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 :)