Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey

And so I said I would update this blog a bit more often? Lies.

But wait! I didn't totally slack off and fb all day...




In fact, back in February, I entered myself in the 2012 Vanna's Choice contest! I crocheted what I named, Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey. Like the project I entered for the very same contest last year, it was made using all Vanna's Choice yarns. The whole thing measures approx. 47cm by 45cm, with a height of 50cm. It features a rotatable ferris wheel with 4 teddy bears attached to swings located around the wheel.

Although not very apparent on the photos, the cotton candy shop was actually made as a cover for a roll of tissue paper, where one end of the roll can be pulled out from the rooftop.




I also included two other teddy bears standing at the bottom of the wheel.







I hate to admit it, but unfortunately I did not win anything from the contest this year, unlike the third place I received from the contest last year (for those who have read that post). I think I spent wayyy too much time designing the wheel and getting my dad to help me out with hammering the wooden pieces together that the actual crocheted parts didn't seem to represent a very large portion of the project as a whole. A LOT of time was also spent on hand-sewing little images here and there... Believe it or not, if you take a look at the teddy image on the bear-with-blue-hat's side-strap bag, that alone probably already took me close to an hour. =/

But of course, this won't stop me from entering the contest again next year! ;) I think so far, this has been the biggest and most time-consuming project I've crocheted!

A very HUGE thank you to my friend, K. Lau for helping me take photos of my project. It was super last minute but he still managed to help me out so that I'd have some beautiful photos to submit to the contest website! :)

The top 12 projects for this year's Vanna's Choice contest are up for online voting right now. Be sure to check them out!

Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey

And so I said I would update this blog a bit more often? Lies.

But wait! I didn't totally slack off and fb all day...




In fact, back in February, I entered myself in the 2012 Vanna's Choice contest! I crocheted what I named, Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey. Like the project I entered for the very same contest last year, it was made using all Vanna's Choice yarns. The whole thing measures approx. 47cm by 45cm, with a height of 50cm. It features a rotatable ferris wheel with 4 teddy bears attached to swings located around the wheel.

Although not very apparent on the photos, the cotton candy shop was actually made as a cover for a roll of tissue paper, where one end of the roll can be pulled out from the rooftop.




I also included two other teddy bears standing at the bottom of the wheel.







I hate to admit it, but unfortunately I did not win anything from the contest this year, unlike the third place I received from the contest last year (for those who have read that post). I think I spent wayyy too much time designing the wheel and getting my dad to help me out with hammering the wooden pieces together that the actual crocheted parts didn't seem to represent a very large portion of the project as a whole. A LOT of time was also spent on hand-sewing little images here and there... Believe it or not, if you take a look at the teddy image on the bear-with-blue-hat's side-strap bag, that alone probably already took me close to an hour. =/

But of course, this won't stop me from entering the contest again next year! ;) I think so far, this has been the biggest and most time-consuming project I've crocheted!

A very HUGE thank you to my friend, K. Lau for helping me take photos of my project. It was super last minute but he still managed to help me out so that I'd have some beautiful photos to submit to the contest website! :)

The top 12 projects for this year's Vanna's Choice contest are up for online voting right now. Be sure to check them out!

A Rainy Christmas 2010

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."




I was hoping it would be a white Christmas this year since the news had earlier reported that winter 2010 would be the coldest winter in the past 50 years.  However, according to the weather report for the past few days, this year's Christmas would not be a white one, but would be a rainy one instead.  And so this morning, I woke up, opened up my window blinds and found that indeed the weather report was correct... the day started off with a wet, dull morning.

On the other hand, the malls and streets outside have been filled with warm Christmas music, making me feel the joy in air without needing to see any snow on the ground!  To decorate my house for the annual Christmas party held at my house, I decided to crochet a music band and put it next to our fire place (see photo above).

Here are some photos of the band members:





Domo was featured earlier under a previous post.  I wanted it to be part of the band just because the position of its hands seemed perfect for playing the drums. =P  I gave it an extra Christmas hat to give it some more of a Christmasy theme ~ 





Kronos the bear was made using a similar pattern as my Mochi bear featured in another post of mine.  The design of the scarf was inspired by a scarf that I saw being sold at Banana Republic~ (their scarf was much prettier of course!)





Tami is the one with the big heart on its tummy.  It's supposed to be a squirrel. =)

For more photos of my Christmas band, visit my Christmas Band set on Flickr!

Merry Christmas everyone!! :)

A Rainy Christmas 2010

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."




