The House Elf Part 1

Well today I have officially finished the House Elf's head. It took a bit of tweaking but now it looks really good (wont know for sure until I have it fully stuffed though and  I cant do that until after I finish his body). I'm working on his legs now, since they have to be sewn to the body.
I'm using beige thread and a regular sewing needle, poly-fill craft stuffing, and flesh colored felt sheets. I wont put a photo up of just his head though (especially since I haven't figured out what to use to make his eyes yet), I will wait until I have the finished product ready to show you.

I am however despising the fact that I have went over my internet downloads for the month and my net speed has been cut down to dial up speed... I feel like I am living in cave man times! My computer room is a total mess because while I am waiting for pages to load and killing time I am either knitting or sewing away like a tiny little machine, much to the disapproval of my fiance who is constantly trying to clean everything up only to have me come right back in and start "working" on another piece... not to say it isnt tidy, its just organized chaos I know where everything is and its all over the place!

I give it about three or four more days until I will have this little dude finished though. I have used a combination of Dobby and Kreature as references for my house elf, and since we never really saw Winky from the Goblet of Fire book I cannot be sure if a female house elf would look much different from a male. I guess this ones gender will greatly depend on what its eyes and mouth look like... Photos to come soon I hope! And once again remember once I have it up the pattern will be free to any one else who feels like they want to take on the task of creating their own little house elf!

The Golden Snitch

Yet another Harry Potter themed object! This time it's a golden snitch, just like the first one Harry caught in his first game of Quiddich! Free Pattern Available Here! This was a very fun pattern to make, and very simple. I have made this one out of two different yarns and this one is the one that looks best. I made this one with size 2mm needles, using Moda Vera yarn 75% Viscose 25% Metallic  the ball is made from gold and the wings from silver. This was a very hard yarn to work with however, the metallic strand incorporated into the yarn hurt my fingers a bit while holding the yarn, but it gave it a very nice finished look!
One more pattern that has been approved for my Harry Potter goodie bags (the one I'm making for each guest attending my movie marathon once the last DVD comes out!)  I'm still trying to perfect my House Elf pattern working on getting the face to look right, and I havent figured out what to use for the eyes just yet.... Its proving to be a bit difficult, from looking at the photos on google images I'm looking at making HUGE eyes on a smallish face, I'm a little bit worried that using polymer clay is not going to make the cut for making eyes, and I cant figure out where to get dolls eyes at any shop. Will have to make several attempts at creating them I'm sure... but we will get there eventually =) Any tips would be much appreciated!

As I said I'm still working on the pattern and creation of the House Elf, the pattern will still be free to you all once I get it right.
And I'm still looking for a nice cat, owl, and magical wand pattern to put in my goodie bags.  I will keep you all updated on the progress!

The Little Mice....

I've been in a crafty mood for the past few days, ever since the last Harry Potter movie came out. A few of my friends have decided that we will most definitely need to have a movie marathon and watch them all in order, but we will do it proper and have a full themed night going on. We're talking Bertie Bott's every flavor beans (which you can actually get from shops!), chocolate frogs (because I found molds on e-bay), and even Harry Potter themed goodie bags. I've decided that I would LOVE to make the three pets, some magic wands, bookscarves (which are knitted bookmarks that look like house scarves) and even house bags to put all the goodies in! So I have been looking for patterns on the net (I'm not that great at making my own knitting patterns just yet I'm only a beginner) Ron has a mouse, and I figured this would be the hardest of the animals to make. I found this Holiday Mice pattern on Fuzzymitten's blog. It was actually quite simple!  I knitted it using size 2 double ended needles and some left over gray yarn (I cannot remember the size) and embroidered the eyes and nose. Though this doesn't really look like Ron's rat from the Harry Potter Movies it was only a simple try. It was very hard to knit this pattern using such small needles, however it is necessary to have small stitches because you need to stuff it with poly-fil and if your stitches are too loose or to big the stuffing might fall out, and we don't want that. I haven't quite mastered the art of knitting just yet, I'm mainly working with just two needles and it was hard to find a pattern that was just using that method, there were A LOT of cat toy mice floating around the big wide web, but I was after something a little bit cuter. I have since made a second little mouse this time using bigger gauge yarn and the same size needles, it has turned out a lot better and I think it shall suffice as my Ron themed goodie in my Harry Potter bags. I will have plenty of time to work on them of course, I'm sure the last movie wont be available on dvd for quite some time.

I hope you all enjoyed this little tidbit and the photo! Next Creation? An (almost) Full Size House Elf for a novelty decoration! Pattern created entirely by me while looking at google images from different angels. This pattern will be free to any one who wants it (although it may be on a few different links as there are quite a few pieces I'm having to make!)