Manga Eyes for Amigurumi Practice

Bonnie introduced me to "fiona mcdonald" and "ByHooksand Hand"... their dolls are just so inspiring!! Check them out for more pretty thingies :)

Oh btw : There is a tutorial on "ByHooksandHand" on Manga Eyes and Lovely Spirit Dolls!!

Which is what inspired me to try out "Manga Eyes" but... i dont know what satin is exactly and what are the tools used by "ByHookandHand". So instead of painting on with acrylic and ink, i chosed the easy way out... Drumroll... Tadaaah!! "TSHIRT TRANSFER PAPER"!!! 

Incase you dont know what im talking about (Since this is also my first time using it) : WiseGeek Explains it.

There are few Brands out there :

- Epson Tshirt Transfer Paper

- HP Tshirt Transfer Paper

- Forever Tshirt Transfer Paper  

- Showay Tshirt Transfer Paper

- Tesco Tshirt Transfer Paper  

 Anyway, I was thinking to try printing this below on the "TShirt Transfer Paper" with color printer ever since Bonnie suggested some alternative eye's for the amigurumi. So here im sharing the whole hour spent on photoshoping the eyes... and some just that were taken from the net since its just so cute the way it is :s )

Update : Disney Princess Eye Set and Mickey Minnie too... Missing Few Princess Eye's Though... (Snow White and Ariel are among the one's i havent do yet)

The one i print compact into A4 size page is below...

From Bottom Left upwards (Tiana, Snow White, Ariel, ArielBubbleEye?, Aurora, Belle1,  Belle2, Cinderella, Pocahontas, Mulan, Jasmin) The rest is Mixed up... Just to pack all eyes on a page. Note : Please do stretch the eye vertically if you want that large bubbly eye effect like Tiana, since for some weird reason my mom and the ladies here loved the big tiana eye which i accidentally stretched b4 printing. (decided to leave it such as it looks so sweet)

You design your own pair of eyes too, 

- once you draw a pair of eyes (MAKE SURE THE LIDS are BLACK and CORNEA WHITE)

- The Pupils in Grey or Half Toned Color

- Duplicate the Layers in Photoshop... and move the eye to somewhere you can see it.

- In Layer "Blending Options" (right click the layer of the duplicate eye) >> color overlay >> choose the color you want the pupils to be and change the blend mode to HUE.

- There, duplicate as many pair of eyes you want and change the colors. 

Ha Simple :P Or you could just download the one above.

After Printing, Cut it up and iron on another small patch of fabric and glue it on. im a little scared to try it on the amigurumi made of acrylic yarn directly... WHAT IF IT MELT?! err does acrylic yarn melt or shrink? Oh, IRON on before stuffing in the amigurumi ... I have no pictures for those yet though.But if anyone tried it with acrylic yarn, please send some "confidence" this way :D

UPDATE :

I wanted to place the usual back buttons like the baby dragon's eye, since it fit perfectly for the new large size ami i made. But instead i decided to try out with the printed jasmin like eye (suppose to be tiana, the printer didnt have much ink to give a darker color print on it) Oh i usually poke the hook into the eye area just to get a rough measurement of the eye placed, sometimes a yarn for marking the spot are placed until i decided on the eye. when sewing on, i would remove it and work on 1 thread 2 buttons to give a dent at the eye area.

Anyway, here i've already printed, cut down and iron on an old piece of white cloth that dont look white enough. (The Above picture is to compare which is better, my heart said the button looks good but i went on with my mind just for the testing some new things.)

There, after Iron on, i dabbed "nail polish varnish" on the eye to give that shine look, (Glad the nail polish is tinted pink it pops the eye out! Left it to dry overnight. Few hours would do but i did this at night. So in the morning i glued them on and left it aside again! so the glue dries off. Noticed few white fabric at the corner, didnt like the stick on effect, so i used a permanent black pen to "dab" lightly the corners. (Careful, over dabbing it will smudge the eye like i nearly did at one of the eye. you can see the over darkened eyelid at the bottom of the pupils.(Not much noticeable since i've cut that part off :P)

So now ive played with "eyes" and still chose the back button and beads eye as my fav, glue varnish and more sticky stuff is slow and takes utmost patience!

 Thank you for reading, if you have any suggestions on eye and Hair (The Dreadful part of amigurumi) please do share, im almost lost to an extent of quitting human style amigurumis since none of the "male" hair do's are "fun" to do. (Dont think will be posting any hair tips till i actually have enough yarn/ thread to waste on hairs... Just dont have the heart to NOT CROCHET the hair... heart vs mind)

Mini Baby Dragon (Keychain Size)

Based on the Medium size Baby Dragons. Had this pattern Quiet a while now, but never tested it till recently till i "dug" up my messed up patterns in a pile of plastic bag. Its so small and cute that it only fits the "Tiny Baby Dragon Wings". Making the wings are a little tedious to me, so i never made it much.

