♥ Pietje Gnome Amigurumi

26 november 2020 by Delinlea 2 Comments

Hey Lovelies! Here is another Sinterklaas related Amigurumi, it’s a little Pietje! I hope you like him. It was very different to make compared to the Sint version (which you can find here!). I kept changing my mind on how I wanted it to look, in the end I just went with this. Tried really hard to not keep fiddling around. Let’s go to the pattern.

For this pattern you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors Purple, Blue, White, Black and Brown/Beige. (I used Budgetyarn.com and Stylecraft Special DK)
♥ Crochet hook. ( I used a 3mm)
♥ A few feathers.
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Stitch Marker.

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

This pattern is made with continues rounds, unless stated otherwise. Use a stitch marker to mark your first/last stitch of your row.

♥ Pattern Pietje Gnome

Body
Use the color Purple.

1: 6SC in a 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]
|
13: BL, 42SC. [42]
14: 42SC. [42]
|
18: 42SC. [42]
19: (5SC, dec) 6 times. [36]
20: (4SC, dec) 6 times. [30]
21: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
22: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
23: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12] Stuff
24: Dec around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Collar
Use the color White.
At row13 of the body you worked in BL, now, work in the FL.

1: 42SC. [42]
2: 42SC. [42]
3: (1SC+1HDC in de next st, 2DC in the next st, 1HDC+1SC in the next st) 14times. [84]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Hat
Start with the color Blue.

1: 8SC in a Magic Ring. [8]
2: 2SC in each st around. [16]
3: (1SC, inc) 8 times. [24]
4: (2SC, inc) 8 times. [32]
5: (3SC, inc) 8 times. [40]
6: (4SC, inc) 8 times. [48]
7: 48SC. [48]
8: 48SC. [48]
9: (5SC, inc) 8 times. [56]
10: 56SC. [56]
11: 56SC. [56]
12: (6SC, inc) 8 times. [64]
13: 64SC. [64]
14: 64SC. [64]
15: 64SC. [64]
16: (6SC, dec) 8 times. [56]
17: 56SC. [56]
18: (5SC, dec) 8 times. [48]
19: (4SC, dec) 8 times. [40]
Change to the color Black.
20: FL, 40SC. [40]
21: 40SC. [40]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
You can put a bit of stuffing inside so it won’t be too sloppy.

Nose
Use the color Beige/Brown.

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.

Feet (Make 2)
Use the color Black

1: 6SC in a Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: 3SC, (inc) 6 times, 3SC. [18]
4: 18SC. [18]
5: 18SC. [18]
6: 3SC, (dec) 6 times, 3SC. [12]
7: 12SC. [12]
8: 12SC. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.
Stuff the feet as well.

♥ Assembling

Whenever I start to assemble Amigurumi’s I use sewing pins first. This way I can move all parts around until I am happy. I recommend you do so as well.

Sew the hat on the body, it will go up till the collar. On top the the black part of the hat the nose will go. Last sew on his feet. And don’t forget to add some feather to his hat, to finish it off!

That was it already for this Pietje Gnome! It’s not too hard to make, but oh so cute! I hope you will enjoy this pattern. Let’s make it fun inside out home’s even when the world is cruel outside. It’s better to try to do those things we can control and make us feel a little better instead of being anxious all the time.

If you decided to make this Pietje Gnome, please, show me on Twitter or Instagram with the #DelinleaDIY. I would love to see what you made with my patterns!

Have a wonderful day and I’ll see you next week!

Love
Danielle

♥ Sinterklaas Gnome Amigurumi

19 november 2020 by Delinlea Leave a Comment

Hey Lovelies! If you live in a country where Sinterklaas is celebrated, you know he’s in the county now. It was weird to watch him on television this year, just like a lot this year, it was also different, without any public. I don’t really know what to think of it. But at least they didn’t cancel it completely. Related to the topic Sinterklaas I wanted to make a amigurumi, and came up with the following design. A Sinterklaas Gnome! I hope you will like him! Next week I will make a Piet Gnome, so he will have company.

For this pattern you’ll need:
♥ Yarn in the colors Red, Yellow, Beige an Black. (I used Budgetyarn.com and Stylecraft Special DK)
♥ Crochet hook. ( I used a 3mm)
♥ White Fluffy Yarn and a 4mm hook.
♥ Stuffing.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Stitch Marker.

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

This pattern is made with continues rounds, unless stated otherwise. Use a stitch marker to mark your first/last stitch of your row.

♥ Pattern Sinterklaas Gnome

Body
Use the color Red.

