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♥ Free Pattern; CNY Mouse Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! Guess what, it’s almost Chinese New Year! Saturday the 25th to be exact. Here in my country we don’t celebrate, sad enough, only some Chinese related things will, like restaurants. I wish I could go visit one to watch the fireworks, but I don’t live near one ;;. Anyway, 2020 will be the year of the rat/mouse. So I made a little something for you to make, it’s so adorable this little mouse!

CNY Mouse

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ DK Yarn in the colors; Beige and Grey. (I used BudgetYarn.com)
♥ Some extra Pink yarn for the nose.
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2,5mm hook).
♥ Safety Eyes, 5mm.
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.

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 Mouse

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

Body
Use Grey yarn.

Before you start, prepare 3 strands of yarn, about 6cm. Tie them together with knot and put them aside. This will be for his hair.

1: 6SC in a Magic Yarn. [6] Before closing the magic ring, put in the 3 strands you prepared earlier, with the knot on the inside. now close the magic ring.
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: (3SC, inc) 3 times. [15]
4: (4SC, inc) 3 times. [18]
5: 18SC. [18]
6: (5SC, inc) 3 times. [21]
7: 21SC. [21]
8: (6SC, inc) 3 times. [24]
9: 24SC. [24]
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11: 24SC. [24]
12: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
13: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Place the eyes between row 5 and 6, about 1cm apart. Stuff the body firmly.
14: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Ears (Make2)
Use Grey yarn.

1: 6SC in a Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: 12SC. [12]
4: 12SC. [12]
5: (2SC, dec) 3 times. [9]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. You don’t stuff, just flatten the ears.

Tail
Use the Beige yarn.

Chain 18 and leave a long tail for sewing.

Assembling

Whenever I start assembling Amigurumi’s I use sewing pins to put all things together first. This way I can move them around until I am happy with how it looks.

For the hairs you added when you started with the body, those 3 strands of grey yarn. Unraffle those, so they get fluffy. When you have done that, trim it to the size you like!

Make a little nose with pink yarn. After that position the ears and sew them on. Do the same for the tail. And you are already done. This is a real quick one!

I hope you liked making this little mouse! So adorable if you ask me. I might wanna make some other colors as well. And if you saw my insta stories, the body only with the eyes and hairs is very cute as well, who needs ears and a tail?! xD

Have a wonderful day and enjoy the Chinese New Year if you celebrate!

Love
Danielle

♥ Tutorial; Clay Snow Dragon

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Hey Lovelies! How are you doing?! I am sad it’s still raining and storming outside, no snow for me. I keep imagining how much snow all the rain would have been xD. Anyway I am still in winter mode, so I have made this adorable snow dragon out of clay. Just a little sculpture to have around and lift up the winter spirit. It’s perfect to use clay around this time of year.

Clay Snow Dragon

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Aluminum Foil.
♥ Air Dry Clay.
♥ Skewer.
♥ Some Rough Brush or Tooth Brush for Clay Purposes.
♥ Water and/or Glue.
♥ Some Branches.
♥ Clay tools.
♥ Acrylic Paint.
♥ Varnish.
♥ Brush.
♥ Glitter/nailart deco. (optional)

Tutorial

Make 2 balls out of aluminum foil. One about 3,5cm and the other about 2cm.

Prick the skewer in the large ball, this makes it easier to hold. Cover it entirely with clay, about 1cm thick. It doesn’t have to be perfectly smooth. If you ever made a snowman with real snow, you know that’s almost impossible the get a perfectly smooth ball xD. When it’s covered, texture the clay using the rough brush or toothbrush. If that’s done, put it upside down with the skewer straight up and let it dry before you continue. Usually with air dry clay, this doesn’t take too long, although it depends on the clay!

When the large ball is as good as dry, do the same for the small one, but don’t let it dry. Cut the skewer smaller and pull out the one of the large one. Add a bit of glue around the hole of the large ball and slide in the skewer of the small one. if you left any marks where you hold it, make sure to texture it again.

Take a bit of clay, a ball around 2cm and make a oval shape of it. Put it on a flat surface and flatten the side/edges towards the flat surface. (Not sure how to explain this well, check the pics). This will be his beak. If the clay of the small ball is still wet then you can use water to put both parts together, if not use a bit of glue. Try to smooth out the edges , doesn’t have to be perfect. Don’t forget to texture it!

Horns

Make two balls out of clay, approx  0,5cm each. Make a pine cone shape of both balls. Glue those to the head where you like them. try to smooth out the edges and texture those as well.
From here I let it completely dry before I continued.

Tail

Make a long cone shape that you wanna use for the tail. At the widest part you wanna slice a part of with a knife to be able to apply it to the body easily. Texture the tail too.

Shawl

Make a long snake of clay, and flatten it a bit. Wrap about 10 to 15 cm around his neck (depends on your work), like shown in the picture. Make sure to use a bit of glue/water, cause air dry clay won’t stick to dry air dry clay.
Now make a little gap where the clay starts to overlap. In here you will add another piece of the flatten snake you made. Cut off about 4 to 5cm of the snake and flatten one side of it a bit more, this will make it easier to slide in the gap. If you have done that, add it carefully in the gap and fold the remaining part down. Make sure to use glue here as well.

