Sunday, March 6, 2011

Crochet Baby Dress

We are almost certain that my daughter is expecting a baby girl and I have the most beautiful patterns for baby dresses, the 2 I have made are from the pattern book Beautiful Baby Boutique pictured below.

 I made the one from the front cover, Tulip Time and another one called Pink Parfait.


Hope you like them.

Crochet Mario

After making the crochet Yoshi's for my grand sons it was now onto a crochet Mario, as soon as I made the first Mario every body wanted one, so I have now made 3 Mario's and have more requests for a Yoshi and a Luigi too. Mind you it was great fun making them and I don't mind making more. Mario is an old friend of mine, I have been playing him for years.
Below is the picture of my very first Mario.










Now these are the second Mario's I made, but I changed the shoe, it has a yellow sole and a brown upper shoe, I placed cut up plastic from an ice cream lid and put it into the bottom of his shoes before stuffing.


And here are the 2 Mario's completed, one is a little plumper than the other.


If you want to make Mario and use my shoe method I will put the pattern below. I also made the bib for his overalls then attached the shoulder straps. I hand sewed the Mario M onto the hat too, made one hat a bigger size just to see what it looked like.

Pattern for Mario Shoe.
shoe is worked in the round, do not join rounds.
Beginning at sole
Using sole color:
1. Work 8sc into a magic ring (8 sc)

2.work 2 sc in each sc around (16 sc)

3. work 1 sc in first sc, work 2 sc in next sc, *work 1 sc in next sc. work 2 sc in next sc* rep from *to* around (24 sc)

Change to brown for upper shoe:)
4. Work 1 sc in each sc around (24)

5. Working in back loops only, work 1 sc in each sc around (24 sc)

Now decrease shoe

6. Work 1 sc in 9 sc , sc 2 together 3 times, work 1 sc in next 9 sc
7. Work 1 sc in next 8 sc, sc 2 tog, 1 sc in next sc, sc 2 tog, 1 sc in next 8 sc
8. Work 1 sc in next 5 sc, sc 2 tog twice, 1 sc in next sc, sc 2 tog twice, 1 sc in next 5 sc

9. Work 1 sc in next 3 sc, sc 2 tog twice, 1 sc in next sc, sc 2 tog twice, 1 sc in next 3 sc

stuff shoe

10. sl st into 2nd sc and finish off leaving a long tail for sewing.


I hope that you have fun when you make your Mario's, Yoshi's or Luigi.