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♥ Sakura Ufufy

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Hey Lovelies! As you probably know I love Ufufy’s and TsumTsum’s a lot! I keep making them. Just can’t stop! haha. So, some time ago I saw these adorable Sakura Ufufy’s online and I instantly loved them. I needed them in my life! Now I already have quit a few patterns for Ufufy, so why not use those patterns and make them in another way?

Sakura Ufufy

Today’s blog will be more like an inspiration blog as it’s really pattern. I still wanted to share these with you, since, yeah, you’ll probably love them as well. I made Pooh, Mickey and Minnie as Sakura Ufufy. But you can use any pattern and change those to Sakura style.

To make them Sakura style you need different shades of Pink! I used a max of 3 different pinks for Minnie. For Pooh and Mickey I used just 2 shades. The only thing you make extra for these Ufufy’s, are the Sakura Flowers and petals, which you will make out of pink felt and glue onto the Ufufy. 

Those are really easy to make and so much fun. Even it’s the same pattern as the regular versions, those give a whole different vibe.  They just scream Spring!

Here you can find the patterns I used:
Mickey
Minnie
Pooh

I hope you will like this idea and will make them as well! Share them with me if you made them!

Love
Danielle

♥ Paper Quilled Egg

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Hey Lovelies! I hope you are doing well with all the virus stuff going on! It’s getting pretty critical here in the Netherlands, but it doesn’t bother me much. Since I can craft all day, every day, I have no time to be bored! xD. For today’s blog I found my quilling stuff back, it’s been ages since I used it, but it’s paper, and anything paper, I love. Not sure why xD just a little obsession I guess. I will explain to you how to make a 3D quilled egg, which works awesome for easter! I hope you will enjoy this tutorial!

Paper Quilled Egg

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ 5 Purple Strokes of 3mm by 7cm.
♥ 25 Pink Strokes of 3mm by 10,5cm.
♥ Green Strokes of 3mm by 10,5cm, as many as you want.
♥ Quilling Tools, but you can use alternatives, in the past I never used quilling tools.
♥ Glue.
♥ Styrofoam Egg, about 4cm in height. (You can use larger, but then you’ll need more of the other supplies as well).
♥ Tweezers. (optional)
♥  (Sewing) Pins.

Tutorial Paper Quilled Egg

If you don’t know what Quilling or paper Quilled things are, I suggest you to look some up! It’s really fun!

Rolling the Papers

Start with rolling up all the paper strokes. The Purple ones you just keep them as is and use some glue at the end of the stroke to keep it from unwinding.

The Greens and Pinks you’ll let them expand to a width of 8mm. I had a quilling board with different size circles, which made it really easy to get the right size every time. As for those as well, glue the end of the stroke so it won’t unwind any further.

Shaping

The pink ones you pinch at one side. The Green at two sides.  See the image below to see the shapes they need to have. Continue this for all the pinks and greens.

Making the Egg

Now you need the Styrofoam egg, you need to decide now if you wanna leave the egg in or that you wanna be able to remove it. If you wanna remove it, like I did, make sure you won’t glue the pieces to the egg.

Start off with drawing a line on the egg, as you can see in the picture, my egg already had a line from the making process. Divide this line in 3 even parts. Take the 5 purple parts and add those with a pin. so 3 on the line, 1 on top and 1 on the bottom.

Around the Purple parts, glue 5 Pink parts, so you will create some kind of flowers. Use pins to keep all parts in place until it’s dry.

Lastly, in between the flowers you just made, add the green parts. They will be the leaves. Those you can glue however you want, but you want to connect all flowers together. If you won’t connect everthing, it will fall apart, and that’s not what you want. (If you decided to keep the egg in the inside, it doesn’t matter if it’s connected or not).
However, in order to be able to remove the egg, don’t use glue around the line from earlier. This way you’ll have a upper and lower half which you will glue together after removing the egg. Make sure to make some marks to which part goes where, or the shape will be lost.

