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Amigurumi: Colourful Octopus

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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 [...]

Amigurumi: Mario Mushroom

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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 5sc, [...]

A mon seul desir cross stitch week 24

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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), [...]

Amigurumi: Kokeshi Doll

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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 [...]

Amigurumi: A little white mouse

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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 [...]

A new hobby: Amigurumi

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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 [...]

Well, this week I didn’t have that much time to stitch, so I worked on some more red and dark red, and looky there, the eye of the bird appeared. This was only 2,5 hours of stitching, bringing the total to 374,5 hours.

A mon seul desir cross stitch week 22

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It has been a long, long, long time since I stitched on A Mon Seul Desir. To tell you the truth, I really had had enough of the piece. After finishing the top of the fourth page (Page 6), I really couldn’t stand any more red confetti. Also, summer had arrived, and it was really [...]

Permin Vierlande – Weekend 7

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I got some stitching done this weekend and was able to finish the third big motif, and start a small bit on the fourth. I think this finished one might be my favourtite, I love all the swirls. My estimate is that it took me about 7 hours to stitch all this, bringing the total [...]

On our recent trip to England I bought more cross stitch souvenirs from the same design company as the Tudor Rose bookmark I bought last year. This time I got two bookmarks, a scissor keep and a needle book. I started stitching the needle book and in about a week I finished it. So, here [...]

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This is my, Sara's personal blog where I will post stuff about gaming (Nintendo DS and Wii), cross stitching, amigurumi, things I like, things I've done, etc etc. I live in The Netherlands, but I will blog in English for my international friends on the internet. Have fun and leave a comment or two!

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Sara van Bussel is at home in Hoorn, Netherlands and has planned a trip to * Göteborg, Sweden from 8 August 2010 to 16 August 2010.

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