Hippo : Mermaid Melody Pattern~

For you today I have a pattern of the adorable (sometimes human) talking penguin Hippo from Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch ! Hippo is the cute penguin assigned to keep Lucia in check while she's on land searching for her lost pearl that is the source of all her magical powers.

It just hit me that I use a lot of blues in my patterns, but none-the-less I think it's an adorable pattern. His hat got a little cut off, but it's just another row of white on top of it with a black line to show its edge. I hope you enjoy this pattern. Sorry for the short post but I don't really have anything else to say today.

PATTERNS! Pita-Ten

Ok, so last time I posted I said I'd have three new patterns from the first manga I ever read. While the first anime I ever watched was Sailor Moon, It was a long long time after that, that I truly realized that those cartoons I loved were from Japan. About fifth grade I went to a book store on vacation with my family, they were having a close out sale and had very little left, but what they did have, was a Sailor Moon book, AND a wierd little backwards book with a purple haired boy on front. I begged my parents to let me have it even though it said Volume 3, just because it looked like all those cartoons I loved, and I'd never seen any book like it before. From then onwards...I loved Manga! That purple haired boy was Kotarou Higuchi from Koge Donbo's series Pita Ten. So in honor of that moment, I'll post him first!

These patterns are based off of the characters chibi appearances while wearing these cute little animal themed jacket things...it's hard to explain but I'll post my reference picture at the end.



Here's Misha-san



Misha-san is the Hyperactive angel who lives next door to Kotarou...I struggled with this pattern and actually remade it twice because I wasn't satisfied. I'm still not but I wanted to get the three of them posted today so Oh Well. I'll probably eventually make a different one of her that looks better.

Lastly here's Shia-san, the demon living with Misha



I found Shia rather easy to make, and I really like this one :)

Now here's some quick pics of Pita ten to show you it's beautiful art!



This was my ref pic. Next is a picture of that book I found that fateful day~



And Here's one of some more of the characters!



Lastly I thought I'd embed the anime's Opening theme. The song is called Wake Up Angel by Funta 7. I have the full version on my phone because of its absolute cuteness! I'm also going to post a cute tribute to all its couples to the song Love Story by Taylor Swift that I found.

Finally Friday! and a Seto Kaiba pattern.

This patterns rather simple, since I wasn't feeling terribly fantastic when I made it. I do plan to stitch him though, and being a huge fan of Little Kuriboh's Yugi-oh the Abridged Series, when I do I'll probably put one of his famous quotable lines underneath him like "Screw the Rules I have Money!" Anyway, on to the pattern.



I originally wanted to do his Battle City outfit with the white cloak, but it was so detailed and I couldn't get my brain to do it. Instead I went for his Duelist Kingdom look. I love yugi-oh, and honestly I followed all the spin-offs until we got to the current one called Zexal...I haven't seen a single episode and I just don't think a little kid with an alien alter ego is going to make it interesting to me. Now the motorcylcles in 5Ds I liked! That's was such an original concept.

I'm going to stop for today, but since I'm feeling almost all better (just sniffles and a bad cough) I'm going to have 3 new patterns for you all on Monday from the first manga I ever read! It's a real flashback for me, and I hope you enjoy them. I won't let you know the series until then though, so it'll be a surprise!

More progress and a drawing.

I'm feeling a little better today, and I think I've figured out a pattern to make for you when I'm done posting today. I'm going to make a simple pattern of Seto Kaiba from Yugi-Oh, since he was my first Anime crush and will require little thinking and reference on my part.

Anyway, Here's some more progress on Niijima. The picture's pretty poor quality, but I've started the green in his hair, completed the outline, and got his highlights finished.



And now I'm going to do something kind of special. My art teacher is leaving at the end of this year. His father suffered a brain injury and can't run his barely farm anymore, so Mr. Cody is going back home to run it for him. He's been a wonderful teacher and probably my absolute favorite of all time, despite only being my teacher for two years. To thank him, my highschool is passing around a sketch book for students to put drawings and messages in for him. This picture is what I drew for him.



It's a portrait of him, the sides got kind of cut off by my scanner so you can't really read it. It says "To my favorite teacher, Thank you for encouraging me to follow my dream and to improve my skills. This drawing wouldn't have been possible without you."

We're going to give him the sketchbook at graduation. That's all for today, I'm going to start Seto so that he'll be ready by tomorrow.