Before you remove the egg though, make sure everything has dried well and is hard enough to hold its shape. So glue’s take 24hours to be completely hardened.

You could add a piece of thread to the top of the egg to be able to hang it as decoration!

I hope you liked this Quilled Paper Egg tutorial! It’s fun to do something else a crocheting all the time xD. It’s funny, that before I figured out how to crochet, I only used paper to create things. Now I barely use paper, while I have a huge stack  *Hides

Have a wonderful day everyone!

Love
Danielle

♥ Free Pattern; Sakura Flower Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! Spring is on its way!! Although the weather is more acting like it’s Fall xD. We’ll just have to deal with it. But we can make our own little Spring world, to give us those Spring vibes. That’s why I made this adorable pattern of a Sakura flower! Don’t you wanna make a whole bunch and decorate everything with it, so we can make up for the bad weather?! Well, I think, I will xD. Let’s get quickly into this pattern.

Sakura Flower

For this Pattern you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors;  Pink and Green. (I used Zeeman Supersoft)
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2mm hook).
♥ Safety Eyes, 5mm.
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Piece of dark colored yarn for the mouth.

Stitches used (US Terms):
Magic Ring.
CH = Chain.
SLST = Slip Stitch.
SC = Single Crochet.
HDC = Half Double Crochet.
DC = Double Crochet.
Picot = Ch3 and SlSt into the first Ch again.
ST = Stitch.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Pattern Sakura Flower

Sakura Flower (Make 2)
Use the color Pink.

1: 5SC in Magic Ring, SlSt in the first st. [5]
2: Ch1, 2SC in each st around, SlSt in the first st. [10]
3: Ch1, (1SC, inc) 6 times, SlSt in the first st. [15]
4: Ch1, (2SC, inc) 6 times. [20]
From here you will work the patals, repeat row 5-7, 5 times.
5: Ch1, 3SC, inc, turn. [5]
6: 5SC, turn. [5]
7: Dec, Picot, 1SC, Picot, dec. [5]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Leaves (Make 2)
Use the color Green.

Ch8, insert in 2nd ch from hook, 1SC, 1HDC, 2DC in the next st, 2HDC, 1SC,  1SC + Picot + 1SC in the next st, continue to work along the other side of the chain, 1SC, 2HDC, 2DC in the next st, 1HDC, 1SC, SlSt.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Assembling

Whenever I make Amigurumi’s, I like to use sewing pins first to add all parts together. This way I can easily move them around until I am happy with how it looks.

On one of the ‘Sakura Flower’ add the eyes and the mouth, I put the eyes between row 3 and 4. Next sew both sides of the flower together.
Add the leaves however you like and sew those on as well.

And your Sakura Flower is already done! Easy right? And so cute, are you gonna make some? I hope you will, and show me on social media if you do!

Have a wonderful day~

Love
Danielle

♥ Free Pattern; Dumbo TsumTsum

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Hey Lovelies! It’s time for a new TsumTsum Pattern. My plan is to make 1 TsumTsum every month, so hopefully I can keep that up! I’m excited to do so. Today we will make Dumbo! I hope you will love him.
Anyone else waiting for snow?! Gosh, they said it might snow today, but I only see rain, I’m sad. We haven’t had any snow this winter yet. But I won’t give up on it yet xD. Anyway, let’s dive into the Dumbo pattern.

Dumbo Tsum Tsum

For this Pattern you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors;  Grey, Pink, Red and Yellow. (I used Zeeman Supersoft)
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2mm hook).
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Felt for the facial details.
♥ (Fabric) Glue.

Stitches used (US Terms):
Magic Ring.
BL = Back Loops.
FL = Front Loops.
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.

Body
Use the color Grey.

