…..Just to let you all know,
the Jon Snow and Ghost crochet patterns are now up for grabs on my Etsy and Craftsy shops.
If you do make one of them I’d love to see! xx
gameofthrones
You Know Nothing
This week Game of Thrones came back, It’s my favourite show, I’m a little obsessed. So I decided to make Some Thrones inspired Amigurumi. I think I will probably make more eventually but I started with Jon Snow and Ghost.
I love making new things.It’s exciting to have nothing to work from and to see something evolve from a vague picture in my head. It’s nice to make things from a pre-made pattern but I like the challenge of making my own.
It is however a lot more time consuming! I jot down what I do as I go so I have a record to check whilst writing up the final draft of the pattern. I am happy with what I have made and I hope you guys like them too.
I have written up the pattern for Jon, but I still need to write the Final Draft of the pattern for Ghost. I took lots of photos whilst I was making them so The patterns will be quite pic heavy! Which is great but it means more editing. I will be posting both Patterns and the dolls hopefully tomorrow night but if all goes well. fingers crossed.
Ivan the Ice Dragon
I was asked it I could make a dragon scarf a few months ago. I was a little reluctant to start it because I really wasn’t sure how to go about it. Once I got going and started to experiment it came to me alot easier than I first expected that it would. I was particularly confused about making the wings as I wasn’t sure how to position them. In my mind they were much larger but I couldn’t see how that would be very practical for the wearer of the scarf. So I compromised with the little wings, which I think look pretty cute which is what I was going for. He’s a nice dragon so I think he should also be cute.
I added the detail around the nostrils and the eyes because Chris told me he looked a bit too much like a cow. He’s very brutally honest about things that I make which is at times extremely frustrating but ultimately helpful. We both agreed he no longer looks like a cow in the end. Sometimes I will make something and he will say “what is it?” like when a small child shows you their marvelous art work…. Never say that! But to be fair I have often gone back and revised things when he has (for the better), not always, sometimes I tell him he’s stupid and do it anyway.
I actually have Chris to thank for the foot shape. I don’t have a picture of what I started with but these are alot better. He scribbled a very crude drawing of a dragon foot and I was like “yes I should make them like that.” It was way more time consuming than what I had in mind originally but much more dragon like!
He’s up on the shop already if you are interested in having a dragon of your own you can buy one here. I would love to make more of these in different colours so please send me a message if you would like a custom dragon.
I also have started designing dog breed scarves. I have also designed a unicorn scarf which I am really excited about but I have to make so many things before I can do that. I will also be making more foxes very soon.
The unveiling of The Awesome Nerd Tree!
I made crochet Baubles and a weeping angel tree topper, Painted mario stars and then added random stuff from around the house to make my nerd tree, which, by the way, Is definitely made of AWESOME!
Crochet R2 D2 inspired Bauble
Toothless Happy Meal toy that my niece gave me because she knows How much I love him
Yes that is an ironman Lego Minifigure
Storm trooper lego minifigure Keyring, Ewok Bauble and that green thing is a dragon egg
Princess Unikity lego keyring and a waving Jawa, of course
Yoda and a crochet pokeball
mario star, I made 6 of these 🙂
ANNNNNd the final piece of the puzzle! If you want to make one you can find the pattern in my craftsy pattern store.
Merry Christmas!!!!!!!!
From the Autumn fox to the winter wolf
I always intended to make more than one colour of this scarf. I love the Orange one I made for myself and it’s the thing that gets most attention in my etsy shop. I really love the self striping wool on this one though. I hope you do too.
Inspiring Geeky Knits
thought I’d do a quick appreciation post about all of the amazing crafted Geekery I have found on the internet. This post could go on for days and I may well have to split it up into a few posts.
So here is some of my favourite yarn based Geekery…
I don’t know if these are the droids you were looking for but they certainly look the part.
Also these Star wars Knitting charts which I am currently using to make a scarf
Some Bid damn heroes (lunascrafts)
A song of Ice and Fire DA DA DUN DUN DA DA DUN DUN
I could just post Luna’s dolls all day long but I’ll move on… Seriously I look at her Etsy and get urges to just buy them all! https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/LunasCrafts
Adorable Nyan cat scarf etsylinkhere
Night Fury Hat, so this ones for kids but there’s loads available and they’d be great for grown up nerds too
And back to throne related thing (I’m sorry I just love it) This is a cross stitch pattern but it could easily be transferred to a fairisle pattern. you could have other houses too but I think the Baratheon’s are probably one of my favourite houses. I think a baggy jumper with this on would be awesome… I’d wear it EVERY DAY. You could also have a green background for Renly’s sigil
Wonder Woman Jumper. The pattern for this jumper is on Raverly for free! I absolutely love it. When I finally decide I have the time and energy to knit a whole jumper I am going to give it a go. http://www.pinterest.com/pin/312226186641032616/
Magikarp Hat http://www.pinterest.com/pin/312226186641032700/ Gotta catch ’em all!
How could I have Spock as the featured image without anymore Star Trek? Answer.. I couldn’t!
Love this Spock inspired blanket. If I ever have a little boy I’m so making this!
You can’t Have too many nerdy blankets. I love this 8bit Mario.
Weeping angel Amigurumi. Whatever you do DON’T BLINK!!
I’m going to stop this here as I’m finding LOADS I hope you enjoy these as much as I have!
The Pea Green Boat 