Patterns for Adorable and Distinctive Toys
It's getting crowded in here with all the writing buddies Writing buddies tend to take up my knitting time in September. So far, I've got two red pandas, two black and white pandas, one tiny jackalope, a fawn and the first of this year's animal luchad ...
The pandas get meta - looking at last week's WIP photo while they pose for this week's. I spent a lot of time in thrift stores this week, looking for costume pieces to finish up clothing my "Ghost of a Chance" cast, but I didn't take any photos of the ...
My creative week in a nutshell - three tiny pandas and some possible costuming pieces for my hippie psychic Since last week I have made three of this year's writing buddies (except for their embroidery finishing) and spent a lot of time and a little m ...
Mr. Bunny and Mr. Pig missed the first batch of tiny ninjas so much that I made them bunny and pig ninjas of their own. Their shuriken throwing stars are little star stickers. It's time for this year's batch of writing buddies. Every year I knit up a ...
Tiny Waves socks by La Maison de Saba So yesterday I made a trip from Enfield, Connecticut to St. Benoit du Lac, Quebec and back in 13 hours. My brother and I accompanied our father as he headed back up to be with our stepmom Lorna. Since Dad needed a ...
Leaf lace pattern. It makes either a 70 by 70 stitch square or a circle which is 280 stitches at the outer edge. Free pattern day! This is a lace pattern that I designed to be used with Heather Zoppetti's Dahlia Cardigan pattern. I made the Dahlia Car ...
Arpeggio the Stegosaurus demonstrates where his legs should be attached. So yesterday I finally removed the legs from the herbivores only to realize that I couldn't find my tapestry needles to sew them back on again once I had taken photos. And then i ...
A photo of a photocopy of the photo that started me knitting. Sorry I can't properly credit the original photographer, but my copy of the book is in a box somewhere in a storage locker. Hence the photocopy. Just as it did with the Folkwear patterns, t ...
This is as far as 16-inch tall Madeleine got this week. Not much progress on Madeleine this week. The mock-up for the 16-inch sized bear is currently a neat pile of muslin pieces waiting for me to sew them together. So I figured I would pull out a few ...
Arpeggio Yamosaurus the Stegosaurus is marked and (almost) ready to demonstrate leg placement My herbivores are all marked with yarn and ready to be temporarily disassembled in the interest of better pattern instructions. I forgot, when I first wrote ...