Free Pattern Friday: Forest Spirit Amigurumi

Welcome to this week's Free Pattern Friday! Today's pattern is a 9" tall forest spirit. The pattern is available on Ravelry or you can find it written below. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at icrochetthings@gmail.com.

So I recently watched The Legend of Korra for the first time and this was one of my favorite characters in the show, even if he was only onscreen for a minute. All of the spirits were pretty cute but I liked this guy the best.

The pattern itself isn't too bad, though the body is a bit complicated. The feet to the head are all worked in one piece as I was practicing making different shapes, so that could be a bit troublesome. The pattern for the leaves looks wordy but it's simple once you get going. Happy crocheting and TGIF!

Materials:

▪  Worsted weight yarn in dark green, medium green, light green, white

▪  E hook (3.50 mm)
▪  Stuffing

▪  Scissors

▪  Tapestry needle

Difficulty: Medium

You should know how to work in the round, increase, decrease, work in the back loops, half double crochet, and double crochet.

Pattern:

This is an icrochetthings original pattern © 2014-2016. Do not claim as your own. Do not copy, sell, or distribute this pattern. Do not sell any products made from this pattern.

Head and Body

 Starting with medium green

First Leg
1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)
3.  [BLO: sc] around  (12)
4.  11 sc, inc  (13)
5.  12 sc, inc  (14)
6.  13 sc, inc  (15)
7.  14 sc, inc  (16)
8.  15 sc, inc  (17)
9.  16 sc, inc  (18)
10.  [sc] around  (18)

F/O

Second Leg
Work same as first leg, DO NOT F/O

11.  3 sc, sc into one of the sts in the first leg, [sc] around the first leg
        sc into the next st in the second leg, 14 sc  (36)
12.  20 sc, sc 7 in next st, 15 sc  (42)
13 – 14.  [sc] around  (42)
15.  9 sc, 3 dec, 18 sc, 3 dec, 3 sc  (36)
16 – 22.  [sc] around  (36)
23.  [4 sc, dec] around  (30)
24 – 26.  [sc] around  (30)
27.  [3 sc, dec] around  (24)
Stuff
28.  15 sc, 3 dec, 3 sc  (21)
29 – 36.  14 sc, turn  (14)
37. [sc] across and sc down into round 28, [sc] around and back up  (36)
38 – 44.  [sc] around  (36)
45.  [4 sc, dec] around  (30)
46.  [3 sc, dec] around  (24)
Stuff
47.  [2 sc, dec] around  (18)
48.  [sc, dec] around  (12)
49.  [dec] around  (6)

F/O, sew shut

Face

Starting with white

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)
3.  [sc, inc] around  (18)
4.  [2 sc, inc] around  (24)
5.  [3 sc, inc] around  (30)
6.  [4 sc, inc] around  (36)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

2 Long Arms

Starting with medium green

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2 – 3.  [sc] around  (6)
4.  [inc] around  (12)
5 – 11.  [sc] around  (12)
12.  Fold in half and [sc] across  (6)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

2 Short Arms

Starting with medium green

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2 – 3.  [sc] around  (6)
4.  [inc] around  (12)
5 – 7.  [sc] around  (12)
8.  Fold in half and [sc] across  (6)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

6 Leaves

Starting with light green

1.  ch 11,   3 sc, hdc,   2 dc in next st,   2 hdc in next st,   2 dc in next st, 2 dc in next st,   2 hdc in next st,   hdc
     working on the opposite side of the chs: 2 hdc,   2 dc in next st,   2 dc in next st,   hdc, 2 sc,  2 hdc in next st, 2 sc  (28)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

Assembly

See pictures above if you need help with placement

▪  Sew the face onto the head
▪  Use dark green yarn to embroider eyes and a mouth onto the face
▪  Sew the long arms on either side of the body
▪  Sew the short arms on either side of the body, under the long arms
▪  Sew the leaves onto the top of the head

Free Pattern Friday: Rabbit Amigurumi

It's Friday again, so here's another free pattern. It's a 6" tall amigurumi of a rabbit for Easter coming up. The pattern is available on Ravelry or you can find it written below. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at icrochetthings@gmail.com.

Materials:

▪  Worsted weight yarn in tan, brown, cream, pink
▪  Crochet thread in black

▪  E hook (3.50 mm)
▪  Stuffing
▪  9 mm safety eyes

▪  Scissors

▪  Tapestry needle

Difficulty: Easy

You should know how to work in the round, increase, decrease, and change colors.

Pattern:

This is an icrochetthings original pattern © 2014-2016. Do not claim as your own. Do not copy, sell, or distribute this pattern. Do not sell any products made from this pattern.

