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[yarnhamlet]

Small Owl (Free Pattern) (Beginner-Friendly)

Here's a free, beginner-level crochet pattern, the first one ever posted on my blog! Just in time for New Years.

Materials

Red Heart Super Saver yarn

4.0 mm crochet hook

16 mm safety eyes (optional)

Embroidery thread

Stuffing

Pattern

Wings:

Magic Circle 6 sc (6)

Row 1: 6 sc (6)

Row 2: 6 inc (12)

Fold in half, and use remaining yarn to sew the edges together - this forms a half-circle.

Body: 

Magic circle

Row 1: 6 sc (6)

Row 2: 6 inc (12)

Row 3: 6(1 sc, 1 inc) (18)

Row 4: 18 sc (18)

Row 5: 3(4 sc, dec) (15)

Row 6: 3(3 sc, dec) (12)

Row 7 and Row 8: 12 sc (12)

Row 9: 3(2 sc, dec) (9)

Optional: Insert safety eyes between Row 8 and Row 9

Fill with stuffing

Sl st from the first stitch into the fifth stitch

5 sc, then stitch closed. Cut yarn. This forms the first “ear” of the owl.

Pull yarn through an open stitch on the open end of your work. This will form the second “ear” of the owl.

5 sc, then stitch closed. Cut yarn.

Sew wings onto the sides of the owl. 

Take your embroidery thread and sew a large “v” shape to create the "beak" for your owl.

Happy New Year, everyone!

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Knitted Chunky Check Blanket 🩵🤎

This lovely project showcases beautiful textured stitches for a comfy masterpiece. Keep warm on chilly nights and add a stylish touch by using your favourite colours 🧶

[hychlorions]

TSUM PATTERN!!!

retested it after digitizing to make sure all the seams are in order, and everything's looking fine imo :3 here's a tsum made with this pattern with susato tsum for comparison:

here's the pattern, formatted for A4 size paper :>> guides are for lining the pieces up + ears/limbs placement

if you wanted to be really accurate with printing out the pattern: in my experience, setting the custom scale to 100% in the page setup will get the ruler on the page to be 1:1 with a real life ruler

additionally: if you want the tsum to be as close as possible to official ones, they use non-stretchy fabrics for the underside part of the tsum. i only have minky but ironing on some lightweight fusible before sewing the pieces together made it non-stretchy ^^

it looks to me like they used a very thin faux suede with fusible interfacing for some structure (i could be wrong though as 1) i am not an expert in identifying fabrics and 2) i only took apart klavier tsum and no one else. but everyone else that i own seems to use the same fabric for the underside).

they also have a little bag of filler beads inside that weigh around 14.5g (bag they were in included), and the stuffing was ~8g if you wanna be REALLY accurate. anyway. enjoy!

EDIT: forgot to add that the collar pieces are more of a size/sewing guide so they'd fit onto the tsum in case your character has any clothing with lapels/collars and are meant to be changed according to your design! the smaller piece is the little piece between the face and the underside while the bigger piece is for the "lapels" (so in retrospect i should've named it that but whatever.) here's how they'd look like on the tsums for reference in case i'm not explaining well LOL

[tj-crochets]

A little flannel cow!

I think her name has to be Dottie

[just-a-sketchbook]

First Quilt!

It has been a lot of fun and a lot of trial and error but it's done!!!

It's roughly 1.20 x 1.20m (which is a number of feet I can't be bothered to look up but let's say it's about child sized and it'll be great to chill on the couch).

I want to thank @langdon813 who I've never talked to (sorry if you hate being tagged) but whose gorgeous Drunkard path quilts made me wanna do it too :)

I had never done any quilting before (but I did sew), so here's what I've learned, if any beginner is interested in jumping off the deep end the way I did and wants advice from someone who has freshly acquired experience but will also not use any confusing technical terms (with pictures!) :

Fabric picking : so most advice I read was to go for pre-selected bundles of fabric that already go together, but I'm contrary and like to do my own thing so I used wax fabric (the blue ones on top the pile) I had laying around, which I strongly recommend: it's very easy to cut due to it being waxed, and I added a few fat squares from the shop, plus I also had the orange and blue floral and I based the coulour scheme on it. One thing that's true is it would have been easier to work with fabric of the same thickness, and the floral was givne to me by my ma who got in on trip to Thailand and it was alot thinner than the rest which didn't help.

Cutting: I got a rotary cutter for the occasion and it's great! Do not maybe push too hard on it and give yourself nerve damage the way I did (temporary but still), it's actually ery sharp and easy to use, so long as your template doesn't slip you're fine

Piecing :Yes you can do curved piecing even if you have zero experience, you just gotta make a template and

pin it a lot.

1/4 inch margins is the standard so I rolled with it because I don't like converting, but when you're strictly metric it is kind of annoying but doable because my machine does have a 1/4 inch mark and if you stick a length of tape along it it's pretty easy to follow, even for curved piecing.

Layout: At some point you've got to decide the layout is done, because I've re-arranged the blocks at least 6 times and it's a very good way to go insane. (For rough reference, my plan was to have no repeat fabrics in any of the circle-in-a-square blocks, and I only made one mistake which I clocked too late to change)

Chain piecing!! Meaning you pile your blocks together in a specific order (that I personnaly wrote straight up on each piece with a very sophisticated letter/numbers down/across system) and then just sew them together in a line without having to cut the thread between each pair. Looks a little like a fanion banner and at some point it feels like you'll be forever tangled into it but then it's magic :) It's not that hard actually and will save you a lot of time + there's a lot of online tutorials you can use.

