I thought I’d try writing a different kind of post today: an insight into my design process, and what happens when things don’t work out as planned. Remember this picture? This is the orang utan I started crocheting at last spring’s Creativ Festival. My goal was to make a life-sized, realistic baby orang. After the […]
Thank you all for the book congratulations! I’m sorry I didn’t have any real photos of it to share – the book is still in layout, so there’s nothing finished to show you yet. But soon, I promise! Now, back to the crochet patterns. To make up (I hope) for my absence, I have two […]
Did you know that 2009 is the International Year of Natural Fibres? Natural fibres include plants (cotton, flax, hemp, bamboo, etc) and animals (sheep, goat, alpaca, camel, angora rabbit, etc). This is perfect timing for me – I’ve been thinking for months of making a series of animals out of yarn made from their own […]
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll already know that I just discovered I live a one-hour drive away from the yarn-lovers paradise (aka the Bernat/Patons yarn factory outlet), and, as if that wasn’t exciting enough, there’s a big sale there this week – eek! I headed out there this morning, through what should have […]
Sorry, I couldn’t resist that post title! I am amazed by the response to my Lemmings, particularly on Craftster (7000 views and rising!). I’m glad I’m not the only one with fond memories of these guys! If you’re wondering what all the fuss is about, you can play a port of the original Lemmings game […]
Okay, I can’t spin out the suspense any longer – I have to show you what I’ve made… It seems like there are a lot of Mario or PacMan inspired crafts going on at the moment, but I can’t imagine why nobody has thought to make these before: amigurumi Lemmings! Gamers of the ’90s probably […]
I thought it was about time I gave my favourite readers another gift, so here it is: a fun new donationware pattern… I’ve called these guys Mop Top Mascots for obvious reasons. They stand about 4″ tall, and the real joy of them is that they are so easy to make, and easy to customize. […]
Last week, I had a request for my catalogue, but, um, I don’t have a catalogue… I thought it would be interesting to try putting together a simple one as a PDF file. Sometimes it’s handy to see everything on one page (or 5 in this case – I couldn’t fit everything onto 1 page […]
