Halloween

♥ Halloween Turning TsumTsum Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! Happy Halloween!! I hope you don’t mind that I am late with this week’s blog! I think this fun pattern will make up for it. Until the last possible moment, I wasn’t sure if this was going to work out. So, I could have ended up with no blog at all this week. But, As you can see, the blog is here, so it worked out, sorta! It’s 2 Tsum Tsum’s in one! You can turn this one inside out, so you have a normal Donald Tsum and a Halloween version. So are you ready for a turning Tsum Tsum?!

Donald Duck Tsum Tsum Amigurumi that can change in the regular version and a Halloween version

For this pattern you’ll need:
♥ DK yarn, in the colors; White, Orange, Black, Blue and Green. (I used Stylecraft Special)
♥ Crochet hook. (I used a 3mm hook)
♥ Thinner Red yarn with a 2mm Hook.
♥ Brown Sewing Thread and Needle.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Stitch Marker.
♥ Brown and Black Felt for the eyes.
♥ (Fabric) Glue.

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

You can flip it inside out, the side you don’t wanna see is inside the body of the other.

♥ Pattern Turning Tsum Tsum

This pattern is made using continues round, unless stated otherwise. Use a stitch marker to mark you first/last stitch.

Body (Make 2)
Make 1 in Orange and 1 in White.

1: Ch7, insert in second ch from hook, 5SC, 3SC in the last st, now continue along the other side of the chain, 4SC, inc. [14]
2: Inc, 4SC, (inc) 3 times, 4SC, (inc) 2 times. [20]
3: 1SC, inc, 4SC, (1SC, inc) 3 times, 4SC, (1SC, inc) 2 times. [26]
4: 1SC, inc, 6SC, (inc, 2SC) 2 times, inc, 6SC, inc, 2SC, inc, 1SC. [32]
5-8: 32SC. [32]
9: 1SC, dec, 6SC, (dec, 2SC) 2 times, dec, 6SC, dec, 2SC, dec, 1SC. [26]
10: 1SC, dec, 4SC, (1SC, dec) 3 times, 4SC, (1SC, dec) 2 times. [20]
Fasten off and leave a long tail on one of the bodies. For the other you’ll weave in the tail.

Legs (make 8 total)
Make 6 in Orange and 2 in White.

1: 4SC in a Magic Ring. [4]
2: 4SC. [4]

Beak (Make 2)
Use the color Orange.

1: 7SC in a Magic Ring. [7]
2: 7SC. [7]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Bow (Make 2)
Use the color Red.

In a Magic Ring; (1SC, 1HDC, 2DC, 1HDC, 1SC) 2 times. [12]
Fasten off and wrap the tail a few times around the bow tightly, where the SC’s are. If you like how it looks, fasten off and leave the rest of the tail there for sewing.

♥ Donald Parts

Shirt
Use the color Blue
This part won’t be working in continues rounds.

1: 20FSC, turn. [20] (You can also Ch21, insert in second ch from hook, 20SC)
2-5: 20SC, turn. [20]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

 Hat
Start with the color Blue.

1: 5SC in a Magic Ring. [5]
2: 2SC in each st around. [10]
3: BL, 10SC. [10]
Change to the color Black.
4: Fl, Dec around. [5]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

♥ Pumpkin Parts

Hat
Start with the color Black.

1: 5SC in a Magic Ring. [5]
2: 2SC in each st around. [10]
3: BL, 10SC. [10]
4: (Dec, 3SC) 2 times. [8]
Change to the color Blue.
5: 8SC. [8]
Change back to Black.
6: FL, 2SC in each st around. [16]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

Stem
Use the color Green.
You won’t work this part in continues rounds.

Ch3, insert in second ch from hook, 1SlSt, 1SC. [2]
Fasten off and leave a long tail for sewing.

♥ Assembling Truning Tsum Tsum

Usually I use sewing pins to put amigurumi together first, but since you don’t use any stuffing for this one, that’s gonna be a bit tricky, you could try if you want to.