More progress on Niijima

I couldn't focus enough to make a new pattern, and in fact I wound up going home from school before noon. I'm still sick but there's too much to do here at school today that I can't afford to miss. ie. Chem, cap and gown pics, and art class. I did however get some more done on Niijima. His outline's almost done, then I can work on filling him in. I should have time today in art to work on him since I finished the latest assignment early. I'm really tired so I'm not going to make this much longer. Here's the picture.



Hopefully I'll have more to post tomorrow.

Pattern and Painting : Deidara

I'm going to make this post pretty short, because my dad gave me his cold...I took some cold medicine and its making me really drowsy this morning.

I'll get right to it then. The pattern I have for you today is Deidara from Naruto. He's my favorite character and I can really relate to him, being an artist myself.



if you want to finish off his ponytail I imagine it wouldn't be that hard to guess how the stitches would play out. I just didn't feel like pasting in more graph paper above his head to make it look pretty.

Next is a painting I did of Deidara on the wall by my bed. I really hate plain white walls, they're so boring.



The color mixing in his hair looks lovely and I like being able to look at him before I go to bed each night. That's all for now, I'm going to figure out what my next pattern will be and get started on it.

Finished at last!! Takeda Ikki pattern.

It took me a long time, longer than any other patterns to finish, but rightfully so! This is probably my most detailed pattern yet . I think I'll probably stitch Takeda on a different piece of fabric so he can become his own pillow. I'll have to get some more thread before I start on him anyway.

Now here he is!



On that note, I got quite a bit done on Niijima over this past weekend!



I have a few other things to post about, but I'm going to save those for tomorrow so I have something cool and coordinating to post about . This is a short one, but I hope you enjoy it, ALSO! I you stitch Takeda before I get the chance I would LOVE LOVE LOVE to see how he turns out!

Thatssssssss a very nice post you've got there...(DeathNote, Takeda's progress and more!)

I should be writing my lit paper on 1984 that's due at about 12:30, but I'm the queen of procrastination when it comes to papers. Instead of doing homework like any smart person would, I spent last night working on a few other things related to this blog.

The first is, if you couldn't figure it out from the title, a pattern for a MineCraft Creeper my brother requested. It was pretty easy to put together, but I figure sewing it will be a little irritating with all the different color changes in such a small area.



Next is the main reason I left my paper til this morning to do, I was busy at work on my Death Note set. I completed Light and L, and because they happened to be stitched so closely together, I decided to put their handcuffs on them :) The joke didn't go unnoticed by either of my parents, my mom hasn't seen the show but she knows enough of it, and my dad's kind of a fan of it so he really liked it.



Next, I think I might have mentioned somewhere that I'm in a Mermaid Melody fandubbing group, our latest songdub is out. We did Daiji Na Takarabako, or Magic Treasure Box. I play Rina (The girl with the Green Hair). Thoug this isn't our best dub, I think its pretty good and if you're into that kind of thing, you may enjoy it :)



And lastly, I'm still struggling with the proportions on the pattern of Takeda, so he'll be a while, instead of posting another boring WIP shot (because there's really hardly any difference) I decided I'd post a picture of the doodle of Takeda I did yesterday during one of my more boring classes.



Thats it for now, I'm going to try to direct my brain into homework mode.

Pattern WIP and Story Time!

Well I had an eventfu afternoon yesterday. I was called during class by my dad, about 10 minutes til school lets out, saying that his car broke down ten miles out of town. It was rainy weather and cold yesterday, and he couldn't fix it with the tools he had. On top of that, he hadn't eaten breakfast or lunch...so my dad was kind of pissed off and told me we'd have to get a ride from someone to get home. So I rounded up 2 of my three siblings and couldn't find the third. Cameron had apparently already wandered over to the store to buy some candy and then he was going to walk to where my mom works. The rest of us got rides and made it home just fine, then went on to make phonecalls to mom and dad, asking where Cameron was, and how dad was doing (respectively).

Finally one of mom's co-workers picked up my dad and brought him home, and my mom and brother got a ride too (Mom can't drive, her foot is hurt right now). Everyone was home, but now dad had to go and get his car. He didn't want to leave it out there because its this kit-car he's been working on forever. So, Mom, Dad, and I had to drive out there and wait for dad to fix his Kelmark GT. Then He drove home in that, and I had to drive mom home. I'm going to be honest and say that even though I took Drivers Ed in the 8th grade, I'm still not liscensed...I have a permit, but I just never really bothered to learn. I was scared to drive in the rain, and the vehicle was a Buic Enclave...its kinda big. But regardless, I drove home and according to my parents I did a wonderful job! I may just try to get my liscense after all.

