Wyrms, Wyverns and Dragons, Oh My!!

This new pattern features three ways to make a flying Dragon creature! You can make one with no limbs (Wyrm), with only rear legs (Wyvern), or with front legs and rear legs (Dragon)! It is made as all one piece, the only separately crocheted bit that is attached by sewing are the wings! The wings do have (Optional) wire in them so that you can pose them to be open and look like they are mid-flight!

The new Pattern is available here on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/miniature-wyrm-wyvern-dragon

Or Here on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/757289984/miniature-wyrm-wyvern-dragon-crochet

© 2020 Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™. All rights reserved. This pattern is FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. The pattern (or parts of it) may not be reproduced, distributed or resold, translated, published, altered, shared or posted (for sale or free) over the internet or offline. You can sell items made from this pattern, provided they are handmade by yourself in a limited number and you give credit to the designer. Please add the following lines to your item description and any item you are selling: “This item is handmade by (your name) from a design and pattern by Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™”.

Dinosaur Pattern Feature!!

My Dinosaur pattern was selected to be featured in a “Best Dinosaur Crochet Patterns” list on crochet-news.com!! I’m tickled dinosaur-color!!!

https://crochet-news.com/18-dinosaur-crochet-patterns/

Come make your own! Rawr!!

© 2017 Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™. All rights reserved. This pattern is FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. The pattern (or parts of it) may not be reproduced, distributed or resold, translated, published, altered, shared or posted (for sale or free) over the internet or offline. You can sell items made from this pattern, provided they are handmade by yourself in a limited number and you give credit to the designer. Please add the following lines to your item description and any item you are selling: “This item is handmade by (your name) from a design and pattern by Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™”.

Supplies: Wire

I frequently use wire in my patterns to help with stability, strength and poseability. It is important to me to be able to explain exactly how to assemble the soft sculptures in my patterns, so within my patterns there are often step by step written and photographic instructions for how to assemble your soft sculpture using wire. Figuring out the perfect wire to use has been an interesting journey that I am STILL ON.

As a fluke, I found that packages of paper-wrapped 18 gauge 18 inch faux floral wire works really well for what I want it to do. The crumpled paper wrapped around the wire offers a nice friction resistance against the yarn crochet work, so pieces that you crochet won’t shift as much once the wire is inside, because the wire isn’t just smooth. This particular wire that I recommend also happens to be fairly stiff for 18 gauge wire, and the paper-wrapped quality adds girth to the wire, so although 18 gauge is fairly small, the paper makes it much thicker.

The 18 gauge, 18 inch CLOTH wrapped wire is NOT created equally to the paper wrapped stuff. I’ve found that the cloth wrapped wire is far to malleable and won’t hold up the weight of a crocheted wing (for example) the same way that the paper wrapped wire does. Unfortunately, I also found out that there is no firmness descriptor on packages of wire meant for faux foliage. So it can definitely be a bit of a process to locate a perfect wire to use in your work. Keep in mind, you also DO NOT want the wire to rust.

I explain this because although I found the wire easy to locate in stores here in America (big box craft stores), for my overseas customers it was not so easy. Overseas customers have found wire more readily available at their local home improvement stores — Wire used for fencing or hangers works well, but you should always have a pliers on hand for trimming and shaping. You don’t want a wire that’s TOO stiff, because then you run the risk of not being able to shape it as exactly as you need.

So basically, go out there and find the goldilocks of wire. Good luck!

The Etsies!

I did something scary and exciting! I entered my Dragon pattern in the Etsies! The Etsy Design Awards!! This is the first competition that Etsy is hosting! I can’t wait to see what everyone puts out there for this! I can’t figure out whether I’m foolish for having a very real hope of being chosen as a finalist for this! Eee! Exciting!

#TheEtsies

Supplies: What's the skinny on Polyfil?

Out of all the supplies you use to make amigurumi, polyfil is one of the super important ones that we care least about. It goes on the inside of the amigurumi and gives your work shape and body.

I strongly prefer generic polyfil - the kind of polyfil that feels more like cotton gives my sensory issues the heebie jeebies. So I prefer the stuff that feels like acrylic clouds. Also, I told my daughter they’re called “Clouds” and she will often ask to play with my “clouds”.

There are more options and tricks for stuffing your amigurumi. You know all those yarn tails you get after weaving in your ends? If you save them, you can use them to stuff your next amigurumi!

Also, when you make an all black amigurumi - like a black unicorn, and you’d like to stuff it, it can be a little odd looking to stuff it with white polyfil as the white will peek through all of the holes of the crochet work. If you don’t like the look of the white peeking through, there are ways around it! You can take a nylon stocking, and fill THAT with polyfil as you stuff it inside the amigurumi. The nylon stocking will contain and mask the bright white and you won’t notice inside your work. Your second option would be to pick up some very cheap black yarn and use that to stuff your work. You can find cheap black (or any color) yarn at thrift stores and in the clearance section of your local big box craft stores. Stuffing amigurumi with yarn means that your amigurumi will be much heavier than if you stuffed it with polyfil, but you will not see the inner stuffing through your crochet work AT ALL.

I hope this helped!!

Dragon Update!!

There is a BRAND NEW UPDATE available to the Dragon pattern! IF you purchased the pattern on Ravelry, it should automatically be available for you to download. If you purchased it on Etsy, I sent you a manual update to your email address. If you did not receive that email update, please message me on Etsy and I will make sure you get your updated copy!

Enjoy!