Eye Patch

Starting with brown

1.  ch2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

Head

Starting with tan

1.  ch2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)
3.  [sc, inc] around  (18)
4.  [2 sc, inc] around  (24)
5.  [3 sc, inc] around  (30)
6.  [4 sc, inc] around  (36)
7.  [5 sc, inc] around  (42)
8 – 13.  [sc] around  (42)
14.  [5 sc, dec] around  (36)
15.  [4 sc, dec] around  (30)
16.  [3 sc, dec] around  (24)
17.  [2 sc, dec] around  (18)
Before attaching the safety eyes to the body, push one eye through the center of the eye patch
Stuff and attach safety eyes (I placed mine between rounds 11 and 12 at about 8 sts apart)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

2 Ears

Starting with tan

1.  ch2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [sc, inc] around  (9)
3.  [2 sc, inc] around  (12)
4 – 9. [sc] around  (12)
10.  [2 sc, dec] around  (9)
11 – 12.  [sc] around  (9)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

2 Inner Ears
Starting with brown
1.  ch 6, [sc] across, working on the opposite side of the chs: [sc] across  (10)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

Body

Starting with tan

First Haunch
1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)
3.  [sc, inc] around  (18)

F/O

Second Haunch
Work same as first haunch, DO NOT F/O
4.  sc into one of the sts in the first haunch, [sc] around the first haunch
     sc into the next st in the second haunch, [sc] around the second haunch  (36)
5.  [4 sc, dec] around  (30)
6.  [sc] around  (30)
7.  [3 sc, dec] around  (24)
8 – 9.  [sc] around  (24)
10.  [2 sc, dec] around  (18)
11 – 14.  [sc] around  (18)
Stuff
15.  [sc, dec] around  (12)
16.  [dec] around  (6)

F/O, sew shut

Tail

Starting with cream

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2 – 3.  [sc] around  (6)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

2 Arms

Starting with brown

1.  ch2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2 – 3.  [sc] around  (6) – Break off brown
4 – 7.  Attach tan – [sc] around  (6)
8.  Fold in half and [sc] across the top  (3)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

2 Feet
Starting with brown
1.  ch2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)

2.  [2 sc, inc] around  (8)
3 – 4.  [sc] around  (8) – Break off brown
5 – 6.  Attach tan – [sc] around  (8)
7.  [2 sc, dec] around  (6)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing, sew shut

Assembly

See pictures above if you need help with placement

▪  Sew the eye patch onto the head
▪  Sew the inner ears onto the ears
▪  Sew the ears onto the top of the head
▪  Take one ear and sew the tip of the ear onto the top of the inner ear
▪  Use pink yarn to embroider a nose onto the head
▪  Use crochet thread to embroider a mouth onto the head
▪  Sew the head onto the top of the body
▪  Sew the feet onto the bottom of the body
▪  Sew the arms on either side of the body
▪  Sew the tail onto the back of the body

Free Pattern Friday: Luma Amigurumi

Free Pattern Friday this week is a 4" tall amigurumi of a Luma from Super Mario Galaxy. The pattern is available on Ravelry or you can find it written below. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at icrochetthings@gmail.com.

Soooo...I totally forgot it was Friday today. :P
Anyway, this is a pattern that I've been wanting to do for a while now but never got around to it. Figuring out how to make the little swirl at the top was a bit if a pain, but I think it turned out alright.

Materials:

▪  Worsted weight yarn in yellow

▪  Felt in black, white

▪  E hook (3.50 mm)

▪  Stuffing

▪  Scissors

▪  Tapestry needle

▪  Felting needle

Difficulty: Easy

You should know how to work in the round, increase, and decrease.

Pattern:

This is an icrochetthings original pattern © 2014-2016. Do not claim as your own. Do not copy, sell, or distribute this pattern. Do not sell any products made from this pattern. Lumas belong to Nintendo.

Body

Starting with yellow

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)
3.  [sc, inc] around  (18)
4.  [2 sc, inc] around  (24)
5.  [3 sc, inc] around  (30)
6.  [4 sc, inc] around  (36)
7 – 12.  [sc] around  (36)
13.  [4 sc, dec] around  (30)
14.  [sc] around  (30)
15.  [3 sc, dec] around  (24)
16.  [sc] around  (24)
17.  [2 sc, dec] around  (18)
18 – 19.  [sc] around  (18)
Stuff
20.  3 dec, 12 sc  (15)
21.  3 dec, 9 sc  (12)
22.  [sc] around  (12)
23.  5 sc, 3 inc, 4 sc  (15)
24.  3 dec, 9 sc  (12)
25.  5 sc, 3 inc, 4 sc  (15)
Stuff
26.  3 dec, 9 sc  (12)
27.  [dec] around  (6)

F/O, sew shut

2 Arms

Starting with yellow

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [sc, inc] around  (9)
3.  [sc] around  (9)
4.  [2 sc, inc] around  (12)
5.  [sc] around  (12)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

