Badcat

Recently my friend adopted a couple of puppies for a few days, while their owners were out of town. She was very excited because they were so cute! but also a bit overwhelmed by this over active little fellows. 


So this weekend it was her birthday and decided to make for her, her own cute and cuddly little puppy that has no need to be housebroken or be fed, hopping that this would be a good replacement. 





This pup is based on a design by Jaravee Jeerachat you can have a look at her patterns on www.etsy.com. I made some modifications to make it look more like "Badcat" (Thats the name of my friend ´s puppy) 


For the ears I added pipe cleaners inside to make them possable, also to the arms, legs and tail to make it wiggly. Since Badcat has blue eyes, I got some blue eyes for the ami and use some Embroidery Floss to add eyelashes (Badcat is a girl); I made a blue collar with a row of hdc and added some plastic bead for a more fashionable dog tag. 







More ideas on how to build your own amigurumi can be found on the new book "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Amigurumi" by June Gilbank, that just came out at the end of last year. I got it for my kindle for PC from Amazon and its great because I can always go back for references and ideas. 




  

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Recently, Ana,another of my closest friends had a baby girl, and to keep up with tradition I made this blanket for her.

I have to admit I am bit late since her little girl was born a couple of months ago, but this one took me a while to finish, not because it was difficult, I have been quite busy with other stuff.

Anyway, this granny square was actually quite easy to do, just had to make a bunch of them in different colors. I got the granny square pattern from SmoothFox.

You can get many options for borders at CrochetCabana.com. I used number 3 at the bottom of the page.

And now the last step is to mail it to her courtesy of DHL post.

Flower Pattern by SmoothFox. Yarn: Australian ModaVera Marvel

For starter crocheters I recommend to buy a book or a couple of easy patterns to practice and learn and from there just let the imagination go wild and you can create amazing things.  For some ideas you can go to the links I have posted on the side bar of this page.

Myself, I am just a beginner as I don´t have much time to practice but I been crocheting since I was a little girl, taught by my grandma and my two crafty aunts. Later on, it was revived by my former boss and great friend. A big thanks to all four of them and this post is dedicated to them. 

My giraffe amigurumi (who is missing it spots) was based on Roxy Crafts pattern, you can find the link to the website on the right side of this page, this is a very talented crocheter that I love too.

And the Panda amigurumi was inspired on the same patterns.




By the way the Panda, I dedicate to my other aunt Pinky (yes half of my family is named Pink, not me though) who pass me the love to nature.

A couple of years ago I created these baby blankets for my nephews. They turned out to be great gift and my friends were surprise I could do such things... hmm that kind of worried me a little bit...

The first one was inspired on one of my favorite crochet books ( I admit that I have a few of those) Stitch 'N Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker by Debbie Stoller and I just love the name of the book its so creative. I order it on Amazon. Click on the links to go to the site.

Here are a few pictures of the blankets. 

The second one bellow its inspired by my aunt little Pink... who showed me the technique.

 Hello earthly kingdom!
Instructions: So basically, he cut a hole in the middle of the cap with a swiss knife and made it bigger with a screwdriver, then he cleaned the dust and the scrap off from around the hole. Finally, to make sure that the yarn wouldn't get caught on the way out the hole, he used a hot iron to burn around the edges of the hole to smooth them out.