Ok, Story time's Over!

I really wanted to get my pattern of Takeda finished for you, but with all that happened yesterday I didn't have the time. I did get about a third of it planned out, and I thought I'd post a WIP picture of it so you could see it so far. I know the colors aren't quite right compared to the referance image, but I'll fix that when I get the rest of the actual image drawn out.



I also got the Light Yagami Sprite all stitched up and have started L, I can't wait to get to work on Niijima <3

Finished Rikichi, and New Kenichi Pattern! (along with some rambling about Kenichi)

First off I'll start this post by saying I finished Rikichi yesterday in art class! He came out adorable, and even cuter than the pattern!



He was really quick to sew, and I love the outcome! I may do more patterns of him in the future!~

Now onto the main topic of my post, I created a new pattern for the anime History's Strongest Desciple : Kenichi of Haruo Niijima.



Honestly at first I HATED this character, he was annoying and just plain irritating, but like the little worm he is, he wriggled his way into my heart somehow. Now I adore him for some unexplained reason. I look forward to stitching him pretty soon (I'm working on Missy-Tannenbaum's Death Note set right now, but he's probably next~) And I'm also in the process of making another pattern from this anime of Takeda Ikki, AKA Takeda the Striker. Takeda is probably my favorite character in this series, and he is just so super sweet and handsome~

Now I'm going to embed some youtube clips of this hilarious series to help people who've never heard of it get a feel for it.

Here's the first opening animation



and a compilation of funny moments



My favorite funny moment



And These two scenes are my favorite Niijima Scenes!





Now I'm off to work on that pattern of Takeda!

"Nostalgia Pillow" project progress.

First off, I got more done on Rikichi last night. I needed a pick me up, so I sat down and watched History's Strongest Desciple: Kenichi and worked on my sewing. It's a great funny show, and I do believe I'll be making a couple patterns from it. If you've seen it, you know what I mean. It has some of the most realistic fighting scenes while still being cute, endearing, and it really hits home for scrawny wimps like me who dream of being stronger.

Here's my progress on Rikichi so far.



I just need to finish up his skin, add the eyes, white, and the little pink blush.



Now! Onto the titicular topic, my "Nostalgia pillow." I've mentioned it in a previous post. It's my big sewing project. Every stitch I've put on this blog (aside from the Eeyore I stitched for my mom) is on the same piece of fabric, which will eventually become a pillow. I'll end this post with several pictures of my pillow thus far.

Bleach pattern and ramblings

So there's still issues with the internet at my place and I'm starting to figure I'll just have to use the desktop. It's frustrating but oh well...I'll have to learn to live with it for about a month and 3 days, in other words until Graduation.

I wanted to finish the Snow-Chocobo over the weekend, but the weather wasn't friendly and he's dead in our front yard lol. He was a fun project while he lasted, but it's all melting now, just as quickly as it came.

I have a calculus test today that I should be studying for but I'm so close to giving up on that class, and I'm not the only one. That class consists of the six smartest kids in my senior class, and we all want to give up! However I'm going to power through and try to get above a C in that class by graduation. At least I'm still passing (I find that simple fact amazing) and it's on the borderline between a B and C (even more amazing!)

I think I've bored you to death with that, but I felt like rambling a bit so here's something useful!
Here's a pattern of a rather unfamous Bleach character that I utterly love to death! His name is Rikichi and he is an unseated officer of the Sixth Division (Byakuya and Renji's squad). He's shown very breifly in the second season being a nuisance and chasing Hell Butterflies, and later on he's shown in the background and filler episodes. He's easily recognizable by the tattoo similar to Renji's above his left Eye. Rikichi found his way into my heart through internet roleplay. I RP on facebook quite a bit, but when I first started I wanted a character no one else had. That character was Rikichi. I'm currently the only Rikichi page on Facebook and am slowly gaining him a fandom <3. WELL ON TO THE PATTERN!

I made this sort of a chibi version of him because I wanted it to be cute. I've also started sewing him, but I haven't gotten far.



While I'm at it, I might as well get him a little more recognition, here's a picture of the loveable guy XD



Can't you just see why I love him! I've even pulled together a cute cosplay of him that I often go out in public wearing :3

Here's The Soul Reaper Version



I don't go out in this outfit though, that'd be just too out of place. After all, in Bleach when a Soul Reaper wants to go to the world of the living they have a Gigai. So, here's mine



I also have a video of one of my shopping endeavours up on Youtube. Just type in "Rikichi goes shopping" and look for the one posted by ANime Saturday! I think that's quite enough of my ramblings today, I should probably worry about calculus a little bit before the test in 45 minutes. XD

Dang Internet!!! And Snowdays!

