I recently bought a group of crochet patterns from the etsy shop crochetpattern. The one I really wanted was the beautiful alien bunny, which I have now made up :) I am very happy with him and am using him as a door stop. He leans against my bedroom door and stops it from closing all the time.





It was a very easy and quick pattern, and the only advice I would have for anyone using any of these patterns, is to note the stitch numbers and not the wording. I think the pattern was originally written in Japanese, and the translation is slightly off.

The wording says: Increase with two single crochet stitches in every 2 stitches of the previous row (24 stitches).

Whereas it actually means: Increase after every 2 stitches of the previous row

By looking at the stitch count you can realise this, but it could cause a bit of confusion. Still, it is a lovely pattern, and I am very fond of my bunny.

Progress with my tiny doctor whos is going well.

I've done the bodies for William (1), Patrick (2), John (3), Tom (5), and Christopher (9) - and I've fully completed Peter (5) because he is my all time favourite doctor :) I think he turned out quite nicely - note the celery in his lapel.

This is my completed 5th Doctor (see 5th doctor on wiki)







And here are some photos of the other work in progress doctors:



If you can do some beginner crochet, the pattern will be available soon (update 2012: grab the pattern from the patterns page as part of the Mini Doctor Whos pattern). I am not quite sure how I will structure the patterns yet, maybe one for the basic doctor body, then provide one specific to each doctor based on this so that people wanting the whole set won't get duplication.

Or maybe that doesn't matter. Let me know if you have any ideas or if you think making up the pattern is a good idea - probably going to be quite a bit of work to put together one for each doctor.

Now i'm off to the opshop to see what i can find. My friend who is going to south africa for a month has let me borrow her sewing machine! and i am very excited!!

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It has been a productive weekend so far.

I wanted to test my hippo pattern so i started making one out of pink wool - but it seems he has turned into a pig! Then I made him a removeable hat to go between his ears :)



And here is his story:
Piggle the Cowboy hails from the Wild West. He is tough and strong and always gets his way. With his daunting blue cowboy hat, and threateningly fuzzy tail, any saloon will go silent at the mere sight of him.



I have just made the pattern available in here if you would like to make one for yourself or for a friend.




ohh and the hat is removable of course :)


Enjoy :)

Because I tend to skip from project to project, I've found that I do create a lot of little scraps of different coloured yarns.

I used to throw them out, but recently I've started tying them together and have been formulating some ideas about what to do with them.

I've never really made any granny squares, because I don't have much patience for sticking to patterns, but I was thinking it would be pretty cool to make some free form squares from all my project scraps, and one day to end up with a group of squares that would represent all the things I have created in the last few years. It's going pretty slowly at the moment, because I am trying to match up colours that don't look terrible together.

But anyway, I think it would be a lovely thing to have in the end if I can sew them into a blanket or a bag shape and have a memory of all the different things I have created. It might be a very long project!

Well you may think I have dyed myself a gradiented skirt when looking at this picture, but actually all I did was walk home from work in the middle of Melbourne's current storm.



I had an umbrella (which went inside-out 8 times), and still everything I was wearing was completely soaked! Thanks connex for running trains only every 20 minutes :( if i'd been home 10 mins earlier I wouldn't have got wet at all!

But it was quite an adventure, so I don't mind too much :)

Hello to the new followers, hopefully I should have something crafty to show you tonight :)

Visited two markets today with a friend - the Sunday markets at southbank (under the Arts Centre bridge), and the craft market associated with the Melbourne Writers Festival which had a 'stories' theme.

Saw some lovely resin bracelets at southbank, but they weren't quite as beautiful as my favourite ones on etsy: DELiciousDesignz and bobishi



Both are lovely ladies from DUST (the Down Under Street Team). Will hopefully get around to buying something from these shops, although I guess the thing with resin molds is that they come in certain sizes, and I have very very small fingers and wrists. But I will do some investigating :)

Will hopefully get around to posting up my newest creations later tonight :)

Well here is my latest creation, Henry the Dugong. I am finally getting around to blogging about him.


