2 posts tagged “valentine's day”
Here are the Valentine's pressies I made for my Darling Hub... (yep, I'm mixing Easter and Valentine's Day again, but I'll be back to Easter next time... Lots more Easter Peeps and Baskets to post, soon)
For Valentine's Day and for Easter, I made limbless wee ami's and baskets for them. Here's Peter Pickle Peep, the limbless chick that I made for my Hub for Valentine's Day (yes, I'm very slow to post.... I still don't have the rest of the Easter ones uploaded yet!) I apologize for the quality of the photos... I'll try to take some better ones of these guys at some point. I forgot them when I took the Easter pics. :o/ Oops!
Two Peas in a Pod
We always say that we’re like two peas in a pod, and I’ve wanted to make a set for my dear Hub for ages! Finally remembered to do it. Simple simple… two little green balls with eyes and mouths, and for the pod, I simply knitted a leaf shape in stockinette and it obligingly curled all by itself. :o)
And a bigger pic of Peter Pickle (so named for obvious reasons... he looks like a PICKLE! heh heh) out of the basket
Making limbless wee peeps for my DH’s Valentine’s gift, and for Easter gifts has been such fun! (except for the exhaustion of making so MANY at one time) And it was a nice break from some of the more complicated one’s I’ve been making! :o) (two new "more complicated" ones to see soon) These little limbless guys have a special charm that my Hub and I love! :o)
I made lots of baskets for the wee limbless peeps for Easter, with lots of different yarns, mostly from www.yarncloud.com. Lots of different colors and textures! And this one for my Hub’s Valentine’s peep as well. It was lovely to work with all of this variety! Really fed my addiction! :o) The Heart is made the same way as my “Unbroken Heart” (made all in one piece with no break in yarn), in red mystery yarn, and tied onto the basket. The basket is meant to have a suggestion of a heart shape at the top, which is not apparent in these photos.... I'll see if I can get better photos that show it.
As always, you can see more of my creations at http://www.flickr.com/knittycat or on Ravelry (I'm theknittycat on Ravelry), and an index with links to my patterns and tutorials are at http://www.theknittycat.com.
Happy Spring to Everyone! Hope you're all enjoying the (crazy) weather, and all of the beautiful flowers!! :o)
We wish all of you a Happy and Blessed Easter!
Easter has come so early this year... I was really caught unprepared! I suddenly realized one day, a couple of weeks ago, that I hadn't made any Peeps for Easter!!! No Peeps for Easter? Now that's just wrong!
So... I've been furiously knitting to get some Peeps done in time. I'm writing up a couple of patterns as I go and I'd hoped to have them up in time for folks to use them for Easter if they'd like, but that just hasn't been possible. I'll post them soon though.
EGGY/EYEBALLS
I was trying to think of something less cutesy
than my usual fare, to make for the older boys (teens), and I remembered seeing
these clever and adorable "Which Came First" photos =LINK= from mochimochiland,
of eggs reversing to chicks! So brilliant! Coupling that with the fact that
every time I make an Elmo or Cookie, my DH and I wind up playing with the
eyeballs (and I do keep threatening to make eyeballs for the boys) - and the inevitable
happened...
EGGY/EYEBALLS
You can pretty much see how I made these from the photos... make the eyeballs from the Muppet patterns, and instead of closing them off, stuff them a bit (about a third of what you would normally) and then attach the egg yarn and start increasing again.
Okay. Now for the cutsey...
I just had to make them something
cutesy too, didn't I? That's what I DO! :o)
I recently saw, and LOVED, these wonderful egg shaped amigurumi =LINK= and wanted to come up with my own, all-in-one-piece, knitted versions, and what better time than Easter for...
EGGY/BUNNIES!
Are they Eggs?
Did you ever wonder what hatches out of the eggs that the Easter Bunny leaves? Well, now you know. ;o)
And soon to come (next week I hope) - a pattern for them. It's written and tested, but needs photos, etc.
LAMBIES
The younger girls are getting fuzzy versions of my
Lambie Peeps. Made the same way as the smaller ones, but with fuzzy yarn. One
is made with the new TLC Baby Amore, which is a very soft boucle, like the
original Amore, but finer. This stuff (both the regular and baby versions) makes a wonderful, kind
of teddy bear, texture and is not difficult to work with, like most of the other
furry yarns are. NOT so easy to work with, but a super yummy texture, is the
other yarn I used, Paton's Be Mine. Lovely, soft fuzzy stuff! (sorry, no pics
yet)
And... I took notes as I made the first one, and tested them on the second one, so I'll be posting a pattern for Lambies too! TAA DAAA! Well not "taa daaa" yet, I guess... We'd better wait till they're actually HERE to get excited!
PETIT FOURS
And a little cake
Cute, huh? Well, we think so, anyway! :o) And you can use
them as pin cushions, or earring holders too!
Speaking of yummy fuzzy yarns...
I tried out a lovely new
yarn from www.Spinblessing.com (same place I get all my fabulous Kinki Amibari
bamboo circular needles) for a couple of the eggy/bunnies - Red Heart Baby
Teri. It's white terrycloth looking yarn with shiny, pale pastels running
through it. Just beautiful! And not difficult to work with.. Even on size 4
needles! My DH has put in a request for a lambie made with it (when I'm
finished with Easter of course), and that should be so cute! :o)
WHAT HAPPENED to VALENTINE'S DAY?
As some of you know, I have some health challenges that interfere at times with me doing the important things like playing with the Peeps, and on flickr, and here. :o) With a rather difficult series of bouts, I haven't been able to get any posts or patterns done in a while, or pics up on flickr. But we're hoping that I'll be able to do more in the future. (you never know) Soooo...
HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! A little late...
Pudgie loves being on flicker! Nearly as much as he loves
sitting on his Daddy's lap while his photos are being posted. :o) We tell him
that he's "Famous Baby" and he smiles and smiles! To see more photos of Pudgie and some wonderful ocean photos, check out my DH's flickr pages =LINK=
A Valentine's Day present for my DH...
This little fellow is Funghi (pronounced fun-jee, fun-gee, or fun-guy - depending on your mood). He's a character that my DH loves, from my favorite Nintendo DS games, "Touch Detective" and "Touch Detective 2 1/2". I just had to make him a Funghi for Valentine's Day! :o) No pattern forthcoming for this one - he's a one-of-a-kind, but I'll be posting the pattern for the heart soon. It's the same as my
"Unbroken Heart" =LINK= on flicker, so named because it's made in one piece, using slip stitches to shape the top lobes (bumps), and you never need to break the yarn. (YAY!)
We hope that you have had a wonderful Valentine's Day and a very
Happy and Blessed Easter!
