Crafting

♥ Day 2; Amigurumi Pikachu Snowman

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Hey Lovelies! Day 2 is here! I have a feeling this month is gonna fly like it’s nothing! But I am excited, and I hope you are too! Today is a Amigurumi, a Snowman Pikachu! I love how it turned out. So I really hope you will like it as well~.

For this DIY you will need:
♥  Yarn, in White, Black and Red
♥  Crochet hook.
♥  Stitch marker.
♥  Yarn Needle.
♥  Sewing Pins. (optional)
♥  Fiber fill.
♥  Felt in the colors Black, Brown and Red.
♥  Glue.
♥  Scissors.

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

Pattern

Pikachu Head
In White.

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: SC in each ST around. [30]
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9: SC in each ST around. [30]
10: 7SC, inc, 1SC, inc, 4SC, inc, 4SC, inc, 1SC, inc, 8SC. [35]
11: 7SC, inc, 3SC, inc, 10SC, inc, 3SC, inc, 8SC. [39]
12: SC in each ST around. [39]
13: 7SC, dec, 3SC, dec, 10SC, dec, 3SC, dec, 8SC. [35]
14: SC in each ST around. [35]
15: 7SC, dec, 1SC, dec, 4SC, dec, 4SC, dec, 1SC, dec, 8SC. [30]
16: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
17: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
18: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12]
19: Dec all around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Pikachu Ears (2)
Start with Black.

1: 4SC in Magic Ring. [4]
2: (1SC, inc) 2 times. [6]
3: (1SC, inc) 3 times. [9]
4: SC in each ST around. [9]
5: (2SC, inc) 3 times. [12]
Change to White.
6: SC in each ST around. [12]
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8: SC in each ST around. [12]
9: (2SC, dec) 3 times. [9]
10: SC in each ST around. [9]
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13: SC in each ST around. [9]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Body
In White.

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: (6SC, inc) 6 times. [48]
9: 48SC. [48]
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18: 48SC. [48]
19: (6SC, dec) 6 times. [42]
20: (5SC, dec) 6 times. [36]
21: (4SC, dec) 6 times. [30]
22: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
23: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Shawl
In red.

1: Crochet 55FSC, turn. [55]
2: CH1, 55SC. [55]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Assembling

Sew the body to the head. Place the ears with some sewing pins, if you are happy with the look, sew them on. Tie the shawl on his neck.
Cut eyes, ears and nose out of felt. The eyes I cutted out of brown felt, and with a black waterproof marker I made the rest of the eye black, this way you get some dimension in the eye. With white acryllic paint I made a white dot in the eye. This is ofcourse optional.

I hope you enjoyed this pattern! Don’t forget to share yours with #DelinleaBlogmas2018DIY on twitter or insta.

I’ll see you tomorrow again!

Love
Danielle

 

♥ Day 1; Mew Felt Ornament

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Hey Lovelies! Today is the start of Blogmas 2018!! That means, from today on, until dec 24!! A new blog with DIY will be uploaded daily! So 24 free DIYs for you this month! This whole month is Christmas X Pokémon themed! I hope you like that!? I promise they are all very cute. There might be 1 exception, that’s not gonna be Pokémon themed, but you will find out =P.

I will kick off this blogmas with a felt ornament! I choose to put Mew with a star as the first DIY. Let’s go into it! Shall we?!

 

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥  Felt in the colors Yellow, Pink and White/Blue.
♥  Sewing thread in matching colors to the felt.
♥  Sewing Needle.
♥  Trick Marker or anything else where you can copy the pattern with onto your felt.
♥  Pattern.
♥  Scissors.
♥  Stuffing.
♥  Fabric Glue. (optional)
♥  Acryllic Paint. (optional)

DIY

First off all, download the pattern HERE! And print it out (or draw it from your screen). The good thing is, you can make it as big as you want! Then cut out all the pieces. On every piece is stated how many times you need to cut it out.

The star you copy and cut out of Yellow felt, The eyes out of white (and blue if you decide not to use paint like I did) and the rest of the pieces you copy on Pink felt and cut them out. Make sure you don’t loose track of what pieces are which.

Sewing

Sew the star together, using the Blanket stitch! (This stitch will use all the time) Make sure before closing the whole star, that you stuff it, to give it a little bit more dimension.

Then sew part A and B together of Mew. Then line up part C with part B and sew those together. You don’t have to do this very neathly since it doesn’t show anyway!

Now sew on the back of the body, part D, start by the head, by the ears you sew both parts together with a running stitch, you don’t sew around them. And stuff the head before you start with the body. Then sew the body together as well, and before entirely closing, stuff this as wel.

Now I used Glue to attach the remaining parts, but you can ofcourse choose to sew this on as well, I went for the quick option xD. Glue on the legs, part F, to the back of Mew. (Use the drawn image on the pattern for reference). Then glue on the tail, part E, inbetween the legs.
Glue on the arms as wel, just under the head, as shown in the picture.

Now it’s time to attach mew to the star, start by his head and arms, glue this on, in the position you like. Then glue the body to the star, so it’s won’t move anymore. Now you bring the tail to the front of the star and position it the way you like! Glue on when you are happy with how it looks.

And last but not least, glue on the eyes! If you didn’t use the blue felt and went for the paint option like I did. This is the moment to paint them.

