May the Force Be With You!

"You are part of the Rebel Alliance and a traitor"

"I don't like the look of this"

I have been in the process of making a series of Star Wars Amigurumi Crochet Toys. So far I have completed Darth Vader, a Stormtrooper, C-3PO and R2-D2, moving on to the Rebels now. I got these patterns from LucyRavenscar. Also a wonderful crochet designer. I have also done her Blue Totoro and will post at a future date. I will post the other characters here as I finish them. They come together pretty fast and are fun to do. My son is having a lot of fun playing with them.

"Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?"

"These are not the droids you are looking for"

"May the Force be with you"

Doctor Who Crochet Toys

11th Doctor and Amy Pond

Here is some Doctor Who Crochet projects that I made for my daughter who is a big fan, here is the 11th Doctor and his companion, Amy Pond outside the Tardis.

I made the Tardis hollow and used some cross stitch canvas on the inside to give it structure, with a button on the bottom so that it could be used as a play set.

The pattern is here
for the Doctor, same pattern for Amy, just change the clothes and hair appropriately.

The Tardis pattern is from here
and I just added in the cross stitch canvas frame, and sewed it in rather than stuffing it and closing it.

I also did a little mini Dalek, all rusted from years of being underground. The pattern is here.

Exterminate!!!

You can find these and other Doctor Who patterns. http://pixelatedmushroom.blogspot.com, its a great site. as well as Luna1130 on Ravelry.

Crocheted Stacking Toy

I made this toy for our new baby, it was a lot of fun to put together and use the various crocheting skills I just learned and put them to use. It was particularly fun when you start to put in all the little details and it really comes to life. Even my older kids like to play around with it. I didn't stick with the yarn colors, but rather just went with whatever I had that was close and I felt would work. The pattern is available here

Crocheted Ladybug

So now that I made this doll for my daughter, of course my son needed something as well, and since he loves bugs, I made him this cute little ladybug. A quick little project you can find here.

Nightmare Before Christmas Sally Doll

My daughter is really into Nightmare Before Christmas right now, and wants to be Sally for Halloween (guess I need to figure out how to use that sewing machine I got 3 years ago) however I did find this cool pattern for a crocheted Sally doll, the colors are different, but you can tell she was going for a Sally doll, she even refers to her by name in the pattern but I think she was trying to avoid copyright issues. Either way, I have modified the suggested yarn colors and I also ended up doing the project in a much larger size crochet needle than the pattern called for. Being my first attempt at crocheting ever, it made it easier for me. I ended up using a size 8 5.00 mm needle instead of the 2.5mm called in the pattern linked below. My daughter really liked the doll and it was a fun way to start into the world of crochet. I found it useful for doing little craft animals and dolls, and quicker than knitting, also nice just having to deal with the one hook and the chance of dropping or losing stitches is much less. However, I don't find it as good for clothes or such, as it makes it quite tight and not very soft or flexible for blankets/clothes/ etc.

You can find the pattern for the doll here

Knitted Girls' Jacket with Small Cable

So once I had finished my jacket (see previous post), my 5 year old daughter asked me to make her a jacket too, so we went and picked out colors and a style and I came up with this jacket. Once again based off an existing jacket pattern, this time I went back to my Debbie Bliss Baby Knits book, and made the Zipped Jacket with Contrasting Edges and went with a simple infinity symbol and kept it going along the length of both sides of the zipper, from the Viking Patterns for Knitting by Elsebeth Lavold that I had used for my jacket. Since then, this jacket has seen quite a bit of use and multiple washings, a great success!

Knitted Jacket with Celtic Cable Pattern

This jacket is a combination of two different patterns, I used a hooded zip cardigan pattern from Vogue Knitting's Very Easy Knits book as my base and then I used a pattern from Viking Patterns for Knitting by Elsebeth Lavold, in which she called it Narrow Panel with Little Lattice for the cables flanking the cardigan on both sides of the zipper, it also has a large hood that is not show in the picture. 

I had been working on this project when I was pregnant with my son, and then put it aside for a long time after he was born, and had stepped away from any knitting projects. I was almost afraid to go back to it, as I wasn't sure exactly where I was, and if I could even pick up the complex cable pattern in the right place, but then I finally faced my fears, delved back in and finished the jacket and was back on the horse.