I’ve been making a bunch of these little guys for a possible future project. Originally I thought they would be anthropomorphic moss, but they have decided that they are instead mortal enemies!
We’ll see what they eventually become.
Category: Knitted Things
Seedy
Is it a little late in the season for planting seeds?
This one has already started growing feet!
The Knitted Odd-bod Bunch
I’m very excited about this new book of knitted toy patterns!
The Knitted Odd-bod Bunch contains 35 patterns by Donna Wilson, a UK designer whom I hadn’t previously heard of. I love her funny and artistic versions of animals! I especially like the design of her book and its photography, most of which places the knitted creatures in scenes with hand-illustrated cardboard cutouts as props and scenery elements.
Looking at her website, it seems that Donna mainly concentrates on selling her finished toys and other goods instead of knitting patterns. It’s neat that she uses her designs in such a broad way, something I’ve been thinking about for myself lately.
A Rare (non-)Bird
How would you like to find this funny fellow in your Easter basket this Sunday?
This ingenious platypus modification to the Which Came First pattern was dreamed up by Beforesunrise. She named her project “too abstruse,” after an Andrew Bird lyric, so this is one cool monotreme!
Check out Beforesunrise’s Ravelry project page for notes on her mods.
Happy Easter!
Easter Dust Bunnies
I whipped up these guys in just about three hours! This may sound strange, but I think these are the first toys that I’ve made as a gift for kids that I know. (I guess I don’t know so many kids in person.) I hope they like them!
Lovely Shamrocks
It’s still March for a couple more hours on the west coast, right? Just enough time to squeeze in one last shamrock-themed post for the year.
Aren’t these shamrock pins made by veeda great? Notice something interesting about them? They’re each made of three hearts! Add an I-cord and a pin at the back, and you’re all set for next March. So clever.
Mushroom Clock
This is a rough prototype for a working knitted clock that I made a long time ago.
The idea was that I would fit the knitting over some kind of box that contained a running clock on the inside, with the shaft and hands poking through a hole in the box and the knitting. For this version, though, I couldn’t find the right box, so I just used a sheet of plastic canvas for the front panel and the base, then stuffed the rest of the clock, and attached the battery-powered clock to the backside of the front canvas with lots of tape.
To prevent the hands from getting caught in the knitting, my dad sanded down these beatutiful cuckoo clock hands to be very thin. The clock works, but the hands did start catching on the dial every once in a while. And changing the battery when it finally dies will be an ordeal.
I still would love to create a series of knitted clocks, maybe for display at a show someday. But I would have to find the perfect box or other structure, and the perfect way to attach the knitting to the structure and the clock to the structure, and I would also have to find a clock with a still longer shaft.
For now, this one has been collecting dust on a shelf. But it’s nice to look at!