With a lilttle pieces of sewing thread make a loop to hang it on. Just pull your length of thread through the star with a needle. Till you reached the middle of the thread, put both ends together and tie a knot.

And you are done with mew! How cute will it look in your christmas tree?! Adorable right?!
Share yours with #DelinleaBlogmas2018DIY on twitter or insta! Love to see yours!

I will see you tomorrow!

Love
Danielle

♥ Pietjes Lucky Charms

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Hey Lovelies! Sinterklaas is in town! If you don’t know what Sinterklaas is, it’s a Dutch celebration similar to Christmas, only celebrated on the 5th of Dec. (Fun fact: Christmas is actually based on Sinterklaas xD).
Anyway I just had to make a DIY for this and I planned to make a whole bunch of lucky charms. But I ended up making only de ‘Zwarte Piet’ ones. I ran out of time to maken Sinterklaas en Amerigo. I’m so sorry, maybe I’ll make a DIY on that next year!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥  Wooden beads in 2 sizes. (you can make them as big as you want)
♥  Air Dry Clay.
♥  PVA Glue.
♥  Scewer.
♥  Acryllic paints in colors of choice.
♥  Paintbrush.
♥  Matching pieces of thread, to the paint.
♥  Tiny piece of a Feather.
♥  Scissors.

DIY

First, glue the 2 different sized beads together, make sure the holes line up. Let that dry.

Make with clay a snake and make a circle around the smaller bead aka head. Use glue eventually to make it stick better, that’s what I did.

Now make a ball of some clay, about 1cm, and flatten this on to the head, until it touches the snake you put on there earlier. Use a scewer to poke through the hole on top. and make some creases with the scewer into the hat. Let the clay dry now.

Painting

Now it’s time to paint your pieces. I used 2 colors of choise, light brown, dark brown and white. It doesn’t really matter where you start, just make them cute and nice. The only thing you paint on last is the eyes!
Optional, varnish the beads so they are nice and protected. But you don’t have to.

Finishing off.

Cut a tiny piece of the top of a normal sized feather and glue this on his hat.
Then cut of about 30 cm of thread, in 2 colors. put this through the body of the Zwarte Piet, tie a knot at the bottom and you are done.

Blogmas 2018

From dec 1, Saturday! YES, you are reading that right! This Saturday will start Blogmas 2018 on this blog, that means 25 DIYs up till Christmas will be there for you, all for free! Every day a new DIY, Good news right?!

Have a lovely day!

Love
Danielle

♥ Dark and Light Pillow

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Hey Lovelies! Obvisously we had to make a pillow, of 45 by 45 cm and both sides had to be crocheted. But this challenge went a little different from the first 3. This time we were able to choose our own yarn and colors. The only bad side of that was that you had half of a week less to create, but we also got into 2 week challenges now.

Nu mochten we dus een kussen maken, van 45 bij 45 cm, en beide zijden moesten gehaakt zijn. Maar deze opdracht ging iets anders dan de eerste drie. Deze keer mochten we zelf garen en kleuren uitkiezen. Het enige nadeel daarvan was dat we een halve week minder hadden om te haken, maar nu komen we ook in de opdrachten van 2 weken.

I saw this challenge coming, and I was a bit scared of it. I wasn’t sure what I should make for it, where to start, what colors, a lot of things going through my mind. In the end I just picked colors I liked of the StyleCraft Special DK yarn. Turned out, I went for a pastel rainbow. Soon the idea came to use a light and dark side, a bit like yin yang. So maybe also Mandala like. I just went with that idea and waited for my yarn to come.

Ik had deze opdracht eigenlijk wel verwacht, en was er een beetje bang voor. Ik wist niet wat ik er voor moest maken, hoe ik moest beginnen, heel veel dingen die door mijn hoofd gingen. uiteindelijk heb ik gewoon kleuren uitgezocht die me leuk leken van StyleCraft Special DK. Wat bleek, ik had een pastel regenboog uitgekozen. Toen ontstond snel het idee om een lichte en donkere kant te maken, beetje YinTang achtig. En misschien in een mandala vorm. Ik ben voor dat idee gegaan en toen begon het wachten op mijn garen.

When it arrived, I quickly started, the first few rows went pretty fast, all did go smoothly. But there was a point, I was like, what the.. am I doing. I didn’t know how to go on, I kept taking out the rows, crochet them again, etc. After a lot of struggle I finally finished my pillow, and at first, to be honest, I wasn’t to happy about it. But now, after a while I am proud of what I created! I am so happy with my design now! I did it!

Toen mijn pakket aan kwam, ben ik snel aan de gang gegaan. De eerste paar toeren ging vrij vlot en gemakkelijk. Maar er was een moment dat het gewoon niet lukte! Ik wist niet hoe ik verder moest, bleef dezelfde toer maar haken en uithalen.
Na een hele tijd zwoegen is mijn kussen eindelijk af gekomen! En in het begin vond ik hem eigenlijk niet eens zo heel mooi. Maar nu, na enige tijd, ben ik blij met wat ik gemaakt heb! Wat ik ontworpen heb! Ik heb het gewoon geflikt!

Here’s my pillow:
Dit is mijn kussen:

What do you think of my pillow?! Like it?! Or did I use to many different stitches like the judges said?

Wat vindt jij van mijn kussen? Mooi?! of vindt je, net als de jury dat ik teveel verschillenge steken heb gebruikt?!

Love
Danielle