Amigurumi Water Sprite/Rain Drop Crochet Pattern

It's been forever, but that's probably b/c I moved and now have no internet. Hooray for free Wifi and donated laptops! My Etsy shop (La Blue Gyrl Art, etc.) is on Facebook (What isn't?) facebook.com/labluegyrl Pill-chan also has her own FB page @ facebook.com/pillchan and of course you can follow me on Twitter.com @dopefaerie.

So blah blah blah, life is life and arts and crafts are good... so here's a Free Crochet Pattern! Enjoy!











Amigurumi Water Sprite / Rain Drop Crochet Pattern

Used: "F" Hook (3.50mm)
Sport/Light/Baby Weight Yarn in Baby Blue
Polyfill/Stuffing
Polybeans
6mm Solid Black Eyes (2)









Form a "magic ring"

1 - sc x6, tighten ring gently (06)
2 - 2 sc in each sc (12)
3 - (sc, inc) around, mark the last stitch with a bit
of yarn, sl sts are not used. (18)
4 - (2 sc, inc) around (24)
5 - (3 sc, inc) around (30)
6-8 - sc around (30)
9 - (3 sc, dcr) around (24)
10 - sc around (24)
11 - (2 sc, dcr) around (18)
12 - sc around (18)
13 - (1 sc, dcr) around (12)

At this point, add the eyes wherever you decide the face is, between rows 7 & 8 and about 4 stitches apart (or wherever you may please!). Take a bit of stuffing and flatten it with your fingers; place this stuffing at the bottom of your Sprite. Pour in a small layer of the polybeans, for weight. Add more stuffing to desired squishiness or not squishiness.

14 - sc around (12)
15 - (1 sc, dcr) around (08)
16 - sc around, add more stuffing (08)
17 - dcr around (04)

Finish off with a sl st (if possible), close off. Tuck in loose ends/marker yarns, using your hook. If desired, use the butt of the hook to also add more stuffing. Shape if needed with your fingers, curving the tip of the Sprite (as shown) if desired. Enjoy!



mmSoler 07.19.2011
dopefaerie@facebook.com

The New Year Begins... With Crafting!

Okay, it also ended with crafting... but what else is new?


Wifey's Giftmas Present, titled Wifey... :P



A part of K's birthday package from the Panpan and myself, some Amigurumi Dango:



Pill-chans for the winter:



And some badly needed glovies for my frosty hands:




And as always you can see more photos and what I'm up to by clicking on one of the above photos to visit my Flickr account :)

Best wishes for the new year, guys. My laptop was dead for a while but I'm back to my Puzzle Pirating :P
Thanks for stopping by, see you on the flip.

xoxoxox

Update: Apparently No One Gives a Shit About Bigfoot.

And now, an update. Brought to you by Realizing You Haven't Updated in a While and Boredom.

Right now (and until November 13th) one of my pieces is being featured at Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery. As I'm in the process of making a series of lolitas, I dragged my piece for their halloween show (Candy Apples and Razor Blades) into the fun by making Hallowlita:


(you can click to see more photos, closer up on my Flickr)

The Panda-san and I have a new addition to our family:


Yuuko

And I've decided to make my wifey a few gifts:



Some Puzzle Pirate inspired fun ^.^


Ami treats


The ever-lovely One Skein Scarf from Stitch n' Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker



I also made some baby gifts for a friend's neice (see flickr of course :D), updated my stationery collection with way too many photos and snickered while taking more awful things from P3 out of context.

For now I leave you with the glory of the best pen on Earth: Sakura Gelly Roll Stardust:

*sigh...*

Pill-chan Dresses Up: Maniac Mansion's Purple Tentacle

Made especially for my darling V as a birthday present.





Pill-chan Dresses Up is the essence of inspiration!

You can make friends and keep up with Pill-chan on MySpace or Facebook!