© 2019 Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™. All rights reserved. This pattern is FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. The pattern (or parts of it) may not be reproduced, distributed or resold, translated, published, altered, shared or posted (for sale or free) over the internet or offline. You can sell items made from this pattern, provided they are handmade by yourself in a limited number and you give credit to the designer. Please add the following lines to your item description and any item you are selling: “This item is handmade by (your name) from a design and pattern by Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™”.

Seahorses are for Lovers

New Seahorse pattern is now available!!

You can find it here on Ravelry: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/seahorse-32

Or here on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/681598581/seahorse-crochet-amigurumi-pattern

© 2019 Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™. All rights reserved. This pattern is FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. The pattern (or parts of it) may not be reproduced, distributed or resold, translated, published, altered, shared or posted (for sale or free) over the internet or offline. You can sell items made from this pattern, provided they are handmade by yourself in a limited number and you give credit to the designer. Please add the following lines to your item description and any item you are selling: “This item is handmade by (your name) from a design and pattern by Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™”.

Featured Pattern: Girl Dolls in Berets

Pattern by Desislava Dimitrova
(Not a Crafty Intentions Pattern)
Available Here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/aria-crochet-doll

This makes a larger doll than I expected, but it was fun to be able to make all the different bits in different coordinating colors.  I chose to sew trim to the bottom of the inside of the skirt.  I also sewed on all the accessories to make sure that they are secure as a toy for a small child. I would certainly recommend this pattern!

Featured Pattern: Seahorse

Seahorse made by Me! Crafty Intentions
Pattern by Terry Finer.
Available Here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/post-modern-post-stitch-seahorse

This pattern builds this seahorse in an ingenious 3-dimensional way so that you do not need stuffing.  It is built in such a way that it fills itself out!  It's amazing!  I made a ton of them and it was tremendous fun.  It was certainly a challenging pattern, I would say intermediate or above.  But I would definitely recommend it!

Monster Pattern: Explained

This Monster Pattern is available on Ravely: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/choose-your-own-adventure-monster

© 2018 Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™. All rights reserved. This pattern is FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. The pattern (or parts of it) may not be reproduced, distributed or resold, translated, published, altered, shared or posted (for sale or free) over the internet or offline. You can sell items made from this pattern, provided they are handmade by yourself in a limited number and you give credit to the designer. Please add the following lines to your item description and any item you are selling: “This item is handmade by (your name) from a design and pattern by Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™”.

This pattern is for an Amigurumi-Style Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Adorable Monster. These Monsters have many interchangeable or combinable options to create over 64 different end-creations!! You can truly customize exactly what you want to make. There are Monsters with overbites or underbites, Monsters with legs and Monsters without legs, Monsters with dangly feet and Monsters with flat feet, Monsters with long or short arms, Monsters with horns or ears (or both!), Monsters with mohawks or spikes down their back, Monsters with eyebrows and/or claws, Monsters with as many teeth as you want in one of three styles!

Each step is photo-illustrated. Yarn amounts are extremely variable depending on what options you use. This project is an excellent stash buster for all sorts of smaller amounts of yarn you have on hand for all the different contrasting decorative bits you might choose to make.

Pegasus Pattern Published!!

The Crafty Intentions Pegasus Crochet Amigurumi Pattern is now available! You can find it here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/pegasus-5

Or Here: https://www.etsy.com/listing/635597418/digital-pegasus-crochet-amigurumi

© 2018 Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™. All rights reserved. This pattern is FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. The pattern (or parts of it) may not be reproduced, distributed or resold, translated, published, altered, shared or posted (for sale or free) over the internet or offline. You can sell items made from this pattern, provided they are handmade by yourself in a limited number and you give credit to the designer. Please add the following lines to your item description and any item you are selling: “This item is handmade by (your name) from a design and pattern by Megan Lapp, Crafty Intentions™”.

Featured pattern: Koi Fish

This Rainbow Fish made by Me! Crafty Intentions.
Pattern by: Terry Finer
Pattern Link: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/whomsoevers-koi-fish

A few pieces and parts of this fish can be tricky, and it is definitely a large fish!! But the finished product is so satisfyingly gorgeous that I have to recommend the pattern.
 

Question: Fox pattern, Yes or No??

Fox pattern! Now, I didn't just wing this. I did write it down.  But... Is it good enough to publish it?  Would you want to make one like this? I'm undecided about whether or not it's worth actually typing up, testing, and publishing. Hmm...

Confessions in Winging it: Jake and Lady Rainicorn

I have a bad habit, every once in a while, of making a thing, and not writing down what I did so that I can make the thing a second time.  This is one of those times.

After binge watching most of Adventure Time, I decided to make a Jake and Lady Rainicorn hat for some loved ones.  They do not watch Adventure Time.  Make note: Attempt to make gifts referencing pop culture only for people who are familiar with said pop culture.   I'm very proud of how they came out, and I would happily share the pattern with you but...

I winged it.

Featured Pattern: Flumplebees!

This is a pattern by EssHaych!
You can find it here: https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/the-flumplebees

It's worth a couple of dollars for sure!  It's a short simple pattern, easily made, beginner level, very cute, and it creates an adorable, very imaginative creature!  I can use just about any imaginably solid or variegated yarn for this one. At my last craft market, I sold out of these little guys.  Every single person who asked about them was delighted by the name "Flumplebee" and insisted on taking one (or three) Home!

Now, I made a few alterations to my construction.  I add a wire in the body that reaches all the way from the nose to the butt so that you can re-position the head and neck.  I also add some glass gems at the bottom of the butt to weigh it down and make it sit securely (but both of these things can be completely left out to make the thing 100% toddler safe).  I like sizing up the eyes a little bigger than what they recommend in the pattern, but that's just personal preference. I also sometimes piece in a mane of yarn and it makes them look like wayward fuzzy flowers to me!