Lately I have been working on this monkey in a bucket! He was originally drawn by tim as a wallpaper here
but now i have crocheted him and he is full of rice and very hugable. The most trouble was how to get the face right, it is very difficult to take a flat image and turn him into 3d woollyness and retain the facial expression.
I realised the other day that it was my housemates birthday and that I only had an hour left to make her something. This was what i came up with: Body 01. magic circle of 6 02. inc all = 12, place a row marker 03. *inc1, sc1* repeat to row end 04. *inc1, sc1* repeat to row end 05. *inc1, sc5* repeat to row end 06. sc 1 row 07. sc 1 row 08. sc 1 row 09. *dec1, sc5* repeat to row end 10. *dec1, sc3* repeat to row end 11. *dec1, sc1* repeat to row end (stuff carefully with rice) 12. dec all 13. dec all, till end cut yarn leaving a long tail and pull yarn through remaining loop
Feet (make two) 1. chain 2 2. inc all = 4 3. *inc, cr4* rpt = 5 4. cr 1 row 5. *inc3 in one stitch, slip1* rpt = 11 6. tie off & sew to body
Add a little plaited sprout of hair to the top, sew on some eyes & he is done :)
These are my new obsession. My friend Sarah showed me how to make them and now I have made 4 because I just can't stop. Here are some photos of the first one I made. I will add some from the newer hats soon.
This flower hair clip was based on a design from a book a friend lent me. It could be created with a variety of seed bead colours to make different specific flowers, but the width of the petals is somewhat dependent of the strength of the wire in holding each line of beads.
Each petal is created by adding 3 beads to the centre of a length of wire, then rows of 6 beads which both ends of the wire is fed through. _000_ [ ] 000000 [ ] 000000 | | and so on...
I added two centre sprouts and a hair clip to the bottom, and am quite happy with how it turned out
I knitted this hippo for a friend's baby to give at the engagement party. Got started a bit late and began knitting friday after work, and knitted right through until I was stepping off the train to her house. Will upload the pattern for it soon.
Update: buy pattern from the patterns page
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