Handmade Crochet Flowers

I came across some crochet lily flowers. I am always curious of how they are made so I wanted to give these a try. Usually when I don't post anything it is because I am working on something. I found a video which was not in English I  followed this lady through. I wish she had a pattern to follow. I made the long leaves myself but for the front leaves I follow another lady. If you search on you tube you can find these ladies that I'm talking about just search crochet flowers. I added wire and florist tape and arrange them in a pot with white pebbles and florist foam. Calla lily is the easiest flower to make if you want to try. I am fascinated how many things they can do out of crochet. Here are my flowers all made of cotton yarn.

Mother of the bride flowers

I made these four corsages for the mothers and grand mothers. They wanted them on a pearl bracelet. I might make a video on how to make corsages. It is not hard you just need a good eye for details.

Amigurumi cute little frog

I wanted to make another adorable frog but different because I liked the green one I made. I used blue and red like a poison frog as my daughter said because I don't know much about frogs. It is fairly easy to make It is from a free pattern but I always change or add where I don't like. I love those eyes they are glass ones and really nice. You should give this a go you can find the pattern on pinterest.com. Some sewing involved as usual but still you will feel great when the toy is finished. This toy won't be good for small kids as it has wires and the eyes. Here are the pictures of my frogs.

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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

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.

Bird cage

My daughter wanted me to just decorate this cage for her. She bought the birds online. I just had to make a veil for one and bought the hat and add a tiny blue ribbon on it for the other bird. I tried to make the hat but she wasn't satisfied so I found one that almost fit the bird and I used that instead. I put flowers and attach them with wire and finally I added the pearls.We also added a nest inside but it is also not shown in these pictures.