Purple Kitty

Also from Stacey Trock's book Cuddly Crochet, I found the kitty pattern.  I changed the hook size and increased the eye size from what she recommended in the book making the cat itself smaller and obviously the eyes bigger.  I really was happy with how this turned out.

Monkey

I love, love, love Fresh Stitches.  Stacey offers a lot of really helpful tutorials and amazing books and patterns.  My first little bird came from her book Cuddly Crochet.  I bought this pattern from her website (freshstitches.com).  He turned out okay.  I plan on retrying to make him and use a little different yarn but he turned out pretty cute.
I also modified the ears a bit to make them two different colors.

Beagle

I don't know why I had a hard time with this pattern.  It was well written and easy to read but I had a really hard time with it for some reason.  He still turned out pretty cute and I really like the patterns from this lady (planetjune.com).  I read her book too and it was also very good. 

Okay so...

So I know this blog is called cutesy crochet but I have a new accomplishment and I am kind of proud of myself.  I made some low fat muffins today and they turned out great!  I modified a generic banana muffin recipe and I am really pleased how they turned out.  Also for Weight Watchers (which I personally follow) it is only 3 points for two yes two muffins.

The recipe is as follows:

1-4oz container no sugar added applesauce
1/2 cup sugar
3-4 very ripe bananas-for sweeter muffins go with 4
1 egg
1 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups whole wheat flour

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and thoroughly grease muffin pans
2. Mix all the moist ingredients together and all the dry ingredients together in two separate bowls
3. Mix the moist and dry ingredients together
4. Pour muffin cups about 2/3 full
5.  Bake for 20 min or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean

Flower Bookmark

For Justin's grandmother, who also watches our daughter during the day, I made her a bookmark instead of a tulip like I did for my mom and mother-in-law.  I kind of made it up as I went along and didn't follow a pattern but I kind  of drew inspiration for the bookmark from other patterns I saw that I found on crochetpatterncentral.com.  It took me about two hours start to finish.  I hope she likes it.

Mother's Day Tulips

For mother's day next week I decided to make my mom and mother-in-law flowers.  I found the pattern here: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tulip-15http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tulip-15

The pattern recommends wooden skewers for the stems but I found that cookie sticks from Michaels worked really well.

Also Facebook bought Instagram so now Android has Instagram too so I have been playing around with that too.

First and Second Attempts at a Baby Hat

I was invited to a last minute baby shower last weekend.  I decided to make a hat and this was my first attempt

I decided to use the same pattern for this hat but varied it a little and didn't add the ruffle at the bottom.  I decided to add a bow to it instead of flowers and I found several patterns for bows but I didn't use them instead I chained 13 and sc in 12 starting at the second chain from the hook, turn and repeat for four more rows and slip stitched the entire rectangle at stitch 6 I tied it (in the middle) very tight and attached it to the hat.

I found the pattern for the first one and varied it for the second from here: http://crochetvolution.com/archives/spring-2012-archives/baby-belle

Caleb's Cow and Chick

A work friend is having a little boy, Caleb, next month.  She had asked me if I could make a cow and chick to match his room.

I found the cow pattern on etsy (of course): http://www.etsy.com/shop/jennyandteddy

And I found the duck here for free: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/crochet-duck

I didn't use safety eyes on either one.  I don't think my friend will let Caleb play with them but knowing how toddlers are I did it just in case he managed to a hold of both of either of them.

Ninja Turtle

I found this pattern on etsy also.  In this shop: http://www.etsy.com/shop/OtakuCrochet I got this pattern for my husband for his birthday also.  It is kind of like 4 in one cause all you have to do is change the mask color for each one.  Justin wanted Michelangelo first.   He was super easy to do and I think in total I spent three hours on him.

You do have to be careful attaching the shell like the pattern says but otherwise it was pretty easy.

Easter Lamb

So I have been awful at posting recently as the semester was wrapping up.  I finished up this little lamb while on Spring Break for Eden's east basket.

Here is a link to the etsy shop where I found it: http://www.etsy.com/shop/thewoolpurl

She was not as cute as the original but still pretty cute!