Crochet chinese dragon---With pattern! :)

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Hey guys! Here is a chinese dragon amigurumi I made. I was originally going to make a plain dragon but all my friends said that I should make a long one so I did. He does not have any wire in him. I wish he did though. He's really floppy. When I go to WalMart next I'm going to buy some wire and see if I can't  shove it through the stitches. He took me about 2 weeks to make working on and off. Here he is.

And here is the pattern. It hasn't been tested yet so I'm not sure if the pattern will work. If you have any questions don't hesitate to comment. Please comment anyway! And if you can, please share a picture of what you made with me.

NOTE: this pattern is not to be sold in ANY way, shape, or form. You may not sell the finished product either.

MATERIALS

* TWO SEVEN OUNCE ROLLS OF WORSTED WEIGHT YARN. ANY COLOR--FOR DRAGON BODY AND LIMBS

*  ONE 5 OUNCE ROLL OF WORSTED WEIGHT YARN. ANY COLOR--FOR DRAGONS BELLY PATCH

* ONE 5 OUNCE ROLL OF WHITE YARN FOR DRAGONS SPIKES, HORNS, AND CLAWS

* ONE BLACK PERMANENT MARKER--FOR PUPILS ON EYES 

* 1 TAPESTRY NEEDLE FOR SEWING EVERYTHING TOGETHER

* SCISSORS 

* WIRE TO MAKE YOUR DRAGON POSEABLE (OPTIONAL)

PATTERN

CROCHET CHINESE DRAGON
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STUFF BODY PARTS AS YOU GO
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HEAD AND BODY

RND1: MAKE A MAGIC CIRCLE AND PUT 20 SC IN THE RING (20)
RNDS2-11: 1 SC IN EACH SC (20)
RND12: 1 SC IN FIRST SC, 2 SC IN NEXT SC (30)
RNDS13-16: 1 SC IN EACH SC (30)
RND17: SC2TOG AROUND (15)
RNDS18-24: 1 SC IN EACH SC (15)
RND25: 1 SC IN FIRST 2 SC, 2 SC IN  NEXT SC (20)
RNDS26-33: 1 SC IN EACH SC (20)
RND34: 1 SC IN FIRST 3 SC, 2 SC IN NEXT SC (25)
RNDS35-160: 1 SC IN EACH SC (25)
RND161: 1 SC IN FIRST SC, SC2TOG OVER NEXT 2 SC (16)
RNDS162-180: 1 SC IN EACH SC (16)
RND181: 1 SC IN FIRST 2 SC, SC2TOG OVER NEXT 2 SC (12)
RNDS182-185: 1 SC IN EACH SC (12)
RND186: 1 SC IN FIRST SC, SC2TOG OVER NEXT 2 SC (8)
RNDS187-190: 1 SC IN EACH SC (8)
RND191: SC2TOG AROUND (4)
RND192: SC2TOG AROUND (2)

CUT YARN F/O
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BELLY PATCH (MAKE ONE) (CH 1 AFTER EACH ROW)

ROW1: CH 6 (AND ONE EXTRA FOR TURNING CHAIN) (6)
ROWS2-13: 1 SC IN EACH SC (6)
ROW14: 2 SC IN NEXT 2 SC, 1 SC IN NEXT 2 SC, 2 SC IN LAST 2 SC (10)
ROWS15-110: 1 SC IN EACH SC (10)
ROW11: SC2TOG OVER NEXT 2 SC TWICE, SC IN NEXT 2 SC, SC2TOG OVER NEXT 2 SC TWICE (6)
ROWS112-129: 1 SC IN EACH SC (6)
ROW130: SC2TOG AROUND (3)
ROWS131-133: 1 SC IN EACH SC (3)

NOTE: IF THE BELLY PATCH ISN'T LONG ENOUGH  YOU CAN EITHER STRETCH IT A LITTLE WHEN SEWING TO THE DRAGONS BODY , OR YOU CAN ADD A FEW MORE SC RNDS.

CUT YARN F/O
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SPIKES (MAKE AS MANY AS YOU NEED)

RND1: MAKE A MAGIC CIRCLE AND PUT 3 SC IN THE RING (3)
RNDS2-5: 1 SC IN EACH SC (3)

CUT YARN F/O
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FRONT LEGS (MAKE 2)

RND1: MAKE A MAGIC CIRCLE AND PUT 10 SC IN THE RING (10)
RND2: 2 SC IN EACH SC (20)
RNDS3-5: 1 SC IN EACH SC (20)
RND6: SC2TOG AROUND (10)
RNDS7-16: 1 SC IN EACH SC (10)
RND17: 1 SC IN FIRST SC, 2 SC IN NEXT SC (15)
RNDS18-33: 1 SC IN EACH SC (15)

CUT YARN F/O
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TOES (MAKE 16, AND SEW 4 PER FOOT, 3 IN FRONT 1 IN BACK)

RND1: MAKE A MAGIC CIRCLE AND PUT 8 SC IN THE RING (8)
RNDS2-3: 1 SC IN EACH SC (8)
RND4: 1 SC IN FIRST 2 SC, SC2TOG OVER NEXT 2 SC (6)
RNDS5-11: 1 SC IN EACH SC (6)

CUT YARN F/O
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EYES (MAKE 2)

RND1:MAKE A MAGIC CIRCLE AND PUT 6 SC IN THE RING (6)
RND2: SLIP STITCH IN FIRST SC, SC IN SAME ST AS SLIP STITCH, SLIP STITCH IN NEXT SC (7)

