Penguin Pattern

 

That penguin on the right, is my first design. He’s a bit too long in the head, but for the rest he’s cool.

Everything is worked in steady increases, and in the round, and in single stitch. so I’ll just put the stitch count here. the number before the colon is the round, the one after is the stitch count, so it would be read 8:36 round 8: 4 sc, inc. sts:36 Please be creative with his pattern! I don’t remember exactly how i did the pattern, so have fun with it!

Head: mc. round 1:6 2:12 3:18 4:24 5:30 6:30 7:36 8:36 9:42 10:42 11:36 12:30 13:24 if using plastic eyes, put in now. stuff, do not bind off. continue with body. 14-18:24 19-23:30 24-27:36 28:30 29:24 30:18 stuff body. 31:12 32:6 bind off. sew hole closed. work in thread.

wings: mc. round 1:6 2:12 3:18 4-10:24 11-12:21 13-14:18 do not stuff. bind off. repear for the second wing.

feet: mc. round 1:6 2:13 3:18 4:12 stuff LIGHTLY. 5:6. sew hole closed. repeat for second foot.

beak: 1:6 2:9 3:12 4:15 5:18 stuff and flatten lightly when sewing on to make it look beak-like.

any suggestions or questions, please comment!]

enjoy~

p.s. if you’re feeling brave, i thought of what might make him better. if you want, try: 11:30 (you’d do *sc1, dc, sc2,dc,* x6) 12: 18 (*sc dc dc* x6) 13:18

this hasn’t been tested but i think it would be better!

Daaaaaang~~

Wow.

I just spent the last DAY cleaning my little sister’s room. It was a MESS. I wish I took before and after pictures. Or just a video to show the process and I could fast forward it and post it here to show just how amazingly messy it was~.

And now it’s clean. pretty nice, actually. And the charity people are coming by tuesday. So that means we actually have something to give this time! We moved a new desk into her room, so the old one is getting donated, and a whole bunch of clothes that are too small or too ugly for her are too. I wonder if anyone ever donates anything really pretty to them…?

She needs a new bed. She’s the only one that hasn’t gotten a new bed since we’ve moved to the states. it’s still fromEurope and quite creeky. I got a new bed about two years ago. And my older sister has gotten like, three. Or two. Can’t remember. My mom got one after my older sister and I forced her to. Her bed was about 15 years old and falling apart. Even the guest room got a new bed. But that bed was because we didn’t have a bed for guests to sleep in and one very empty room downstairs. So I guess now it’s little sis’s turn.

The internet is such a nice place to vent. and then ramble. anywayz ciao internet~!

Hot Gimmick

>.<

I just love Hot Gimmick! I had to write a blog post about it! I’ve been re-reading it today and yesterday (I got to about 20 or so last year, and I decided to start from the beginning again because I liked the series last, and I was bored). My favorite chapter of all is 37! Subaru and Akane are SUCH A CUTE COUPLE! *squeal*

that’s all.

and btw I’ll come back later with a pattern for a penguin amigurumi-style to make up for all the bad penguin patterns out there. or add to them. a matter of opinion, really.

Tar Chan’s Cockatiels!

Sorry for not posting in a while! (Although I doubt anyone cares >_<’”)

I was busy with stuff…. and doing stuff….. okay I have no excuse! I admit it I was lazy!

Anywayzzzz….

I’ve been doing lots of amigurumi stuff lately. They are super fun and cute! also easy to make! I’ve been busy making them for friends for christmas (now more like new-year’s) presents. I was looking on sites and was running out of patterns fast, so… I used my very poor japanese skillz to search up some patterns from japan. My reasoning was “well that’s where amigurumi comes from so why not?” My results: It’s really hard to sort through google search results when everything’s in kanji, and lots of the sites only have pictures, and at some point along the line, it’s a good idea to give in and use the translate button even if you don’t want to admit you don’t have that fabulous of japanese skillz.

But! Before I gave into the oh-so-snobby-looking translate bar that kept popping up at the top of the screen, I did find Tar-chan’s cute cockatiels. Cross cute. They’re adorable!

here’s a pic:

the site is: http://www.okamensclub.com/handicraft.html

The pattern is in japanese, but you can do the same thing I did after spending a few minutes trying to figure this pattern out. If you need ideas on what to do with your new bird friend, scroll down the page and click on the bird with ”メニュー” on it. Then on the next page, click on the link that says “ ターちゃんの編みぐるみハウス” on it(first one under the moving image), and you’ll see a page full of cute ideas for your new pet!

Enjoy!