So Tuesday-Thursday we had snow days here at my school, and I honestly don't see why they decided we needed to have classes today....I also couldn't post much due to some sort of malfunction on the school tech department's side...I use a school issued laptop the majority of the time, so when they mess up, it messes me up.

Anyway, along with snow days, one would assume that we have quite a bit of snow here in South Dakota. Which yes, we did. My sister and I spent about four hours yesterday trying to build a Black Mage Chocobo out of snow, to match her plushie. It's almost done and I do have pictures, but I took them last night when it was kind of dark so its hard to see. I'll post them anyway so you can see how far we've gotten.

here it is from the front



and the side



Next thing I'm goingt to talk about is the fact that I finished Griff during these snow days, and he looks fantastic! I took his picture this morning, because I was too tired to do it last night when I did finish him.



I think the blue looks nice, and it used up a lot of this tangled mass of pretty blue floss I had. It also gave me the excuse I needed to untangle it heheh. I showed him to my whole family and only my sister, who remembers just about everything I do, knew who he was. So I spent an hour looking for my Haru Glory bookmark from the fourth grade. I couldn't find him, but I'm going to look again when I get home.

Next on the agenda is my finished art project! It's a scene from Monty Python's Quest for the Holy Grail. I just took it a few minutes ago, as I'm in art right now.



I like the bright green of the background, and next up is a WIP of Reno from FF7 Advent Children. I love Reno's personality and his bright lush red hair <3 I plan on getting together a Reno cosplay soon, but the wig is still out of stock...

And now I've posted everything I've been working on during my short absence from the internet. I hope this brings you back up to speed. I'm still not sure what I'll sew next but I'm leaning towards Sunako and Kyohei.

Until next time :)

Sorry for not posting, and Completed stitches!!!

I couldn't get on the internet this past weekend, something wrong with the system. Something's still wrong.....I'm using my sister Ami's (her username)computer to make this post. Now that that's out of the way, I got some stitches finished for you!!!! I've stitched several of Missey_Tannenbaum's sprite patterns from her blog Dorkstitch.blogspot.com.

For you today I have two pictures of the completed works. The first picture is of her sprite patterns for Genesis, Cid, and Reno from FFVII.



These turned out so cute!! The next picture is of two patterns I requested from her, they were adorable though I had one little complaint, it was easily fixed and no big deal at all. Hardly noticeable unless you are a die-hard fan of Bleach's Ayasegawa Yumichika. (that would be me <3 <3 <3) Her pattern for Yumi called for blue floss for his eyes, which in fact are lavender in color. I even double checked and found this lovely reference image. (meaning I just found another picture for me to drool over)


(He's so goregeous!!) Anyway here's the completed stitches of Ikkaku and Yumichika <3 I really love them so much!!!!

The next thing I'm planning on stitching will be my pattern of Griff from Rave Master that I posted a few days ago, the bright blue color was too alluring not to!

Decaforce Sword Pattern

I started stitching Cid last night before dress rehearsal, but I didn't get very far on him, even though he's a small pattern. I did however get a pattern done of Haru's Decaforce Sword. It's known as Ten Powers in the manga. It's a sword that with the power of the Rave can use ten different abilities. I love this sword, and hope to make a replica some day in the not too distant future.

Anyway, here's the pattern.


I'll upload a WIP picture of Cid tonight when I get home, and I'll be taking a picture of my current art class project. If anyone has seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, they'll love it! I'll give you a hint, "It's just a flesh wound"

Rave Master Patterns

I couldn't help myself, I was going to save these so I'd have something to post tomorrow, but I got so bored here in study hall that I had the time to make two new patterns and theres still a half hour of study hall to go! Anyway for you I have created a pattern of Plue and a pattern of Griff. These two are very bizare little creatures.

Plue is like Haru's guide on his quest to find the Rave Stones. He's over 50 years old and loves sugar to death! We're not quite sure what he is, Haru says he's a dog, Ellie an Insect, some people a cat...We just don't know...



And secondly Griffon, Griff for short, is some wierd little blue talking eggplant that drives the gang around on their quest for quite some time. He's cute, but wierd and He's one of the characters I remembered far after I'd forgotten all about Shuda and the Shadow Stones. Something like this will definitely stick out in your mind.



