Sorcerer Mickey Pattern

I was asked a while ago to type up my Sorcerer Mickey pattern, and I just did not get around to it. So let’s get started! I used a 3mm hook and mostly scrap yarns from my grandma, but I think they are all approximately the weight of Red Heart Super Saver. I also used some off white and black felt. As usual, if anyone uses this pattern, please link back to my page, and tag me or send me a picture! I’d love to see what people make!

^ Felt face

Honestly, this little pattern is super simple for the crochet part, the bits I struggled most with were making the face and hat decals out of felt... Here are several attempts and a paper pattern I made for the face. I pretty clearly stole the shape from the Disney Tsum Tsum aesthetic. I went with felt eyes and nose because dang, I really experimented with safety eyes and it just never looked right.

^ Head and ears

Now, I believe it makes the most sense to do the sphere for the head first, then work on the felt bits so that you see exactly how large they’ll be in relation to the head... I just didn’t have a picture of the head before and even if I did, it’s a featureless black sphere there’s not much to see!

Head:

Ears:

Flatten and sew the ears across the bottom, then attach to the head (Although, I think I first made the hat to ensure that the ears and the hat fit snugly together!)

^ Wizard hat:

To make a nice tall pointy hat, start with a tiny magic circle and increase less often than you would for a sphere:

Finally, to make the hat have an ever so slight flare at the bottom, I crocheted around it once more time in the front loops only, increasing every 1 or 2 stitches. This came out to 23 stitches, but this doesn’t have to be exact! 

Now, I arranged the hat, ears, and face on the head using pins, making sure I liked where everything sat in relationship to each other, and sewed it all together! Unfortunately when I sewed the face on, even though I tried to be careful, I didn’t really like the way it looked! Maybe using hot glue would have been the better option...

^ Making moon and stars for the hat

Here you can see all my gazillions of attempts at making even a moderately symmetric star... Ultimately I went with 5 stars and the moon. I used glue to attach them to the hat, since they were so tiny I think I would have had no chance at sewing them successfully.

^Robe/body:

 The bottom of the robe is just flat crochet (that is to say, there isn’t an “inside” of the robe where a body/feet would be). I don’t think that’s super necessary, although it helps him to stand. After making the base of the robe, you crochet in the back loops for a round to make a sharper transition to the vertical portion of the robe. 

A nice little touch is his gold sash. I just used some goldenrod yarn and around the back, threaded it through a couple stitches to simulate some belt loops (really, just to prevent the sash from rolling up or sliding down), and then tied a nice tight bow in front.

^Sleeves and arms:

This bit is just a little confusing to put into a pattern, but the concept is fairly simple. starting with a circle of chains, crochet around the circle, increasing only on one side (which will become the “bottom” of the flared sleeve). 

Sleeves: 

Arms:

Then, stuff these tiny crochet nubs inside the sleeve. I ended up sort of sewing the arms to the sleeves and then sewing the sleeves to the robe.

And there you have it! A tiny sweet Mickey perfect for coming on your Disney Vacation!! And for real, if you try this pattern and something doesn’t make sense, please feel free to ask me questions!

Sandworm Pattern

Hey all!  I got a request for the pattern to my sandworm, and luckily it is fairly simple!  I used a 3mm hook and Red Heart Super Saver yarn in warm brown and coffee.  As usual, if anyone uses this pattern, please link back to my page, don’t sell things you’ve made with this pattern, and also send me a picture!  I’d love to see what people do!

^Body (light brown yarn):

I would like to start by saying that I definitely didn’t complete the body all at once, I only did a short section of it before starting on the mouth and gullet parts, and that I recommend this for stuffing / sewing purposes.  It’ll be clear in the next images, but for keeping things a bit organized I’ll put all the instructions for the body in this bit!

Crocheting in the backloops is what gave my worm his segmented appearance, critical for anyone who needs to ride!  After my worm was long enough, I started doing very slow decreases over the course of about 12 rows, just trying to make it even.  SUPER IMPORTANT NOTE!  Nothing I did while crocheting the body made the undulations like that, I just took it and squished it into the shape I wanted - trade secret ;)

If you have never used the foundation single crochet, you can probably just start with chain 10 and then single crochet 10 in those, but foundation sc was definitely a game changer when I learned about it! Here is the link for the tutorial I used!

^Light brown triangles (make 3): 

So as you can see from the images, I only did about 12 rows of the body before adding the triangles - This is a good point to make sure the triangle will nicely match up when sewing them around the edge - since they’re 10 single crochets across, it should match nicely, but if not you can make them bigger or smaller!

  Then sew these triangles around the opening of the mouth - for me they were a bit curly and scrunchy, but that is fixed with the addition of the brown triangles later.