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: (4SC, inc) 6 times. [36]
7: (5SC, inc) 6 times. [42]
8: 42SC. [42]
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29: 42SC. [42]
30: (5SC, dec) 6 times. [36]
31: (4SC, dec) 6 times. [30]
32: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
33: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]Stuff the body here.
34: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12]
35: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Snout
Use the color Grey.

1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: (1SC, inc) 3 times. [9]
3: 9SC. [9]
4: 9SC. [9]
5: (2SC, inc) 3 times. [12]
6: 12SC. [12]
7: (3SC, inc) 3 times. [15]
8: 15SC. [15]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. Stuff the snout lightly

Tail
Use the color Grey.

Ch7, insert in the second Ch from hook, 6SC. [6]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Legs (Make 4)
Use the color Grey

1: 4SC in Magic Ring. [4]
2: 2SC in each st around. [8]
3: 8SC. [8]
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5: 8SC. [8]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Ears (Make 2)
Use the color Grey.
The ears excist out of several parts, so read well how many you need and how and when to add them.

Part 1 (Make 2):
1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: (1SC, inc) 6 times. [18]
Cut the yarn on one, and leave it on the other.
Part2:
4: Continue on the ‘part1’ you left the yarn on. 9SC, Ch2, Connect the second ‘part1’ 18SC, 2SC in the 2Ch you made earlier, 9SC. [40]
5: 40SC. [40]
6: 40SC. [40]
7: 9SC, dec, 18SC, dec, 9SC. [38]
8: 9SC, dec) 17SC, dec, 8SC. [36]
9: (4SC, dec) 6 times. [30]
10: 30SC. [30]
11: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
12: 24SC. [24]
13: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
14: 18SC. [18]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Inside of the Ears. (Make 2)
Use the color Pink.

1: Ch9, insert in de second Ch from hook, 8SC, turn. [8]
2: Inc, 6SC, inc, turn. [10]
3: Inc, 8SC, inc, turn. [12]
4: Inc, 10SC, inc, turn. [14]
5: Inc, 12SC, inc, turn. [16]
6: 16SC, turn. [16]
7: 16SC, turn. [16]
8: Dec, 1SC, 1HDC, 1DC, 1HDC, 1SC, 2SlSt, 1SC, 1HDC, 1DC, 1SC, dec.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Hat
Use the color Yellow

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: FL, 12SC. [12]
7: 12SC. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
At the row you worked in the front loops only, you can fold it outward to create the rim of the hat. Stuff lightly.

Collar
Use the color Red.

1: Ch42, make it into a circle and make 42SC. [42]
2: (1SC+1HDC in the next st, 2DC in the next St, 1HDC+1SC in the next st) 14 times. [84]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. (you could put it on loose, but I preferred to sew it on.
Around the edge of the collar, stitch on a yellow border, just like how Dumbo’s collar should look like.

Assembling

For every Amigurumi I put together, I use sewing pins first. This way you can easily move the parts around until you are happy.

Sew the inside of the ears to the outside of the ears, if you do this first, you can just move on to complete it.
Sew the snout on first, just under the middle of the face. This way you have a point to measure the other parts from.
The Collar will go on next, between row 14/15 of the body. In front of the collar you will position the hat and the ears and sew those on too.
just behind the Collar, around his belly his 2 front legs will go, the other to near the end of the body.
And last but not least, sew on his tail!
Make his eyes and other facial features from either felt or you can choose to embroider them on, just what look you like more and what you are comfortable with.

And Dumbo is already Finished, he is so cute and I am so happy I finally finished him. To be honest, I started him years ago and I just never finished it, weird. Oh well, at least we have him all done now! I hope you enjoyed this pattern and I’ll see you next week.

Love
Danielle

♥ Free Pattern; Snow White Ufufy

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Hey Lovelies! Are you ready for a new Ufufy Amigurumi Pattern?! I hope you are cause today I have a Snow White pattern for you. I thought the 7 dwarfs I made before should be joined by her finally.

