I named this one Loricus






And this one is Berry



I started this pattern like a year ago and didn't find the motivation to finish it until I saw that the most recent Softie Awards had an elephant category. I'm a little late posting this to Craftster! hehe

Berry is going to be on display at one of the Crammed Organisms (http://www.crammedorganisms.com) shows. I like Loricus too much to let go of her though

Is there any program or something that can be used to make crochet charts (the type you see in japanese patterns)? When I draw them out by hand they look horrible.

I put these up on Flickr (sorry if you've already seen em) a few days ago but hadn't had a chance to show them off here yet. I made several sets of nut sacks hehe!

Each nut is a little bigger than the size of an egg.

I had a bunch of them sitting around on Thanksgiving and my Grandma thought they were adorable! I didn't have the heart to explain the concept to her lol! 

I designed this pattern using Patons Brilliant yarn, it's sparkley!    I made the top out of metallic embroidery floss and a really tiny hook. That took tons of patience but I think it was worth it. It looked really plain so I glued on some Swarovski crystal rhinestones in a zig zag pattern around the top.

I put the pattern in a PDF, if anyone wants to make one, you can download the pattern here: http://www.gleefulthings.com/patterns/ornament.html. You can make it with any yarn really, you just need to adjust your hook size accordingly so that your stitches are tight.

close up of the top:

I saw this hat in the new Free People catalog and I was gonna make one but can't figure out what kinda stitch this is. It's not like any star stitch I can find. I found this one on about.com: http://crochet.about.com/library/blstar_stitch.htm and I have a book with a completely different star stitch in it. It's basically (dc, ch 1) rep 3 times all in 1 stitch = one star stitch. But I tried both of those and neither look anything like this hat. Does anyone know what it might be? 

I already posted this on the Halloween board (http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=205668.0) so I'll just put the pictures up here.

I would have posted this sooner but it was a totally last minute thing and the only pictures I got were taken on Halloween. I didn't make the dress. I just made the eyes and shell. The shell was super simple, just a long tube filled with stuffing (it took three 20oz bags!) and rolled up. I used ric rac for straps and that ended up being a horrible idea because the front of my shoulders are bruised from it now. The eyes are made from felt. I bought one of those headbands with springs with pom poms on the end, ripped off the pom poms and just made my eyes over the springs.

I love how it turned out! I think this is the first time I've made a costume that I was totally happy with! I wanted to wear some cute yellow heels but I spent the night walking around Hollywood so that would have been a horrible idea.

a sorta closeup of the eyes:

I made some of my Potato (http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=152146.0) squirrels and dressed them for Halloween!




Vampire! He has fangs but they hardly showed in any of my pictures


Devil!


Alien!


Ghost!

I posted one of these before but I just made more of them in different "flavors" lol!


"Butter Crust"


"That's not mint"


"Fresh Mold" I couldn't think of a better name for that one...

The pattern is free on my website if you'd like to make one of your own http://www.gleefulthings.com/patterns/moldycupcake.html

I found a pattern for a hat made with a shell stitch (http://www.anniesattic.com/crochet/content.html?content_id=15), problem is, it's for a kid's size so I'm trying to make it bigger to fit me. The pattern has you do 6 shell stitches and chain one in between them. In the next row, you do a shell in each of the shells and in the ch 1 spaces (in this row you don't ch 1 between shells). From there it has you work even but I need to keep increasing.

I'm not sure how to keep increasing because if I do the same thing as a first row (make ch 1 spaces to add more shells) you end up doubling the number of shells and it gets all wavy/lumpy.

Can anyone help? Or if anyone has a link to a pattern for a similar hat that would probably help me too