I was hoping it would be a white Christmas this year since the news had earlier reported that winter 2010 would be the coldest winter in the past 50 years.  However, according to the weather report for the past few days, this year's Christmas would not be a white one, but would be a rainy one instead.  And so this morning, I woke up, opened up my window blinds and found that indeed the weather report was correct... the day started off with a wet, dull morning.

On the other hand, the malls and streets outside have been filled with warm Christmas music, making me feel the joy in air without needing to see any snow on the ground!  To decorate my house for the annual Christmas party held at my house, I decided to crochet a music band and put it next to our fire place (see photo above).

Here are some photos of the band members:





Domo was featured earlier under a previous post.  I wanted it to be part of the band just because the position of its hands seemed perfect for playing the drums. =P  I gave it an extra Christmas hat to give it some more of a Christmasy theme ~ 





Kronos the bear was made using a similar pattern as my Mochi bear featured in another post of mine.  The design of the scarf was inspired by a scarf that I saw being sold at Banana Republic~ (their scarf was much prettier of course!)





Tami is the one with the big heart on its tummy.  It's supposed to be a squirrel. =)

For more photos of my Christmas band, visit my Christmas Band set on Flickr!

Merry Christmas everyone!! :)

Mochi Bear

Mochi: The sight of a white winter is dazzling.




But it's dampening when you're waiting for a bus in the cold...




Especially when it's snowing this hard.

Winter's approaching.  I hope everyone is dressed accordingly to the weather! =)

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Here's the pattern I used for Mochi:

Head:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [18]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [24]
Rnd5: sc in next 3 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [30]
Rnd6: sc in next 4 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [36]
Rnd7: sc in next 5 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [42]
Rnd8-10: sc in each sc [42]
Rnd11: sc in next 5 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [36]
Rnd12: sc in next 4 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [30]
Rnd13: sc in next 3 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [24]
Rnd14: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [18]
Rnd15: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. Sl st/fasten off. [6]

Body:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3-9: sc in each sc [12]
Sl st. Fasten off.

Ears (covered by the hat in the pictures):
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat [18]
Rnd4-5: sc in each sc [18]

Hands:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [8]
Rnd3: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [6]
Rnd5: sc in each sc [6]
Rnd6: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [4]

Feet:
Rnd1: 3 ch [3]
Rnd2: sc in each sc around the 3 ch in a circle [8]
Rnd3: 2sc in next sc, sc in next sc, 2sc in next 2sc. Repeat [14]
Rnd4: sc in each sc [14]
Rnd5: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog in next 3 sc, sc in next 2 sc [8]
Rnd6-7: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd8: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat [6]
Rnd9: sc in each sc [6]

I tried to write down the pattern I used as I crocheted Mochi.  However there might be some errors in the pattern as I made quite a few un-do's and re-do's during the process.  Hope there aren't a lot of problems in the pattern!

For more photos of Mochi, visit my Mochi set on Flickr!

Mochi Bear

Mochi: The sight of a white winter is dazzling.




But it's dampening when you're waiting for a bus in the cold...




Especially when it's snowing this hard.

Winter's approaching.  I hope everyone is dressed accordingly to the weather! =)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the pattern I used for Mochi:

Head:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [18]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [24]
Rnd5: sc in next 3 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [30]
Rnd6: sc in next 4 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [36]
Rnd7: sc in next 5 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [42]
Rnd8-10: sc in each sc [42]
Rnd11: sc in next 5 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [36]
Rnd12: sc in next 4 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [30]
Rnd13: sc in next 3 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [24]
Rnd14: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [18]
Rnd15: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. Sl st/fasten off. [6]

Body:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3-9: sc in each sc [12]
Sl st. Fasten off.

Ears (covered by the hat in the pictures):
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat [18]
Rnd4-5: sc in each sc [18]

Hands:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [8]
Rnd3: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [6]
Rnd5: sc in each sc [6]
Rnd6: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [4]

Feet:
Rnd1: 3 ch [3]
Rnd2: sc in each sc around the 3 ch in a circle [8]
Rnd3: 2sc in next sc, sc in next sc, 2sc in next 2sc. Repeat [14]
Rnd4: sc in each sc [14]
Rnd5: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog in next 3 sc, sc in next 2 sc [8]
Rnd6-7: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd8: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat [6]
Rnd9: sc in each sc [6]

I tried to write down the pattern I used as I crocheted Mochi.  However there might be some errors in the pattern as I made quite a few un-do's and re-do's during the process.  Hope there aren't a lot of problems in the pattern!

For more photos of Mochi, visit my Mochi set on Flickr!

Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey

And so I said I would update this blog a bit more often? Lies.

But wait! I didn't totally slack off and fb all day...