Basting! (which it took me while to understand is the part where you attach the backing, the fluff and the quilt top together) : you need more safety pins. Safety pins will save you from the wrinkles and the unfortunate oopsies of realising you've caught your backing double folded into your quilting stitch, which I did a good three times and was not fun to undo. Also, I forgot to tape the backing to the floor and it probably would have helped with the wrinkling...

Backing : I used an old linen table cloth I got for 10€ at a charity shop, and I've still got about 2/3 of it left, so I recommend that, it's sturdy but soft enough, doesn't thread easily and can be washed at very high temps, if that's a thing you do.

Quilting! Well, my machine came with a quilting foot for free motion quilting (which means you're the one moving the fabric along in whichever direction and you can sort of draw with your stitches) and it seemed fun so I did that, and here's what I learned : curves are hard but doable, also my machine doesn't like to go back (kept skipping sitiches for some reason) so it involves a lot of shifting the quilt around, which isn't easy considering the bulk. And also, drawing the quilting pattern you want so you can follow it while quilting actually does help, I used an iron/heat-erasable pen and it worked just fine. Check your stitch tension, mine was too loose and I realised too late so there's spots where I could pull on the thread and it looped, had to stitch back over that.

Quilitng pattern : I wasn't sure what to do, supposedly your batting (aka: the fluff) comes with instructions on how tight you should quilt to avoid it coming apart through use but I got mine cut at the fabric shop and forgot to ask so I just rolled with a rough 10cm maximum distance in between stitching lines but tried to do less in most places. According to many blogs : the tighter your lines the stiffer your quilt, so I kept it loose for comfort. (Picture is halfway done, I added a smaller square/circle inside each square/circle and if you look at it you'll see it's actually diagonal lines form one end of the fabric to the other.)

Binding is boring, and there's nothing to it. I got a length of pre-cut bias binding, machine-sewed it front to front to the quilt top side of the quilt and the folded it back and secured it by hand to the back with a ladder stitch. Took me roughly and entire rewatch of the Last Of Us. There's a trick to doing the corners that's fairly simple but I've lost the tutorial...

Overall : I got myself a quilting book with techinques and such and it helped, but there's a ton of stuff online, and once you get over the very Christian American mum vibe of most of the blogs, it's all very helpful (and gorgeous!) (no offense meant to Christian American mums, it's just a bit of a culture shock from where I'm standing).

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Lane Pants PDF Sewing Pattern | Size Inclusive 0-34 | Beginner Friendly by SydGrahamPatterns

[doraminatook]

I would describe my crochet abilities as "intermediate"...

...but BOY OH BOY the joy and pride I felt at finishing this little friend. 🐍❤️😎🪽

Yes (flips hair) I painted the eyes myself.

Snake pattern HERE

[amingledyarn]

Easy Cherry Keychain, a beginner-friendly amigurumi video tutorial designed by Tatiana Didichenko on Ravelry.

[carfuckerlynch]

I do love how I got a halfway decent handle on how cable knitting is supposed to work and immediately jumped into the most complicated cables I could find

[thehaberdasheress]

🦞babe wake up, it's lobster time 🦞

I have a new embroidery patch up for sale on Etsy!

(I have been strongly informed that "Lobster Time" is much more SEO-friendly, not to mention less of a pain for everyone I work with who has to learn my system, than "The Freshwater Hungarian Crustacean Sensation." I have to acknowledge the truth and justice of those arguments. But it'll always be my little Crusty to me.)

[yarnhamlet]

Beginner-Friendly Free Granny Square Pattern: The Dahlia

Disclaimer: I'm not 100% certain that I invented this pattern. Though I have never seen a granny square like this before, I acknowledge that it is constructed with very simple stitches. I am, however, offering it free to use! All I ask is that if you use this pattern and someone asks you where you learned it, it would be nice if you could point them to my blog.

Materials

(These are simply the matierals that I used)

Red Heart acrylic yarn, worsted weight, size 4, in Light Blue

Inscraft sample yarn, acrylic, worsted weight, size 4 (no color name listed, I would describe it as red pomegranate)

Size 5.0mm hook

Stitches Needed

Ch

Hdc

Dc

Cl

Tr

Pattern

Row 1: Magic circle

Row 2: Ch 2, 2 unfinished dc - stitch together (this forms our first cluster stitch). Make 7 3-dc cl. Sl st into first cluster (8)

Row 3: Between each cluster, 2 3-dc cl, making 16 cl. Sl st into first cluster (16)

Change color (optional)

Row 4: Between two clusters, chain two, make three unfinished dc, this is how you make the cluster sts for this row. Make 15 4-dc cl (optional: ch 1 between cl, or as needed), sl st into first cluster (16-32)

Row 5: Between two clusters, ch 3, 2 tr, ch 2, in the same space 3 tr, in the next space make 3dc, 3 hdc in the next space, 3 dc, 3 tr, ch 2, 3 trc, 3 dc, 3 hdc - and so on, until round is finished (68)

My granny square measures approximately 5.1"×5.1"

Size may vary depending on your yarn, tension, and hook size.

Feel free to ask questions if the pattern is unclear.

Happy crafting!

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‘Stop comparing yourself to others’ positive affirmation cross stitch pattern. 🌷🌻💐

This cross stitch pattern is available on my Etsy shop here >

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"I love you more than the ocean."

"How heartwarming."

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