quaggan !

quaggan is an amphibia like creature from Guildwars2, a game my boyfriend plays. 

It's a very cute creature, especially it's hatchlings.

I crochet one of these hatchlings using a pattern found on ravelry 

http://crafts.madhat.ru/2015/02/baby-quaggans-crochet-tutorial-eng-ver.html

I made the quaggan with cotton light from garnstudio/drops.

This garn was pretty cheap and looks nice (although it has some synthetic fibers in it) unfortunatley it splits very easy. I crocheted with a ergonomic addi 3mm needle.

"Knorrie" or piglet

As child I got a piglet. 

Which I really liked.

I liked it because I also was small and a bit scared 

Then another one with sinterklaas and another one with christmas

On and on this went.

resulting in a collection of pluche piglets

Which I cherish to this day

And sometimes get extension

One piglet is my perfect pillow.

It's a flat piglet with a (almost scary) smile I bought in Japan.

I couldn't get a better pillow than this pluche toy.

I think it's due tot the firmness of the toyfilling instead of cushionfilling (Therefore my neck doesn't fold down. Due to my eds my neck can fold down at odd angles resulting in neckpain).

But unfortunately pluche has the property to wear.

Therefore I decided to copy this toy by myself

 (I could make another shape  but the smile of thepiglet makes me happy ;))

This Is the result:

I copied the pattern of the original piglet on a newspaper and made this piglet from fleece plush.

I used 3 colors and cut pieces for another piglet.  In total I bought 3 * 0,5m*1.4m. I  sewed the piglet totally by hand. 

Here you see the original piglet and it'd new "copy" (The old one is dressed to protect it against wearing)

I've tested and the new one sleeps as good as the old one ;). 

Cat for grandmother

I finished a knitted cat for my grandmother yesterday. My grandmother will be 90 within a couple of weeks and is a real cat addict. 

The pattern comes from zijmaakthet.com

It is a mies from mies, kees en teun

The pattern isn't very difficult but you need to know how to do a magicloop or knitting in the round with sockneedles. Sometimes picking up stitches is a bit fiddling.

I knitted the cat with lifestyle from Schoppel.

It is a nice very soft super-wash wool yarn.

I used about 250m (1,67 hanks)

The colour is blue pot. It is a special blend of colors with it's brown, blue and black-white; a mixture of real cat colors together with blue.

I filled it with synthetic pluchefilling so the cat is washable. Normally I prefer to use sheepwol due to it's warmth and structure but this takes much more care when washing.

I bought the pattern end of january and have knitted this cute cat in about 3 weeks in between other things so it isn't a lot of work.