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What is magic ring 5
So a magic ring is a method of starting to crochet in the round. Here's a good tutorial for it:
Yeah, it sounds like something out of Lord of the Rings, but in crochet, a magic ring is a technique for creating a tightly closed center wh
And the 5 is just how many stitches the ring consists of.
Recently finished up the pattern for my sea otter design. The pattern can be found at the following sites:
Ravelry
Crocheted Otter
New project in the works
@therealjacksepticeye Thanks for the great show down here in Orlando, it was awesome! If I had known you were accepting gifts I would brought my Lil Jack to give you. Until the next opportunity pops up I guess he'll just be hanging out with the poster I got.
Throughout the course of a project, the design may change. Whether it’s because certain elements don’t transfer well from a 2D sketch to a final crocheted project, or because you made some miscalculations along the way and kept them because you like them. Overall though, I’m pretty pleased with how my little penguin turned out. Now on to some other projects.
Jumping back into a project. Nothing too crazy here, just a penguin. I drew a sketch a while back, followed up by some more sketches looking into different styles. Ended up going with a design similar to my initial sketch and modeled a rough mock up in Blender 3D to see what it would look like in 3 dimensions. I liked the result so I jumped in and started crocheting. So far I’m around a fourth of fifth into crocheting the body.
Hi there - just bought your Jigglypuff pattern and I am having some difficulty w/ the arms, specifically why the need for PR. you dont really list why, a video would be helpful or any other tips you could email or put for subscribers? thank you!
Sorry about any confusion. That was always the one part that I figured would have the most issues since it was a term I made up myself. I’m mainly self taught for crochet and I never came across a similar situation in existing patterns, so I made it up; with the eventual intent to swap it with proper terminology if I ever came across it.
So why do I use the term PR (partial row)?
The best way I can describe this is that partial rows add curves into the structure without deforming stitch work. From a lot of the work I see online, people will often crochet basic tubes and then bend them as needed, and maintain the form either by using excess yarn to keep areas compressed or by lining the inside of their work with wire/pipe cleaners. This results in the overall finish having areas that look compress and/or stretched out, no longer maintaining the nice uniform stitch work. From a simple perspective, the image below shows this (assume it’s the side view of a crocheted tube, with each square representing a stitch).
The outer edge of the curve results in very stretched stitches and the inner curve the stitches end up compressed.Some people may remedy this by doing double stitches instead of single, giving more height, but again this disrupts the overall look.
What I do instead is insert partial rows. As seen below.
Again, imagine you’re looking at the side view of a cylinder, and the rows that are only 3 squares are partial rows. So instead of going around in the full circle, I only add stitches in a few spots before crocheting a full row again. That way it adds to the curvature without deforming the stitches. A word of warning though, too many partial rows right next to each other can cause holes in the piece. So it’s often better to spread them out if possible.
The reason I do this is it adds curves without the need of bending an existing structure and hoping for it to stay. So it’ll always maintain the shape. Another reason I use this method is for attaching limbs to the main body. If I did a regular open ended cylinder and attached it to the body, I’d get the shape below.
However, If I switched to partial rows as I went, I would get the image below.
Which is often a much more natural position of limbs. Or in the case of some stuffed animals could result in the animal having vertical legs | | versus angled legs protruding from the body / \ .
How do I interpret your terminology?
Unfortunately not as well as I’d hope. If a pattern goes as follows:
3) sc 3, inc, sc 4 [9]
4) pr 2: sc 2, inc, sc 3 [7]
5) pr 2: sc 5 [5]
Rows 4 & 5 are partial rows. Once you finish crocheting row 3, row 4 is read as follows: “pr 2″ means you skip the first stitch that makes up row 3 and start in the second. You’d start with a single crochet into the 2nd stitch of row 3, continue with another single crochet, increase into the 4th stitch, then two more single crochets, and tie off. Resulting in 7 new stitches. Then for row 5, you’d skip the first stitch again, start with a single crochet into the 2nd stitch and do 5 single crochets total. More of a visual representation below (X = stitch, _ = no stitch)
Row 5: _ _ X XX X X X _ _
Row 4: _ X X XX X X X X _
Row 3: X X X X X X X X X
(XX in row 4 is an increase, XX in row 5 is regular stitches just aligning with the X’s in Row 4)
Couldn’t you just do a slip stitch?
Maybe. But a slip stitch will still add a small amount of height to the row, making curves not as sharp as I’d like them to be. Honestly, I’ve never done a true comparison of doing it my current way and trying it with slip stitches instead. Maybe I’ll give it a shot at some point.
One last thing, what’s the clean edge about?
Typically if I use partial rows for a joint instead of a curve in the middle of a piece, I’ll add a clean edge This just means once all the rows are finished you go back and crochet a new row along the entire edge that’s showing. So going back to that visual example above. Once you have this shape:
_ _ X XX X X X _ _
_ X X XX X X X X _
X X X X X X X X X
I’d go back and add a new row (represented by the +’s ):
+ ++ + + +
+ X XX X X X +
+ X X XX X X X X +
X X X X X X X X X
This should smooth out the overall edge.
Examples of partial rows:
The teal areas are extra stitches added in as partial rows. This helps the shape naturally bend in the direction as needed. The yellow and white rows are partial as well. This was needed because we go from a cylinder shape to a shape more similar to a shell. The orange stitching is the clean edge for a better attachment to the rest of the doll.
Let me know if there are still questions. I know I need to find a better way at explaining this since it is a very confusing method. But this is the method I use, and since people always seem interested in my patterns, I need to figure out how to simplify the instructions without modifying my methodology since that would result in a different finished piece than the original.
