Saturday, January 15, 2011

Happy Rain

My friends have four children, each with a unique "nature-y" name. Anna Rain will be celebrating her 4th birthday tomorrow, and I wanted to make her a little gift that reflected her pretty middle moniker. This is what I came up with...

To make a happy rain mobile, I went pretty random on the cloud. I'm afraid I couldn't replicate what I did if I tried. It involved adding stitches only on the top side to get the asymetrical bumpy look. The raindrops are more cut and dry:
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Happy drop
(Note, leave a long tail in the beginning to suspend drop from cloud.)
R1: ch 2, sc 3 in second chain from hook
R2: sc 2 in each (6 sts)
R3: sc 1, 2 sc repeated three times (9 sts)
R4: sc 2, 2 sc repeated 3 times (12 sts)
R5: sc 3, 2 sc repeated 3 times (15 sts)
R6: sc 4, 2 sc repeated 3 times (18 sts)
R7: sc 5, 2 sc repeated 3 timnes (21 sts)
R8: sc 6, 2 sc repeated 3 times (24 sts)
R9: add eyes, 5 sts apart and sc 24
R10-11: sc 24, embroider mouth
R12: sc 2, dec 1 repeat 6 times (18 sts)
R13: sc 1, dec 1 repeat 6 times (12 sts)
R14: sk 1, sc 1 repeated 6 times (6 sts)
R15: sk 1, sc1 repeat 3 times, tie off.
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Rainbow hanger
(Note: Be sure to leave tails at either of each color to sew rainbow to cloud's head.)
R1: ch 15 with purple yarn
R2: turn and sl st 14
R3: sc 1, 2 sc to end with blue yarn
R4: sc 2, 2 sc to end with green yarn
R5: sc 3, 2 sc to end with yellow yarn
R6: sc 4, 2 sc to end with reddish-orange yarn

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