Stitch Wars

Alive! I'm still crafting and writing and painting and drawing, trying to keep as busy as I possibly can!
Tonight was opening night for Stitch Wars, an exhibit composed of Star Wars inspired crafts at the Bear and Bird Boutique + Gallery in Lauderhill, FL @ Tate's Comics (Visit www.bearandbird.com for details!). The exhibits were fabulous and well worth the visit if you live in South Florida, if not pictures can be seen online @ Bear & Bird's Flickr photostream. Some of my favorite artists were featured such as Yummy Pancake and Moonbun creator Marcy Bridges along with many, many more talented and cleaver artists!! It's unreal to think I was a part of that line-up. Also, almost as if the folks at Tate's read my mind, when I got there McChris's Fett's Vett was playing and I was loving every moment of it as a Storm Trooper and Jango Fett were checking out the display case that housed some adorable amis, the baby Jabba & my own pieces.

Here are my submissions:


Pill-chan Dresses Up: Jango Fett & Pill-chan Dresses Up: Boba Fett


Seclusion of Church and State (Padme & Anakin set)


They'll be on display from July 18th through August 29th alongside awesome things :P

I'll be back once I'm done with my fan art.

<3

2 Posts In One!

Okay today I was posting a poem and realized there was a post I should have put here:

My last update to prove I was alive:

Fair warning : I'm still alive. ;P Hope your holidays were great and Happy New Year to you all.
A lot of bullshit family wise, plus holidays and being busy crafting and blah blah blah blah blah. What's that they say? Don't make excuses cuz your friends don't need them and your enemies won't believe you anyway?


Have some pics....





This is Freya, she was donated to help me keep my sanity so I can play Puzzle Pirates (I'm on the Midnight Ocean, come play with me :P):





Pics from the South Florida Fair can be found starting here.


Another quick sketch for Kryssie:




Kryssie's Birthday Present (click to see full size, inside, etc.):




For Gift-giving Day (a.k.a. Christmas) I crafted, crafted and then crafted some more after the last post of... well, crafting:









And of course you can click on any of these pics to see my photostream of nonsense.

xoxoxoxoxo
Yarrrr!


And now the poem I just wrote, enjoy. Steal from me and burn in hell this is all I have in life. ^.^









Look at this beautiful cage he said, it is the largest in the land
It is beautiful the little bird replied
You have everything you need in life he said
The seed and fruit overflow from my bowl the little bird replied
And no sweeter water exists than that which flows from your marble fountain
Water so sparkling and clear I've never seen the little bird replied

But the little bird continued
With whom shall I share this life?
Who will be my friends?
I am your friend the man replied
Who will share my interests and joy in this fabulous seed and water?
I appreciate their attributes which is why I have chosen them for you the man replied

But the man continued
Would you rather spend your life not sure if you will live to see the next day?
How will I learn to appreciate the present the little bird replied
Would you see your beauty scarred by the war of living?
They are my badges the little bird replied
Your feathers gone along with the sparkle of your eyes?
Proud sacrifices the little bird replied
Would you enjoy struggling for every meal?
The hunt, the chase and exquisite taste of a victory the little bird replied

And the little bird continued
You ask me to give up the fresh air under my wings, wings I shall never stretch again
Wings that will never see dirt or rain or parasites the man replied
This is a beautiful cage and your gifts are generous and plentiful but why should you offer me these things?

The man shut his eyes and withheld his words
Why should you appreciate my company the little bird asked
From the man's eye fell a single tear and he replied
I am lonely
I have no one with whom I can share my interests
I have no beautiful home or feast
I have nothing beautiful to call my own

And the little bird asked
So what is it you ask of me?
This he pondered
Share with me this lonely and fulfilled life.





Lonely Fulfilled Life
31.3.2009
mmSoler

In The Ghetto-o-o-o

Around the laundry room:



Numerous amounts of circulars and junk mail despite an abundance of trash bins.







Bullet holes, yay!

The second one looks like Meatwad dancing:



Remember that episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job! where Eric took Wait Mate and woke up with his memory erased and all he could think at Tim's birthday party was, "Help me. Somebody... help me?"
Yeah.