Wing : Vampire Wings

Made this for a friend, and sharing the wing pattern here, (Sorry for the bad quality pictures, the Dragon in purple cant turn out as pretty as the real one... it turn blue somehow...)

Since i got too excited crochetting, i didnt write down the body pattern... so i will have to try making another one, too bad it may never be like the first one... (This one belongs to Bonnie!)

Wing : Fairy Wings

Wing Collection: Sweet Fairy Wings
(can be plain angel wings actually though it dont look like it)
Medium size wings...

Miniature Goku (Dragon Ball)

Miniature Collection... 

Previously the Miniature Collection was placed under one page, now it is broken into Individual format. I might have forgotten some stuff here, oh the wristband was surface stitched around and the eye is plain blue bead (3mm-5mm).

Hook Size : B (2.25mm)

Yarn : Acrylic "Nona Brand" (Slightly thinner then lionbrand)

Miniature : Monkey

Hook Size : B (2.25mm)

Yarn : Acrylic "Nona Brand" ( Just like vannas glamour size lionbrand)

 Note on Abbreviation used often :

inc = Increase

dec = Decrease

sc = Single Crochet

Additional Note : This is not doily, so when it says "5sc inc in all", it means "sc, sc, sc, sc,sc, inc" then repeat it till end of the row) 

The "Magic Ring 5 Chain" is a typo, its just 5mg or 5 magic ring / circle.

 

Baby Monkey (No heart to ruin it with Ears... Its just Cute the way it is lol). The Face was Drawn on with permanent Black pen. Its crocheted with 2 colors, this is also my first time writing mixed color crochet pattern. Any mistakes please feel free to comment. Thank you :D

Previously the Miniature Collection was placed under one page, now it is broken into Individual format.

Miniature : Ganesha

Mini Ganesha re-sized version of the larger one...

Miniature Collection... Little Ganesha's Eye are Green beads (3mm to 5mm?)... and probably added an extra row of (sc in all) at the tummy with random inc at the front to give the bulgey tummy look. Though it did not turn out such so below is the default tummy of most of my miniatures.
Previously the Miniature Collection was placed under one page, now it is broken into Individual format. 

Liebster Award

I just receive my 1st Liebster blog award from Sharon of Homemade Obsessions. Thank you!! Feels like teleported to an evening red carpet Glitz all of a sudden with no clue whats going on lol. Though im feeling extremely lucky to receive this! Thank you again Sharon :) Oh Im not sure exactly what Liebster award is exactly, but it sounds Great!! :D For more info please check out Sharons Explanation of Liebster.

So i have to choose 5 Next LIEBSTERian... Tough... I wish i can give to all Bloggers but this is liebster award rule, so here goes :

1. Elizabeth at Elizabeths Lace 

(Picked randomly from google : I Enjoy her detailed lace work, its so pretty!)

2. Nuschinka at nuschinka 

(Picked from blog readers : I dont understand what she wrote there, but her site has pretty card crafts that is inspiring to me, "Soft and Delicate")

3. Monali at deltazelta

(Picked from my Dashboard Reading List, this site populated the entire reading list! Never seen a dedicated nonstop blogger in crochet before :P)

4. Mike at The art of krome

(Picked from my Deviantart list i watch, One of the Amazing painters i looked up to when i joined Deviantart)

5. "J" or Aspie at Letters from Aspergia

(Picked from a craftster.org friend)

Please do check their wonderfull blogs above... And hope everyone gets a Liebster Award too!

Oh i almost forgot... 5 random facts about my self :

1. I live in my fantasy world more then reality and would get blur too often in reality due to this. We always live in many world and its all in our head! Wished i had healing magical power like a shaman priestess with water element.
2. Oh i Like Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mammals but NOT Birds and Fish... Y? If i like them i would be vegetarian :P
3. I Love eating DURIAN (grade D24) the worlds smelliest Fruit and Yellow Sweet Mango. Yum!
4. The First guy i ever wanted to marry was "Prince Endymion" from Sailormoon, Usagi grabbed him from me lol!! kidding... yea my first crush was a comic character.
5. I did the chicken dance last year and still do it in room with my bro when we get excited! (Its fun and funny, you should try it too!!)

Im Done :P (Couldn't get on PC with net for so long!! finally did and its only an hour :(...  )

Gizmo Amigurumi another missing project

Gremlin Gizmo Work in progress

 

Since i have been inspired by gremlin last november and been working on it, though... I couldnt get my first try amigurumi pattern written down as this time its extremely complicated methods as usual. Nope i just cant give up so i made the pink version.

