divinenanny.nl

A mon seul desir was dormant for a long time, but now that I have a few weeks off from work, and that I am home, I was determined to finish this page and work on it as much as possible. And I finished page 6, the 4th page. The next page contains the [...]

From the book Creepy Cute Crochet by Christen Haden I made this little devil. I had a bit of trouble with the head  (it is worked in attached rows instead of spirals) but all in all it turned out well. I used Schachenmayr Nomotta Catania (0110/Black and 0115/Red) and a 2.5 hook. I didn’t [...]

It is vacation time and I have three weeks off from work. Also, we are pretty much snowed in here in Holland, so what is there to do but crochet or cross stitch?
The next pattern I made was the Bubble Leg Monster by Craftbits. The pattern itself was a bit unorganized and reading it [...]

Last weekend I bought two new skeins, both variegated Schachenmayer Nomotta coton. One was all kinds of primary colors (yellow, green, red, blue) and one was various shades of pink. I knew immediately what I would use the pink thread for, so when I finished all the parts of my little octopus I started on [...]

After a little break I started a new amigurumi, a little octopus. Sinterklaas brought me new colors of thread (including a variegated skein, which I used here) and, even better, some ergonomic Clover crochet needles. My hands don’t hurt nearly as much now, and no more blisters!
This octopus is a pattern by Lion Brand [...]

All the blisters have healed a bit, so I made myself another amigurumi, a Nintendo inspired one this time. This pattern for a Super Mario Mushroom I got from the WolfDreamer’s website. I followed the pattern with regards to the body, but I enlarged the white dots a bit more (start with magic loop [...]

Between long days at work and making Amigurumi’s I am not spending much time on the Mon Seul Desir. I stitched for 4.5 hours in these past two weeks (that I am counting as one). I filled in more of the confetti. I am planning on finishing up all the red colors (nearly done there), [...]

I’m on an amigurumi roll! Even though I had planned to do a pattern from my book next, it didn’t work out that way. When I was browsing through free patterns online while eating my breakfast, I came across this pattern for amigurumi Kokeshi dolls by Suncatcher Craft Eyes, and fell in love. I spent [...]

After making the cherries as my first Amigurumi project, I wanted to make a little creature. All the patterns in my book are pretty complicated (lots of parts) and I wanted to start out small, so I picked this pattern (link) of a little mouse to try out. I stitched it using Schachenmayr Catania cotton [...]

On some of the geeky craft blogs I follow one of the crafts you see a lot is Amigurumi. Amigurumi is Japanese for “knitted stuffed toy”, but you can also crochet them (most are crochet). When we visited Maastricht last weekend I picked up a book about Amigurumi with instructions and several patterns, and I [...]