Unicorn Amigurumi: It's just Despicable.

I created this pattern a few months ago.  Fair warning tho, this is my very first pattern, and I've only made one unicorn.  But, I think it turned out pretty well... so I'm sharing it. (I'm quite proud of it!!!! )

Let me know if there are any mistakes and I can correct them.

A few quick notes:

* #sc + inc means sc in the next # sc’s, then 2 sc in the next sc * repeat all the way around.
* #sc + dec means sc in the next # sc’s, then skip one sc, and sc in the next sc * repeat all the way around.

Body

use white yarn. Periodically stuff with polyfill.
1.  5 sc in a magic ring
2.  2 sc per stitch
3.  1 sc + inc
4.  2 sc + inc
5.  3 sc + inc
6.  4 sc + inc
7.  5 sc + inc
8.  6 sc + inc
9.  7 sc + inc
10.  8 sc + inc
11-30.  1 sc per stitch
31.  8 sc + dec
32.  7 sc + dec
33.  6 sc + dec
34.  5 sc + dec
35.  4 sc + dec
36.  3 sc + dec
37.  2 sc + dec
38.  1 sc + dec
39 … decs until the hole is closed.

Leg (make 4)

in pink yarn:
1. 5 sc in magic ring
2. 2 sc per stitch
3. 1 sc + inc
4-7.  1 per stitch (on 4th row, backloops only)
switch to white yarn:
8-12. 1 per stitch
13. 6 dc, 1 sc, 1ss , finish off.
Stuff with polyfill before attaching

Head

use white yarn. Periodically stuff with polyfill.
1. 5 sc in magic ring
2. 2 sc per stitch
3. 1 sc + inc
4. 2 sc + inc
5. 1 sc per stitch
6. 3 sc + inc
7. 1 sc per stitch
8. 4 sc + inc
9-11. 1 sc per stitch
12. 5 sc + inc
13-15. 1 sc per stitch
switch to grey yarn.
16. 5 sc + dec
17. 4 sc + dec
18. 3 sc + dec
19. 2 sc + dec
20. 1 sc + dec
21... dec until the hole is closed

Ears (make 2)

use white yarn.
1. 4 sc in magic loop
2. 1 sc + inc
3-6. 1 per stitch
finish off leaving tail for sewing.

Neck

use white yarn.
1. Chain 15, join into a ring with ss.
2. 4 sc + inc
3. 10 dc, 10 sc, finish off with ss.
stuff with a bit of polyfill between attaching the head and the body.

Horn

use yellow yarn.
1. ch 2, 4sc into 1st ch, link back to 1st sc with ss.
2. 1 sc + inc
3. 2 sc + inc
4-8. 1 sc per stitch
finish off.
stuff with polyfill before attaching.

Eyeball (make 2)

use white yarn. Stuff with polyfill before closing.
1. 3 sc in magic ring
2. 2 sc in each
3. 1 sc in each
4... dec until the hole is closed
use black yarn.
make a french knot for the pupil.

Assembly:

Sew legs to the body, the dc’s of the leg is the outside side of the leg.
Sew the neck to the body.  The dc’s of the neck will attach to the top of the body.
Begin attaching small side of head to the body.  Half way through, stuff the neck with polyfill.
Sew bottom together when attaching ears to head
Sew to attach horn to head.
Sew to attach eyes to head.
Embroider a line between the white and grey yarn of the head using the pink yarn.
Attach pink yarn for the tail and for the mane of the unicorn.
Use pink felt for inside of ears and for tongue. For the tongue, I cut out a pill shape (like the tongue shape folded over), sewed it in on the fold line, add some glue and fold.

More pictures:

Enjoy ! :)  I'd love to see the creations if you guys follow this pattern. Feel free to post it on the flickr site.

Please do not reprint this pattern on your site or any other page.  Feel free to link to this page. :)

Zoo Amigurumi Book Giveaway

Woohoo, I just got this giveaway book in the mail today.

The second giveaway of July is this Zoo Amigurmi Book called, "A Zoo For You: 11 Animals to Crochet" by Cindy Harris.  This fits quite nicely to what has captured my interest this year.  I've really gotten into making amigurumis recently, and want to share that interest with you by setting up this giveaway.

This book has 11 animals of easy difficulty.  It doesn't really have many pages and images of instructions, but what it has is pretty concise.  To be truthful, I haven't yet tried making one of these animals.  Maybe I'll make it a crochet-a-long one of these days.  From what I've seen tho, the instructions are easy to read and follow.  So far my favorites and the ones that I will probably try first are the giraffe, lion, and elephant followed by the tiger and hippo ( okay, I know I just named off about half the animals in the book... but, they're so cute).  Don't forget that these would make great Christmas presents... and it's about time to start thinking about that sorta stuff.

Okay, so same rules apply as before.

To enter, make a comment on this page.
The contest will run from now til August 15th 11:59pm.  
Also, if you've entered in the last giveaway (tea bag wallet + giftcard giveaway) as well as this giveaway, that gives you one chance to win the tea bag wallet + giftcard and two chances to win this book.

Okay, so good luck.  I hope to include the unicorn amigurumi soon.

:)

Amigurumi Totoro

Not only is this month National Craft Month, it is also National Crochet Month.  Yay to crafty crochets!

For my third amigurumi project, I wanted to make a Totoro.  Totoro is a character in an anime film called My Neighbor Totoro.  He's a magical spirit keeper of the forest. :)  And he's cute!

I found the pattern for this amigurumi here by Heaven's Hellcat.  The pattern was well done and easy to follow.  Thanks Heaven's Hellcat!

Here's my finished Totoro.

If you want to check out the movie, here's a link to it in amazon.

Minion Amigurumi

One of my new favorite movies is Despicable Me.  If you haven't seen it yet, totally check it out.  It's hilarious.  It's an animated film of an evil villian's (Gru - who isn't so evil afterall) plot to steal the moon.  Gru has a bunch of minions that help him out, and they're just so cute and funny.  Anyway, one of my goals this year was to try to make an amigurumi.  The task was a bit daunting to me because of all the stitches, but I found this awesome pattern for a Despicable Me minion and absolutely had to try it.

I didn't take many pictures on the process of making this so all you get is the finished product, but here are my minions.

Mark

Phil

And the two of them together.

Again, the pattern for the minion is here: http://wolfdreamer-oth.blogspot.com/2010/07/despicable-minion.html .  The pattern is a good starting point for making various minions for your very own army. Enjoy!