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 Last week I started and (kind of) finished this lovely dragon from Lucy Ravenscar's blog
 I found her previous free dragon on craftster last year but I frogged the project because I chose cotton and somehow the body was little and the legs were huge :/, so this year I saw she updated the pattern so I gave it a try... and here he is, still eyeless/earless... for some reason I just don't get how to finish the ears, it looks so simple but I think I'm just over thinking the deal.
 I decided to crochet claws instead of embroidering, I think it gaves the leg more balance. I looked up images of dragon's legs and images of other's people dragon designs, but they are either embroidered, too complicated or for sale so, not what I'm looking for now lol.
 I just somehow repeated the spike pattern in a smaller size, it doesn't look like... dragon claws, more like duck feet but oh well, everything cannot look always real (I actually have a ... problem with this, I should crochet a pink elephant or a purple pig with wings to get a bit out of my "realistic box" :p)

 

 Anyways back to the claws, I did this:

Hope this make sense. 
I found the middle st (where I wanted the bigger claw to be) in the 3rd row of the leg, and in the 3rd st to the right I worked:
Small claw: {ch 2, sc into 2nd ch from hook, ss into next base st},
Bigger claw: {ch 3, sc into 2nd ch from hook, hdc into 3rd ch from hook, skip a base st (middle st), ss in next base st},
And again small claw: {ch 2, sc into 2nd ch from hook, ss into next base st and fo}

I worked with a 5mm hook to make the claws of the back legs (same I used to crochet the whole thing, body, wings, etc) and changed to a 3 mm hook to make the claws of the front legs.

I like how they look now, I think the dragon looks cuter with these claws, and of course it will be cuter with ears and eyes :p

{scratch my belly, please :3}

I know it's late...

... but HAPPY BIRTHDAY Pau!! (although I already said it on text and on your facebook wall but I just wanted to say it here too :D)

This is for you... let's say it's not for your bday cos I know you feel awkward with gifts... so this Kitty is just a random gift... actually it is but I've been procrastinating to make it and then give it the final touches, but Im glad it happened, I learned a lot from the first time I tried the pattern :p
I've been busy to take pics or to get things done these weeks, with my dad here and his doctor's appointments and with people working on my apartment, everything was a chaos (but the Goddamn parquet floor is finally fixed! yay!)

I finished this Kitty amigurmi the night before Pau's bday, on the 31st... funny I still have it but I think we will find the time to get together.
I hope you find the resemblance, I made a butterfly pin with this pattern (loved the graphics), added a black ribbon with a little bell and a lil chain with a star embelishment I had on my stash. Hope you like it!

Pattern from here

So...

1. Crochet long sleeve top - on process, 2. Las mil y una noches - close up, 3. Cooking, 4. Pattern making - skirt

... I took a long Easter break and went home, had a blast with my family, I'm starting to miss my parents now... it's weird, it's been like 4 years since I moved but I had a great time with them.

 I began the long sleeve top before I left to go home, like 2 or 3 weeks ago, and I already have the half of it, a big improvement to me because I get easily bored, but the pattern helped, it's really easy but it's kinda tiring because I'm crocheting all the sleeves and "body" together so it's like forever to make a round.but I know I'm going to complete it... this time.

 And I also began to read again, I'm reading Las mil y una noches, One thousand and one nights, I first read the whole book when I was in high school I guess, and I started again now, it's said if you read the same book after 10 years, it changes the whole meaning, (like with the Le Petit Prince, it's been more than 10 years, I should read it again), so this book is somehow special to me, it's kinda old, it has this yellowish color and it's from 1975, my dad bought it when he was in college here.

Another thing I've been doing in this long college break is... to cook "real" food every day, like more than 1 or 2 steps food, not including just "open the package and boil" or the simple one " take the phone and order" so I think it takes more time and waiting and preparation but it's more special and cheaper and I guess I'm losing weight lol. I don't know what is going to happen next week when I start school, and I spend the whole morning there... probably I'm going to be too tired to just take the knife and dice, but I'll see.

Last one but not least, I finally started a pattern making course, I'm so excited, I always wanted to learn the "good way" because since I was young I taught myself from magazines and craft shows but it's good to know how things are really made, before I took just a pattern and cut, now I learning how to make that pattern and modify it, I have so many drafts I want to make real. I also brought my sewing machine from home, it's funny that is the same age as me, my mom hardly used it, it works really good, someday I'm going to post my first attempts at sewing.

Anyways I made a little friend to help me.

I took the pattern from the Wolfdreamer of the hook's blog, and I love it, it's been really useful, I thought the pins would "get lost" in the yarn but so far is so good. I lost practice in embroidering though.

I'm trying to make a Puzzle Bobble amigurumi, I can't believe nobody else has done them, they are so cute.

 

Árbolito de Navidad

Otra vez me uní a un proyecto de Tejido y Amigas, la tortuga me salio bastante bien, menos los ojos, pero bueno, ahora a intentar hacer el árbolito de Navidad :)

Las instrucciones estan en el post, pero quise hacer un gráfico, hace mucho que tenia ganas de aprender como se hacen, pero no pude encontrar un buen programa gratuito para hacerlo asi que tuve que hacer todo yo, los simbolos, el armado y demás, desde cero. Para ser el primero no quedo taaan mal.

aclaro de nuevo que el diseño no es mio, solo lo traslade a un gráfico.

 Progreso:

  

Black Pop Heart

In only... one day!

Free pattern from Mygurumi

żółw, la tartaruga

Hace mucho que sigo este blog, tienen cosas muy buenas, me abrió un poco la cabeza a seguir haciendo cosas, aunque ahora esta en proceso de cambio y no entiendo mucho que pasa...  pero me sumé a hacer uno de los amigurumis que enseñan. :)

De esto⇓ tiene que salir algo como esto

⇓ horas después

(odio las fotos de mi celular)

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Random Patterns (UC)

Slippers and Socks for everyone.

·Weeds. 

· Chinook toy.

· Two peas in a pod.

·The golden snitch of Harry Potter.

· Fortune Cookies.

·Scarf with leaves... so cute

WTF patterns!

I realized you can crochet, knit or make everything... I've found things that made me thought "wtf!" (not as a bad thing), people really run away their imagination, and that's just GREAT, and here are them:

· This is definetely the best example for me... I'm just... speechless. Toilet Paper!!

· A wedding cake to keep your china safe and clean of dust, I like this one but I don't where I would place it. 

· More sweetness... what about these cute desserts?

... and this one 

· Tofu pincushion... I wonder how it tastes (not the pincushion but the tofu)

· I'd love to make this one, but... the pattern costs $2... I'll manage, it doesn't look that hard.

· This is one of my fav, safety cones!! really adorable and original.

· Wasp nest... too bad the pattern is not available anymore.

· Guitars!! <3 love em, too bad the patterns are not free :/

·Bloody greenish monster fingers, that explains it all.

· Moustache pattern... so elegant.

· Tiny world in a cup, it'd be a nice bday or welcome souvenir, too bad it's not a free pattern, but it doesn't look difficult, I love miniatures, I'll give it a try someday.

· This cute money bags remind me of those bank robbers of the cartoons who wear them, although these ones are in fashion lol.