Halloween craftiness

We had another crafty Halloween!

Kira and I went as Unicorns!

I was a more of a My Little Pony Unicorn and Kira was Lady Rainicorn from Adventure Time

For Kira's Costume I sewed the dress on my own.

Now I'm really excited about this because I made her dress WITHOUT a pattern!!!

Now there were some small messups along the way - like not making the neck big enough for her to put her head through!! But we were able to make some adjustments and it was perfect!

I also crocheted her unicorn horn and attached it to a crocheted headband.

back view -- arm warmers were knee high socks we just cut to make them work

Now I found a fun pattern for a unicorn hat that I wanted to use for my costume.

But, it didn't work out so great...

Even Kira agreed it was a pattern fail!!!!

But I was able to use some of the information from the pattern and come up with this awesome unicorn hat.

I really liked being able to tell people that I made it all on my own!!

Homemade Halloween costumes are for sure the best!!

Did you make your costume this year?

Best present!

For Mother's Day my husband bought me the best present - two amigurumi crochet books:

Amigurimi World and Amigurumi Toy Box

These are the cutest books with the cutest ideas ever! I think I squealed out loud at some of the pictures and couldn't WAIT to make them!!

I've made 4 already from the books and I wanted to share them with you!

I fell in love with the bear and wanted to make it right away for me!

I used some left over "mermaid" colored yarn I had from another project.

He fits perfectly in my purse and loves going on adventures.

I then let my kids pick out something they wanted me to make them.

My son picked this duck with a bear hat and named him Gunther.

My daughter wanted me to make her everything in the books!!!

She finally settled on this duck and named her Sophia.

She has also requested that I make a bear and kitty hat for her!!!

Finally I made this polar bear!

I love that the patterns come with hats for the animals!

This pom pom hat made this polar bear EXTRA Cute!!

I can't wait to make more of them!!

My mom gave me a gift certificate for mother's day and I got 17 new yarn colors!!!

What amigurumi have you made before?

Do you have a favorite from these books?

Or do you have a suggestion for another book I need to check out?

What Time is it???

It's Adventure Time!!

I don't know how we missed this cartoon until just now but we are all obsessed over it! It is currently the only thing that will get my son out of bed for school in the morning!!!

Since falling in love with this show my son has been asking me to make him a Finn hat. I found a pattern on Ravelry but it wasn't working out right, but it did get the ball rolling.

It turned out cute but still needs some work. I'm hoping to get it perfected soon as my daughter now wants a Fiona hat :)

My son loves it! He wore it all day Sunday, even during church! Silly guy!!

Valentines for the Hubby = Boba Fett

Before Christmas my husband came across a picture of a crocheted Boba Fett Helmet and he asked me if I could make that for him.  

WHAT??

It seemed a little overwhelming at first but then I found some great pictures and thought I could tackle it!

I decided that this would make a great Valentine's present for him.  

I didn't have it completely done on Valentines because I kept trying to make it work the way I wanted it to.  I think it turned out awesome!! Now we need it to get a little colder so the hubs can enjoy it more!!

Taking Advantage of a Long Weekend

I took advantage of this long weekend and crafted away!

The one project I'm really excited about was these lovelies

They look like regular gloves, but they are actually...

GLITTENS!!!!!

They are a nice combination of fingerless gloves and mittens all in one!

All I need to do is add a button so I can keep the flaps down when needed!

You can find the pattern here on Ravelry 

I also finished up a hat for a friend

Made a cowl for a friend's daughter

Started an embroidery project

And finally I cleaned out our hallway -- it's an ackward hallway that leads to nothing and we have just used it to hide the junk we have! SO I have reclaimed it for my crafty storage!  Thanks to Ikea I now have a beautiful space for my yarn, fabric, sewing machine and more!!

What did you do this weekend??

Another Beat Hat!

Bear hats are SOO cute and I love to make them!  They are the easy project I can make in one evening!

Here is the newest polar bear hat I made for my bestie's youngest baby.  

Maybe she'll send me a picture of him wearing so I can share it with you all!!!

I love hats

One thing I have loved making is hats! They are easy, fast and make great gifts!