In fact, back in February, I entered myself in the 2012 Vanna's Choice contest! I crocheted what I named, Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey. Like the project I entered for the very same contest last year, it was made using all Vanna's Choice yarns. The whole thing measures approx. 47cm by 45cm, with a height of 50cm. It features a rotatable ferris wheel with 4 teddy bears attached to swings located around the wheel.

Although not very apparent on the photos, the cotton candy shop was actually made as a cover for a roll of tissue paper, where one end of the roll can be pulled out from the rooftop.




I also included two other teddy bears standing at the bottom of the wheel.







I hate to admit it, but unfortunately I did not win anything from the contest this year, unlike the third place I received from the contest last year (for those who have read that post). I think I spent wayyy too much time designing the wheel and getting my dad to help me out with hammering the wooden pieces together that the actual crocheted parts didn't seem to represent a very large portion of the project as a whole. A LOT of time was also spent on hand-sewing little images here and there... Believe it or not, if you take a look at the teddy image on the bear-with-blue-hat's side-strap bag, that alone probably already took me close to an hour. =/

But of course, this won't stop me from entering the contest again next year! ;) I think so far, this has been the biggest and most time-consuming project I've crocheted!

A very HUGE thank you to my friend, K. Lau for helping me take photos of my project. It was super last minute but he still managed to help me out so that I'd have some beautiful photos to submit to the contest website! :)

The top 12 projects for this year's Vanna's Choice contest are up for online voting right now. Be sure to check them out!

Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey

And so I said I would update this blog a bit more often? Lies.

But wait! I didn't totally slack off and fb all day...




In fact, back in February, I entered myself in the 2012 Vanna's Choice contest! I crocheted what I named, Take Me on a 360 Degrees Journey. Like the project I entered for the very same contest last year, it was made using all Vanna's Choice yarns. The whole thing measures approx. 47cm by 45cm, with a height of 50cm. It features a rotatable ferris wheel with 4 teddy bears attached to swings located around the wheel.

Although not very apparent on the photos, the cotton candy shop was actually made as a cover for a roll of tissue paper, where one end of the roll can be pulled out from the rooftop.




I also included two other teddy bears standing at the bottom of the wheel.







I hate to admit it, but unfortunately I did not win anything from the contest this year, unlike the third place I received from the contest last year (for those who have read that post). I think I spent wayyy too much time designing the wheel and getting my dad to help me out with hammering the wooden pieces together that the actual crocheted parts didn't seem to represent a very large portion of the project as a whole. A LOT of time was also spent on hand-sewing little images here and there... Believe it or not, if you take a look at the teddy image on the bear-with-blue-hat's side-strap bag, that alone probably already took me close to an hour. =/

But of course, this won't stop me from entering the contest again next year! ;) I think so far, this has been the biggest and most time-consuming project I've crocheted!

A very HUGE thank you to my friend, K. Lau for helping me take photos of my project. It was super last minute but he still managed to help me out so that I'd have some beautiful photos to submit to the contest website! :)

The top 12 projects for this year's Vanna's Choice contest are up for online voting right now. Be sure to check them out!

A Rainy Christmas 2010

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."




I was hoping it would be a white Christmas this year since the news had earlier reported that winter 2010 would be the coldest winter in the past 50 years.  However, according to the weather report for the past few days, this year's Christmas would not be a white one, but would be a rainy one instead.  And so this morning, I woke up, opened up my window blinds and found that indeed the weather report was correct... the day started off with a wet, dull morning.

On the other hand, the malls and streets outside have been filled with warm Christmas music, making me feel the joy in air without needing to see any snow on the ground!  To decorate my house for the annual Christmas party held at my house, I decided to crochet a music band and put it next to our fire place (see photo above).

Here are some photos of the band members:





Domo was featured earlier under a previous post.  I wanted it to be part of the band just because the position of its hands seemed perfect for playing the drums. =P  I gave it an extra Christmas hat to give it some more of a Christmasy theme ~ 





Kronos the bear was made using a similar pattern as my Mochi bear featured in another post of mine.  The design of the scarf was inspired by a scarf that I saw being sold at Banana Republic~ (their scarf was much prettier of course!)





Tami is the one with the big heart on its tummy.  It's supposed to be a squirrel. =)

For more photos of my Christmas band, visit my Christmas Band set on Flickr!

Merry Christmas everyone!! :)

A Rainy Christmas 2010

"Last Christmas, I gave you my heart..."




I was hoping it would be a white Christmas this year since the news had earlier reported that winter 2010 would be the coldest winter in the past 50 years.  However, according to the weather report for the past few days, this year's Christmas would not be a white one, but would be a rainy one instead.  And so this morning, I woke up, opened up my window blinds and found that indeed the weather report was correct... the day started off with a wet, dull morning.

