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Let's play catch up

It's been a while hasn't it? 2009 just hasn't been a good year for blogging for me, sorry about that. 

Well, that little Magdalena doll that I showed you last month- she's a free pattern for The Saturday Evening Post.   

 

Her pattern is a bit different than my usually patterns offered- it's a small pdf with one image of the completed doll & instruction.  She's somewhat simpler also, since there's no leg joining, and she'd be cute in so many different colors too! 

This one was made in all (mostly from my stash) Malabrigo since I was curious to see what it would feel like, and while it does feel super soft and warm and squishy, I don't think I'll continue to do more in all Malabrigo, it seems like it would pill if it was played with vigorously.  This one's for my mom though, so it's not going to be handled very much.

Other than that, there hasn't been much yarn involved crafting.  Being sick and passing it around back and forth between the kids an I just wasn't conducive to feeling like doing anything.  I had to finish up the kid's costumes, so I did spend some time at my sister's sewing my niece & daughter's ladybug costumes, and then I needed a teeny break before getting to my son's spider costume- he wanted to be a big hairy spider- completely disgusting!

I've started on a couple of things lately, but have barely progressed enough to mention it, and won't be able to spend much time doing anything yarny anytime soon either.  My youngest sister's birthday is next week, and then my niece's is the next week, with my mother-in-law and brother-in-law are coming the week of Thanksgiving. Needless to say, I'm getting to the point where I'm thinking about pulling out all my hair since I still have some portrait editing to do for my sister, and curtains and a duvet to make before my nieces birthday, and then just general visiting guests stress :)

I'm finding that I've become a technological issues magnet lately too. My camera is acting up, or at least the connection to upload images- I can't tell, so no new pictures except this one-

  

It was taken with my computer.  It's of the Girl's capped sleeved spring shirt by Shellee Floyd and of a Littlest Pet Shop Lamb that my little girl gave me, since I like wool and she remembered that wool comes from sheep and said I should take a picture of the lamb with her little sweater :)

The rest of October pattern sale

 

So, I'd signed up for an Artfire account last spring, and then never put any patterns in the shop over there.  I thought I'd try it out, but maybe I'm just used to Etsy's format because I don't think it's as easy to find the patterns over at Artfire.  Anyway, maybe there's just a learning curve that I've yet to master.

But in effort to kick things off there, I'm having a better deal than the one I'm going to offer on Etsy- you can use the coupon code OCTOBER DEAL to get 20% Off on orders that totals above $18.00 in my Artfire studio. In addition to that, the first 10 sales made will get an free Chester the turkey boy pattern thrown in.  This sale will end at 11:59pm October 31st.

In my Etsy shop, if you enter the OCTOBER DEAL in the note to seller section, I'll refund 15% of the purchase price on orders that total above $18.00. This sale too ends at 11:59pm October 31st.

Bess pattern winners...

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Thanks to everyone who let me in on some of their favorite names, it was really fun reading all the names and why you love them so much.  I guess I should let you in on some of my favorites too!  I have a little notebook that I've had forever and it has lists of names that I like at any given moment.  Off the top of my head, I really like Asher and Ryan for boys and Rebekah, Kate and Liza for girls.  It's interesting how many names from your favorites are in my notebook though!

So, again, thanks for entering everyone, and Josefin & Alissia check your email for the pattern!

Pete the puppy amigurumi pattern available & a giveaway!

The pattern is finished up. Finally. I hadn't meant to take so long, but with going back to Iowa and the funeral and the aftermath, it's taken a bit of time to get back into a lighthearted mode.  I do appreciate all the kind emails that I've received, it may be a while before I can reply to all of them, but I really, really appreciate them all!

This little guy is made of worsted weight yarn, with embroidery floss, felt, 6 mm craft/animal eyes & polyfil stuffing.

He's a little guy, standing at 5.5 inches tall at his straightest, but what he lacks in height, he more than makes up for in sweetness :)

As I previously mentioned, if you leave a (1 per person) comment on this post, you'll be entered to win his pattern!  All you have to do is leave a comment on what your favorite nut is.  Another random question, I really enjoyed reading all the answers last time! Oh, and if you can't wait, and purchase the pattern but still want to enter, go right ahead.  If you win, I'll refund your purchase :)

Comments to win the pattern will close in 3 days- May 8th at 11:29 pm PST.

His pattern will be available at Etsy & Ravely later in the day May 6th with an update in this post to reflect it.

