Well I've moved house!
It was a long week full of heavy bits of furniture, carrying bags up stairs and scrubbing of floors in the old house :( But Tim and I are in our nice new apartment and almost unpacked :D

It's a lot bigger than I remembered, but as it's not quite finished, the lack of blinds and aircon is killing us this week (stupid Melbourne heat!)

Above is the angled view outside my bedroom window. I seem to have my own Tower of Orthanc which will go nicely with my Lord of the Rings themed crochet but doesn't actually look very nice - being so grey and un-tree-ish :( I think the tower is actually a big water feature - so great for our water restrictions :|

I am working on lots of custom orders at the moment, including this Dugong in Disguise with a grey fin (he's looking out my new bedroom window here), and some more David Tennant plushies.

I'm also super happy to be back at the library after my holiday :D

In Melbourne it's 9.30am and it's already 30 degrees :/ Ick!

Woke up really early because of the heat, but has been an exciting morning - two pattern sales and got featured in my first treasury - See my little Dugong in Disguise at the top left? yay! Many thanks to ArtNomadix!

I love the blue MilkwoodDesign resin ring also featured.

A friend and I have been experimenting with resin in the last few days. Apart from the initial problem of it melting through the plastic cup in which we mixed it, our experiments have been useful for working out what does and doesn't work. It's a very difficult (and somewhat smelly) medium, as there is really no undo option.



Above is a pic of my favourite attempt so far - copper wire, blue shiny dye and black backing paper - I just wish it hadn't turned out so thick - but the resin started drying before we had done the backing layer properly :( hoping for better results next time!

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 :)

My newest project is a 'Dugong pretending to be a shark'. I have so far created two dugongs and am working on the fins to go on top!



I am writing up this one as a pattern as I go, he should be a quick, fun knit. I will probably add it to Etsy when it is done ^.^ (download free PDF). Perhaps I will also have a go at selling the blue dugong on Etsy, once I have got over my fear of postage!