^Cone for gullet (dark brown):

With this dark brown color, all I was looking for was to make it seem like my worm had a deep, gaping maw, so it’s not that important how deep it goes, only that it ultimately is able to sew in to the mouth

When sewing the gullet in, be careful to not pass the dark brown yarn tail (which is what I used to sew it on completely through the stitches of the light brown body.  After this, I was just careful whenever I added more polyfil to not bulge the gullet out  - I would use a finger to make sure it kept its shape!

^Brown triangle inside (make 3):

I actually made these dark brown triangles as an afterthought because I didn’t like how the light brown triangles looked on their own.  Since I used single crochets instead of half-double crochets, these turned out stiffer and denser than the light brown triangles - I continually compared them to the light brown so that they would match up and leave just a small border of light brown once they were sewn on.

Again, when sewing these on, I was VERY careful to pass the yarn tail ONLY through loops of light brown yarn that were on the forward facing side, so there weren’t weird dark brown stitches showing through the mouthpieces!  

At this point I thought he looked pretty dang cool, but still decided to add in teeth since of course those are also an important part of the sandworm’s mythology!

^ Teeth

For these, I just cut tiny triangles out of off-white felt and carefully hot glued them in (put the glue on the teeth then place them, to minimize drips and globs in the mouth).  I started in rows from the deepest part of the throat and working outwards, trying to keep them in concentric circles but staggering where the teeth were relative to the ones behind!

Once you’ve added teeth to taste, he is done!  Squash the body into your desired undulation, and start up your thumpers because we have wormsign!  Happy crocheting!

Dragonair Crochet Pattern

Hi all!  I got some requests for the pattern for Dragonair - in my opinion, it’s one of the nicest amigurumis I’ve made, and maybe one of the nicer Dragonairs I’ve seen on the internet!  The body is a bit complicated, but hopefully if you’re familiar with crochet I’ll be able to walk you through it - you can always send asks if you’re confused!  For this ami, I used a 3mm crochet hook, and all the yarn was scrap yarn, but it’s about the weight of Red Heart Super Saver.  If anyone uses this pattern, please link back to my page, don’t sell things you’ve made with this pattern, and also send me a picture!  I’d love to see what people do!  PS sorry for the kinda ugly WIP pictures - I made this a long time ago! PS check out here for more ref pictures (slash some redundant ones ^_^’). 

Head:

snout:

wings (not the best picture, they’re easier to see on final products:

body:

This part is by far the most complicated section!  Basically, I’ve learned two (I’m sure there’s more) ways to make a crocheted piece curve, and I use both in different areas.  On this first S-shape of the neck, I used a technique where I crocheted back-and-forth on one side of the circle, so that one side was much longer - the LONGER side becomes the OUTSIDE of the curve:

That completes the first curve of the neck!  Now I did the same thing, but did the increases on the opposite side, to make the S-shape - I also allowed these rows to increase a bit each time, to make the place where his tummy rests on the ground a bit fatter:

Those last two parts make the S curve of the body, down to the thick bit at the bottom - the last part uses the other technique in which you increase on one side and decrease on the other - weirdly, the DECREASED side has makes the OUSIDE of the curve - what happens is it makes the tube slant, so that the side with more stitches splays outward - this looks a bit weird but is not as bumpy as the other technique.

Final section of tail:

These last few parts are easy - just making little spheres and sewing everything together!

2x small balls (neck and tail):

large ball (only tail):

tail (in blue) and horn (in white):

stomach:

For this, I just cut out a piece of white felt and sewed it on.  The shape was kinda like this, but I just held it against Dragonair and cut until it was the right shape

And that is that!  Like I said, I think this pattern is pretty complicated, but the jist of it is to curve the neck three times - twice with the back-and-forth method, and once with the increase-decrease method.  If you really made it to the bottom of this post, wow and great job!  If you end up making one, I’d love to see!

Jumping Spider Crochet Pattern

Hi!  I got a few asks wondering about a pattern for my jumping spider!  I made up the pattern myself, but it's fairly simple and I'm kinda interested to share with others!  I used a 2.5 mm crochet hook and Red Heart Yarn in "Day Glow", but I'm sure with a project like this people can be very creative with their choices!  If anyone uses this pattern, please link back to my page, don't sell things you've made with this pattern, and also send me a picture!  I'd love to see what people do!

Head:

Body:

Legs (you know what you have to do! make 8 of them!!):

I had to taper the legs off at the end by doing some decreases, so they would all fit under the head as the cephalothorax - Spiders have such interesting anatomy!  

I then sewed on all the legs, and used a combination of stitching with yarn (to make the bend in the middle of the leg) and a hot glue gun (keeping the legs close to the head) to pose the legs.  (She looks like a dead spider here, don't fret, little cutie!)

And that's it!  I guess if someone tries this and comes up with questions, feel free to ask me!  I wrote this more for people who are familiar with crocheting amigurumis, but there are lots of resources out there for beginners!

I'm pretty pleased with how this spider turned out - I think it's a good combination of real spider anatomy and "cute-ification" - to be fair though, jumping spiders are just so cute in general!  I hope this results in more cute crocheted spiders in the world!