2 Legs
Starting with yellow

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1st ch  (6)
2.  [sc] around  (6)
3.  [sc, inc] around  (9)
4.  [sc] around  (9)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

Assembly

See pictures above if you need help with placement

▪  Sew the arms on either side of the body, stuffing as you go
▪  Sew the legs onto the bottom of the body
▪  Use black felt to cut out 2 ovals
▪  Use felting needle to secure the ovals onto the body
▪  Use white felt to cut out 2 circles
▪  Use felting needle to secure the circles onto the ovals

Pattern: Amaterasu Amigurumi

A 5" tall amigurumi of Amaterasu from Okami. The pattern is available on Ravelry and on Etsy. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at icrochetthings@gmail.com.

So this pattern has been in the works for quite a while now. Initially, after I made the Unicorn and Pegasus patterns, I made another Amaterasu amigurumi that was loosely based off the same pattern. That was right before I had a very long crocheting hiatus, so when I got back into crocheting about a month ago I decided that it looked pretty bad and made another one. I really liked how this one turned out. The face actually looks pretty good, which I think is one of my weak points in amigurumi. And I'm totally obsessed with using felt in my projects now. It's really versatile and easy to work with as long as you have a felting needle (I can't sew worth crap :P).

Working on a bunch of stuff. I'm also in the process of frogging a bunch of really old amigurumi and harvesting their yarn for newer projects. Very satisfying to rip apart the old junk.

Free Pattern Friday: Mini Cockatiel Amigurumi

Welcome to another Free Pattern Friday! This week's pattern is a 2.5" tall cockatiel amigurumi. The pattern is available on Ravelry or you can find it written below. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at icrochetthings@gmail.com.

Just a fun little thing I did a few nights ago. I also modified it a little bit to make a parakeet:

Materials:

▪  Worsted weight yarn in yellow, grey, pink
▪  Felt in red

▪  E hook (3.50 mm)
▪  Stuffing
▪  6 mm safety eyes

▪  Scissors

▪  Tapestry needle
▪  Felting needle

Difficulty: Easy

You should know how to work in the round, increase, decrease, and change colors.

Pattern:

This is an icrochetthings original pattern © 2014-2016. Do not claim as your own. Do not copy, sell, or distribute this pattern. Do not sell any products made from this pattern.

Body

Starting with yellow

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 2st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)
3.  [sc, inc] around  (18)
4.  [2 sc, inc] around  (24)
5.  [3 sc, inc] around  (30)
6 – 10.  [sc] around  (30) – Break off yellow
11 – 15.  Attach grey – [sc] around  (30)
16.  [3 sc, dec] around  (24)
17.  [2 sc, dec] around  (18)
Stuff and attach safety eyes (I placed mine between rounds 7 and 8 at about 6 sts apart)
18.  [sc, dec] around  (12)
19.  [dec] around  (6)

F/O, sew shut

2 Wings

Starting with grey

1.  ch 2, 6 sc in 1^st ch  (6)
2.  [inc] around  (12)
3.  ch 3, [sc] across chs, ss in original st, sc in next st, ch 2, sc in ch, ss in original st, sc in next st  (7)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

Long Feather

Starting with yellow

1.  ch 8, [sc] across  (7)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

Short Feather

Starting with yellow

1.  ch 6, [sc] across  (5)

F/O, leave long tail for sewing

Assembly

See pictures above if you need help with placement

▪  Sew the wings on either side of the body

▪  Sew the short feather on top of the head
▪  Sew the long feather over the short feather
▪  Use red felt to cut out 2 cheeks
▪  Use the felting needle to secure the cheeks onto the body
▪  Use pink yarn to embroider a beak and feet onto the body

Patterns: Eevee + ALL 8 Evolutions Amigurumi

9 amigurumi of Eevee and all of its evolutions, all measuring approximately 6" tall. The patterns are available on Ravelry and on Etsy separately, or in one big set on Etsy. If you have any questions, feel free to email me at icrochetthings@gmail.com.


ASDFASDFASDFUOENFUEWPO
FINALLY. IT'S DONE.
I have spent almost the entirety of January exclusively working on these. Not only did I make all 9 of them, but I remade about half of them after my initial pattern looked a bit off. I think I must have made at least 20 different amigurumi before finally finishing. Protip: don't be as big of a perfectionist as I am. Last night I decided I still didn't like them and scrapped one of them, only to realize that the way I wanted to redo them looked terrible, so I remade that one again. Yes, I'm insane.

I'm taking a break from crocheting after this. Going to go back to drawing for a bit. I have an old pattern ready for Free Pattern Friday, then after that I'm going to finally start putting new free patterns up. I can't wait to make something simple.