Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas decoration part 3 : all around decoration

In order to make this Christmas become more into the Christian, we decide to attach some sentence from bible along with the decoration.







After many time of effort trying to make the end point of garland curl, we determine to gave them bone, so the can curl in the way we want,






 These wreaths was inspire by mommity website. We recycle the trow away color paper to made them.




My coworker built this cardboard Christmas tree while I in charge of another part of decoration. They say they follow the instruction they found on internet, but I cannot find the source.



And Santa Claus is stuck in the fireplace, hahaha 




Christmas decoration part 2 - Nativity tree

Last year, I saw the picture of this nativity tree and I really want to try decorate our office's tree in to something similar to it.


Luckily our new staff agree to help me build this tree. Let's see how I built it.


First, sculpt the baby, I cut cuboid foam I found in storage room in to doll shape. And use permanent pen to draw smiling face.



Second, prepare the bed for baby, I cut the cardboard in to the box shape and glue together. The lay fake hay at the bottom.




 Third, with the bigger cuboid foam, sculpt them in to man and woman. Ten dress them up with some color paper or fabric.


Forth, with smaller cuboids, sculpt them in to the villagers with the same way we do with the previous three.  


Fifth, but cardboard in make villagers's house. Used brown paper to built the road path along lower haft of the tree.
Then prepare the animals that will stand around.



For sheep, I used cotton ball and cut paper to head shape to form into the sheep.


Arranging all the stuff into the place that you want them to be.
I forgot to took picture while we were building the cottage.




Upper path of the tree, I decorated with the paper angels I made.


Here the front view of 2015 Christmas tree!!



Tuesday, December 15, 2015

My June, July and August works

It was the busy period of my life, just three months but many things had happen and I had too much things to handle. So I summarize all my crochet works in this post.

JUNE


This little hat just came up because I just felt like crochet something after tried day.


Head part of Pikachu.



In this month I started other new order at the same time as Pikachu.


And Baymax, the first doll that I ship outside my own country.

JULY


In this month I can only managed to finish only this set of doll.

AUGUST 


Little beanie for baby named Orca.


Another Chowder, now I cannot remember how many chowder hade I made until now.



Finally finish this massive Pikachu. If you want the Pikachu pattern just go straight to my craftsy store. 





Monday, December 7, 2015

Paper Angels for Christmas decoration part 1

Christmas is coming!! This year also my work place still holding Christmas decoration competition ! And the most exciting things is my department just got 2 new recruits, and those 2 are really into the competition. So we decide to take the challenge!

Today I gonna share how I make little angel for tree decoration.

Because the silver paper is really thin, so I fold them together with normal 700 grams white paper. In the picture I cut paper into size of A6.


Then fold the paper to cone shape.


I use a straper to hold the shape but you can glue them together. And press the upper part (above my thumb).


Draw a circle for angel's head and cut it out.


Fold the paper to make angel's wing and attach every parts togethet.


I add more color paper and try to make wing look differently with layer color.


I made all 5 angels for this year Christmas tree. Fast and easy.

Moreover look good when they hang on the tree.

Friday, September 18, 2015

Crochet Hook Size Conversion


For most of my work I frequently use Japanese size 5/0 for 1 strand of yarn and 6/0 for 2 strand or bigger size yarn.



Crochet Hook Size Conversion Table
Metric (mm)
Japanese
UK / Canadian
US
2
2/0
14
-
2.25
3/0
13
B/1
2.5
4/0
12
-
2.75
-
-
C/2
3
5/0
11
-
3.25
-
10
D/3
3.5
6/0
9
E/4
3.75
-
-
F/5
4
7/0
8
G/6
4.5
-
7
7
5
8/0
6
H/8
5.5
-
5
I/9
6
10/0
4
J/10
6.5
-
3
K/10 1/2
7
-
2
-
8
-
0
L/11
9
-
00
M/13
10
-
000
N/15


Free Crochet Amigurumi Macaron Tutorial and Pattern



Due to my plan to study abroad, I cannot work on made to order crochet anymore. So I decide to try making a video tutorial for my friends who have to learn how to crochet for themselves from now on.

The basic crochet starter are all over Youtube, so I will just straight in to the pattern and tutorial for them.

This is my first video, I found a lot of unpleasant after I upload it. Even though my friend said that this is not that bad.

For the next one I will try to at least make it fit full screen.



Pattern Notes
-sc is single crochet
-sc2tog is decrease single crochet
-sl is slip stitch
-ch is chain

Macaron pattern
Rnd 1: Make an adjustable ring and work 6 sc in the ring, sl :: 6 stitches
Rnd 2: 1 ch, [2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 12 stitches
Rnd 3: 1 ch, [sc in next stitch, 2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 18 stitches
Rnd 4: 1 ch, [sc in next 2 stitch, 2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 24 stitches
Rnd 5: 1 ch, [sc in next 3 stitch, 2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 30 stitches
Rnd 6: 1 ch, sc in next 30 stitch, sl:: 30 stitches
Rnd 7: 1 ch, sc in front post for next 30 stitch, sl:: 30 stitches
Fasten off

Make 2 pieces

Filling pattern
Rnd 1: Make an adjustable ring and work 6 sc in the ring, sl :: 6 stitches
Rnd 2: 1 ch, [2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 12 stitches
Rnd 3: 1 ch, [sc in next stitch, 2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 18 stitches
Rnd 4: 1 ch, [sc in next 2 stitch, 2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 24 stitches
Rnd 5: 1 ch, [sc in next 3 stitch, 2 sc in next stitch] 6 times, sl:: 30 stitches
Fasten off

After finish crochet every parts, sewing them together. Alternatively, you can also glue them, if you really hate sewing, but be careful not to put too much glue, so it not clearly visible and reduce chance to dirty other part.

Hope you enjoy the pattern, any problems during making him, comment below or under tutorial video. I will try answer you as fast as I can. :)

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What you want me to crochet next leave the comment below. :)

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I will answer you as fast as I can. And we can share the solution with others.

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Sunday, September 13, 2015

Pikachu again after 3 years.

After I publish my Pikachu pattern on :


There are many people question me about the pattern and I try my best to answer them here: 

Finally after I had crochet that Pikachu 3 years ago, I have a chance to re-crochet him again.
I am not exactly follow the pattern because this Pikachu is a little smaller than the one I did in the past.


The left one was crochet follow my pattern which I still don't have time to finish him, and right one is this the head of Pikachu below, you can see the different in size.



I am very proud of this Pikachu, even tough he smaller than pattern original one but this still is a big size amigurumi doll. I don't have much chance to make a big one like this due to my present work and many factors. I have to thank to my customer from from Canada that he made this decision to order me to made this Pikachu for him. What a nice experience.