USE A PERMANANT MARKER AND DRAW A LINE ACROSS THE EYE FROM TOP TO BOTTOM TO MAKE PUPIL

CUT YARN F/O
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EYELIDS (MAKE 2)

RND1: CH 6 (6)
RND2: 1 SC IN EACH SC (6)

CUT YARN F/O
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CLAWS (MAKE 16, AND SEW ONE PER TOE)

ROW1: CH 6, AND 1 EXTRA FOR TURNING CHAIN (6)
ROW2: 1 SC IN EACH SC (6)

CUT YARN F/O
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HORNS (MAKE 2, AND SEW TO HEAD)

RND1: CH 6, JOIN TO BEGINNING CH (6)
RNDS2-10: 1 SC IN EACH SC (6)
RND11: SC2TOG AROUND (3)
RND12: 1 SC IN EACH SC (3)
RND13: SLIP STITCH HOLE CLOSED

CUT YARN F/O
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ASSEMBLY

IMPORTANT! BEOFRE YOU SEW ANTHING TOGETHER ITS A GOOD IDEA TO GET SOME WIRE TO PUT IN THE DRAGON BODY AND DRAGON LIMBS. IF YOU DON'T THE FINISHED DRAGON WILL BE FLOPPY

SEW 3 TOES IN FRONT OF FOOT, AND 1 TOE IN BACK OF FOOT

SEW BELLY PATCH TO BELLY, IF THE BELLY PATCH IS NOT LONG ENOUGH STRETCH IT WHEN SEWING TO BODY

SEW ALL FOUR LEGS TO BODY

SEW ALL SPIKES TO BACK OF DRAGON SPACING EACH SPIKE AS MUCH AS YOU LIKE

SEW EACH CLAW TO EACH DRAGON TOE

SEW EACH HORN TO DRAGON HEAD

SEW EYES TO DRAGON HEAD

SEW DRAGONS EYELIDS JUST ABOVE THE EYES

WEAVE IN ALL TAILS

I hope the pattern will be easy to read. Please don't hesitate to comment. And please share a photo of your dragon with me if you use this pattern.

Thanks for reading! :)

Haven't updated lately

Hey guys!

I know I haven't updated lately. I've been rather busy with crochet work and such. But I'm updateing now so that whoever reads this blog (probably no one :P) knows that were doing okay.

I've been pretty busy lately. I've had some teeth pulled and I'm really busy with crochet. I'm hoping to update some more now.

So far I have a lot of uncompleted projects. Like some half completed prokects some abandoned projects and some projects in progress.

So far I'm working on a chinese dragin and a really tiny 3 inch long bunny. The chinese dragon should hopefully be done sometime the next couple of days. I'm just to lazy to start working on him.

The crochet bunny has a head a body and an ear done so far I'm writing a pattern for him and I'll post it for free. Originally I started the bunny a few months ago but I made the body and it was too big, so I started unraveling it and I came upon a problem where the yarn got stuck somewhere in a stitch so I pulled really hard on the yarn and it snapped. I was mad so I abandoned that project but I just picked up my crochet hook and started it again today. This one should be done by tomorrow.

Please comment! Say whatever you want, I just want to know that someone is reading this.

Mini/baby amigrumi bunny

Here's another amigurmi bunny I designed. Remember in my most recent post I said I wanted to have a pattern for a small crochet bunny? Well that's why I made this bunny. I do want to make the bunny's feet a bit longer. They are a little too short. Anyway here he is. I hope you all like him. Enjoy!

Sorry about the pictures being turned sideways. I hate that. The pictures are stretched too. Which adds to it. Oh well, that's all I could do.

My amigurumi bunny design!

Alright, as promised here is my crochet design. Its a crochet bunny. Inspired by my pet bunny Ash.  I was looking on the web for a realistic bunny pattern but I couldn't find any except for June Gilbank's crochet baby bunnies. I love her design it looks very realistic, but I wanted to make something bigger. Besides, she was selling hers and I wanted something free at the moment. But I'm going to order her baby bunny patterns soon anyway, because now I want something small. So here is my design. I hope you all like it.

I made up everything except for the feet, I found a free lucky rabbit foot crochet pattern for the feet. You can find the pattern at knot your nanas crochet. Many thanks to her for sharing her crochet bunny foot pattern, that is part of the reason I made this bunny.

Oh, and I just wanted to let everyone know that I just completed my new design. Its a monster. A chainsaw monster, lol. Its a monster with a chainsaw on top of its head, and when it eats food it powers the chainsaw. I'll post a picture of it soon and I'll write up the pattern for it.

Please comment and let me know what you think. I'd love to hear from you all! :)

Thanks for reading, and have an amazing weekend!!! :)

New crochet blog!

Hello everyone!

This is my first blog post. So I'm not sure how to start. Well here's a little about myself, my name is Elise. My hobbies include, Biking, Hiking, Knitting (A little bit), and.... of course crocheting! :) This blog is going to be about my crochet projects, I like to design crochet patterns so I'm sure I'll share quite a few of them for free. So far I've only designed two crochet patterns. Yup, I only designed two so far. But I'd like to design TONS more. I'm sure I'll design a lot more in the near future. And all share a lot of them for free.

My next blog post will share one of my designs. I don't want to share the other because it really doesn't look very good. Its a teeny tiny penguin. I wont share it unless you want to see it  I'd be more than happy to share.

I don't know what else to say, hmm, actually a few things have come to mind. I have one pet, he is a rabbit and his name is Ash. Here are some a pictures of him.

He's a cutie, and I love him a lot. He is friendly and he comes up for licks and pets. I love him to death. :)

Well anyway, I'll post a second post about my crochet pattern design soon. Watch out for my next post, it should be posted soon.