18]
20: *1SC, dec* repeat 6 times. [12]
21: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

This is how the tree looks, before you add the branches.
Branches

At the rows you worked in BL only, you wil work in the FL now. Just like the base of the tree, at the start of every row you’ll crochet 2Ch, this will count as the first DC. You’ll close all these rows with a SlSt.
To make one branch, work the following;

2DC in the next st, make 3 Picot’s of 4Ch, SlSt in at the base of the first picot, 2DC in the next st, Ch1, skip one st.
Repeat this until the end of the row. Each row number will be the amount of branches on that row. So row 3 has 3 branches, row 5 has 5 branches, etc.

I hope you had fun making the tree. If something is unclear, let me know, I’ll always try to help out.
Next week we are going to make the Gingerbread Man! So cute!

See you next week.

Love
Danielle

♥ Christmas CAL 2019; Introduction

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Hey Lovelies! Such a odd day for me to post something, but I wanted to tell you something. This year I won’t do Blogmas like the last 2 years. I wanted to do something different and give myself also some peace. So from dec 5th, on Thursday, as usual, I will start a CAL. If you don’t know what a CAL is, it’s short for Crochet A Long.

Gingerbread Man Christmas

I’ve made this adorable Gingerbread  Man with a Christmas Tree on his back, including some ornaments. Do you like it? I hope you will, and join me on this exciting adventure.

I will split the pattern up in 3. The first week you will get the pattern for the Christmas Tree, the second week the Gingerbread Man and the third week the ornaments.
I will keep doing this on Thursdays, just like you are used to. (The dates are, 5, 12 and 19 December)

Make sure to catch the pattern while you can, and crochet with me and hopefully many others. I am quite excited to do this, I hope you will enjoy! The pattern will be only available during December, after or during the month I will make sure to post it on Etsy or Ravelry or both. Have to see what will work for me .

I can’t wait!

Love
Danielle

♥ Free Pattern; Little Foxy Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! It’s getting cold outside now, I love when it starts to get freezy. Such healthy weather, you just have to put on enough clothes when going out. What about you, do you like cold weather? For today I wanted to make a cute Little Foxy with you. I realized you can make those in so many ways. But I made him this way and I hope you will enjoy!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors; Orange, White and Black. (I used Zeeman Supersoft)
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2mm hook).
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Safety Eyes, 4mm.
♥ Tiny bit of black felt for his nose/mouth.
♥ (Fabric)Glue.

Stitches used (US Terms):
Magic Ring.
CH = Chain.
SLST = Slip Stitch.
SC = Single Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern

Work in continues rounds, use a stitch marker to mark your first stitch of every row. This is for every part, unless stated otherwise.

Head and Body
Start with the color Orange.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
4: 18SC. [18]
5: (2SC, inc) 6 times. [24]
6: 24SC. [24]
7: 24SC. [24]
8: (3SC, inc) 6 times. [30]
9: 8SC, change to white, 15SC, change to orange, 7SC. [30]
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11: 8SC, change to white, 15SC, change to orange, 7SC. [30]
Place the eyes between row 7 and 8, about 6/7 stitches apart.
12: (3SC, dec) 2 times, change to white, (3SC, dec) 2 times, 2SC, change to orange, 1SC, dec, 3SC, dec. [24]
13: (2SC, dec) 2 times, 2SC, change to white, dec, 2SC, dec, 1SC, change to orange, 1SC, dec, 2SC, dec. [24]
14: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Stuff.
15: 12SC. [12]
16: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
17: 18SC. [18]
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21: 18SC. [18]
22: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Stuff
23: dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Arms (Make 2)
Use the color orange.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring.
2: 6SC. [6]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Legs (Make 2)
Use the color orange.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: (1SC, inc) 3 times. [9]
3: 9SC. [9]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Belly
Use the color white.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Tail
Start with the color white.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: (1SC, inc) 3 times. [9]
3: 9SC. [9]
4: (2SC, inc) 3 times. [12]
5: (3SC, inc) 3 times. [15]
6: (4SC, inc) 3 times. [18]
7: (change to orange, 1SC, change to white, 2SC) 6 times. [18]
8: (change to orange, 2SC, change to white, 1SC) 6 times. [18]
Change to orange.
9: 18SC. [18]
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12: 18SC. [18]
13: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12]
14: 12SC. [12] Stuff.
15: (2SC, dec) 3 times. [9]
16: (1SC, dec) 3 times. [6]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Ears (Make 2)
Start with the color Black.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 6SC. [6]
3: (1SC, inc) 3 times. [9]
4: (2SC, inc) 3 times. [12]
Change to orange.
5: (3SC, inc) 3 times. [15]
6: 15SC. [15]
7: 15SC. [15]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Assembling

By the use of sewing pins, you can position all of your parts first to see if you like it. When you are happy,  you can sew it on. I recomment you doing so.

