24 May 2016

TINYCORN!!

These are just tooooo cute! A friend wanted a rainbow unicorn for her rainbow baby but the pattern she originally saw was too big for me to say I'd do it. Then I saw this super cute unicorn by ahooka'migurumi who has some great patterns. This one is in a free e-book of 8 patterns. Well worth looking at.

My biggest issue was getting the right yarns. The white is a baby wool, the tail/mane is cotton (I was able to get a small pack of mini yarns so I didn't have to get 7 50g balls). The tricky bit was the horn/hooves. I tried a few different silver crochet threats but in the end I went with some cross stitch thread. It was a very tricky bit to do as its only3 sc around, but I managed to do it...twice. I also had to try a couple of different eyes but found these at David's Emporium.  
Of course, once I had these 2 I had to make a rainbow turtle friend for them :)  (tiny striped turtle)




Finished chevron blanket

I actually managed to get it all done, all the little triangles finished and all the ends sent in. I had grand ideas of how I was going to join all 4 sections but in the end I did 2 rows of single crochet around each section then single crocheted them together. It's nice and big and super cosy. It's rather heavy but it will be perfect to snuggle under this winter.