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I can (and often do) market the stuffing out of my friends’ creative endeavors. I’m the person with a nice word, the pat on the back, and the confidence building admonitions. But when it’s something I do, something I made, something I’m invested in I lack any kind of confidence. Oh sure, I act like [...]

I ran out of poly-fil. I managed to exhaust what was left making persimmon shaped bunnies in my attempt to use up all of my remaining holiday fabric. Using a whole bag of poly-fil is quite the accomplishment for me, because I’m pretty sure that like wire hangers and those little plastic bread bag clips if [...]

I designed these babies a while back after finding a nice big remnant of Berber fleece fabric at a thrift store. It screamed “Sheep!” at me, and for once I listened. The legs and face are plain black poplin and the ears are craft felt. I put a few in my booth over at Keeper’s Corner but Deb also [...]

Here’s another yard sale booty inspired project. Red-heel socks, and a bag full of random eyes. I particularly liked the more animal looking yellow eye, it reminded me of something. Yeah, that’s it. 28 Days Later starts with an infected monkey. 28 Weeks later heterochromia iridum figures heavily. Got it. Now add this: Suddenly the [...]

I don’t often address yarn manufacturers on my blog, but the first sock is turning out awesome Paton’s, thanks for not crapping on me with this sock yarn, it’s actually pretty decent considering the price. I think I may change my mind about your yarns. At least this label. I’m looking forward to wearing this [...]

No one is going to get that bastardized reference are they? Moving right along then. In keeping with my current thing of making creatures out of garments– sock frogs! Frogs made of socks. One of these days I’m actually going to get around to making a classic sock monkey. My soft sculpting techniques need some [...]

This little guy started life as a pair of knit gloves. Usually I find stretch gloves perfectly useless as gloves but I haven’t made a softie in a long time and the idea of a maneki neko was way too tempting to resist. The paw holding the fish is the thumb of the glove, and [...]

Eye pins, pliers, beads, clasps. Lots and lots of repetitive bending. A few hours and a couple of sore hands later and I have some pretty jewelry. I guess my hands aren’t too terribly sore, because I’m still able to use them to pat myself on the back. Does anyone know what that kind of [...]

The final cozy felted a bit more than the gauge swatch, leaving the bottom of my tea pot exposed, but not by much. I think if I were to reknit this I’d add at least 3 more inches in length. Maybe just a squidge more. The finishing was super easy, I snipped a small hole [...]

I meant to blog this as I worked on it. Honest. The yarn is my handspun merino-bamboo blend “Fire Opal” hand-painted by the talented Moonlightbaker. The blogging plan went awry though. I couldn’t sleep, my brains felt like they were going to explode and there’s nothing more soothing to painful brains than a knitting project [...]