Henry is named after Henry Tilney from Austen's Northanger Abbey (there is somewhat of a tradition of naming soft toys after Austen men in our share-house). We currently have Bingley the Sheep and Darcy the heart-shaped-pillow.

Anyway here he is:



And here is his story:
Henry the Dugong has lived a happy life floating on the tides and whiffling the sea grass around his blue home. But lately he has been dreaming of adventure. If only he was as swift and strong as a shark...

Using some splinters of wood found in a sunken ship, Henry quickly knitted up a jumper for himself, attaching a beautifully sculpted fin to the top so that anyone who saw him coming in the murky waters would think he was a shark!"



I will be making the pattern available in my etsy shop  free if anyone is interested in making one for yourself.



Oh, and the fin is removable so that if he gets to scary as a shark you can take it off and he will be a normal dugong again :)



A plushie Henry is available on etsy here :)

Can you guess who I am making next?
I am very excited, but it might be a bit of a long project. I need to make 10, perhaps 11 of these little guys, although I've started in the middle. Need to visit lincraft tonight and get some embroidery thread for the hair, and maybe some little beads for the eyes

This is a project I have been working on for a while. My friend has just finished an Engineering/Science degree and I wanted to make her something special to celebrate the graduation ceremony which is coming up.

I decided to crochet a version of her holding her degree with a gown and hat (which we are not allowed to wear at our university :< ) and her wonderful clown shoes which she was tempted to wear under her graduation shoes. I figured that even if she wasn't allowed a hat and shoes for her real ceremony, her little crocheted avatar could have them :)

So here is how she turned out:



I had a lot of trouble with the hair and the shoes, which I re-did, but I think she turned out pretty nicely in the end :)

Hello,
Well it's been a lovely week. I am feeling muchly cheered by the DUST team which I joined last week when I made me lions below, and by two exciting other things.

There are now 4 people following my blog! *waves* this is a lovely feeling because it has been going for quite a while now without knowing if anyone was watching on. They all have lovely blogs themselves, so you should go over to the right of the page and visit them :)

The other exciting thing is that after the addition of my lion and my 'dugong in disguise' I have some hearts on etsy ^.^, which may not mean anything much but still gives me a warm glow inside when i see their cute icons:



So thanks to EternalRootsDesign, RainbowRevolution, Dreamy1, missymaomao, and laceandlinks for cheering me up :)

yes, it's been a good week - and I'm about to do a post about my dugong who is now for sale now, even though my mum seems to want to keep him for herself :

Hello,
When I was originally making my Lion for August, my friends told me that a spiky mane would look best. I was unsure and thought I would like to try and loopy mane because the stitching would be more interesting.

I thought my friends were right, but I decided to make another baby lion to test it out. So this is Dandy Lion.



It turned out to be more difficult than the big lion! because I didn't really know what I was doing with the loopy stitches and wasn't sure how to get them to hold (I was on a train at the time)

But it seemed to work ok in the end :)



I am not sure quite sure what I will do with him yet, perhaps put him up for sale in my etsy shop, or perhaps add him as a free gift if I ever get my first purchase :) Many more items needed before that will happen I am sure

Hello,
After recently joining DUST (Down Under Street Team), who are having a Lion themed sale for August, I decided to try and create something small to fit the theme.

This is my little lion, who would be great either as something to brighten up your desk at work/home, or as a toy for the kids to throw around/juggle.



He is crocheted from yellow and red yarn, and measures about 8cm (3inches) head to tail.










He will be available at my etsy shop this month :)

As a well-intended attempt to make myself clean up my desk, I decided to turn an old shoe/boots box into to a desk container with different compartments.



I made the middle sections from parts of cereal boxes, but out lots of scenic pictures from newspaper, and covered the box with colour :)