The Mario Mushrooms Paradox

So this is the first of quite a few new blogs to come. See I was going through all my old pictures and found a whoooooole bunch of stuff I havent made blogs for yet... So I figured now would be a better time than any to create some new blogs, maybe get some new viewers in, and pretty much just show off my awesome talents....

Now when it comes to Super Mario, I'm a big Luigi fan. I dont think he gets enough credit... he does just as much work as Mario it's not his fault he usually only gets to come around and be "Player 2"...

But saying that aside, we're here to talk about the mushrooms! I made 4 of them, the mini,extra life, growth, and giant ones. They're really simple and easy to make, you dont even need a pattern for them!

Here's all you need: material/felt in respective colors, cream colored felt, white/orange felt for spots, and some black paint or a black fabric marker, a needle, some thread, and some stuffing. How much of each one you need will depend entirely on the size of the mushroom you are making, though (hence why I cant really give you a pattern)
Now to the right here is a picture of the mushrooms from the game. The four that I have made, Giant, Growth, Extra Life, and Mini. I can give you step by step instructions:
1. Grab something round like a bowl or a pot or a hoop and trace around it on your material or felt.
2. Cut it out, cut a smaller circle of the same color material or felt, this will be to cover the bottom after you stuff it.
3. Stitch around the edge of the big circle, when you have made it all the way around pull it tightly so it makes a sort of ball.
4. Stuff it as much as you want but be careful not to break your thread or  you will have to start over again.
5. After you have stuffed it as much as you want pull the thread tight and tie it off.
6. Using the smaller circle of the same color material or felt cover the gathered edges and stitch closed. This will give you a pretty finish.
7. Cut a circle from the cream material/felt and cut a strip long enough to go all the way around it.
8. Sew the ends of the strip together so you have a sort of tube.
9. Sew the tube to the circle so you have what looks like a cup, and flip it inside out so the seams dont show.
10. Attach the cup to the mushroom top by sewing the cup to the circle you stitched on earlier on the mushroom top to cover the gathered edges. Sew halfway around and then stuff before continuing to sew around.
11. Cut out some white/orange spots that would be proportionate to the size of the mushroom you are making and stitch them around the sides of the mushroom top. (You will probably need 5-6 of them)
12. Using the paint or fabric marker draw on two lines for the eyes on the cream colored material/felt.

Viola, you have your very own Super Mario Mushrooms. 

Lots of Loving,

*Rah~Rah*

 

Introducing Sackboys!

So I know lately I've been working on my Harry Potter things, but I have decided to take a little break from all that (we don't want to get bored do we?).

Here we have the marvelous Sackboy from the very fun playstation game Little Big Planet!

This one to the left is the doubled size version.  He's about 1.5 feet tall, and yes I know the photo is not the best, but I couldn't find big enough buttons for his eyes and now he looks creepy.
The photo on the right (the gray one with the play station remote) Is the size of the doll you will get if you follow the pattern given from HERE!  As much work and effort as I put into the double sized version I really do prefer the original one, he's just so much more adorable!

If you are feeling up to the task I will give you the pattern I used to make the big one.

Head
Cast on 24 stitches
purl one row
knit one row
(increase 2, increase 2, knit 2)  to end (gives you 40 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(increase 2, knit 2) to end (gives you 60 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 2, increase 2, knit 2) to end (gives you 80 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 2, increase 2, knit 4) to end (gives you 100 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 4, increase 2, knit 4) to end (gives you 120 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 4, increase 2, knit 6) to end (gives you 140 stitches total)
stocking stitch 7 rows
(knit 12, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 12) to end (gives you 130 stitches total)
stocking stitch 7 rows (beginning and ending on purl rows)
(knit 12, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 10) to end (gives you 120 stitches total)
stocking stitch 7 rows (beginning and ending on purl rows)
(knit 10, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 10) to end (gives you 110 stitches total)
stocking stitch 7 rows (beginning and ending on purl rows)
(knit 10, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 8) to end (gives you 100 stitches total)
stocking stitch 7 rows (beginning and ending on purl rows)
(knit 4, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 2) to end (gives you 80 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
(purl 2 together, purl 2 together, purl 4) to end (gives you 60 stitches total)
stocking stitch 4 rows
(knit 2, knit 2 together, knit 2 together) to end (gives you 40 stitches total)
purl one row
knit 2 together to end (gives you 20 stitches total)
break the yarn off leaving a long tail, using a yarn needle thread yarn through remaining 20 stitches and pull tight, and use tail to stitch up head to neck. Stuff head.

