My daughter's creative bee

This is how this bee came about. My daughter drew some bees because she is an artist. Not a famous one but she can draw and paint more then me. Anyway she came to me and asked me which one I liked and I told her I liked a few not just one. This particular one somehow I wanted to give it a go so I did. I tried to write the pattern as I go but when I unpick I loose the place. I feel like quitting on that idea of writing my own pattern but you should never give up. The wings were tricky I made  three wings and I finally decided on this one that I used. The legs gave me trouble I couldn't fit the wire in because the way I do wire is a little bit of polyester filling around the ends and tape it for safety around who ever touches it. I love the colours yellow and black but I find it hard to work with dark colours at nights even though I have stronger lights on. Anyway here it is

My little Lion

My little lion looks like a cat why, I need to find out why. My youngest daughter wanted a lion to give out as a present so that is why I did this lion. I did the pattern from Amigurumi to go but changed the muzzle because I thought hers looks like a bear but now mine looks like a cat. I added more mane around the face. This time I used safety eyes and I also used glue, so it is more safer. This took me about six hours to make it is fairly small good for a child to hold. I also put a rattle in it so it makes noise. The mane is the longest to make I did a separate head and I also did some on the actual toy. You guys should give this one a try It is easy straight forward once you know how to follow patterns besides Amigurumi to go might have the video to show you how to make this lion. Here is mine

Tiny shoes

I saw a nice pattern of these shoes in red, black and white and I had to try them. I bought the pattern and I had trouble continuing after joining the shoe up. So I contacted the seller of the pattern and she tried to explain but in the meantime, I felt I couldn't do it so I left it for a week, like I always do and finished other stuff  that needed finishing. I tend to leave it once I find a problem and it is hard for me to go and keep on working on it. I work tight and the wool was dark and that is also why I couldn't get to the stitch that I had to get  to. Since I bought the pattern I had to give it another go so I finally knew what I had to do. Sometimes it is better to leave it and get to it some other day somehow it helps with a fresh mind. Then it was all good for the rest of the shoe. Maybe you guys won't find so hard as I did so try it out. I did mine different colours to fit my grandson's clothing. Here are the pictures of both the blue one is mine. Should have stuffed the shoe with paper  for he photo but you get the gist.

Amigurumi doll 48cm tall

I always like Anya Sadovskaya  's dolls and since I made the plum doll I wanted the strawberry cupcake doll too. I love her work. She has about six or seven dolls. They are made up the same but the clothes are different. I bought two patterns one was in her language the other one is in English. I google translated the first one and I managed nicely. I did a few like that from different designers. I put strong wire in this doll so it is pretty bendable. Her hair took a ball and a half to fill up her head and mind you I didn't do all the posts. It is fairly easy to make but she doesn't have marks on the head for ears and where you should place the eyes, so you have to figure it out yourself. Oh! her eyes were supposes to be green and I did her skin colour darker I realized after I did her. I ran out of wool so this one hasn't got shoes. I could make her white, red, green or like her hair. What I like the most about this doll she has beads and I like her hat too. She is a large doll it measures forty eight centimeters. I always use wool to make stuff but I bought cotton which I would like to try out. I'm sure they will be smaller toys. I have one more project started then I would like to try my own pattern.

My lion

About two weeks ago my youngest daughter came to me and asked me if I make her a lion to give out as a present. Well I looked on pinterest and amigurumi free patterns to see if I like any. I finally decided on this one. I changed how she did the strings on the legs. The rest, I followed the whole pattern as hers. Since it is for a baby, I think the colours are too dark and it is very big for a baby to hold so I will make her another one and I will do it from Amigurumi to go. I like it standing instead of sitting and easier to hold. The maine does take a long time. It is not hard to do if you are familiar with making amigurumi. I bet my grandson would love it. I also included the lady's lion too. The third photo belongs to the lady I used the pattern from. Good luck in making one. 

 

An Amigurumi drawing

 Two Christmas ago one of my daughters' gave me this furry yarn and more normal plain brown yarn  since they knew I love crocheting. I didn't know what to do or how to crochet with it, I tried it and I kind of gave up using the furry wool. I asked my daughter to challenge me in a drawing of hers. She sketched this monster with one eye big and the other one small. It has two white teeth and a large mouth which I need to trim some fur if I have to put in the mouth in other wise it won't show. I still haven't done that yet. It also have large floppy ears. She shaped around the face, the problem is with that fur it didn't show the curvy in the face. She also left it without legs because she said she liked it like that. Anyway I will show you her drawing and my crochet monster.