On both the Orange and White body, sew the beak on. On the White body, sew his shirt one, make sure to sew along all the edges, so it’s secure enough to flip it inside out. Then sew on his legs, 2 Orange at the back and the White in front. Under his Beak you will add his little bow. And last add his little hat, when you have sewn it on, make sure you use the tail end to make the small detail on top (lacking English here, help! Haha)
Now, back to the pumpkin version, since the beak is on, you can add all the lines on the body. It’s a bit hard to explain where they should go. But on the head there are 4 lines and on the body as well. Keep in mind that it should be a pumpkin, the lines on the head go from bottom to top, where they meet, and the lines on the body go from the head to the butt and meet there. Use the sewing thread and needle to do this. Or paint/draw them on if you feel that’s better/easier. When that’s done, sew the stem, hat, 4 legs and bow to the body.
Now let’s make some eyes, for the Pumpkin use brown felt, and make the eyes slightly bigger and oval, as you would normally do for Donald. And for the normal Donald, use black felt and cut out small circles. Glue those on and let dry well.

Now for the last part of assembling, put them together, the opening should be completely lined up and sew those together. I used only the back loops to do so. Now you can push one side inside the other. And if you feel like you want to other side, flip it. The first few times, this won’t go too smoothly, but after a few times, this goes easier.

I hope you had fun with this turning Tsum pattern and hope you will make it! If you did, please, show me on Twitter or Instagram with #DelinleaDIY, I’d love to see!

Happy Halloween!! and I’ll see you next week!

Love
Danielle

♥ Halloween Ufufy Add Ons

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Hey Lovelies! Do you like to celebrate Halloween?! I love the idea of Halloween, but I grew up in a country where it isn’t celebrated. Although, these days it does get more attention. I would have loved it if it would have been a thing here, well maybe not the dress up part, I hated to dress up as a kid. Anyway, for today’s blog I wanted to do something with Ufufy and Halloween. And since the original Ufufy don’t have any Halloween or Fall related plushies. I had to make something up. And why not dress them up with some Halloween add ons that you can easily make and add. Quick but fun, I hope you’ll like it! If you don’t have Ufufy’s, HERE you can find the patterns I made so far!

Halloween Ufufy

For this pattern you’ll need:
♥ DK yarn, Check the add on which colors you need.
♥ Crochet hook. ( I used a 2/3mm, depending on the yarn I used)
♥ 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.
FL = Front Loops.
Inc = Increase.
Dec = Decrease.
(…) = Repeat the space in brackets the given number of times.
[…] = Total number of stitches.

Disclaimer: The add ons are made for my ufufy patterns. It’s possible that they don’t fit the originals.

Those patterns are made with continues rounds, unless stated otherwise. Use a stitch marker to mark your first/last stitch of your row.

♥ Witch Hat

Start with the color Black

1: 6SC in a Magic Ring. [6]
2: (2SC, inc) 2 times. [8]
3: (3SC, inc) 2 times. [10]
4: (4SC, inc) 2 times. [12]
5: (5SC, inc) 2 times. [14]
6: (6SC, inc) 2 times. [16]
7: (7SC, inc) 2 times. [18]
8: (8SC, inc) 2 times. [20]
9: (9SC, inc) 2 times. [22]
Change to the color Purple.
10. 22SC. [22]
11: 22SC. [22]
Change to the color Black.
12: FL, inc, (2SC, inc) 7 times. [30]
13: (4SC, inc) 6 times. [36]
14: 36SC. [36]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

♥ Devils Headband

This one is not made with continues rounds.

Headband
Use the color Black.

Make 15FSC. (Or Chain 16, insert in second ch from hook, 15SC). [15]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Horns (Make 2)
Use the color Red.

Ch3, insert in second ch from hook, SlSt, 2SC in the next st. [3]
Fasten off and sew the horns to the headband.

♥ Mummy

Use the color White.
This one is not made with continues rounds.

Make 200FSC. (Or Ch201, insert in second ch from hook, 200SC). [200]
You could make this one longer if you prefer.
Fasten off and weave in tail.

♥ Tiny Pumpkin

Pumpkin
Use the color Orange.

1: 6SC in a Magic Ring. [6]
2: 2SC in each st around. [12]
3: 12SC. [12]
4: 12SC. [12]
5: 12SC. [12] Stuff.
6: Dec around. [6]
Fasten off and leave a long tail.
With the tail you will make the definition of a pumpkin, wrap the yarn around and go with a needle through the middle of the pumpkin and pull tight, repeat this about 5 times. Fasten off and weave in tail.

