CAL: How to crochet a dragon part 8 – wings

In the picture you see on the left they aren’t even there, but of course there is no real dragon without wings. So today I show you how to crochet a pair of nice and large wings for your toothless. You can fasten them in two ways. Either you crochet them directly to the body or you sew them on when finished. In this case you can choose absolutely freely, because the wings are quite huge and not stuffed with any filling, they cannot cause any harm to children when the become loose. But lets stop talking and start crocheting:

CAL: Toothless Amigurumi Part 3 – triangular fins at the side of the head

Today, we finally continue with our toothless-cal. What we will do is triangular fins at the side of the head: Start the first fin counting 8 stitches down from the right horn and then go back two rounds R: crochet 5 single crochets directly to the head, then turn your work by 180 degrees and crochet 5 single crochets back into the very same holes (10 single crochets) R: 10 sc dec, 3 sc, dec, 3 sc (8 sc) dec, 2 sc, dec, 2 sc (6 sc) 3 dec Cut yarn and sew up the end For the second fin …

CAL: Toothless Amigurumi Part 2 – Ears and Horns

I know some of you are already waiting für this Nightshaddow CAL to go on. So I won’t do many words today. You find part one of this CAL, with all supplies you’ll need and the abbreviations I use, here. Have fun crocheting! Ears (2 x) R: 6 sc into magic ring R: [2 sc, increase] 2 x (8 sc) R: [3 sc, increase] 2 x (10 sc) R: [4 sc, increase] 2 x (12 sc) R: [5 sc, increase] 2 x (14 sc) R: [6 sc, increase] 2 x (16 sc) R: [7 sc, increase] 2 x (18 sc) …

CAL: Toothless Amigurumi Part 1 – the Head

Summer is almost over and that means that the best crochet-time of the year is just about to start. Of course I have been busy during the summer break of this blog and of course I made some plans what to post once it would be over. And of course I changed all of them when one of you asked me on my youtube channel to design a special amigurumi for her. She was searching for a toothless pattern in German. Of course I know that there are some really beautiful crochet night furys out there, so I thought about …

Free Crochet Pattern: Baby Pegasus or winged Unicorn Amigurumi

I did not really plan to publish a pattern for the little sidekick I made for my entry to last years amigurumi design contest, but then, some of you asked me how to do the little baby Pegasus. Some others searched via Google for a Pegasus pattern. Of course I am very happy to see, that you really liked the little fellow. So here finally comes a pattern, which you can also use for doing a winged Unicorn. Have fun!

Free Crochet Pattern: Children’s Cat Pillow Pixelgraph (C2C Crochet)

I have been thinking about crocheting motives for some time already. I made a blanket for my son once. It is made with dc only and it was quite hard to do the color changes neatly. In fact, it wasn’t really possible and so the blanket ended up in the cupboard most of the time. Then I stumbled upon c2c or pixel crochet and was immediately impressed. Suddenly all possibilities of doing nice motives opend up again. Today, I want to share my very first own design of a pixel graph. It shows the face of a baby cat and …

Photo-Tutorial: How to embroider big comic eyes for masculin amigurumi dolls

The more amigurumi dolls I do the more I think that the eyes are one of the most crucial elements. Safety eyes are perfect for your first amigurumis as they give some live to your dolls instantly. But as you advance your crochet techniques you might feel that you would like to give your amigurumi dolls a bit more of an own character. This is the point at which you will not come around embroidering your own eyes to your doll’s face. Today I want to show you a photo-tutorial on how you can do big comic-like eyes for masculin dolls …

Free Crochet Pattern: Santa Clause Amigurumi

It’s less than a week to go until Christmas and I finally made it to finish a pattern for a sweet little Santa Claus for you. Well, actually I made two versions, one small and one large Santa, but the numbers I provide in this pattern are for the smaller (and shorter) version. If you want to do the large Santa, you should take hook sizes 2.5 were I wrote 0.75 and 3.0 instead of 1.0. Take DK yarn which is recommended for hook sizes 3.5-4.5. From R. 27 on go on to insert two rounds inbetween the rounds with …