***** Update *****

Okey dokey, the patterns are added and available now at the Owlishly etsy shop & in my Ravelry shop if you're feeling so inclined :)

Free amigurumi Easter eggs pattern- Huevitos

These are a quick little project that you can still make in time for Easter if you're so inclined :) I hadn't realized that Easter was this Sunday, so I wanted to do something fun and quick for my little one's Easter baskets. 

As usual, make as many as you'd like to give away, but don't sell the eggs or pattern :)  Please feel free to link here, and if you try out the pattern let me know how it works out, or you could add pictures to the Owlishly flickr group!

Download Owlishly- Huevitos easter egg pattern

Happy crocheting!

Corazoncitos, free amigurumi heart pattern (in 3 sizes!)

Here it is :) A very quick and easy amigurumi heart, crocheted in 3 sizes. 

It has it's own special page over on the right column of my blog.  If you click here, it'll take you to the page where you can click on a downloadable link to the free .pdf pattern.  Additionally, there's another little .pdf that has images of the materials used, and step by step images of how to join the tops of the hearts.

It's also available at Ravelry.

It's an excellent little amigurumi to make and give as a gift or to a loved one, and just in time for Valentine's Day.

Almost ready... a Rabbit girl & some Valentine hearts

For my little girl who, whenever is pretending to be animals with her daddy and brother, *always* chooses to be a rabbit.

I'm almost finished typing the pattern, I just needed to take her picture, and tweak some illustrations.  I still haven't decided on her name yet, and I made her head slightly bigger than the other costumed kids. 

I've also  been working on a quick little heart, it's going to be a free pattern and I'm almost finished with it.  Once I decided on the decreases it ended up being a really fast little project.  It's also really easy to make smaller.  I haven't measured it yet, but the largest one is 50 sts at it's widest point, the middle one is 40, the smallest is 30, I could probably make one as small as 20 sts, but I've run out of things for my kids to do in the meantime :)

Also, the humps are slightly different on each heart, I'll explain that more tomorrow.  I think I like the spacing on the largest  one the best, but I'm giving options.  I also put some 6 mm craft eyes in the smallest one because my little boy wanted a happy face on it. 

Anyhoo, I've got to get, I want to finish up both patterns by tomorrow.  To make matters worse, I've joined Facebook at the suggestions of a good friend and also my brother in law, and boy, it can take a lot of time if you aren't careful!  I'm still learning my way around there, but it's fun seeing who has kids now and whose doing what.

Thank you

 

To all the visitors from the Craftzine blog :) I hope you like my little pattern!

It's always one of my favorites to read, and was quite a surprise to see my little Sleepy Sarah in my reader yesterday. I'm hoping this post will work- I've been reading on everyone's blogs how typepad is acting up for them and hadn't experienced it until yesterday. 

I'm working on a little lion, and used a new 8 GB compact flash card and am having some issues getting the images to open on my computer.  Good times.  Hopefully I can get it all worked out tomorrow but we'll see, I have a little sickie who is extra clingy so I'm expecting to spend lots more time just holding her tomorrow.

Hope you and yours are doing a lot better than us!

4 for $15 pattern sale

Hi all, I'm so glad you're liking Sleepy Sarah.  I'd forgotten to mention what the actual pattern deal was over at my Etsy shop- I'm offering any 4 patterns for $15.  It ends up being a pretty good deal, especially if you decide to go for the more expensive patterns!

So if you're interested, just look for the listing with these two in it, and let me know what 4 patterns you'd like.

Also, remember those felt flowers that I made last spring? I'm also working on the tutorial for that, so look for it in a couple of weeks.  I actually have the templates made for around 4 different ones, but I haven't actually made any more flowers :)

By the way, has anyone who has the Sarita pattern ever had any trouble printing page 3 of it?  There's been an issue that's come up recently and I was wondering if it affected anyone else as well?

Free Pattern- Sleepy Sarah amigurumi pattern

For you!

Download Owlishly- Sleepy Sarah amigurumi pattern

Well, I wanted to thank all you loyal readers and customers by offering a free pattern.  I wanted it to be similar to my regular patterns, but also be a tad simpler so it's kind of like a practice run.

This one is for a baby so I wanted to make more of a Waldorf shaped baby, simple and sweet.  With this little doll, you can leave it faceless, or embroider a little face.  The yarn was chosen by the mama of the baby that I was making this doll for and while I liked the color, it was a bit too squeaky for regular use.

I'll add it to Ravelry and make it easier to retrieve too by adding as one of my pages.

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The Etsy special'll get it's own post :)