I’m a bear… I’m a container… I’m a cute bear container. I think my crocheting skills are slowly improving but my collection of “crap” I’ve made is growing as well. Tarah over at KDD has been nice enough to take this guy off my hands with a private swap. She has some really cute handmade [...]
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Spring has zipped by and it is nearly Summer. It feels like I haven’t had enough time for anything and I have loads of stuff I need to catch up on. As far as crafty bits go I have had cupcakes on the mind and yarn + hooks have been calming. So to welcome the hot, [...]
Things have been happening and I have been preoccupied, apologies. In my little world of crochet I have been making things left and right but my favorite thing at the moment is making these little octopi. The first one I made was adopted by Tarah and Chris, they have named her [...] I hope everyone is having a lovely Easter holiday. In the spirit of things I am having a giveaway, just leave a comment and you will be entered. A winner will be selected via random.org in the next few days. I have been posting for a while and I wish I could say I have been off doing important and exciting things but that would be a lie. The most thrilling thing that has happened was the purchase and building of this cabinet from ikea. I’ve been look everyone for some piece of storage furniture [...] I finally finished this bear, his name is Walter. He was made from the bear pattern by LuvlyGurumi. The pattern was very easy to follow, I added my own touches to the face and think he turned out rather cute. I would like to get my hands on the froggy and penguin pattern one of [...] I am very sorry for all the crocheting posts but at the moment it is my current obsession. I took a trip out to the local yarn store, it was a little out of my way but I like to support local small businesses when I can. I thought I was prepared. I had researched [...]
Who knew crocheting could be so damn addicting. I finally finished my first large project after many long hours. I think the photos of amigurumi are misleading, they don’t look like they would be so time intensive. For this project I chose a cactus design that I got out of the [...] After three days of crocheting this is what I have finally come up with. I used a pattern from the book “Amigurumi World, seriously cute crochet” a free version can be found here http://amigurumipatterns.blogspot.com/2009/03/little-cafe-con-lech-cup-from-amigurumi.html I wish I could say it was easy but it was not! I started many times only to find [...] I have the day off for MLK day and it’s cold and gloomy outside. Here is a picture of a pincushion I made to brighten things up! Smile I’m trying to think of a good way to spend my day off. I could do something productive like laundry, finish up some painting, or [...] |
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