Ears

Make 2 balls of about 1cm each and shape those into a flat-ish triangle. Apply those to the head and make sure to texture those as well.

Arms

Poke a hole with something sharp on the place where you want the arms to go. Cut pieces of a branch to the size you like and put those in the holes you just made.

Eyes and Buttons

With little pieces of clay make the eyes and buttons on the snow dragon. Make sure to leave those smooth so they could look like little stones stuck into the snow.

Painting

Last paint the parts you like to paint. I painted the scarf light blue and the eyes/buttons black. Further I left everything white. You can varnish the snow dragon if you like. I added some glitter to the varnish for that little extra. If you have ever seen snow, you know it sparkles. So so pretty! *-*

I hope you liked this little tutorial how to make a snow dragon out of clay! Show me if you made one as well, I’d love to see! Have a wonderful day!

Love
Danielle

♥ Free Pattern; Snowball Spirit Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! How’s your 2020 going so far? I hope all goes well! I’m just hoping that it will start snowing any time soon. But right now it’s 10 degrees Celsius*sigh. Please give me snow xD. So that’s why I made this Snowball Spirit, it’s so cute and maybe it helps?! Wouldn’t hurt to try. And after I am done writing this blog, I’m gonna make a few more, there are too adorable!

Snowball Spirit

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ DK Yarn in the colors; Beige and Light Blue. (I used BudgetYarn.com)
♥ Fluffy White Yarn. (I used something for the Zeeman, I don’t have the label anymore).
♥ Some extra White yarn to sew on detail on the hat. (optional)
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2,5mm hook for the dk yarn and a 4mm hook for the fluffy yarn).
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.

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
Use the color Beige.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
4: 18SC. [18]
|
6: 18SC. [18]
7: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Add the eyes between row 5 and 6, about 5 stitches apart. Stuff.
8: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Hands (Make 2)
Use the color Beige.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 6SC. [6]
3: 6SC. [6]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. Stuff them if you can, I didn’t.

Feet (Make 2)
Use the color Light Blue

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: 12SC. [12]
4: 12SC. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. Stuff lightly.

Hat
Use the color Light Blue.

1: 4SC in Magic Ring. [4]
2: (1SC, inc) 2 times. [6]
3: (2SC, inc) 2 times. [8]
4: (3SC, inc) 2 times. [10]
5: (4SC, inc) 2 times. [12]
6: (5SC, inc) 2 times. [14]
7: (6SC, inc) 2 times. [16]
8: (7SC, inc) 2 times. [18]
9: (8SC, inc) 2 times. [20]
10: (9SC, inc) 2 times. [22]
11: 22SC. [22]
12: 22SC. [22]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Snowball
Use the fluffy White yarn.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
4: 18SC. [18]
|
7: 18SC. [18]
8: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Stuff.
9: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Assembling

Whenever I assemble amigurumi, I use sewing pins to position all parts in the right place. This way I can easily move them around until I am happy, then I will sew them on. I recommend you would do the same.

Sew the head to the body. With a piece of Beige scrap yarn, make a nose.
If you want to sew on some detail on the hat like I did, you can either do it now, or after you’ve sewn it one, depends on your preference. Sew the hat on.
Sew on his hands and feet and you are already done, so easy, yet so cute.

I hope you enjoyed this Snowball spirit pattern?! If you made him, don’t forget to show me your creation on social media! I’d love to see!

Love
Danielle

♥ Christmas CAL 2019; Part 3

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Hey Lovelies! The third part is here! But that also means this CAL is coming to an end *sad face*. Today we will cover the last bits of our Christmas CAL, the decoration. It’s not that much for today, but December is already hectic enough, let’s not make it more difficult!

For this pattern you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors, Red and Yellow, but you can use other colors you like for the decoration! (I used Stylecraft Special in the colors Lipstick and Saffran).
♥ Crochet hook 2,5 or 3 mm.
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Stitch Marker.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Little caps, that are usually used for jewelry.

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

Edit: This pattern is now deleted, I will let you know when it is up in etsy!

Last, add some Christmas Lights in your tree, it’s just that little extra to make it complete! I hope you enjoyed this CAL!? Now I am actually wondering, do you like Blogmas or a CAL like this year? I would love to know what you prefer, and find out what I will do next year~.

Gingerbread Man Christmas

And now, let’s enjoy (the days before) Christmas! I hope you will have a nice one!

Love
Danielle

♥ Christmas CAL 2019; Part 2

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Hey Lovelies! It’s time for part two! Let’s make that adorable Gingerbread Man that is chilling under the Christmas Tree, well, I am not too sure how comfortable that is, actually xD.

Gingerbread Man

For this pattern you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors, White and Light Brown. (I used StyleCraft Special in the colors Camel and White)
♥ Crochet hook 2,5 or 3 mm.
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Pair of Safety Eyes. (1cm)
♥ Stitch Marker.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Metallic Thread. (Optional)
♥ Things to decorate the ‘icing’ with, like green and read thread, nail art deco, etc.

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

Pattern

Edit: This pattern is now deleted, I will let you know when it is up in etsy!

The second part, Gingerbread Man, is now done as well, I hope you like how your Gingerbread Man has turned out!? I think it’s cute. Next week we already go to the last part of this CAL =( the decoration! See you then.

Love
Danielle