Finally a pinboard!

After the "creation" of a sketchbook (i love Moleskine), i realized that i needed a pin board. I had no time to go out and fin a classic cork pinboard, and then i had the creative attack: crochet a net and use it like pinboard...


I crocheted it using lots and lots of scraps, but with no weaving in the ends, because i directly knotted all the ends one after the other. To add my notes to the pinboard i use the metal clips that you can see in the second photo.
I find this pinboard...beautiful ^^ It is coloured, it has a fur appeal (given by all the knots), it's handmade and creative ^^ Sometimes i'm surprised by my ideas!

The pattern?
Well, you need the yarn and the matching hook, a metal thread, a stick and metal clips.
Start with a chain long a multiple of 4 plus 8. Treble crochet in the twelfth chain from hook, ch 4, skip 4 chain of the base chain, treble crochet. Continue till the end, 8 ch, turn, skip the first four chains, treble crochet in the first treble crochet, 4 ch, skip 4 chains, treble crochet....and continue till you reach the lenght needed. In the last rows you can decrease the meshes crocheting at the start only 5 chains, and decreasing the last 2 treble crochet.

Then crochet a border all around with single crochet, crocheting the net and the metal thread together. Iron and add the stick :)

Flea, little octopus

How i announced some time ago, here is the second little amigurumi pattern: flea the octopus. My mother loves it, and i enjoy to put this little octopus in every strange position (like in the photo on the laptop screen) :)
Easy and fast, it could be a quick gift for every friend who loves the sea ^^

I've got a theory, it could be bunnies...

Who didn't watch the "Buffy the vampire slayer" episode "Once more, with feeling"?
Well, if you haven't, you totally have to! It's been since i watched that episode that i'm thinking about amigurumi bunnies. What type of bunny would scare so much Anya? I didn't want a cute bunny, and i didn't want a difficult bunny, but an army of hopping little bunnies...yes!

Click here to grab the free pattern!

Bunnies aren't just cute like everybody supposes,
They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses.
And what's with all the carrots-?
What do they need such good eyesight for anywa - y?
Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!
cit. Anya, from "Buffy the vampire slayer"

Lapo, one-hour amigurumi

I was waiting to chat with my boyfriend, so i took some cotton yarn and my blue-ergal hook, and this is the result after only one hour:

I was very pleased to start and finish one project in only one hour! It's better for me if i don't explaine how the name "Lapo" came off ^^

This is the pattern for Lapo...enjoy! ^^

Click to download the .pdf

Body
Round 1: make a magic ring, 6 sc (6)
2: work even, no increase (6)
3: work even, no increase (6)
4: increase: 2 sc in every sc (12)
5: increase: *2 sc in the first sc, 1 sc in the sc after* repeat till the end of the row (18)
6: increase: *2 sc in the first sc, 2 sc in the 2 sc after* repeat till the end of the row (24)
7: work even, no increase (24)
8: work even, no increase (24)
9: work even, no increase (24)
10: decrease: *decrease the first, work normally the other 2 sc* repeat till the end of the row (18)
11: decrease: *decrease the first, work normally the other 1 sc* repeat till the end of the row (12) Stuff the body
12: decrease: decrease every sc (6)
Sl st and fasten off. Sew the tail, or crochet it (my pig was too little to crochet it, i've made a little braid and sewed it).

Ears, make 2!
1: make 4 chain + 1 turning chain, turn
2: 1 sc in every chain (4) + 1 turning chain, turn
3: 1 sc in the first sc, decrease the 2 central sc, 1 sc in the last sc (3) + 1 turning chain, turn
4: decrease the 2 first sc, 1 sc in the last sc (2) + 1 turning chain, turn
5: decrease the 2 remaining sc (1)
Fasten off. Sew the ears on the body.

Cut 2 rounds of black light felt (the italian "pannolenci") and 4 of pink. Glue them on the body.
That's all!

Now Lapo is in my boyfriend's room, near Moschino (another name with a particular story ^^ ).

My mother was upset for this, so i had to crochet another Lapo for her ^^