On the other hand, the malls and streets outside have been filled with warm Christmas music, making me feel the joy in air without needing to see any snow on the ground!  To decorate my house for the annual Christmas party held at my house, I decided to crochet a music band and put it next to our fire place (see photo above).

Here are some photos of the band members:





Domo was featured earlier under a previous post.  I wanted it to be part of the band just because the position of its hands seemed perfect for playing the drums. =P  I gave it an extra Christmas hat to give it some more of a Christmasy theme ~ 





Kronos the bear was made using a similar pattern as my Mochi bear featured in another post of mine.  The design of the scarf was inspired by a scarf that I saw being sold at Banana Republic~ (their scarf was much prettier of course!)





Tami is the one with the big heart on its tummy.  It's supposed to be a squirrel. =)

For more photos of my Christmas band, visit my Christmas Band set on Flickr!

Merry Christmas everyone!! :)

Mochi Bear

Mochi: The sight of a white winter is dazzling.




But it's dampening when you're waiting for a bus in the cold...




Especially when it's snowing this hard.

Winter's approaching.  I hope everyone is dressed accordingly to the weather! =)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the pattern I used for Mochi:

Head:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [18]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [24]
Rnd5: sc in next 3 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [30]
Rnd6: sc in next 4 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [36]
Rnd7: sc in next 5 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [42]
Rnd8-10: sc in each sc [42]
Rnd11: sc in next 5 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [36]
Rnd12: sc in next 4 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [30]
Rnd13: sc in next 3 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [24]
Rnd14: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [18]
Rnd15: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. Sl st/fasten off. [6]

Body:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3-9: sc in each sc [12]
Sl st. Fasten off.

Ears (covered by the hat in the pictures):
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat [18]
Rnd4-5: sc in each sc [18]

Hands:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [8]
Rnd3: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [6]
Rnd5: sc in each sc [6]
Rnd6: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [4]

Feet:
Rnd1: 3 ch [3]
Rnd2: sc in each sc around the 3 ch in a circle [8]
Rnd3: 2sc in next sc, sc in next sc, 2sc in next 2sc. Repeat [14]
Rnd4: sc in each sc [14]
Rnd5: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog in next 3 sc, sc in next 2 sc [8]
Rnd6-7: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd8: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat [6]
Rnd9: sc in each sc [6]

I tried to write down the pattern I used as I crocheted Mochi.  However there might be some errors in the pattern as I made quite a few un-do's and re-do's during the process.  Hope there aren't a lot of problems in the pattern!

For more photos of Mochi, visit my Mochi set on Flickr!

Mochi Bear

Mochi: The sight of a white winter is dazzling.




But it's dampening when you're waiting for a bus in the cold...




Especially when it's snowing this hard.

Winter's approaching.  I hope everyone is dressed accordingly to the weather! =)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Here's the pattern I used for Mochi:

Head:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [18]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [24]
Rnd5: sc in next 3 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [30]
Rnd6: sc in next 4 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [36]
Rnd7: sc in next 5 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [42]
Rnd8-10: sc in each sc [42]
Rnd11: sc in next 5 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [36]
Rnd12: sc in next 4 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [30]
Rnd13: sc in next 3 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [24]
Rnd14: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [18]
Rnd15: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. Sl st/fasten off. [6]

Body:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3-9: sc in each sc [12]
Sl st. Fasten off.

Ears (covered by the hat in the pictures):
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: 2sc in each sc [12]
Rnd3: sc in next sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat [18]
Rnd4-5: sc in each sc [18]

Hands:
Rnd1: 6sc magic ring [6]
Rnd2: sc in next 2 sc, 2sc in next sc. Repeat. [8]
Rnd3: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd4: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [6]
Rnd5: sc in each sc [6]
Rnd6: sc in next sc, sc2tog. Repeat. [4]

Feet:
Rnd1: 3 ch [3]
Rnd2: sc in each sc around the 3 ch in a circle [8]
Rnd3: 2sc in next sc, sc in next sc, 2sc in next 2sc. Repeat [14]
Rnd4: sc in each sc [14]
Rnd5: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog in next 3 sc, sc in next 2 sc [8]
Rnd6-7: sc in each sc [8]
Rnd8: sc in next 2 sc, sc2tog. Repeat [6]
Rnd9: sc in each sc [6]

I tried to write down the pattern I used as I crocheted Mochi.  However there might be some errors in the pattern as I made quite a few un-do's and re-do's during the process.  Hope there aren't a lot of problems in the pattern!

For more photos of Mochi, visit my Mochi set on Flickr!