P.S.: the wait to see if I got into the foreign exchange program is killing me! I wish they would tell us sooner! But I know that they have to make arrangements with the foreign country’s rotary club, look through all the people’s applications to see who’s right for what, and all that other stuff. So I have to be patient. *time please go by faster*

P.P.S.: did you hear? shojo beat magazing got cancelled! T.T

P.P.P.S.: a moment of silence for Erik Gates of mythbusters.  we’ll miss you!

Cute Purikura Online cute

Korean Fashion! (and something about a dutch tv show)

I love fashion. I don’t shout it out, or even wear the latest trends, but I do follow trends from all over the world. America, the Netherlands, France, Japan, but I’ve never seen anyone as right-on with fashion as the Koreans.

Weird, huh? No one I’ve heard of really follows Korean fashions at all, and even China is more looked at for their fashion advice (as far as I know), but I’ve been listening to a k-pop band, 2ne1, for a while, and I noticed that their clothes in the music videos are absolutely amazing. So I investigated Korean fashion a bit more, and my discovery; they have the awesomest clothes! Here, look:

 http://www.korean-fashion-online.com/pictures_korean_street_fashion/links/nov08/0001_ksf.htm

(it was too hard to copy the pics I wanted, the comp was just not liking me today)

Also, if you’re any kind of dutch, you should know about Boer Zoekt Vrouw.  The amazing part is, there’s nothing interesting about it. Yet for some reason, everyone’s hooked. Odd, huh?

I know…

I know I haven’t posted in a while. Sorry ’bout that. Not that anyone’s really following  this blog or anything. But sorry anyway. I’ve been hella busy lately, so I kinda sorta kinda forgot that I had this blog. But I will not forget! (mainly because it annoys me when I read someone’s blog and I realize their posts are like, 5 years old, or that they only have maybe five or six posts before they forget about it, which makes me MAD!) So I will continue posting! (if only to post random crap to make sure I don’t forget to not annoy others who go on my blog and get annoyed because of the in-recenticity(if that’s a word) of my blog.) So….

I have known about this guy for a while, but I was watching his videos on Youtube today, so I just thought I’d mention him. My sister is actually the one who discovered him, but  I’ve been watching his vids recently, because, well, okay, I’ll own up to it: I’ve been in a bit of a drawing rut. My drawings SUCK. I used to be pretty amazing (well, in my opinion), but recently, I just can’t seem to get that right look I’m going for. But, without any further adeu (I’m not quite sure how exactly to spell that word), his name is… Mark Crilley. So shout out to Mark! He’s a bit of an inspiration right now. One of my favorite videos is the realistic face one: It just has a cool picture, and I think I’m going to try drawing something based off of this video.

Also, I think my sister’s boyfriend can be a bit of a creep sometimes. Just saying.

Snapgrades?

Just a short post this time.

Isn’t it weird that Snapgrades just sent an email telling me that picture day is on the sixteenth? I didn’t know it could do that! That’s like, Amazetastic!

I honestly thought that the only thing it did was tell you your grades. But apparently there’s a glitch in the system right now that the IT guys are trying soooo hard to fix, so the only thing it can do right now is tell me when picture day is and that there’s like a “principal advisory night” or something and that all parents are welcome!

What do I do now?

So I can’t go on foreign exchange because of my visa issues. My family is out of money. I can’t go to college, again because of my visa issues. I’m at like a dead end. After High School- BOOM- nothing. I can’t figure out what to do! I think I have to go back to Europe. Bam. All my plans. Nothing. What happens after Europe? Even if I graduate with honors, I won’t be able to get into a college there with an American High School degree. Forget about affording it. So- minimum wage job? I don’t know! I’m so mad at my mom for losing all our money. Even though it all basically went to staying in America. Royal Pains is cheering me up, though.

By the way- Threading is PAINFUL. But now I don’t have hair on my lip anymore. But it’s painful. Like, OW! But it works.

The little Mermaid.

So I don’t know why exactly but I have been watching quite a few animated movies the last few days. Today was The Little Mermaid, not Disney, but the other, old one. It was cool, but I like the other one better because it’s happier. *spoiler alert* She dies at the end. She could have just kicked that other princess’ ass and survived. That’s what I would have done. And then she wasn’t man enough to stab the guy who betrayed her. The only reason I didn’t cry was that the voice acting was so bad it was *almost* funny. Although for some reason I still like this version better than the Disney one. I know, I lied earlier. This one’s a lot more realistic than Disney. I think I’m turning into a Disney hater. *Bad Kitti!*

Hans Christian Anderson's The Little Mermaid

And guess what? I went to creative writer’s club today! Yeah! And I just realized that most or all of the people there are really good writers. Original, not so much. (Just between you and me, I think this one girl has parent issues….) There was this one story about Salad Fingers. As in that one guy who is named Salad Fingers on Youtube who likes rusty spoons. scary stuff.

so now I’ve got to do homework. Again. Curses.