Merry Christmas!

I had a great Christmas and I hope you all did to. My favorite gifts to give just happen to be hand crocheted items that I have made with love, but I've had to keep them a secret for so long.

Now that Christmas is over I can share some of my secret creations with you!

Here are a few things I've made this Christmas season:

Toothless Hat

Little Red Riding Hood Doll

Olaf Scarves

As I finish editing their patterns those will be posted as well so you can make your own!

Angry Bird Bomb Gloves Pattern

These fierce bomb gloves go perfectly with their bomb hat! I love finger-less gloves because they are quick to make, fun to wear and keep my hands warm when I'm outside or when I am working around the house.

Materials
Red Heart Yarn in black, red, yellow and grey
Hook: I
Tapestry/ Yarn Needle

This glove pattern starts at the bottom and works its way up the glove.

Base of the glove
Starting with grey yarn,
Round 1: fdc 25, join together to form a loop, ch 2 (25 dc)
Round 2: dc in each dc, ch 2 (25 dc)
Switch to black yarn,
Round 3- 7: dc in each dc, ch 2 (25 dc)

For right glove
Round 8: dc in 20 dc, ch 5, attach to beginning of round, ch 2 (20 dc, 5 ch)
Round 9: dc in each dc, dc in each chain (25 dc)
Round 10 - 11: dc in each dc (25 dc)
Round 12: sc in each dc (25 sc)
tie off leaving tail to sew onto glove

For left glove
Round 8: dc in 5 dc, ch 5, sk 5 dc and dc in last 15, attach to beginning of round, ch 2 (5 dc, 5 ch, 15 dc)
Round 9: dc in each dc, dc in each chain (25 dc)
Round 10 - 11: dc in each dc (25 dc)
Round 12: sc in each dc (25 sc)
tie off leaving tail to sew onto glove

Nose
With yellow yarn,
Row 1: 4 fsc, ch 1, turn
Row 2: sc dec twice, ch1, turn
Row 3: sc dec, continue to sc a border around the nose, tie off leaving tail to sew onto glove

Eyebrow
With red yarn,
8 ch, tie off leaving tail to sew onto glove

Feather
With black yarn
Row 1: 3 fsc, ch 1, turn
Row 2-3: sc in each sc, ch 1, turn
Switch to yellow yarn
Row 4: sc in each sc, tie off leaving tail to sew onto glove

Eyes
With white yarn,
Round 1: 6 sc into magic ring
Round 2: 2 sc in each sc
Switch to grey yarn
Round 3: *2 sc in first sc, sc in next sc* repeat 6 times
tie off leaving tail to sew onto glove

Santa Hat

It's Christmas Time!

I love the Christmas season; I love the songs, I love the family time, and I love the gifts! Actually I love making and giving the gifts. I love seeing people love what I have created and sometimes it is hard to wait to give my gifts until Christmas day. 

I plan Christmas gifts throughout the year as ideas strike me since making the majority of my gifts takes time and not only do I need time, I need time when the recipient is not around. Making things in secret is the most difficult part.

While Santa may not be real, his hat is the perfect addition this holiday season.

Morning Frost Winter Hat

Winter is coming and with it (more like before it) the cold is coming as well. As the weather turns I have turned my attention to trying out new winter hat patterns. So far I've done mostly animal hats, but more colorful hats are fun as well.

This pattern is from ELK Studio and can be found here. She has many beautiful hat and scarf patterns, some of which are free and some of which are paid.

I like this patterns so much I had to try it out in multiple colors. 

Puppy Break

Who could resist this adorable face? I know I can't and so does he.

I don't like to do anything without my puppy unless there is no other alternative. So when I am working on anything at home he is always with me. As I was switching the item I was shooting pictures in preparation for my etsy shop Benson decided to get in on the action.

 He decided if I wasn't going to play with him I should take his picture and he wasn't going to move until I complied. That said it really wasn't all that hard for him to convince me; i love taking pictures of him.

Maybe some time I'll give him something to model. I don't know if he would be as excited about that since he hates being dressed up. I'm not even sure I'll dress him up for Halloween. Maybe i'll just make him something simple like a cape. Then he can be superpuppy!

Bomb Angry Bird Hat Pattern

Bomb Angry Bird Hat Pattern

The bomb bird is a fun and feisty. He is a great help in the angry bird app as he blows up obstacles you encounter. Now he can perch on your head and keep you warm as you demolish obstacles out in the snow this winter.

The base of all my ear-flap hats is from RepeatCrafterMe's hat patterns, so the credit goes to her. I make most of my hats adult size because even children can wear them and have room to grow. You can get the base hat pattern here.

Materials

H Hook (5.0 mm)

Red Heart Yarn in White, Black, Red, Grey and Yellow

Tapestry Needle

I crocheted the base hat in black and then did the trim in grey.

Now for the fun part: turning the plain hat into an angry bird!

Eyes (make 2)

Start with black yarn

Magic ring, 6sc in magic ring and join to first sc, ch 2 (6 sc)

Switch to white yarn

Round 1: 2 dc in each sc, join to first dc, ch 1 (12 dc)

Round 2: 2 sc in each dc, join to first sc, ch 1 (24 sc)

Switch to grey yarn

Round 3: *2 sc in first sc, sc in next sc* repeat (36 sc)

Tie off leaving a long tail to sew onto the hat

Nose

Use yellow yarn

Row 1: 8 fsc, ch 1, turn

Row 2: scdec in first sc, sc in next 4 sc, scdec in next sc, ch 1, turn (6 sc)

Row 3: scdec in first sc, sc in next 2 sc, scdec in next sc, ch 1, turn (4 sc)

Row 4: scdec in each sc, ch 1, turn (2 sc)

Row 5: scdec in sc, ch 1 (1 sc)

Continue to sc arounf the whole piece for a nice border

Tie off leaving a long tail to sew onto the hat

Eyebrows (make 2) 

Use red yarn

Row 1: 10 fsc, ch 1, turn

Row 1: sc in each sc (10sc)

Tie off leaving a long tail to sew onto the hat

"Feather"/Hair - I'm not sure what it is

Start with yellow yarn

Magic ring, 6sc in magic ring and join to first sc, ch 2 (6 sc)

Round 1: 2 sc in each sc, join to first sc, ch 1 (12 sc)

Round 2-3: sc in each sc (12 sc)

Switch to black yarn

Round 4-11: repeat round 2

Tie off leaving a long tail to sew onto the hat

Position the pieces nicely on the base hat until you like the arrangement and then sew them all on. 

Angry Bird Crochet

My newest project is something that I have been designing myself.

I'm not sure why but I wanted to make something Angry Birds which is kind-of weird since I don't really play it all that much. I saw that there are a fair amount of hats, mainly red, chuck and the bomb, but I decided I wanted to take the idea, but do it as finger-less gloves.

I had so much fun designing one that I decided to do them all. So here are my designs for most of the original birds.

Then my sister said I should make the new birds from Angry Birds Stella. The Stella version seems to be geared towards the girls so most of the birds are girls. And here;s those designs. Except that I got the color scheme for Dahlia all wrong, but that's easily fixed since I haven't made her yet.

And here are the birds that I crochet so far.

I love the idea of matching gloves and hats so I decided to enlarge the glove pattern and created a hat to go with my bomb glove.

I love that the gloves are so fun and fairly quick to make. But now I'll have to make hats to match them all which should just involve enlarging the glove pattern design.

 And finally my model, showing of the coolness and fierceness of the angry bird bomb. 

But she says I should make an angry bird Stella hat because she's never seen them before, but I think she just likes that it's pink!