Happy Stitching <3

Completed Griever!!

The title probably gave away what this post is about, but when Missy-Tannenbaum said she would be making sprite patterns for me of Ikkaku and Yumichika, I rushed to finish my current project, and I love how it turned out! I think I'm going to spend some time stitching smaller patterns for a while. I have quite a few of her sprite patterns stored away for little projects. I'm probably going to be doing Genesis Rahpsodos and Cid Highwind. Since I'm in my school's play which is this weekend, I don't know how fast my stitching will get done, but once I get a lot more free time I plan to stitch all the small patterns I have tucked away. I'm working on a kind of collage of stitches on one big piece of fabric to make a pillow out of all my fandoms. I've got quite a bit of Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy on it, and I'll be adding Bleach, MLP and a bunch of other things. I think today while I'm in study hall I'll be making a pattern of Plue from Rave Master, that way that anime can be a part of my pillow too!

Now Here's the picture of the finished stitch, I hope you enjoy!

WARNING: FANGIRL POST!!!!

This post is dedicated to the first Anime man I ever really fangirled HARD CORE over. Hadera Musica (known as Hamrio Musica in the Japanese dub).

Last night I went and started rewatching an old anime that aired on Tv when I was in the fourth grade. Rave Master by Hiro Mashima. I've heard that his new series Fairy Tale is really popular, and when I saw a screen shot from it with Plue in it I went immediately into Nostalgia mode.



Known in Japan as Groove Adventure Rave is the story of Haru Glory's quest to find the Rave stones, the only force that can defeat the evil Shadow Stones. Sounds pretty straight forward, right? Sort of...Bring in Ellie, an amnesiac searching for her memories, and famous (Super sexy, total hottie) theif, and leader of the Silver Rythem Gang, Hadera Musica. I'm not going to spoil the plot incase you guys want to watch it, but the fights are awesome and some of the VAs in it are pretty famous. Yuri Lowenthal (Sasuke from Naruto, Keigo from Bleach, Robin from Teen Titans) voices Haru (I actually got to meet him, he's super nice!), and Michelle Ruff (most famous for voicing Rukia from Bleach) plays Ellie. Hot bad guy Shuda is voiced by Crispin Freeman (Alucard from Hellsing, Kyon from Haruhi, Itachi from Naruto...the list goes on, I love that man).

Anyway On to Musica, my darling!~~ (probably a little late to say this but if you don't want fangirling, you shouldn't read this post)



I've loved anime since I before I was able to count to ten. I grew up on Pokemon, Sailor Moon, Cardcaptors, and Yugioh, and there were anime boys I liked...but Musica was the first one I ever went head over heals for. Fourth grade was about Eight years ago, so I was around 9 at the time. I fell for him hard, I wanted to change my name to Musica, pierce my eybrow, and wear heavy silver skull jewelry. I was obsessed, and if you watch him for a few minutes, you'll see why. Any girl could fall for him, even now at 17 I can't help a smile at all his witty comebacks and his playful flirting. He's a famous theif who wants the world to know it, but that doesn't mean you can't count on him. He deeply cares for his friends and will go so far as to turn himself in to the cops to break one out of jail from the inside. He's smooth and handsome, and very skilled with his weapon. He's on a quest to find Silver Ray, so he join's up with Haru and Ellie.
He's really well voiced too. His VA is the voice of Gin Ichimaru and Kisuke Urahara from Bleach and he sounds like a well balanced mix of the two. He's laid back, but smooth and cunning. Just as a theif should be.

I was a little bit dissappointed when he changed his look a little after joining up with the group. His black hair isn't near as sexy as his brown hair was, but he's still amazingly hot!



Quite honestly, the way I dress even today was heavily influenced by the guys in this show. Flashy jackets (my leather one's my favorite), black t-shirts, and tons of chain jewelry. This show is one of my instant Nostalgia switches.
Everytime I see Haru or Musica, my face goes like this

ok not quite that creepy, but I think you get the picture XD

Anyway I'll just end this post here...I was going to post the picture of My twin and I with Yuri Lowenthal, but I don't have it on my computer...

Video, Cid, and Griever Progress!!!

First of all, I got Cid scanned at last!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


secondly I have finished the music video AND properly uploaded it so here's it is!


And Lastly here's the Griever progress, it'll be finished pretty soon!



Oh, by the way...I hope you all had a good Easter Yesterday