Kitties!

As some of you might already know, I am a massive cat fan and have lived with cats most of my life. In fact I think the longest amount of time I have been living without one is approximately a year. I thought in honour of the lovely kitties around the world I would make a collection of handmade, painted and photographed kitties. I hope you like them.

Here kitty, kitty, kitty!

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Here kitty, kitty, kitty!

I've been making more ragdolls. This time cats!

 Squircle the ragdoll cat.

 Close up of Squircle's face.

 Squircle's Paw.

Squircle and Spike

These cats can be made in a variety of colours and more will appear in the shop in the coming weeks. If you have a particular colour you would like one making in, please get in contact to let me know what you would like.

Meow!

It is Wimbeldon Fortnight...

...and in honour of that I have made something that is traditionally served at the event... no not balls.
STRAWBERRIES!

Amigurumi Strawberry

If you would like year round strawberries that never go off then these amigurumi creations are just the job. You can look at them in the depths of Winter, to remind you that Summer is not so far away with it's promise of yummy fresh seasonal fruits.

If Strawberries aren't your favourite, you can contact me and request a different fruit. I love commission orders.

The Bunnies Are Coming

In May I joined in with my Fibre Arts Guild Challenge of "Childhood Toys" and I made a Pirate Ragdoll Bunny.

It was a bit of a rush for me to get him finished in time, so his clothing was a little bit rough and ready, but over all I liked him so much and so many people asked me about him that I decided to make a few more bunnies.

The green faced pink floral bunny came hot off the sewing machine a couple of days ago and as soon as I posted pictures of her on my facebook page she was sold. I never even got a chance to list her in my Pirate Pixie Crew ArtFire Shop. 

I think I better get the sewing machine fired up again tomorrow and make more bunnies! Once I have a few more made up, then I'll start designing proper clothes for them.

I hope you like them!

UPDATE

More Ragdoll Rabbits have been made and are now available in my shop

Grannies knew what the were doing!

For the last few months my M.E. has been making me have to stay fairly still. I started to feel a bit trapped in my bed and on my sofa. I wasn't able to go out shopping for gorgeous yarn, or play with my hula hoops in the garden, so I was doing most of my yarn shopping online and instead of hooping my self, watching hoop videos of friends showing me all their new moves. Not great, but it helped to prevent me from feeling blue about being stuck in the house. Shopping for yarn online can be a bit hit and miss, as you don't get to touch the yarn to test it for softness or weight, so I made a few mistakes, but.....

In January a lovely lady Called Anne, ordered a custom made hood, based on the Shades of Blue Hood I have in my shop. She wanted a different colour way, so we searched online for a yarn she liked the colours of and this was the resultant hood.

I loved the yarn so much I purchased more and whilst trying to decide what to make with it, I got the urge to crochet granny squares with left over yarn from other things I had made in the past. Very soon it occurred to me that not many of the squares really looked all that good together as the colours of some of the squares just jarred the eye when sat next to each other. Then it dawned on me that squares made of this beautiful multicoloured self patterning yarn would look fabulous, so.....

I now have 105 squares, and a full 100g ball yet to be turned into squared. I just can't decide what colour yarn to use to connect them all together. I'm going to put  rows of single stitch crochet between the squares to connect them all up, so each one is framed. I just can't decide on a colour. People have suggested jade, orange, magenta, dark purple, grey, white and dark blue... but I still think black would make the colours pop most, but is black going to look a bit too goth when there are so many purples in the squares? Hmmmm... Time to have a good think whilst I turn the last 100g of yarn into more squares.