1: 6SC in a 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]
|
18: 42SC. [42]
19: (5SC, dec) 6 times. [36]
20: (4SC, dec) 6 times. [30]
21: (3SC, dec) 6 times. [24]
22: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
23: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12]
24: Dec around. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Mijter
Use the color Red.
Row 1-21 won’t be worked in continues rounds. From row 22, you will.

1: Ch2, insert in second ch from hook, inc, turn. [2]
2: (inc) 2 times, turn. [4]
3: 4SC, turn. [4]
4: inc, 2SC, inc, turn. [6]
5: 6SC, turn. [6]
6: inc, 4SC, inc, turn. [8]
7: 8SC, turn. [8]
8: inc, 6SC, inc, turn. [10]
9: 10SC, turn. [10]
10: inc, 8SC, inc, turn. [12]
11: 12SC, turn. [12]
12: inc, 10SC, inc, turn. [14]
13: 14SC, turn. [14]
14: inc, 12SC, inc, turn. [16]
15: 16SC, turn. [16]
16: inc, 14SC, inc, turn. [18]
17: 18SC, turn. [18]
18: inc, 16SC, inc, turn. [20]
19: 20SC, turn. [20]
20: inc, 18SC, inc, turn. [22]
21: 22SC, turn. [22]
Break your yarn and make row 1-21 again. Keep your yarn attached at the second one.
22: Connect the first side to the second with a SC. Make 22SC in total, and continue on the second part, and make 22SC on that part as well. [44]
23: 44SC. [44]
24: 44SC. [44]
25: 44SC. [44]
26: 44SC. [44]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Cross (Make 2)
Use the color Yellow.
This part won’t be worked in continues rounds.

1: Ch2, insert in second ch from hook, inc, turn. [2]
2: (inc) 2 times, turn. [4]
3: 4SC, turn. [4]
| – Note, Mark row 15 and 18 on both sides.
26: 4SC, turn. [4]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Now go back to row 15-18, here you will continue to make the sides of the cross. Do this on both sides.
Start from row 18.
1: 4SC, turn. [4]
|
6: 4SC, turn. [4]
7: 2SC, dec, turn. [3]
8: Dec, 1SC, turn. [2]
9: Dec. [1]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Nose
Use the color Beige.

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.

Cape
Start with the color Red.
This part won’t be worked in continues rounds.

1: 20FSC, Turn. [20]
2: 20SC, Turn. [20]
3: Inc, 18SC, inc, Turn. [22]
4: 22SC, Turn. [22]
5: Inc, 20SC, inc, Turn. [24]
6: 24SC, Turn. [24]
7: Inc, 24SC, inc, Turn. [26]
8: 26SC. [26]
Fasten off and weave in tail.
No alone the edge, except the first row, you’ll crochet SC around with the color Yellow. In the corner you will crochet 3SC. Fasten off and weave in tail.

Beard
Use the White Fluffy yarn.
This part won’t be worked in continues rounds.

1: Ch14, insert in second ch from hook, 13SC, turn. [13]
2: 13SC, turn. [13]
3: Dec, 9SC, dec, turn. [11]
4: Dec, 7SC, dec, turn. [9]
5: Dec, 5SC, dec, turn. [7]
6: Dec, 3SC, dec. [5]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Feet (Make 2)
Use the color Black

1: 6SC in a Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: 3SC, (inc) 6 times, 3SC. [18]
4: 18SC. [18]
5: 18SC. [18]
6: 3SC, (dec) 6 times, 3SC. [12]
7: 12SC. [12]
8: 12SC. [12]
9: 12SC. [12]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

♥ Assembling

Whenever I start to assemble Amigurumi’s I use sewing pins first. This way I can move all parts around until I am happy. I recommend you do so as well.

First sew the 2 crosses to the Mijter on both sides and you might wanna sew the tip of the Mijter together. Then, sew on his Mijter around row 10 of the body. The cape goes directly under the Mijter. On the other side of the body you will sew on the beard, with the nose centered. Last, position his feet and sew those on.

That was it already for this Sinterklaas Gnome! It’s not too hard to make, but oh so cute! I hope you will enjoy this pattern. Let’s make it fun inside out home’s even when the world is cruel outside. It’s better to try to do those things we can control and make us feel a little better instead of being anxious all the time.

If you decided to make this Sinterklaas Gnome, please, show me on Twitter or Instagram with the #DelinleaDIY. I would love to see what you made with my patterns!

Have a wonderful day and I’ll see you next week!