Stem

Ch3, insert in second chain from hook, 2SLSt.
Fasten off and sew the stem to the pumpkin.

♥ Dressing up!

Now for the fun part, dress up you Ufufy’s! Since I didn’t want to sew the parts on, I used wire that I folded in half, and attach the parts that way. So I can remove it later when Halloween is over.
For the mummy, simply wrap it around your ufufy.
Witch Hat can be simply put on top.
Devils headband is also very straight forward, put it on their head.
And I added the pumpkins, simply cause they are cute, but they are also small enough to put on a headband, I made a green base of the devils headband and the sewn the pumpkin on.

I hope you had fun with today’s pattern. And if you made some, please, show me on Twitter or Instagram with #DelinleaDIY. I love to see what you create!

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

Love
Danielle

♥ Spooky Jar DIY

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Hey Lovelies! Today I have a cute craft for you to make for Halloween! It’s easy to assemble and make, so you can make a lot or just for a quick last minute deco thing! I made a Spooky Jar for you. Of course you can make it how you want, but this one is to give you a idea of what you could do. Most of the materials that are used can be either found for free in nature or you have them already at your house. I hope you will enjoy this tutorial! Somehow I wanna make a few more, but where to put them all? Haha.

Jar with a ghost inside, DIY

For this DIY you’ll need:
♥ A Clean Jar, check if you can recycle any.
♥ Decoration for in the jar, think of moss, acorns, branches etc.
♥ Glitter (optional).
♥ Few Tissues.
♥ Small Ball. (I used stuffing, but you could also use paper or more tissues).
♥ Sewing Thread and Needle.
♥ Paint and Brushes.
♥ Glue (optional).
♥ Fairy Lights (optional).

An example of materials you could use.

♥ Tutorial Spooky Jar

Make sure your jar is clean and dry. If your lid is a color you don’t like, paint it in a color you like and let this dry well.

At the top of the jar, you could add some paint as well, I used a bit of white mixed with some glue. You could leave the glue out though, but I didn’t want the white paint to be too opaque. Dap the paint on, messily around the top. You could do a bit at the bottom as well, but I didn’t do so. Let this dry as well.

Decoration

Now let’s add the decoration in the jar. You could use glue, but I didn’t find it necessary. Add anything you like, but if you have something to cover the bottom of the jar, like moss, add that first. And then add anything you like. At the end, when I was happy with how it looked, I sprinkled a bit of glitter over it. When you add lights, it will give that little extra.

Ghost

Take your little ball and your tissues. It depends on the size of your jar on how big you wanna make it, so just adjust it to what you work with. Place to pieces of the tissues on top of each other, make sure the middle of it lines up but the points aren’t. place your ball in the middle and wrap the tissues around it. Use a bit of thread to keep it together. With some black paint you can add a little face to your ghost.
With a big needle poke some thread through. This way you can hang it from the lid with some tape.

Now if you want you can add some lights to the jar as well, I like it both, with or without. But since it’s spooky season, I prefer to add lights!

I hope you enjoyed this quick tutorial! And that you will make it, if you do, show me on Twitter or Instagram with #DelinleaDIY.

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

Love
Danielle

♥ Spidey Amigurumi

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Hey Lovelies! Do you like spiders?! If not, you might have a problem with today’s pattern, although this Spidey looks very cute! I hope you won’t be spooked. Even though it is spooky month! This spider is very easy and quick to make. The legs take the longest to make, but I guess that’s fine. I hope you will enjoy this pattern!

Spidey Amigurumi Plush

For this Pattern you’ll need;
♥ Velvet yarn in a Spidery color. (I used extra soft from the Zeeman)
♥ DK yarn in Black. (I used Stylecraft Special DK)
♥ Crochet hook. ( I used a 3mm and a 6mm)
♥ Stuffing.
♥ 4 Safety eyes, 2 11mm and 2 6mm.
♥ Yarn Needle.
♥ Sewing Pins.
♥ Stitch Marker.
♥ Bit of White yarn for accent by the eyes.