Last year june till december was in extremely "anti-net" world i live in and now its getting better. compiling all the messed up pattern works i made during those time are gone with the clean up clutters. Made the first just the head at the top with weird eye button (just ordinary button), then the remade version turned out great but i didnt write down the pattern the second time... so i made the pink head next, which seems to be similar with the second one but again its hard to write down the pattern exactly. So here is no pattern version of gizmo... Okay enough with my mumbling... (Conclusion... No Pattern available till i get my mood swing to make better heads of the quality i wanted)

Here is the Messy Method i used (Not Complete Pattern) :

How to write Amigurumi Pattern draft before Making it with Yarn

Happy New Year, Belated Merry Christmas and Soon to be Chinese New Year!! Missed out alot on this festivities and holidays. So to make up for it, here is some "Wisdom" and also reasons why my pattern scribbles always get messed up and missing...Yikes... Sorry.

Here is a demonstration on how to imagine out the potato body before even making it... Just for learning purpose and you will be undoing somepart along the way. Have patience and Confidence :D

Gryphon Amigurumi Pattern

Gryphon Amigurumi (Updated by Shara)

 

After a long harsh moments in life, im finally able to fix this post the way i do, but im not willing to do much changes on the pattern below till my hard moments in life gone. For now, the pattern below is just draft. My scribbled up notes were gone in this few months and i manage to "sms" text them to NavlesDA so he could upload them, though might have a few mistakes but overall it works. the simple body with no neck pattern was missing, so for now the pony body is substitute. Sometimes when things are hard in life, everything just gets messed up along the way, not easy to untangle from this mess and even though i keep my pattern notes in a file, the notes that i didnt write down that comes naturally in mind is missing.

Baby Grifin / Gryphon Pictures Only

For now just pictures, pattern will be updated as soon i remake the exact wings,

And improve the back legs, it just dont feel like a fierce lions feet... then again, when did amigurumi looked fierce in the first place?

Basic Music

Okay, i have no knowledge on music writing or reading, but im so facinated with music that its already years in my to do list. So why not learn it through the net i told my self and walla!! I found a super awesome tool that turn my PC keyboard into Piano!! ("shh... i googled for the full version crack")

I made a midi short sound clip for my phone, and to me a novince, its pretty amazing!!! Err dunno how to upload it here so it gonna take sometime...

But anyway here is the software
http://download.cnet.com/Keyboard-Music/3000-2133_4-10396319.html
or
http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/programs/KeyboardMusic/

and ... the crack just google it out, download the keygen and use it to register :) the best part i love of this software is the "String Ensemble 2"... It just soooooo beautiful... if you love melodic orchestra type music.

Baby Asian Dragon Amigurumi

Baby Asian Dragon

This is a mistake turn out great, well if there is errors in the pattern here (This is the original pattern that have not been tested out yet). I hope that you can understand the technique, so you know where the other part of the circle starts and ends. Just a note, the part where you have slip stitches, please do not do it tightly, or it will look weird.

Pattern Below :

Little Pony Version 2

Heart vs Hate Pony...
The horse/pony/unicorn/pegasus feelings kicked into me again. So here is the second version of pony :)

Patterns Below :

Miniature : Fox Kyuubi Amigurumi

Hook Size : B (2.25mm)

Yarn : Acrylic "Nona Brand" (Slightly thinner then lionbrand)

 Note on Abbreviation used often :

inc = Increase

dec = Decrease

sc = Single Crochet

Additional Note : This is not doily, so when it says "5sc inc in all", it means "sc, sc, sc, sc,sc, inc" then repeat it till end of the row) 

The "Magic Ring 5 Chain" is a typo, its just 5mg or 5 magic ring / circle.

Due to a friends request and design, Mini Nine tails fox were made...

Its not as simple like the other miniatures i made, this is kinda tough, the tricky two color mode and the nine tails it self was painful... yes literally painful to my fingers as to flip the sharp point inside out as all of my patterns are inside out.
The Larger Version of this Fox is Here .

The below in plastic packs is on sale at moms shop, it is also made from the fox pattern, it kinda fits to most creatures, just change the ear and tail and expression... (Sorry, i lost the big fox pattern parts and dont wanna make em again, The pict of the big one is here )



Patterns below... Sorry need to click it to read...

