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♥ Happy New Year!

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Hey Lovelies! HAPPY LUNAR NEW YEAR!! 猪年大吉 (Zhū nián dàjí).
It’s the year of the earth Pig! A Golden Pig! Which hopefully means that this year will be filled with Abundance and Good Fortune. Let’s hope this year will be good to us, wishing you all the luck!

I always pay more attention to this New Years, and it’s more important to me, Why?! Because there is way more meaning behind!

I wanted to make a post for a while now, I’m not abandoning this blog, I just was in high need of a break after all the stuff from last year. Let’s forget about that tho.

I’m still making things and picked up Drawing after a long while. I’m enjoying that so much at the moment! For me, I love switching up between all arts and crafts I know. I can’t stick long to one subject. I’m always challenging myself to learn new things and make my knowledge about it bigger. There’s always something to learn, you never stop. This is what keeps me going, eager to learn. So just know that this blog isn’t a Crochet blog, it’s about everything I love!

For this year I also wanna archieve some things. And some I already started, I can tell you a few. But I guess I’ll gonna keep some to myself. You will find out eventually when time is there.

I wanna draw more, I missed it too much. BUT I also need to finish the drawings I start. I often put them away and never finish them. It’s time to change that up. I also gonna film more speed drawing videos! And I actually started with that already! Secretly~, there’s a lot going on behind the scenes haha.

I also wanna set up an Etsy store and a Ravelry page. It’s something I wanted to do last year already, but life got in the way =P.

Some personal goals I have it to get into Yoga, I should just do it xD. And something you won’t expect maybe, I wanna start learning Chinese Mandarin. I’m not sure how yet, so if you have tips/apps/websites/ anything, let me know!

I hope you will have a wonderful day! And look forward to my weekly blogging again! I will be posting on Thursdays again, just as regular. I am not sure if I will start this week or next week. (I have the flu at the moment and I am way to addicted to Meteor Garden (Chinese 2018 Version) So after posting this, I’m back watching that xD)

Stay Healthy!

Love
Danielle

♥ Day 5; Pichu Felt Ornament

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Hey lovelies! Day 5 is here and time for a new DIY! The 3rd ornament for Blogmas is here. And a bunch more will come, I’m hoping you’ll be happy with that! ^^
Today we are going to make a Pichu who’s holding a wreath. I love it, let’s go~~!

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥  Felt in the colors Yellow, Black, Green and Pink.
♥  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 in Red and White.

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 of felt.

Use a trick marker or anything else you can copy the pattern with on to the felt. Cut Parts A, E and F out of yellow felt. Parts B, C, D, G and the eyes out of black felt. Part i you’ll cut out of pink and part H you’ll cut out of green felt. Make sure you’ll cut out the right amount of every piece, the way it’s stated on the pattern.
Don’t loose track of which piece is which.

On part A you’ll position parts B (left ear), C (right ear) and D on the right places. You can use a tiny bit of glue to keep them in place.

Then start sewing at the right ear with a blanket stitch. Make sure before closing the first ear, that you’ll stuff it already! You will get in trouble if you don’t. Just go along the edge of the head, the other ear, and do the same for the other ear with stuffing. Before you start closing the body, make sure you place the arms (part F) in between the layers. and use a running stitch to keep the in place, sew the rest of the body with the blanket stitch. And before entirely closing it up, stuff the head and body.

Glue the eyes and the cheeks to his face, and with a white dot of acryllic paint you’ll bring the eyes alive.

Sew both part H togheter with a blanket stitch, both the inside and the outside of the wreath. When you are done, paint red dots on there (little berries). You can put a tiny white dot in every ‘berry’ for a bit of shine.

Position the wreath and glue it to the body. Then glue the hands around the wreath. On the wreath you’ll glue the feet (part E) and the tail (part G) on his back.

And another felt ornament is ready! cute right?! Share yours with #DelinleaBlogmas2018DIY on twitter or insta!

I will see you tomorrow again! Have a nice day!

Love
Danielle

 

 

 

♥ Day 3; Togepi Felt Ornament

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Hey Lovelies! it’s day 3 of my Blogmas! And we go back to felt! We need more ornament for our tree right?! (Or anything else where you can hang them xD let’s just hang them everwhere!!). For today I planned to make Togepi in a Stocking! So cute! Let’s do this.

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥  Felt in the colors Red, White and Beige.
♥  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 in Dark Brown, Red and Blue.

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 of felt.

Part A you will cut out of Red felt. Part B, C, D and E you will cut out of white felt. Part F, G and H you’ll cut out of beige felt. keep in mind how many times you need to cut out each piece. And keep track of which piece is which.

Glue or sew (with a running stitch) part B and C to part A. Then, Sew the completed parts A together with a blanket stitch (this stitch you will use for this whole piece).
When you have the base of the stocking done, you need part D, I glued this on as well, but I guess you can also sew it on. Start in the middle of the back of the stocking (see picture), wrap it around, and finish of tightly at where you started. You might have a bit too much in length of this piece, just cut the remaining part off.
Now stuff the stocking lightly.

Now you need parts F and G. Sew these together, the bottom part you’ll leave open. And where his ‘spikes’ (how to call it else?!) are you’ll use a running stitch.

Put the face part inbetween the shell (part E) I used glue to attach these but you can sew it as well. Around the shell you sew it close, but don’t forget to stuff it before entirely closing.

Glue on his arms (part H) And with paint you’ll gonna make all the details on his shell and his face. I figured it’s easier to use paint here since mine is pretty small, but if you made yours bigger you can also use felt for this part.

If you want you can attach a loop to be able to hang it somewhere, just take a piece of thread, put it through a needle, pull it half way through your ornament. Remove the needle and tie both end together.

And another felt ornament is ready! cute right?! Share yours with #DelinleaBlogmas2018DIY on twitter or insta!

I will see you tomorrow again! Have a nice day!

Love
Danielle

 

 

♥ 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]
|
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