First, cut of 14 pieces of white yarn, about 7 cm. (You’ll gonna cut them shorter later, so it doesn’t come very close). Those pieces of yarn we are gonna add to the sides of little foxy’s face, around the edge of the white. This with be fluffy. Add 7 on each side, 3 front, 4 behind those, if you don’t know how to do this, look at the pictures, you basicly tie a knot.
unraffle the pieces of yarn with a needle, and if you want you can brush it a little more to get even more fluff.
Now it needs to be trimmed, cut it a little longer as you want them, you’ll probably loose lengthe if you shape them. And cut those in the shape you like.

Time to add his arms and legs, sew those on, but make sure there’s enough space to sew his belly on as well.
On his backside, his tail will be added. Just play around until you like how he looks.
Last add his ears, slightly curved, just above his fluffy white cheeks.
From the black felt, cut his little nose and mouth, and glue those on.

And he is already finished! What do you think?! Liked this cute little foxy pattern? I just love designing small things, I’d probably can go smaller, hmm, but that’s for another time!

Have a wonderful day!

Love
Danielle

♥ Free Pattern; Hiding Witches Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! I actually, don’t know how I came up with this amigurumi, but I totally love it! And I hope you will as well. I wanted to make so many of those hiding witches! I had to hold myself back and do other stuffs as well, always enough to do, don’t need to add extra things. Are you like that as well? Way to excited to make so many things, while you have no time for it all? Anyway, let’s get into this pattern!

Hiding Witches

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors; Black, Orange, Purple and Green. ( I used Stylecraft and some other yarn I don’t remember it’s name).
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2,5mm hook).
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.

Stitches used (US Terms):
Magic Ring.
CH = Chain.
SLST = Slip Stitch.
SC = Single Crochet.
HDC = Half Double Crochet.
DC = Double Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
FL = Front Loop.
BL = Back Loop.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern

Work in continues rounds, use a stitch marker to mark your first stitch of every row. This is for every part, unless stated otherwise.

Witch Hat
Start with the color Black.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: (2SC, inc) 2 times. [8]
3: (3SC, inc) 2 times. [10]
4: 10SC. [10]
5: (4SC, inc) 2 times. [12]
6: (3SC, inc) 3 times. [15]
7: 15SC. [15]
8: (4SC, inc) 3 times. [18]
9: 18SC. [18]
10: (5SC, inc) 3 times. [21]
11: 21SC. [21]
12: (6SC, inc) 3 times. [24]
13: 24SC. [24]
14: (7SC, inc) 3 times. [27]
15: 27SC. [27]
16: (8SC, inc) 3 times. [30]
17: 30SC. [30]
Change to the color Orange.
18: (9SC, inc) 3 times. [33]
19: 33SC. [33]
20: (10SC, inc) 3 times. [36]
Change back to the color Black.
21: FL, (5SC, inc) 6 times. [42]
22: (6SC, inc) 6 times. [48]
23: 3SC, inc, (7SC, inc) 5 times, 4SC. [54]
24: (8SC, inc) 6 times. [60]
Fasten off and weave in tail. I didn’t stuff the hat at all, so I could get it all creasy.

Body
Start with the color Purple.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc) 6 times. [24]
5: (3SC, inc) 6 times. [30]
6: 30SC. [30]
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8: 30SC. [30]
Change to the color Orange.
9: BL, 30SC. [30]
10: 30SC. [30]
Change to the color Green
11: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
Change to the color Orange.
12: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
Change to the color Green.
13: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Stuff the body around here.
Change to the color Orange.
14: dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Skirt
Use the color Purple.

At row 9 of the body you worked in Back Loops only, now you are gonna rejoin in the Front Loops.

1: 30SC. [30]
2: (1SC, DC + Picot +DC in the next st, 1HDC, 1SC, Picot, 1SC) 6 times. [40]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Leg (Make 2)
Start with the color Green.

