GIVEAWAY - David Tennant Doctor Plushie

I have decided to release my Doctor Who crochet patterns as free PDF downloads! - and to celebrate - a giveaway! read on!



The Doctor Who community (and indeed the whole craft community) is such a sharing world to be involved in that I would like to see many of my Doctors be created through the work I have put into these patterns. My main hope in making these free is that people will show me the Doctors they create from these patterns.

So to celebrate this decision, and the completion of the David Tennant pattern this afternoon - I've decided to hold my first blog giveaway!


The winner of the giveaway will win their own little plushie. The Doctor is 7cm tall and made with crochet/amigurumi techniques. For those who don't win I have listed my Doctor Who patterns down the right side of the site and more will be added soon - so take a look and you can make your very own Doctor :)


~~~ How to Enter ~~~

1) Leave a comment on this blog post letting me know:

which Doctor Who or Torchwood character / monster you would best like to see crocheted



Additional Entries

2) Follow my blog (let me know this in your comment = 1 entry)
3) Tell me which of my Doctor Who patterns you think is the most like the Doctor it was based on (see right of page = 1 entry)
4) Follow me on Twitter (leave your twitter name in your comment = 1 entry)
5-9) Buy something from my (understocked) Etsy shop (=5 entries)


Fine Print
- Giveaway closes on the 2nd of December 6pm (AEST)
- Please leave me a way to contact you
- International entries welcome
- Entries 1-4 can be listed in the same comment
- Winner will be contacted will need to reply with postage info
- Winner will be announced on this blog by the 5th of December

Enjoy :)

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Another TARDIS

I found another nice surprise on Ravelry this week. Gatchan from my logical song had made another TARDIS using my base pattern :)
(PDF freely downloadable HERE)

Again, the decoration is lovely! She has given me permission to feature these photos - aren't they awesome? :D

Tree of Gondor fingerless gloves completed

Well this week I completed my fair isle fingerless gloves with the tree of Gondor on the back of the hands.



They didn't turn out quite as nicely as I'd hoped, but they are still nice to wear. I've decided that even though working on 4 needles created a much nicer fit, it is much quicker and less stressful to just knit the gloves on 2 needles and put up with my slightly wonky seams, I'm sure I will get better as I go along.



Hope everyone had a fun Halloween :)
I'm off to work on some more patterns

Mushroom mushroom!

Since the name of my blog/shop is pixelated mushroom, I thought it was about time I actually made a mushroom!



This is a crochet amigurumi mushroom - i have written down the pattern, but would like to try it out with a slightly thinner hook before I publish it - as you can see, there are some gaps between the stitches and the white thread shows through where it shouldn't. I'll post the pattern up here once I've re-tested it (and taken some better photos) in case anyone is interested :)



My Doctor Whos have stalled a little, I'm so busy that i haven't had time to sort out what I need to take on the train to complete them. I have been working on patterns and there should be one finished this week however :)

Oh, and the favourite Doctor Who poll over on the right there ends in 2 days - it has been quite interesting. Christopher is lagging far behind (which surprises me) and Peter Davison and Tom Baker are catching up to David Tennant :)

More fingerless gloves and chocolates

I had a nice weekend away, although didn't get through most of the things I had hoped to find time to do. Daylesford was much as I remembered, although the second-hand book shop now has a coffee shop inside it (think Black Books :p) and there was a particularly tasty bakery in the main street.

The B&B (which was missing the second B) was ok. It was also a little odd in that the owners could rarely be found (when we arrived, and even when we were going to pay them for our stay)

On our trip I made a start on some new fingerless gloves, this time inventing a fair isle pattern of a tree to go on the back of the hand.



Recording the pattern on a chart is hurting my brain, and I just realised I have written some of it wrongly, but I hope to at least finish one glove this week.



Oh, and we also visited the Chocolate Mill near Daylesford where we got these cute chocolates - om nom nom!