Body
cast on 24 stitches
knit one row
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
knit 2, (increase 2 x6 times), knit 6, (increase 2 x6 times), knit 4 (gives you 36 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
knit 2, (increase 2, knit 2 x6 times) knit 6, (increase 2, knit 2 x6 times), knit 4 (gives you 48 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 4, increase 2 x6 times), knit 10, (increase 2, knit 4 x6 times), knit 2 (gives you 60 stitches total)
stocking stitch 26 rows
(knit 4, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 2) to end (gives you 48 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 2, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 2) to end (gives you 36 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 2, knit 2 together, knit 2 together) to end (gives you 24 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(knit 4, knit 2 together, knit 2 together, knit 4) x2 times (gives you 20 stitches total)
cast off
Using the zipper start at the cast off end, sew around the zipper attaching it to either edge making sure that it covers the length of the body (overhang is fine at the top as you can tuck it into the head and you wont see it). Once the zipper is secured sew the body to the head it does not matter which way it faces. Open the zipper and stuff the body, when re-zipping the zipper add some glue to the teeth, this will make sure the zipper cannot be opened again (especially good if you are making this for a child)

Arms (make 2)
cast on 12 stitches
purl one row
increase into every stitch (gives you 24 stitches total)
stocking stitch 27 rows
cast on an extra 6 stitches at the beginning of the next two rows (gives you 36 stitches total)
cast off 6 stitches at the beginning of the next two rows (gives you 24 stitches total)
stocking stitch 4 rows

Fingers
knit 15 work these stitches only 
purl 6 work these stitches only
knit one row
purl one row
knit one row
break yarn, leaving a 60cm tail. Using a yarn needle thread the tail through the 6 stitches and pull tight, sew down edge of finger and continue knitting using the tail of yarn.
RING FINGER
knit 3 from left needle and work these  12 only
purl 6 and work these only

knit one row
purl one row
knit one row
Using a yarn needle thread the tail through the 6 stitches and pull tight, sew down edge of finger and continue knitting using the tail of yarn.
MIDDLE FINGER
knit 2 from left needle work these 12 only
purl 6 stitches work these only
knit one row
purl one row
knit one row
Using a yarn needle thread the tail through the 6 stitches and pull tight, sew down edge of finger and continue knitting using the tail of yarn.
INDEX FINGER
knit 4 from left needle
stocking stitch 4 rows
Using a yarn needle thread the tail through the 6 stitches and pull tight, sew down edge of finger and continue knitting using the tail of yarn. Using the tail, continue to sew the edge of the hand, stuff and close the opening, then sew to the edge of the body. Remember to make sure that you're thumb is pointing out!

Legs (make 2)
cast on 16 stitches
increase into every stitch (gives you 32 stitches total)
purl one row
knit one row
purl one row
(increase 2, knit 2) to end (gives you 48 stitches total)
stocking stitch 7 rows
(knit 2, knit 2 together, knit 2 together) to end (gives you 32 stitches total)
stocking stitch 23 rows
knit 2 together to end (gives you 16 stitches total)
break yarn, leaving a long tail. Using a yarn needle thread the tail through the stitches and pull tight, sew down edge of leg, stuff and close opening and sew to body

Taking a contrast color make some little X's around the bottom of the legs near the feet, around the wrists of the arms, and around the top of the head. Stitch a cute little mouth, and if you can find them use some really large buttons for the eyes. If you cant find large enough buttons you can always cut out circles of felt and use that!

Remember this is the pattern for the large doll. The pattern for the normal size doll can be found by clicking the link above!

Never Leave Home without your Companion Cube!

Now, I know that last blog I promised a flashy new blog all on how to make your own hogwarts robes.... but lets face it I lied....

Not entirely though, I do have the robes sitting here in front of me, however after trying them on again they need a bit of tweaking, and I somehow managed to sew the clasp on WAY to high and now it crushes my windpipe when I close it. So this has to be fixed up, and soon, because its nothing but the best for my readers! See how much I love you? No shoddy photos or half attempted projects here!

Now for the last few days I have been sick with some virus flu type monstrosity... which had my sneezing and coughing and running a temperature, and totally NOT feeling up to sewing minute details onto silk, or using too much effort on anything at all, so I decided to keep myself busy while I was in bed, I would make a Portal themed project!

Introducing the Companion Cube from Portal.... in a handy take it anywhere you freaking feel like it size!

This Image here (with the hand) Is what I have made. The Image on the right is my reference which I got from HERE! It was fairly simply to make, required very little materials, and looks pretty darn awesome if I do say so myself!


So I started off with some of those needlepoint squares, the plastic ones.  As you can see in the next photo (also using my hand as a size reference for you all!) I'm not sure of what the proper name for these little babies are so If you know please comment on it for the other viewers! Then I had some pink yarn, light gray yarn, and dark gray yarn, and a black texter. Following the reference I marked out the pattern for each color, on 6 different squares, and started sewing until my heart was content. I used a large yarn needle that I had to pull through the holes, but don't worry these plastic thingies have plenty of give. It doesn't matter how the back of each square looks, it can be messy it can be neat, as long as you tie off your loose ends when you have finished using a color. I left some long tails of the light and dark gray yarn to stitch up the edges so it wouldn't look so lumpy. And be careful how tight you pull your yarn, even though the plastic has some give it can still break and this would be bad!
 Leave one of the edges open when you are stitching up your sides to finish, and you can put anything you like inside it. I just used some craft stuffing, but you can put anything inside it to make it weighted.

ENJOY!!! and believe me the Hogwarts Robe Tutorial is coming soon. I do apologize once again for delaying it, but as I said I was sick and didn't feel like fixing any of my problems just then.

Don't forget to watch my Deviant Art Page, everything that goes up here also goes up there so it would be a good way to keep track of my entrees!