Celebi Pokemon Amigurumi Development

Pokemon Celebi

(Project in pause for few weeks more, out of green yarn... )

 COMPLETED!! But as usual lazy to type down the pattern (=.o)

Okay making the head with two tone color of Black and light green is kinda tough for first time doing something from sketches and not directly from mind like i usually do. the small head was made first, but i wasnt pleased with the size, though it turn out just as i sketched, but the second head went awefully wrong though some what had that feeling of " I just must do this complete first before judging whether its satisfactory or not"... So i did the Bigger head first...

 Had to do the bigger head first, and realize YES!!! The bigger head is better, just need to look alot more like the smaller head with black patch. Or maybe i shouldnt have made the black eye patch, but i seriously hate painting over black patch as it doesnt feel nice. So maybe the 3rd head i make of celebi will be better... Aint giving up on it till i feel life in it.

Here is the completed First Pokemon Celebi Amigurumi (Similar size as the Pokemon Mew i made) The 3 Baby legends will be complete with the next one later on. For now, this one is completed on my plate, Bon Appetite :D hehe kidding :)

Will upload the Pattern when im actually satisfied with this...

Pokemon Mew Amigurumi or so i think

I was trying to make a White Cat halfway got distracted after months i forgot what i was making without referring to my notes and after finishing i realized it suppose to be Chinese good-luck kitty but with a little mixture of cuteness it turn out into that white little "baby version" of Mew if Mew can look more "baby" like if possible :) Seriously i should focus on finishing something then dragging it for months, see what happens... :)

Pokemon Mew

 

Pokemon Mew with Bow and Bells (I love Bells)

Mixup Kitty Pokemon Mew

Pattern Below :

"Its a Pokemon!" thats the reply of a friend and so i decided to make a more actual look of Pokemon Mew and walla it turn out like the pink one above and Kawaii!!! I used the Pattern of Baby Dragon body again :) Its easy to recycle patterns then making one, infact i made a redundant White Baby Dragon Body and thought to turn it to kitty. Hehe..

Mew Head

Mew Ear

 

 Arm and Leg

 Dragon Body used in Mew

For the Tail, its similar to Arm, but at 3rd row replace with sc inc instead. and 5th row repeat sc in all and ONLY 1 Dec randomly or non till its long as you want.

Dragon Body may be a little altered if you want, by skipping row 6 and or 7, it will be just fine.

Wheel Bracelet Maker

Nostalgic memories during my diploma college years, i always wanted to tie one of this friendship bracelet on my guys wrist... and he always runs away. back then he was just a friend and i told him, if i tie it on his wrist, he will be my official bro... well glad i wasn't able to tie it. He manage to snatch both the bracelet and the wheel from me and hide it till now. Years later i saw my little cousin sis was wearing one of these and i asked for my wheel to make more of the friendship bracelet yet my sweetheart still doesn't wanna give me back my old friendship bracelet wheel as superstitious enough that i would tie one on him :P. So here i google up on bracelet makers but couldn't find what im looking for till i bump into this site... its exactly what i meant :D

 http://www.unikatissima.de <-- this has a template on making your very own marudai (the disk looking thing)

http://craftdesignonline.com/kumihimo/ <-- this is a must try for making the bracelets, its flash and the pattern-making tool is great too

So once again i used a small polystyrene board and a cd to draw the layout on and cut the polystyrene circle out, then i divided 32 equal sections and cut half a centimeter at the edges just like the kumihimo tutorial. and of course i cut off the center hole making it a little bigger from the cd inner circle shape.

(The pictures will be posted as soon as i get my net and my cam working again... but please do take a look in the second links gallery, it has practically everything i was mumbling about.)

Miniature Amigurumi Dolls

The Site is Being updated... and yeah it takes time...  maybe weeks depending on my free time.

Miniature Version of Amigurumi Character...

My Default Version that can be manipulated into variety of characters.

-Default Simple hands are like the baby monkey, simple and plumpy
-Default Human Hands are like the ones on goku and ganesha like fist.

-Default Legs and Continue part of Tummy are also ganesha and goku parts.

(Chibi moon was made with the "Default Legs" with extra rows of sc in all and modifications, as the hand and the Lady type body pattern will be updated later but it was exagurated a little bigger then default size)

(Dragon Ball Goku Spiky Hair is made of several cones sewed on,  i stitched on about 6 cones of (3 magic ring, non stop repeats of sc, inc).)

(The cute fury thingy is made from the exact same pattern of the monkey head with fur instead of dark yarn with duck legs which havent been updated yet and may not as its too complicated to explain in words)

( Baby monkey, i use the same "Default Legs" and stopped at row 5, i add in 2 rows of "sc in all"... then i sewed the body up. the body "Plain Baby Body" ... err should be a normal sphere where the maximum circumferences is made of 25 to 30 sc. add in couple rows and walla...)

The Patterns are below...