Away for the weekend

I'm taking a little bit of time off work this friday and monday to get away for the weekend and have some rest. We're going to drive to Daylesford and wander around there a bit - I hope it won't rain!

I hope to get the world's most awesome slurpie/ice drink on the way there! (Granita from Coles Express :p - flavours include flavours Apple Blast, Citrus Twist, Tropical Splash, and Strawberry Bliss) I love slurpies!!

Oh, and I finally gave in and got this from DELiciousDesignz last night :) Del also has an Etsy Shop here with more lovely things.

Pink Squares & Pattern

This is what I am currently up to :)
Doesn't look very pretty yet but the squares are portable and I just don't have time to sort out different projects to pack in my bag each day.



Hoping that before I get bored I will make enough of them to sew together and make something pretty



This is my made-up square pattern in case anyone is interested.

Abreviations
ch = chain
sc = single crochet
hdc = half-double-crochet
sk = skip over one stitch in the base row before inserting hook

Pattern
1) Magic circle 12

2) Chain 2 to raise row height,
sc1, hdc-inc,
sc2, hdc-inc,
sc2, hdc-inc,
sc2, hdc-inc,
slip1 to connect to row beginning = 16

3) Chain 2 to raise row height,
sc2, ch3 returning to same st,
sc4, ch3 returning to same st,
sc4, ch3 returning to same st,
sc4, ch3, sc1
slip1 to connect to row beginning = 28

4) Chain 2 to raise row height,
hdc4, ch3 returning to same st,
hdc8, ch3 returning to same st,
hdc8, ch3 returning to same st,
hdc8, ch3 returning to same st, hdc3
slip1 to connect to row beginning = 44

5) Chain 2 to raise row height,
hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc2, ch3 returning to same st,
hdc2, ch1, sk1 & hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc2, ch1, sk1 & hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc2, ch3 returning to same st,
hdc2, ch1, sk1 & hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc2, ch1, sk1 & hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc2, ch3 returning to same st,
hdc2, ch1, sk1 & hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc2, ch1, sk1 & hdc1, ch1, sk1 & hdc2, ch3 returning to same st, hdc to end of row,
slip1 to connect to row beginning = 60

6) Chain 2 to raise row height,
hdc9, (ch1, hdc1, ch1) into one st,
hdc16, (ch1, hdc1, ch1) into one st,
hdc16, (ch1, hdc1, ch1) into one st,
hdc16, (ch1, hdc1, ch1) into one st, hdc to the end of the row
slip1 to connect to row beginning

7) Chain 1 to raise the row height,
sc10, sc3 into one stitch,
sc18, sc3 into one stitch,
sc18, sc3 into one stitch,
sc18, sc3 into one stitch, sc to the end of the row
slip1 to connect to row beginning

Fingerless gloves

I love knitting fingerless gloves :) These blue ones are the first thing I have knitted using 4 needles - they were quite difficult to get used to, but no sewing is required afterwards which is wonderful.







Definitely time for bed now, it's been a rather lame week :s

Fifth Doctor pattern complete

Even though I made this little guy first I only just got around to finishing his pattern instructions the other night.



I have now added the pattern to my Etsy and Ravelry shops. Will hopefully get around to adding it to Zibbet.

You'll need to be logged in if you want to view the Ravelry pattern.

I reckon I'll do the patterns for Tom or David next :)

Sneak peak of Tom:


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Ravelry

Just wanted to say how much I am enjoying Ravelry at the moment :)

It's a beautifully designed site/community that provides a place for knitters and crocheters to add their personal projects, patterns, and future (queued) plans - as well as join in with groups and a network of favourited projects.

I love the way everything is linked together on Ravelry (projects, blog posts, images (from flickr or other sources), patterns, groups etc.) And the layout really shows everyone's work as beautiful!

I have added my list of projects to my profile and I really love how colourful my page looks and how happy all my creations look together on display:
(click the image for a closeup)



And also added my patterns for sale through the Ravelry downloader which seems to be a great system so far. It allows you to upload the PDFs so that anyone buying will pay through paypal and then immediately be able to download the file :)



If you're on Ravelry too, add me as a friend, I'd love to see your projects page :)

Time for bed now - trivia tomorrow night then juggling the next night - lots of late nights zzzzz