I had made a bear hat for my nephew when he was born and my sister requested another one since he has gotten just a little bigger now. (why do babies grow so fast????) 

I couldn't say no of course and made two cute hats for him!

He has a new bear hat and a mohawk hat too!! He is so punk rock!!!  

I used this awesome crochet pattern from ravelry and added my own touches with the ears and hawk.  

Isn't he the cutest????

Hats and Booties for some cuties

Sorry it has been so long since I last posted! I've been making lots of things! Most of the items I am making are gifts for other people so I have to wait to post a picture! Don't want to spoil any surprises!!!

My Cousin had twin baby girls and I had to make them some special things!!!

They of course need the cutest hats and I found a great pattern from The Dainty Daisy.  These hats are much cuter in person!!

And of course every girl needs a pair of booties to match!  These were made from a lovely pattern I purchased on Etsy from Two Girls Patterns

The babies were just born and are only 3 pounds right now! They have some growing to do before they can really enjoy their new things.  

Snow day = Perfect Snow Hat!

We don't get much snow in Austin.  If we are lucky we get one day a year!

Well today is the lucky day because we have SNOW! A glorious 3/4 of an inch of snow!!

The way we are acting you would think it was a blizzard!

I made this hat a few weeks ago and it turned out to be the perfect hat for this weather!

Its made from super thick yarn that I got on sale.  Love that it's UT Burnt Orange!

Me and the hubby are enjoying the snow.  We watched the kids run around and run back in and run back out again!

Lots of warm wishes to my fellow Austinites!

Another fun request

I got another request to make a special hat for Christmas. One of my friends asked if I could make a Pikmin hat for her husband.

What I loved about this project was I got to try something new in regards to putting a character on a hat.  

The last time I did this for my Gomba Hat I used the fair isle technique to carry colors behind the project.  I wasn't able to do it exactly right for that project but I thought I could try it again.  Well it still didn't work because I ended up with a very small hat.  Gotta figure out the tension!

So I thought for a bit and decided I could just "embroider" or cross stitch the characters ontop of the already made hat! 

It worked out perfectly and the hat turned out great!

Another hat...

Along with those mohawk hats my friend asked me to make a special hat for her friend to help lift her spirits.  We came up this simple santa type hat with this fun yarn.

 It measured about 2 feet from end to end... like forever long!!!!

 I loved how bright and happy this yarn is! Self stripping yarn is so awesome!!!

This hat made me smile, so I hope it does the same for the friend!

For those about to rock...

My friend made a request for some special hats for Christmas.  This is my friend from high school whom I would make toothbrush bracelets with and we had paperclip necklaces. We were just a little different, but we were good together =) 

SO it made sense to me that she wanted mohawk hats for her kids - ages 6 and 1!! All kids need some extra rock'n in their hats!

I will say I had a LOT of fun making these hats and I plan to make some more. Yeah!!

And here are my kids being rock stars!!!!

On a Mario Kick

I might be going overboard on the Mario stuff, but they are so fun and cute to make!

I found this web page  that had great instructions with pictures for carrying multiple colors aka Fair Isle.  It made knitting a pattern with multiple colors easier and it looks cleaner. Plus the edges of the design weren't pulling where I had been changing the colors out!  I didn't take into account that when using 4 colors it would add more bulk plus I was a little too tight in my technique so the hat kind of pulls in the middle! OPPS!  SO while I had intended for this to be given to one of my adult friends, I think I will give it to one of my 4 or 5 year old friends =) 

Its still super cute though! 

My flash washed out some of the color but you get the idea!

Project Completion!

I finished the preemie hats for charity.  I'm pretty excited to get them all done!  I look forward to doing more projects like this. It feels good to do good things for other people! Now to box them up and send them to AJ!

My daughter's bear volunteered to do a photo shoot and show off its favorite hats

Cabled Slouch Hat

I wanted to make my sister-in-law Lucy a hat for her Birthday this month and I came across this pattern and thought it would be a good one to do for her.  I actually made it a month ago but it wasn't slouchy enough.  I let it sit there for awhile before I attempted it again on Friday.  I was able to get it all done by last night! (I had some down time Saturday and some traveling too!)

I'm hoping to get a picture of Lucy wearing it soon!