Snow White Ufufy

For this Pattern you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors;  Brown, Red, Light Blue, Beige, White and Light Yellow. (I used Budgetyarn.com and Stylecraft Special)
♥ Crochet Hook (I used a 2,5mm hook).
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Scissors.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Felt in Black.
♥ (Fabric) Glue.

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

Pattern Snow White

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
Start with the color Beige.

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: 24SC. [24]
6: 24SC. [24]
7: (3SC, inc) 6 times. [30]
8: 30SC. [30]
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10: 30SC. [30]
Change to the color Light Blue.
11: 30SC. [30]
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15: 30SC. [30]
Change to the color white
16: Work in Back Loops only, 30SC. [30]
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17: 30SC. [30]
18: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
19: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18] Stuff the body here.
20: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12]
21: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and  weave in tail.

Skirt
Use the color Yellow.

You will work this directly on the body, find row 15, you only used the back loops of this row, now we are gonna use the front loops.

1: 30SC. [30]
2: (SLST & HDC in the next st, 2DC in the next st, HDC & SC in the next st) 10 times.
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Legs/Hands (make 4)
Make 2 using the color Yellow and 2 using the color Beige.

1: 4SC in Magic Ring. [4]
2: (1SC, inc) 2 times. [6]
Fasten off and leave long tail for sewing. You don’t have to stuff them, just flatten.

Sleeves (Make 2)
Use the color Light Blue.

Crochet 6FSC (Or Ch7, insert in 2nd Ch from hook, 6SC). Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing. Make round but keep the tail.

Hair
Use the Brown color yarn.

For the hair you will need several parts, so read well where you need to add what and how many.

Part 1. (Make 5)
1: 6SC in Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
Fasten off.

Part 2.
3: Work on 1 “Part 1” 6SC, Ch5, connect another “part1”, 6SC, Ch5, connect another “part1”, 12SC, continue to work in the other side of the chains and remaining st of the “parts” 22SC. [56]
4: 56SC. [56]
5: (Dec, 26SC) 2 times. [54]
6: (25SC, dec) 2 times [52]
7: dec, (2SC, dec) 6 times, connect another “part1”, 6sc, connect another “part1”, 6SC. [31]
The stitches you didn’t use in the previous row, you won’t use anymore either.
8: (3SC, dec) 6 times, 1SC. [25]
9: (2SC, dec) 6 times, 1SC. [19]
10: (1SC, dec) 6 times, 1SC. [13]
11: Dec until you have 6st remaining. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Ribbon
Use the Red colored yarn.

Ch13, insert in the 2nd ch from hook, 2SlSt, 7SC, 3SlSt.
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Bow
Use the Red colored yarn.

1: Chain 7, insert in 2nd chain from hook, 6SC, turn. [6]
2: 6SC. [6]
3: SLST around the bow for a nice edge.
Fasten off and leave a long tail. Use a Yarn Needle to go to the middle of the bow with the yarn and wrap the tail tightly around several times and fasten off but don’t cut the yarn.

Assembling

For all of my amigurumi’s I use sewing pins to place all of the parts, so I can easily move them around until I am happy with how it looks. Then I will sew it on.
Sew the hands to the sleeves first, and the sew them to the body. Sew the legs to the body as well.
Postition the hair and sew it on the way you like it. I have stuffed the hair a tiny bit cause you could see where the unfinished inside ended. So you might wanna do so as well.
On top of Snow White’s hair, sew on the ribbon and on top of that the bow.
With some scrap pieces of red yarn, embroider 3 stripes on each sleeve.
Make her facial detail with black felt and glue those on, with some pink pastel of make-up you can apply a light blush on her ‘cheecks’.

Snow White is already done! I always love how quickly you can make Ufufy, tho the Designing of the pattern sometimes takes a lot longer as you would think haha. But I am okay with that, it’s fun to challenge myself to get the right shape.

I hope you enjoyed today’s pattern, I’ll see you again next week!

Love
Danielle