Free Crochet Pattern: Lion Father and Son (or Mother and Daughter)

Here comes a new free crochet pattern from my series „animal with kid“. This time I designed a lion father with his teenage son for my wildlife-mobile-project. Best about this amigurumi pattern is, that you can easily turn father into mother and son into daughter by leaving out the mane, if you want. So here we go: You’ll need: Cotton yarn in orange and a slightly too small crochet hook. I used drops Muskat and a 2.5mm hook Crochet yarn in yellow. I used Rico Essentials Crochet and a 0.75mm hook Cotton yarn in red Bits and pieces of black …

Free Crochet Pattern: Hippo with Baby

I am currently working on a series of amigurumi for a baby mobile with wild animals and their babies. This means quite a lot of work for me and some new free crochet patterns for you. Today I want to share a Hippo Pattern with you. Actually it is a two-in-one. Using cotton dk yarn you’ll get Mummy Hippo and with crochet yarn and a small hook, you’ll make Baby Hippo. I hope, you enjoy crocheting! You need: Cotton dk yarn in purple Crochet yarn in light purple Hooks 2.0 and 0.75 Safety Eyes Sizes 3.0 mm and 4.5 mm …

Free Crochet Pattern: Howto turn a Unicorn into an Icelandic Horse

My dear sister in law is a passionated horsewoman with a special love for Icelandic Horses. So for Christmas I designed a crocheted keychain in form of an Icelandic Horse for her. Today I want to share the pattern with you. It actually is a customization of my unicorn pattern, which, by doing a bit of magic to the hair, can be easily turned into a horse. Here is what you need: My free Unicorn Crochet Pattern Crochet Yarn in white and beige Hook size 0.75 A little bit of white cotton dk yarn (it works best if you take …

Free Crochet Pattern: Sherlock Holmes Hat for Babys

As I am a huge fan of the BBC series Sherlock, I desperately wanted to crochet a Sherlock Holmes hat for my baby boy as a christmas present. Thank heaven that there is Pinterest I thought and quickly looked up what I thought to be a couple of patterns. But actually they were either payed patterns or linked to one same URL which was no longer accessable. So in the end I had no choice but designing my own pattern which I would like to share with you today. This gave me the chance to change a few things so …

Happy St. Nicolaus

I know, I am a bit late, but I didn’t want to miss the chance to wish you all a wonderful St. Nicolaus Day. Just in time I finished a new tiny unicorn using my 0.75 hook – which I really love by now. This little merry unicorn lady will be the first ready made unicorn to find its way into my Dawanda shop, soon. So, if you would like to give her a new home, just stop by.

Another Unicorn Keychain Crochet Pattern

After trying my unicorn crochet pattern with larger hook and heavier yarn, I was curious what would happen when I went into the other direction. I have read some blogpost on microcrocheting lately and – although I think I could never go into the extreme here – I wanted to try a bit of it myself. So I bought what I find is a tiny hook (size 0.75) and some very thin crochet yarn. Out came a fancy little unicorn lady which has the perfect keychain size. However, I did have to adjust the pattern a bit and I admit …

Crocheting for Christmas part 4: Rudolph Christmas Tree Ball

I promised you some Christmas patterns that provide you with ideas for both – advent calendar and Christmas Tree. We started of with a Christmas Tree Ball in form of Frosty the Snowman, now here comes somebody absolutely essential for Christmas. Of course it is Rudolph the rednosed Reighndeer! I hope you like the cute little guy and have fun crocheting. Of we go: 1. Round: 6 sc into a magic ring 2. Round: [sc, inc] 3 x (9 sc) 3. – 4. Round: 9 sc 5. Round: inc 4, sc 5 (13 sc) 6. Round: [inc, sc] 5x, sc …