April 2007 - PlanetJune by June Gilbank: Blog

fuzzy seal available

April 23, 2007 @ 7:03 am · Filed under: Patterns

The Fuzzy Seal pattern is now available! You can order it directly from PlanetJune.com and the pdf will be e-mailed to you. Now you can make your own amigurumi baby harp seal!

green beaded necklace

April 22, 2007 @ 11:10 am · Filed under: Beading / Jewellery, Polymer Clay

April’s OneHourCraft Challenge is “to make an impossibly gorgeous necklace”, so I got the polymer clay out and started playing. I used a base of translucent Fimo Soft, with snakes of green and blue running through it. I also added dark greeny-blue micro beads (tiny glass beads with no holes) to the rounded beads, which […]

sunshine and smiles

April 20, 2007 @ 5:38 pm · Filed under: General

I had a nice surprise waiting for me when I got home today. And it was perfectly timed to cheer me up (my wrist is hurting again, thanks to some work-related strain on it yesterday): Photo taken in dappled sunlight to prove that the sun really is out – yay! It’s a package of cute […]

faux granite stones

April 18, 2007 @ 12:56 pm · Filed under: Polymer Clay

I made these polymer clay faux granite rocks last week. They were originally intended to be stones for the base of my artificial bonsai, but I decided they weren’t quite right for that project. I just sanded them quickly with my homemade detail sander to get my fingerprints off. (The size of each stone is […]

flower fairy

April 18, 2007 @ 8:45 am · Filed under: Crochet

Testing another pattern for Kristen, here’s my second (and last) little fairy – she’s a bit shy though: Ahh, here she is! I’m really pleased with her hair: I unravelled the plies of worsted weight yarn so it would be fine and fluffy and curly: It was fun to try out someone else’s patterns for […]

crocheted fairy

April 14, 2007 @ 5:37 pm · Filed under: Crochet

I tested this fairy pattern for Kristen. I followed the pattern exactly except for the colours and hairstyle. And I had far too much fun giving her the long thick tresses (chocolate brown with black streaks and honey highlights) that I will never have in real life! Isn’t she cute?

easy-care bonsai

April 11, 2007 @ 8:41 am · Filed under: General

And now for something completely different… Inspired by a segment on artificial bonsai on the TV show How It’s Made that I saw on Discovery channel last week, and Mumblepeg’s lovely crocheted sakura (the “Best Wildcard” winner in the Softie Awards), I was inspired to create my own bonsai sakura (that’s a cherry blossom tree, […]

fuzzy seal

April 6, 2007 @ 6:33 pm · Filed under: Crochet

I really am back in action! Fuzzy Penguin needed a friend, so I’ve made a baby fuzzy seal: They are fast friends already, as you can see: Maui decided the photoshoot couldn’t proceed without at least one shot including his handsome face 🙂 This pattern is (I hope) going to be a true original – […]