Knitted bears and crocheted bunny- very long post

In one of my first posts I showed you a teddy bear I made for my nephew.

When I made this bear I miss read the pattern, and ended up with a bear that my nephew calls his "skinny baby"

I adapted the pattern and made this little bear.  D thinks it looks like a cat

I decided to adapt the pattern one more time, this time I decided to turn the pattern into a crochet pattern

I single crocheted 44 stitches and once I got the body the length I wanted I started the legs for the first leg I started the row as normal but once I had done 22 stitches I turned my work instead of finishing the row and singled crocheted away till the leg was the length I wanted.  You should probably count your rows, but I rarely do.  I started the next leg by making one chain on my hook and then starting where I had left off on the body.  I will admit I did consider making him a one leg bunny.

 Once your body and legs are finished fold in half so the seam will be along the back (see above picture) Sew together and stuff (leaving the top open for now.

The make your arms and ears.  To make the bunny ears I single crocheted 15 or twenty rows (like I said I don't count) then I began decreasing with every subsequent row till I had a point.

To make the arms just crochet two rectangles of the same size fold each in half and sew shut (leaving one opening for the fluff. and then sew on to the body

Sew your ears on and then sew the top of the head shut

The finished product I call him Hipster bunny.  That's why his ears are in his face and he has a nice skinny scarf :)

Hipster bunny will actually be for sale for charity.

Regretsy  and it's fans (April's Army) have started a monthly charity project.  Each month members of the Etsy group "April's Army" donate items for the charity shop and April Winchell (the creator of Regretsy) picks a recipient for the funds raised in that month's shop.

You can find more information here

This is my contribution for the month of May, although it may not make it in because I submitted it a day late.  However if it isn't in this month's charity shop it will be in next month's.

Many crafters don't like the fact that Regretsy makes fun of people's hard work, but somethings deserve to be made fun of.  I know that I have made some pretty tacky crafts in my time and if somebody gets a good laugh about it then so be it.  

Like this purse for example

It's really tacky looking, I know it.  I was experimenting with some yarn from the dollar store.  But because I know it is tacky I am only selling it for $2.00.  People who try to sell tacky/crappy shit for $50 deserve to be made fun of in my humble opinion

My point is that Regretsy has a history of helping out Etsy sellers who are facing hard times.   So I am asking all you readers of my tiny little blog to please if you can purchase something from the April's Army store when it is posted in the next few days. 

Flower girl basket.

I really suck at blogging lately.  Have been busy trying to finish everything for my wedding, as well as getting things ready for a craft fair I am doing in July.

Anyhoodle, here is the flower girl basket I made for my wedding.  It was super simple.  I bought the basket at Michael's and just wrapedthe ribbon around the handle.  The bow on top was from my cousin's cake topper. She was getting rid of all her wedding stuff, so I guess the bow is upcycled.

update coming soon.

I promise I will be updating soon.  I have been having laptop troubles and I don't have any photos on my phone.  I am hoping to post tomorrow.  But if you are craving a post from me you can always check out my other blog (link on the side wink wink nudge nudge)

Paying attention to instructions is important

So as I mentioned in a previous post, I am trying to teach myself to crochet.  I started by watching some videos on youtube.  I practiced a couple times, then started my first crocheted blanket.  I thought everything was going good, but I noticed that once again my blanket was getting smaller with each row. 
So I watched the video tutorials on Lionbrand.com.  It turns out I was forgetting to do one chain at the end of every row.  Not only that I was doing the single crochet wrong.  I should have been hooking it underneath both parts of each stitch, but I was only hooking it under one.  Does that make any sense?
I don't feel like tearing out all the work I had done on my blanket, I will just continue on but now I will do it the right way. 
I wish I had watched the tutorial on Lionbrand first, it was much more helpful than the ones on youtube.  Oh well, lesson learned.

I started another blog

I decided to start another blog that focuses more on my personal life.  So if you are interested, check it out (it is in My Links section)

Learning to crochet

I have decided to teach myself how to crochet.  I tried once in high school, it didn't go well.  I didn't know anyone who knew how to crochet so I went to the library and got a book on how to crochet.   I forgot my library card at home so I just photocopied the first couple pages from the book, then I went home and read them.  I started by trying to make some cotton dish cloths.  It started out great, but for some reason I ended up with triangles instead of squares.  So I gave up on crochet and went back to knitting.

I have heard people say that crocheting is much easier than knitting.  Well I am pretty good at knitting, so I decided to give crochet another shot.  I bought a set of used crochet hooks in a nice little case and decided to give it another try.  This time I am learning by watching videos on Youtube.
I'm not going to lie.  I still suck at crocheting.  But I am not going to give it up.   I will get better eventually...right?

Well dear readers I am open to any suggestion on how to improve my crochet skills.  Does anyone have a book to recommend?  Maybe I should see if they have "Crochet for Dummies"

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Every year when St. Patrick's day comes along I never have anything green to wear.  I'm not a big fan of green, I don't own any green clothing.  So every year after St. Patricks day I vow to myself that I won't make the same mistake next year and I will get something green.  Then every year I forget to buy something green and the cycle begins again.
This year I woke up realized what day it was and realized that yet again I had nothing green to wear.
So while I was getting ready for work I ran to my craft room and grabbed some blue and yellow polymer clay.  That's right I don't even have green clay, I had to make my own.  I quickly mixed the colors together till they turned green.  Then I made for little balls arranged them together and flattened them until I got a four leaf clover shape, then I added a stem.  Stuck it in the oven for 15minutes at 275F and here is the finished product:

My 20 minutes St.Patrick's day necklace.  Sorry for the bad quality picture, I took it with my phone.

Sidenote:  I promise that I will start posting more than once a month ... maybe.