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

♥ Pattern Spidey

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

Head and Body
Use the Velvet Yarn and the 6mm hook.

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]
6: FL, 2SC in each st around. [18]
You might wanna add the eyes now, the big ones beside each other, where you started the head and the smaller ones on the outer sides of the big ones. And stuff the head as well.
7: (2SC, inc) 6 times. [24]
8: 24SC. [24]
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10: 24SC. [24]
11: (2SC, dec) 6 times. [18]
12: 18SC. [18]
13: (1SC, dec) 6 times. [12]
14: 12SC. [12] Stuff the body
15: (2SC, dec) 3 times. [9]
16: (1SC, dec) 3 times. [6]
Fasten off and weave in tail.

Legs (Make 8)
Use the Black DK yarn and the 3mm hook.

1: 6SC in a Magic Ring. [6]
2: 6SC. [6]
Repeat row 2 until you have 8 rows total!
Faste off and leave a long tail for sewing.

♥ Assembling Spidey

Whenever I assemble Amigurumi’s, I always like to use sewing pins first, this way I can move parts around until I am happy, then I’ll sew them on.

For this one there isn’t too much sewing. You just have to sew Spidey his legs on. And that’s it.
If you like, you can stitch on a bit of white around his eyes, I found they didn’t show too well without on this yarn. And this makes him even cuter!

I hope you had fun with this Spidey pattern today, and if you did, I would love to see what you made! You can show me on Twitter or Instagram with #DelinleaDIY!

Have a wonderful day and I’ll see you next week with another spooky craft!

Love
Danielle

♥ Halloween Amigurumi’s

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Hey Lovelies! The spooky month started! Yay! I love it, although we don’t really celebrate it here in the Netherlands. Over the years I have made quite some amigurumi’s that are Halloween related, so I want to list them down in today’s blog. Maybe some you’ve missed or forgot about. So, let’s refresh our memory!

♥ Bat

This bad isn’t scary at all, but who said that all Halloween related stuff had to be scary?! It’s fun to change things up. I think it will look cute to hang a bunch in the air at a party, maybe if someone walks into them, they might get scared anyway if they didn’t expect them!

♥ Bunny Pumpkin

What’s Halloween without Pumpkins?! I just can’t imagine that. I love to decorate, craft and also cook with them. They are multifunctional! I think this year I need to buy a good pumpkin to carve it out. Not sure what yet tho. I will figure that out later. For now enjoy this Amigurumi pattern, at least you don’t have to watch it if it gets moldy xD.

♥ Cat Ghost

How cute is this cat ghost?! I’ve made 3 in go last year, oops xD. And I actually feel like making more.. I guess I will. They are just so easy to make!

Cat Ghost

♥ Ghost

This little ghost is using the most basic and well know crochet technique, granny square! I sometimes like to play around with stitches like this. That’s how this pattern came alive as well. I usually just have too many ideas.

♥ Hiding Witches

Yes, shy witches exist as well! Didn’t know that right?! These love to hide under their hat and are really friendly, they actually just wanna help you but don’t know how to do that. Maybe we should give them a little hand! These you can make in all sorts of colors, and let them sit anywhere. I think it’s fun decoration around this time of year!

Hiding Witches

♥ Jack Skellington

I think I should add Jack here as well. I really should watch the movie again since I forgot a bit where it was about. But the Nightmare Before Christmas just shouldn’t be left out here!

♥ Pumpkin Ghost

This one is also made using the Ghost pattern, same series. Just added a Pumpkin instead of a round head. It already gives such a different vibe! I love this one the most, I think, out of this series. Probably because of the pumpkin head that makes it just that little different. I love things that are different!

♥ Witch Ghost

Just like the Ghost pattern, is this one from the same series I made. With a few chances you can make something look completely different. You can make so many variations. You don’t always have to make a completely new pattern. 

I hope this post refreshed your mind and that you are able to make some of these patterns you might have forgotten. These are all fun to make, and pretty easy as well! If you made some of those patterns, I hope you will show me on Twitter or Instagram with the #DelinleaDIY. I always love to see what you created using my patterns.

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

Love
Danielle