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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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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.

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 [...]

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 [...]