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Welcome and Crocheted Ponies

Hello and welcome to my newly created craft journal. I'm Kitty and I make crocheted and knitted things, mostly toys and accessories, and sell them online and at local craft fairs, conventions, and pretty much anywhere that will have me. I wanted to start this as a place I can talk about what I'm working on, share patterns I really like, and make comments on those patterns while I work on them. You can also see my work and interact over at my Facebook Page. Hope you enjoy and I will try and update regularly.

Today I will be talking about a My Little Pony plushies I have been working on. A young lady commissioned me to make her a pony at a pirate event last weekend, and this has been a really fun one. I was asked to make this pony, Vinyl Scratch, Using the pattern for my normal plushies

 

The pattern is a paid pattern but totally worth it, and can be found On Ravelry. I've made a lot of these little guys, 3 each of the main cast, a little grey pony (Derpy for all you Bronies) and am working on a pattern for once of the villains (It's a pain in the butt, I'll talk about it eventually) so this wasn't a very hard project. Getting the glasses was my big focus as I had no pattern for it. Here's what I ended up doing

Same size hook as used for body, pink yarn in same weight as used for body. I used knit picks brava in fairytale for the lenses and Deborah Norville's everyday in black for the frames

Make 8 sc in magic ring with pink

Sc in first stitch, HDC and DC in 2nd stitch,  TRC and DC in 3rd stitch, HDC and SC in 4th stitch, 1.slp st. and SC in 5th stitch, HDC and DC in 6th stitc, TRC and DC in7th stitch, HDC and SC in 8th 2.stitch, finish with a slip into the first stitch. switch to black

3.sc around all stitches chain 3

4. repeat 2

5. continue in the black around the second lense and SC back over the 3 chain stitches. 

Bind off and attach to head with glue or by sewing. 

Here's the finished product!

Then I had another commission to work on. Another person I met at Seadogs contacted me o make her daughter's custom pony. I've been really wanting to work on other people's custom designs for the fun of playing with new designs and colors.This one was pretty basic, yellow body with red curly mane and green eyes. Less creative work than Vinyl Scratch but she was still a lot of fun.

Working on a lot of hats right now but I will talk more about that next time. In the meantime hope you enjoyed and happy hooking!