Bringing in the New Year!

Happy New Year! This year I decided to move onward and upward by cleaning out this dusty old blog- sorry everyone, I deleted all my old boring and useless posts. I am going to use this blog for more exciting things now. Like free crochet patterns, links to paid patterns I've created and my overall creative flow.

Life is a busy place, it's hard to balance everything to find time to craft, but I do enjoy it. I have 2 wonderful daughters (a 3 year old, who is extraordinarily adventurous, who I enjoy calling Frankenstein. Also, a 2 month old who we affectionately call Squeak.) and I will be going back to work full time on the 25th of this month. I am a jeweler, which is pretty cool, but also very tiring. 

Last year my resolution was to make 52 "yarn crafts", or anything knit or crocheted. I have to admit, it got a little hairy at the end, but I did complete my goal. I posted most of them in my Ravelry projects, if you're interested my Ravelry ID is (*gasp!*) MomasLilSweetpea. (Let me just share this now, my etsy, and instagram IDs are also MomasLilSweetpea) 

This year my resolution is to crochet 100 amigurumi, and write at least 12 patterns. I have already written 2 this year, an amigurumi mandrake, which can be found here. And a free bunny pattern, which I will type up and put in my next post. Here is the list of amigurumi I am hoping to make this year

2016 Amigurumi List:

1. Treebeard
2. Spock
3. Dwarf
4. Hippocampus
5. Mandrake
6. Dirk Lalylala
7. Kira Lalylala
8. Berry Lalylala
9. Buzz Lalylala
10. Carl Lalylala
11. Vlad Lalylala
12. Totoro
13. Batman
14. Dr. Who (#11)
15. Sherlock
16. Thor
17. Loki
18. Queen Amidala
19. Dragon (at least one!)
20. Finn (adventure time)
21. Jake (adventure time)
22. Princess Bubblegum
23. Buzz Lightyear
24. Princess Peach
25. Mario
26. Alice
27. Tiana
28. Merida
29. Belle
30. Human Ariel
31. Buckbeak
32. Lilo's doll
33. Voldemort
34. Grindylow
35. Maleficent
36. Ursula
37. Castiel
38. Sam
39. Dean
40. Khalisi
41. Captain America
42. Toff (Avatar)
43. Aang (Avatar)
44. Appa (Avatar)
45. Bellossom
46. Calcifer
47. Ponyo
48. Astronaut
49. Chicken
50. Goblin
51. Ankylosaurus
52. Gnome
53. Zecora
54. DJ Pon3
55. Groot
56. Unicorn (at least one)
57. Pug
58. Chocobo
59. Princess Sophia
60. Eevee
61. Luma
62. Merlin
63. Legolas
64. Gimli
65. Gandolf
66. Cylon Raider
67. Cylon Centurion
68. Hulk
69. Iron Man
70. Gorgon/ Medusa
71. Wendigo

I have no more ideas yet, but I'm sure I will come up with a few as I go. I linked the patterns I found, I absolutely LOVE the Lalylala dolls. They take me a while, but the result is definitely worth it. I already finished a Mandrake for a Harry Potter craft swap I am participating in this month.

Isn't he a little cutie?

If there are any requests of amigurumi you'd like to see me make add it in the comments! I would love to give it a try.

Happy crafting,

MLSp