Châle Heureux

mercredi 21 février 2018

Embroidery discovery

Hey there, I furnished a bit of my material buying DMC embroidery threads, so I tested some patterns inspired by Pinterest ideas on embroidery hoops. I am quite found of nature patterns such as plants and insects, and also geometrical shapes, so I plan to make more of them in the future and try more techniques as well!

Several techniques used here, and I really appreciate the addition of beads on it.
I'll try in next projects to mix embroidery threads with other colorful stuff (watercolor, ribbons, etc.)

Penrose triangle variation

Maggie Y.

Venipede

I finally post the final result of my venipede following Kim Novak's pattern from her blog http://heartinflightcrochet.blogspot.fr/2013/05/venipede-plush-pattern.html, you can see pictures of the project in progress in my previous posts.

Venipede + Joltik make a very cute team together!

Maggie Y.

lundi 30 octobre 2017

Ichigotchi Amigurumi Pattern

Hey there, for the last couple of weeks I've been spending my sunday mornings in car boot sales to create a decent collection of enamel pins (a growing passion).

I usually don't buy electronic stuff in this kind of place, but I found a funny toy there that just needed to get new batteries : a Tamagotchi.

I remember having one of those (or a conterfeit, it used to look like a monkey) when I was a child, and since I like retro objects, I negociated with the seller to get it for 1€.

With new batteries, the Tamagotchi was up to a new life! I took good care of my little "Hok", and now she is a beautiful teen that kind of look like a strawberry; the name of the sprite being "Ichigotchi", meaning "strawberry"in japanese, I thought I HAD to make a plush of it.

Ichigothci-chan needs my attention!

Following this introduction, here is the pattern I made! (I use USA terminology, since I am used to find free pattern online from creative american crocheters)

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YOU WILL NEED : 3mm hook - Red and light green yarn, red and light beige felt, red, beige and pink threads, 6mm plug-in eyes

🍓 FACE
Make a ~3.5cm wide circle in thin light beige felt, cut two small holes where the eyes should be.
Use the red thread for the mouth and the pink thread for the cheeks.

🍓 BODY (red)
Round 1 : Magic ring 6 sc (6)
Round 2 : 2sc, 2sc in next sc, 2 sc, 2sc in next sc (8)
Round 3 : 2sc, 2sc in next sc, 2 sc, 2sc in next sc, 1sc, 2sc in next sc (11)
Round 4 : 5sc, 2sc in next sc, 4 sc, 2sc in next sc (13)
Round 5 : 4sc, 2sc in next sc, 3 sc, 2sc in next sc, 3sc, 2sc in next sc (16)
Round 6 : 7sc, 2sc in next sc, 7 sc, 2sc in next sc (18)
Round 7 : 5sc, 2sc in next sc, 5 sc, 2sc in next sc, 5sc, 2sc in next sc (21)
Round 8 : 6sc, 2sc in next sc, 6 sc, 2sc in next sc, 6sc, 2sc in next sc (24)
Round 9 - 13 : sc (24)
Round 14 : *3sc, dec* repeat * * 4 times, 2sc, dec (19)
Round 15 : *2sc, dec* repeat * * 4 times, sc, dec (14)

Add the face with the beige thread and the plug the eyes in at this stage.
Begin stuffing.

Round 16 : *1sc dec* repeat * * until there're 10 sc left (10)
Round 17 : dec in all dc (5)
F/O

🍓 LEGS (make 2 in light green)
Round 1 : Magic ring 5sc
Round 2 - 3 : 5sc
F/O

Sew the parts together with the threads and a yarn needle.

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There you are! Ain't she cute?? but you need to give her a lot of love, or else she will turn into a poor rotten strawberry... (the picture is actually my first attempt to make the plush, a lot of hope, yet poor skills...)

Look at those poor soulless eyes... A sad Tamagotchi means you are a bad person.

I hope you enjoy making one of these, I surely enjoy squishing mine between my hands when my Hok wakes me up at 11:00pm for a cleaning session...

Maggie Y.

Fingerless Gloves, my first real big project

I already talked about my fingerless gloves in the previous article, but I wanted to also post the process of making them in a separate article.

Here is the pattern I used, I couldn't do cable knitting yet, but on a different project I shall try it!

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/ramona-flowers-fingerless-gloves

I used 3mm double pointed needles with Katia Merino 100% effect skein color 603. The needle size was small but that's all I had at that moment in time ; now I have many more needles and many more projects to make with them!!

I really like green by the way...

At this point I thought "wow if I manage to actually make decent gloves, I can really call myself a knitter!"

Finally! I can wear my gloves for this autumn! so proud of myself, I will wear them everyday! Even though one glove is too short on the wrist and the other is not the most comfortable on the thumb's connection. Still, I will call this a success.

Maggie Y.

Etat de l'art

Hello, I'm Maggie and since last year I started to become a crazy knitter, I enjoy crochet and knitting, and I share most of my creation on my personal facebook page. But I understand most of my friends are not really keen to see my creations between facebook ads and political views of their other friends.

Hence gathereing the pictures of my projects and the tutorials I find on the internet under a specific banner was a good initiative I thought.

Here you have the reason I opened this blog named "Châle Heureux", meaning "Happy Shawl" in french. I wanted to actually create a shawl before putting the blog online, but I am crazy with plushes right now and wanted to share them immediately. Hopefully the shawl will come soon...

✨ Prune, Châtaigne & Ecume

I used this pattern from Black Hat Llama for Prune and Châtaigne

http://blog.blackhatllama.com/2016/04/hanna-free-pattern/4/

and this one for Ecume from the same website

http://blog.blackhatllama.com/2015/08/mermaid-free-pattern/

The sea-shells and sea star is from Jessica Polka's book "75 Seashells, Fish, Coral & colorful marine life to knit and crochet", I love this book, since I love marine life too.

✨ Mr. Meeseeks

Mr. Meeseeks from Rick and Morty! For this one I used exactly the same pattern as for Prune, and I just extended the arms and legs, and made the belly a bit wider!

✨ Pokemon

Pokemon are very nice to make plushes, and the ressources in the internet is very varied, so here is what I have done so far (some are my own creations).

❈ Wooper (Axoloto) with an axolotl of my own! Male

http://nathalienuisement.wixsite.com/mylittlecuteamis/single-post/2016/10/05/Wooper-Pokemon194-Axoloto

❈ Venonat (Mimitoss) Spr 5b 048.png

http://nathalienuisement.wixsite.com/mylittlecuteamis/single-post/2016/09/19/PokemonGo-CrochetGo-048-Venonat-Mimitoss-free-amigurumi-crochet-pattern

❈ Gastly (Fantominus) Spr 5b 092.png