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#1 :: May 3rd, 2012 @ 1:52 PM

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I am looking for interesting tutorials connected with sewing , knitting or maybe making little felt plushie. Could you show me some things you like to do and they were nice ^^?

#2 :: May 7th, 2012 @ 10:21 AM

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Do you crochet at all? I have used Ravelry for most of my patterns, but I was really bad at reading patterns at the beginning so I started watching Youtube videos where they showed you how to do different things. Pinterest has also been really great for me for finding new little projects to do. A lot of people joke that they just pin things and will never do them, but I have made a lot of things from there and it's been a really great tool in my opinion.

A couple things I want to try still that sound like what you might be looking for:

Plushie you mentioned (not a tutorial, but I think you could Owl Doorstops/Plushie

For the coffee drinker also really simple if you are bad at sewing like me (Also, lots of other small USEFUL sewing projects:
Coffee Sleeve/Sewing Projects

Also google Amigurumi...you can knit and crochet little plushes and there are some nice patterns. I made an owl one.

Maybe that is helpful...

Last Edit by: User not found (1): Salzburger 5/07/12 - 10:25:35 am

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#3 :: May 7th, 2012 @ 11:16 AM

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Thank you very much @Salzburger, those plushies seems very interesting ^^ And they don't seem to be hard. Coffee Sleeve is beautiful but I rarely drink coffee on way, I prefer to relax and drink cup or something

But what I really adore is Amigurumi, but I guess it's harder to learn this one, but effects are amazing. Show me your owl if you have photo please I haven't tried crocheting at all, but I will check this out

#4 :: May 7th, 2012 @ 11:23 AM

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This is an exact pattern of the owl that I made. I don't have a finished picture of my own, but I gave it button eyes instead of the googly ones in the picture on this website. I also used yarn to kind of sew it a beak. I feel like the picture on this website is kind of disappointing. There are cuter ones on Ravelry from other people who also did the pattern. I can't show you them though since you have to be a member, but you can easily join if you want.
Owl

I liked this pattern because the top folds down kind of like an envelope to make the owl's face and I thought it was cute. It was much smaller than I realized it would be though, but you can always alter the pattern to make it bigger. I actually stuffed the owl with my leftover scraps of yarn from other projects. I felt like it was a good way to recycle the little bits. I was making a blanket at the time with lots of colors so I had a lot of little leftover pieces.

This one is crochet, but I learned watching youtube videos. Once you learn how to make the base it's really not that hard. It just took me a quite a few tries to learn how to get started, but then I just kind of went with it and it fell into place and of course the more you work at it the better it goes. I started out as a knitter...I only really could do scarves though so I am not sure how much of a knitter I actually was, but I really enjoy crochet a lot more than knitting. I think just because I am better at crochet.

Last Edit by: User not found (1): Salzburger 5/07/12 - 11:24:56 am

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
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#5 :: May 7th, 2012 @ 11:27 AM

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Knitting is very easy if you remember to always start from one side and never break that rule, and if you work with bigger scraps of material and bigger 'eyes' it's easier and look's better. But patience is the key unfortunately, and effects are showing very slowly.

This pattern is veery cute and simple I am sure I will try to do this when I find some free time (school, bleh) Now I am working on little cute felt plushie of Kratos from God of War xDD I did it once but my dog ruined it and I had to start again ;<

#6 :: May 7th, 2012 @ 11:30 AM

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That's too bad about your dog ruining it. You'll have to ping me a photo when you are finished with the felt plushie if you want to. I'd be interested in seeing what it looks like finished. I know how it is with school too. I can usually do small things when there is a little downtime, but I don't have time to do big projects at the moment. Maybe when summer comes around. I have a second blanket that I have been working on for a while, but I think that I will never finish it.

I think my problem with knitting is that I take too many breaks during a project and forget where I am and then I have it messed up and get angry at it.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.
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#7 :: May 7th, 2012 @ 11:39 AM

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This is what is left from my little Kratos Click here This was my first felt plushie ever hehe,

Yea, school takes some time, but I can do little lucky stars on lessons ^^ Knitting is fun when you're watching television or something like that, otherwise it may be just boring. I like clay, but once I placed it near my old warhammer figurines and they... melt XDD

#8 :: June 18th, 2012 @ 12:51 AM

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@ i ♥ amigurumi! it kinda hard to find a lot of knit amigurumi though, most of what i find is crochet :/ but i would use ravelry like salzburger suggested, they have a range of patterns

#9 :: June 18th, 2012 @ 8:04 AM

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Thank you I'll try it

#10 :: July 4th, 2012 @ 3:28 PM

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Here are some other amigurumi websites that I use personally for crochet:
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I hope these help!

#11 :: September 6th, 2012 @ 4:23 PM

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Have you tried cutoutandkeep.net?

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#12 :: September 7th, 2012 @ 2:05 AM

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Aaaa no.. but I do love this site now <3

#13 :: October 20th, 2012 @ 3:15 PM

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I haven't tried most of these, but I have them bookmarked because I thought they looked really good

Sewing
Fold up Tote Bag
Strawberry Grocery Bag
Strawberry Pillows
Teddy Bear
Macaron Coin Purse
Felt Sunflower, Felt Peony, Felt Rose
Felt Donut, Felt Macaron, Felt Strawberry

Wool
Jammy Dodger Crochet Pattern
Knitted Bunny Pattern
Knitted Pig Pattern
Crochet Owl Pattern
Crochet Cupcake Coasters
Legend of Zelda Amigurumi
Fingerless Gloves

Here are a couple others I love, but they aren't free;
Crochet Skull
Any of GingerMelon's patterns are super cute! I've bought the Rapunzel, Raccoon and Pony patterns, they're very easy to follow.
Noialand, GandGPatterns, DollsAndDayDreams

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#14 :: October 23rd, 2012 @ 2:41 AM

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@ This blog has lots of free downloadable knitting and crochet patterns for dolls and doll clothes. Well worth checking out - she even has a flickr page where she has step by step photographs of some of the projects. I haven't made anything from there yet - there's too much choice and I want to make them all...lol

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