Showing posts with label mobiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mobiles. Show all posts

Monday, June 14, 2010

An Assortment of Mobiles

Among my newest endeavors are my crochet mobiles. I have a blast coming up with new ideas and themes to turn into mobiles. My mobiles are made of a combination of patterns off the top of my head and free patterns I find online.

This butterfly mobile is my smallest mobile. It's made of a 4-inch embroidery hoop, which gives an idea of the overall size. It's done entirely in crochet thread. I made up the patterns for the butterflies and the flowers and the design around the hoop. The leaf chains, which are a little difficult to see, came from this pattern.

This little sunshine/raindrops mobile was inspired by a picture I saw online. I made all the patterns up myself for this mobile.

My very first mobile, this birdie mobile was inspired by a mobile I saw in the book "Amigurumi Two!" I didn't make the actual mobile in the book and I don't actually have the book, but when I saw the idea for a mobile, I wanted to try one of my own. The birds come from this pattern. I think I got the pattern for the flowers from a book, but I can't remember.

This is probably my most ornate mobile, complete with sea life and bubbles. I used a boucle yarn for the top of the mobile and the hanging strands. It looked so ocean-y, it was perfect! The starfish, the bubbles and the puffer fish were my own patterns. The yellow and blue fish come from this pattern and the jellyfish comes from this pattern.