Love
Danielle

♥ DIY; Jute Gift Bags

29 november 2019 by Delinlea Leave a Comment

Hey Lovelies! I am so sorry that I am late with uploading, but stuff with my cat came up and then I couldn’t access my website, great. But as you can see I can access my website again and upload stuff! Today I wanted to show you how you can make those cute jute gift bags! Or use them as docoration. It’s fun and easy to make, so I hope you will like them as well.

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ Brown fabric or real Jute.
♥ (Fabric) Scissors.
♥ Pencil or Trick Marker.
♥ Ruler.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Iron. (Optional)
♥ Sewing Machine. (Optional, you can do it by hand as well).
For decorating:
♥ Paper or anything else you can make a stencil of, like wrapping foil that’s self-adhesive.
♥ X-acto knive.
♥ Acrylic Paint. (Optional)
♥ Brush. (Optional)

Tutorial

From the brown fabric, cut out a rectangle of 21 by 16cm. Make as many as you want, but for one bag, you need one rectangle. If your fabric is really wrinkly, like mine was, you might wanna iron it.

Along all sides of the rectangle, measure 1cm along the edge, this will be your seam allowance. On one of the widest sides, draw also a line that’s 2,5 cm from the edge. (see picture)

Fold both lines in on the side with the 2 lines. Pin those down and sew it close.

The side you’ve just sewn close, fold in half, the good side facing inward. Use sewing pins to keep it in place. Sew along the 2 sides that should be closed as well. As I used cotton fabric, the sides will raffle a bit, so I used a zigzag stitch as well to prevent this from happening.
If you have a lot of fabric left over around the edge, you might wanna trim it a bit. Just so it won’t get bulky once you turn it inside out.

When you are done sewing, turn your bag inside out. The bag is done now, but you can choose to decorate it.

Decorating

I chose to decorate some of the bags I made, either for Sinterklaas or Christmas. I searched for silhouettes on google to make a stencil of. I traced those onto paper/wrapping foil and cut those out with a x-acto knive. Make sure that you won’t make the stencil too big, you wanna close the bag as well, without losing the image.

Position your stencil on your bag and apply the acrylic paint with a brush. I’d prefer to you a dapping motion, to prevent the paint to go under the stencil. When done, remove the stencil and let dry!

When you wanna wash your bags in the future, heat set the paint for about 4-5min with an Iron. But this is optional.

Finishing off.

With a piece of thread/yarn, about 15cm, close up the bag. I wrapped it twice and tied a knot.

I hope you like those small jute bags, just something cute to decorate your house with, use as gift bags or maybe even make your advent calendar with it. How cute will that look?! Show me what you will do with them! I’d love to see.

Love
Danielle

♥ Sinterklaas Lucky Charms

21 november 2019 by Delinlea Leave a Comment

Hey Lovelies! Sinterklaas is back in town xD! You excited?! Haha me not so much, but I like to get crafty around this time of year. *Sigh I wish my family would do something called ‘surprises’, but we don’t. Oh well, I’ll buy something nice for myself then! If you do live in a country where they have Sinterklaas, how do you celebrate it?
Okay, back to the crafty part of this blog. Last year I made those Pietjes lucky charms! Do you remember? This year I had to add Sinterklaas lucky charms, as promised. I just like making those charms I believe~ hehe.

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.
♥ Skewer or Toothpick.
♥ Acrylic paints in colors of choice.
♥ Paintbrush.
♥ Matching pieces of thread, to the paint.
♥ Varnish (optional).
♥ Scissors.

Tutorial

Glue the 2 wooden beads together, make sure to line up the holes. Let those dry before you continue.

From a bit of clay, make a triangle for his ‘mijter’ and place this, with some glue, on top of the small bead.

Make another triangle of clay, a bit smaller for his beard. Place those, with some glue as well, on his head/body, were the beard is suppose to be xD. With the skewer of toothpick, make a few indences to give it a bit more shape.

With the skewer or toothpick, poke a hole though the ‘mijter’. This is so you can add the threads through later.

Make a moustache out of clay, it’s a bit fiddly, but I am sure you can do it! Glue it on and shape it until you like it. Make sure to let everything dry first.

Painting

Now for the fun part, painting!! Let’s give those buddies some color! You can paint them however you want, of course. But I kept them sorta traditional. It is possible that you need several layers of paint for good coverage. When you are finished, you can varnish it, if you want.

Lastly, add 2 pieces of thread (about 30cm) through the body. Make sure to have a loop at the top and tie a knot at the bottom.

And it’s completely done! I hope you enjoyed this little tutorial for Sinterklaas Lucky Charms!
Have a wonderful day, stay warm, stay healthy!

Love
Danielle

♥ Pietjes Lucky Charms

29 november 2018 by Delinlea Leave a Comment

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