Hi Scott! Would you happen to be selling or releasing the Sonic pattern? I would love to make it as a Valentine's Gift for my boyfriend!
Unfortunately not at this time. Since that is my most requested pattern I do want to eventually go back and get it typed up properly. But to do that it will take time, especially since I’ll need to remake sonic while following my notes, typing things up and taking pictures as I go (and potentially improving my initial design if I see the need). So unfortunately not before this Valentine’s Day, but I should have it by next Valentine’s Day; or maybe Christmas or his birthday. If you have a Tumblr, be sure to follow me so hopefully you’ll see it get posted when I do finally get to it, or message me and I’ll always shoot you a message once it’s complete.
In the mean time, try your hand at designing and making your own Sonic. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised with the results, and if he’s a good boyfriend he should love it all the same!
Hi! (I just hope you are still using tumblr...)Anyway, I found you because I was combing the internet to look for nice and fluffy pattern to crochet Spock. I found yours and - honestly - fell in love with it. Would it be possible for you to share the pattern? (if its up on any crocheting site - I'd gladly pay for it, I just could not find it anywhere).
Hi there! Yes, I’m still here. I’ve just been on an unofficial hiatus for a while. As for Spock, I’m glad you like it! It was one of the first amigurumis I made and always one of my favorites. As for a pattern, I kind of have one for you:
http://needlehook.tumblr.com/post/156704670674/first-pattern-of-the-year-is-up-i-want-this-to-be
The above is my pattern for the basic doll shape. This will get you most of the way there. Beyond that:
Legs - all black yarn
Arms - peachy color for 3 rows, blue the rest of the way up
Body - black for 6 rows, blue until the last row where it switches back to black
Head is the most difficult, but if I’m reading my notes properly: rows 1-9 are all black, 10-12 are the side burns (so stitch 14 black, then switch to 12 for skin, then back to black for the rest), rows 13-14 is the hair behind the ears so figure out where you’re going to place the ear and have skin in front of it and black behind it, then the rest of the rows are all the skin color
Ears - I never wrote the pattern down, but I’m pretty sure it’s just a magic ring of 6, then something like increases in the first 2 stitches to make the point on the ear, then one more row around to give the smooth edge
Eyes - 12mm safety eyes
Details - I got metallic looking embroidery floss (at least that’s what I think it was) and used that to add the starfleet logo on the chest and the markings on the sleeves
I know these extra details aren’t the best. I’m mainly going off of memory from a long time ago, back when my pattern notes weren’t the best. At the very least, most pieces are fairly small so if you don’t quite like the positioning of your color changes for the sideburns or anything, it’s not terrible to go back and adjust it (I think when I was making Spock I had to redo the head 4-5 times just to get the sideburns in a good spot).
Let me know if there’s anything else that could be helpful!
Made a quick amigurumi of my favorite YouTuber, Jacksepticeye (complete with Flamingo Short Action).
@therealjacksepticeye
Totoro String Art.
If you’d like to see a less than complete version of how I made it, go here.
Nope, I'm not dead. Just been a bit busy with life. And finally when I have a moments rest, I end up cleaning my apartment. Its been forever since I finished my 4 video game cross stitch pieces and they just got hung today. As for my next project which hopefully I'll get started on soon, it'll be the 3 different tororos from "My Neighbor Totoro", so stay tuned!
My Jigglypuff Amigurumi pattern is now up for sale for $5 on both Craftsy and Ravelry:
Craftsy: https://www.craftsy.com/crocheting/patterns/jigglypuff-amigurumi/491648
Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jigglypuff-pokemon-amigurumi
Why is it for sale and not free? Well recently I came to the conclusion that I will have both free patterns and premium patterns. Premium patterns will be those that took me more time to design and to type up the pattern. Don’t worry, not all my patterns will be premium, I have a few ideas for future ones that should end up being free. Thanks for understanding.
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I now have a Facebook page for my creations! I’m just trying to accommodate the various methods that people like to follow content on. I’ll be bringing the new Facebook page fully up to speed shortly. My current list of sites that I keep up to date with my most recent content for those who are interested:
Tumblr
DeviantArt
Extras/Behind the Scenes Blog:
Tumblr Extras
“Bit outdated” Site:
And completely unrelated, but my cat has an Instagram, which should be obvious since he’s a cat and this is the internet, but check it out if you want to see an adorable cat:
Instagram of a Cool Cat
Sorry if this has been asked before but do you share your crochet patterns? I love the jigglypuff!
Good question! In the past I would’ve said I don’t provide the patterns for amigurumi that I’ve designed/made. However, this year I had a policy change just to see if there’s any interest if I were to provide them. However, since I just finished jigglypuff yesterday, I don’t have a pattern up yet, it’s still in my notebook.
It’ll be a while before I have a nice legible version online, especially since I’m still trying to figure out how to best explain my technique I did for jigglypuff’s hair poof. Coupled with the fact that I work a full time job and will be going on a couple of business trips soon, it may be a while before the pattern is uploaded. I’m aiming to have it up by the end of May and it might even be up as soon as next weekend; but there is a chance it could take longer. So stay tuned!
This one took a little longer than I expected, considering I started it in early December as a Christmas present for my girlfriend... well, better late than never!
My Jigglypuff Amigurumi pattern is now up for sale for $5 on both Craftsy and Ravelry:
Craftsy: https://www.craftsy.com/crocheting/patterns/jigglypuff-amigurumi/491648
Ravelry: http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jigglypuff-9