1: 6SC in Magic RIng. [6]
2: 6SC. [6]
Change to the color Orange.
3: 6SC. [6]
Change to the color Green.
4: 6SC. [6]
Repeat row 3 and 4 until you have 11 rows total.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Shoes (Make 2)
Use the color Black.

1: Ch6, insert in the second Ch from hook, 4SC, 3SC in the next st, 3SC, inc. [12]
2: 12SC. [12]
3: 12SC. [12]
Fasten off and sew a small part together, until you are left with a gap for the leg to fit in.

Assembling.

By the use of sewing pins, you can position all of your parts first to see if you like it. When you are happy,  you can sew it on. I recomment you doing so.

Sew the body to the head using a bit a extra thread. Mine is sewn where the dress starts, into the BL of the hat. Then sew the legs to the body and add her shoes as well. And you are already done!

I hope you liked this Hiding Witches pattern as much as I do! I still wanna make more haha, one day, one day!
Have a wonderful day and make sure to show me on social media if you made one.

Love
Danielle

♥ Free Pattern; Bat Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! Do you enjoy fall so far?! Here there is a lot of wind and rain, but I love it, specially cause al lot of fruits and nuts are ready to collect. I love going out in nature and see what foods I can find. It’s a good feeling to work for your food =P. Do you do this as well? Or do you prefer to stay inside with this weather? ^_^
Since it’s getting darker faster now, every evening when I close my curtains, I see a bat flying around, it’s so fun to watch! This made me inspired to make a Bat amigurumi, it’s so cute~. I hope you will love it as well, do you see real bat’s flying sometimes?

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors; Black and Purple (I used Budgetyarn.com).
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2,5mm hook).
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Safety Eyes, 9mm.

Stitches used (US Terms):
Magic Ring.
CH = Chain.
SLST = Slip Stitch.
SC = Single Crochet.
HDC = Half Double Crochet.
DC = Double Crochet.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern

Work in continues rounds, use a stitch marker to mark your first stitch of every row. This is for every part, unless stated otherwise.

Head + Body
Use the color Black.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
4: (2SC, inc) 6 times. [24]
5: (3SC, inc) 6 times. [30]
6: 30SC. [30]
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11: 30 SC. [30]
12: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
13: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18] Insert the eyes between row 8 and 9, about 4 cm apart. Stuff the head here to make it easier for yourself. You can do it last but it’s harder to stuff nicely.
14: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12]
15: 12SC. [12]
16: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
17: 18SC. [18]
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20: 18SC. [18]
21: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Stuff the body now as well.
22: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Ears (Make 2)
Use the color black

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: (1SC, inc) 3 times. [9]
3: (2SC, inc) 3 times. [12]
4: 12SC. [12]
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8: 12 SC. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Inside of the Ears (Make 2)
Use the color Purple.
You won’t work in continues rounds.

1: Ch5, insert in second Ch from hook, 4SC, turn. [4]
2: 4SC, 3SC in the next st, 4SC. [11]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing, sew this to the outer ear.

Belly
Use the color Purple.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Legs (Make 2)
Use the color Black.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: (1SC, inc) 3 times. [9]
3: 9SC. [9]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Wings (Make 2)
Start with the color Black.
You won’t work in continues rounds.

1: Ch3, insert in second Ch from hook, 2SC, turn. [2]
2: Inc 2 times, turn. [4]
3: Inc, 2SC, inc, turn. [6]
4: Inc, 4SC, inc, turn. [8]
5: 8SC, turn. [8]
6: Inc, 6SC, inc, turn. [10]
7: 10SC, turn. [10]
8: Ch3, DC + HDC in the next st, 3SC, HDC + DC in the next st, Ch1, DC + HDC in the next st, 4SC.
Change to the color Purple.
Crochet along the edge of the wing now. In the middle of the wing you can either stitch on a line with Purple yarn of use the Surface Crochet Technique.

Assembling

By using sewing pins, you can position all parts before sewing them on. This way you can easily move them around until you are happy with how it looks.

Sew the ears on to of the head of the Bat and his belly to the body. His legs go right beside, slightly lower his belly. On His back you will sew his wings. Position them however you like.

If you want you can sew on a little mouth, I didn’t because I like it this way xD.

I hope you enjoyed this new bat pattern and let me know if you made it! I always love to see works that are made by you, using my patterns, I always feel so loved!

Have a wonderful day!

Love
Danielle