After I made this hat I got asked to make another one.  I couldn’t remember what size hook I used with the original hat but I opted to use a 6.5mm one this time and it turned out fine.

If you haven’t heard of Minecraft where have you been? It is a fabbity fab game that you all should be playing.  Anyhow the skins of Minecraft characters are square and this opens it up to be perfect for making paper craft characters out of well umm… paper.

So some clever people have made a automatic generator here for absolutely anyone’s skin, so far I’ve only done the default skin.  This is also a rather handy compilation of Minecraft paper craft sheets http://papercraft.robhack.com/ .

Last Christmas a forum I am a member of had a Secret Santa.  If you don’t know what Secret Santa is I will explain, when their are a group of people rather than everyone buying each other presents, each person picks a name out of a hat and just buys one present for that person.  Basically each person buys one present and gets given one present.

I gave my Secret Santa a Greenday CD, Lego Sheep Game and a crochet penguin.

This wasn’t the easiest amigurumi to make but I always find sewing the bits together hard.  The pattern is available for free.

Apologies for the bad lighting, here is a couple of images of the card i made for a friend, out of my mam’s cross-stitch book.

After my cousins baby was born I made her another cardigan with the left over wool.

This was a fairly easy pattern to make it is made by Suzetta Williams and is available for free on her blog.

When my cousins baby was born I made some things for the baby’s big sister. I crochet her a amigurumi bunny and a winter hat.

The bunny was fairly easy to make, though I still hate sewing the bits together. It is available for free.

The hat looks complicated to make and it would be for beginners it took a while for the pattern to “click” but once i understood it it was easy to make as it is the same 3 lines repeated over and over again.  The pattern is made by Kirsty Ashmore and is available as a free pdf download from Ravelry, which is free to register for.  I did not use the suggested hook size to get the correct gauge however I can not remember what hook size I used.

I also made a hat and booties for my cousins new arrival.

The hat was really easy to make.  It is called Seamless Crocheted Baby Hat and is available for free.  The booties like all booties I’ve ever tried to make were hard to make, however I can not find the pattern for these as I made them nearly a year ago.

I made this really easy cardigan for the baby too, she was so big when she came there was no way it was going to fit.

I also found this patter on Ravelry but it is available for anyone for free Bella Bambina Knits.

In October last year my cousins baby was born. I made her some things, the wool isn’t the nicest but that is because when I bought it we didn’t know if she would be a girl or boy.

This pattern is Versatile Baby Sweater by Marie Coll it is available free from Ravelry. This was a nice pattern to make, like most patterns I use it was written in American terms.  On the pattern row 2 of the body doesnt work I had to re-work it.