Happy Christmas Everyone!
Now it is actually Christmas and people have had their presents I can show you my crochet key rings.
Okay! not actually crocheted key RINGS but little amigarumi figures attached to key rings.
These days I give my children money plus a little something I think they would enjoy. This year for my daughters and their husbands it was key rings.
I started my making a little red bear for my older daughter.
I had found a free pattern by Lisa van Klaveren of www.holland-designs.com
The pattern was for DK yarn but I wanted to use #10 crochet cotton so I decided that I wouldn’t be able to use safety eyes to articulate his arms and legs but I found a way to do it with a couple of strands of yarn that I tied together.
I wanted to make a green fish for her husband but I couldn’t see a fish pattern so I made my own, though you won’t see it written down as I just created it as I went, with a certain amount of undoing as I went along.
The inspiration for the design came from a Siamese silver bracelet that my father bought me after a trip to the far east when I was a child.
The silver was very soft and the fish unfortunately was one of the first casualties.
Here is a close up so you can see the way the body is formed with overlapping sections.
So here are fish and bear together.
I stiffened the fish’s tail to make it look right.
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For my younger daughter I wanted to make a blue cat.
Again, a Google search didn’t reveal any crochet cats that looked just the way I wanted it to turn out.
I did find THIS ONE that was the nearest but in the end although I got Google to translate it into English, I decided that again I would design my own.
The hardest part was the tail and I had frequent recourse to a magnifying glass to check the number of stitches as I found it very easy to inadvertently increase them.
Having decided that it would be rather fun to give the cat stiff little whiskers, I used some of my PVA glue to stiffen the central part of some strands of white crochet thread and pulled them through like this:-
And so here is the finished cat – front
and back.
Lastly for my second daughter’s husband I decided to make one of the owls from the ‘Bunny Mummy’ blog.
And here it is.
Again front
Everyone loved their keyrings! They were a very popular present.
cute gifts 🙂
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Too sweet for words, they are mini works of art 🙂 I’m sure all the recipients loved them. Hope you had a good Christmas, and have a great New Year coming up 🙂
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Best wishes to you for 2014 and yes the recipients did love them. 🙂
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Darling idea! Love your charm bracelet as well.
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I used to wear it a lot when I was a child!
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How cute – love the owl! I have a fish charm very similar to yours.
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If you follow the link I give you will find lots of owls and a tutorial!
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I’ll add it to my ever-growing queue. 🙂
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I know the feeling. 😀
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Love all these gifts you did them justice 🙂
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Thanks. It was fun doing them but fiddly.
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I know working with tiny objects is tedious lol but really delicate looking 🙂
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What a brilliant idea!!!! I’m sure they went down a treat…absolutely love each one
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Thank you!
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[…] Corner was working on in the run up towards Christmas. These fun and fabulous amigurumi figure crochet key rings, each so well thought up, are beautifully made and incredibly cute. Such a great gift idea, […]
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So cute!
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