Fancy stitching a tiny squid that will wrestle your finger into submission? Thought you might. Ladies and gentleman crafters let me introduce you to the tiny Finger-fighting Stitched Squid or Squidius Knittius.
This ten-tentacled terror was created for the Stitch a Squid workshop that Stitch London organised at the Natural History Museum. The event was a massive success and saw shoals of shiny-eyed squid wriggling off the needles to challenge their makers to a wrestle.
Anyone who missed the event but longs to stitch a squid themselves can find the stitched squid pattern on Ravelry and read all about it on Whodunnknit, the new home of Deadly Knitshade's (your humble Crafty Crafty writer) kooky but cute knits.
Stitch yourself a feisty finger-fighting squid. Go on.
Plush You is an exhibition at LA's Munky King Gallery that is introducing the world to some seriously amazing squishy works of genius. One of the works is a people-munching monster that displaying equal helpings of the endearing and the slightly disturbing.
Made by Moxie introduces Hungry. Needle felted beasts with an appetite for human h'ors oeuvres.
The pieces are made with the art of needle felting and appear to be happily chomping on Barbie limbs in an effort to satisfy their famishedness.
Moxie's work is has all the right measures of kooky and cute and is truly inspiring stuff for you plush creators out there.
The exhibition runs until the September 19. Go and see it. I wish I could.
There is no arguing with the fact that amigurumi is just cool. Make a creature that is small, woolly and has a beseeching pair of peepers and people are falling over themselves to get in on making some of the cute for themselves. An amigurumi dragon, you say? Go on then.
This Fierce but Friendly Really Dragon is a cute and scaly free pattern from Crafters crafter Angry Angel. He's cute, he's crocheted and you can use him to scare the bejesus out of entire tiny villages once he's sewn together.
Amigurumi meets fire-breathing cuteness. Win.
What's that crawling from the sewers of New York intent on eating you, your friends and anyone else who wanders into its woolly path of tiny destruction! Aiiieeeee! It's a tiny knitted alligator and it's free! FREE I TELL YOU!
Hang on. Since when has a free knitting pattern been something to run away from? Run back! Get your needles into some gorgeous green and get stitch your very own Baby Alligator with a free pattern from the ever so lovely Queen of the Tiny Knit, Anna Hrachovec of Mochimochi Land.
Why is she sharing this reptilian lovely with us? To celebrate the US release of her new book Knitting Mochimochi. Woo hoo!
It's out in the UK in August. I snagged an advance copy from Anna at our Tiny Perching Pigeon Party and may I say that it is one of the most 'Squeeeeeeeeeeeeee!' books to hit the world of the knit in ages.
Mochimochi Land is taking over the knitting world. Hooray!
I often meet knitters who are terrified by the idea of learning to increase and decrease or shape their knitting but are desperate to make something cute and four-legged. Amigurumi seems like an impossibility without a bit of shaping skill. Not so with a pattern for the simplest sheep ever.
The Jo Sew and So has created a tutorial for simple Knitted Square Sheep. All you need to do is know how to knit and you can stitch a whole herd of woolly friends. You'll need to combine the basic ancient skills of cutting out and sewing too.
A knit, a snip and a sew and some stuffing and you have a sheep. An excellent way to instil creature confidence in a new knitter and an easy gift to make for folks who endlessly ask you to knit them something.
Stand by for possibly the cutest pattern you have ever laid your crafty peepers on. If you ever had a bad opinion of the humble pigeon this lovely little knit may change your mind about our feathered friends and have you raring to stitch up a whole flock.
The Tiny Perching Pigeon was hatched by the talented-with-the-tiny Anna Hrachovec, whose Mochimochi Land has been putting the squeeeeeeee into stitching for some time now. Anna is one of my knitting heroes so when she told me she was coming to London and wanted to team up with Stitch London it was only a matter of time before we cooked up a knit-based plan.
Anna created the free Tiny Perching Pigeon pattern as pigeons seem to be something London and New York have in common. I suggested we place the pigeons in the one place famous for pigeons that is currently piegonless (due to Health and Safety concerns stamping all over London's wildlife).
The Tiny Perching Pigeon Party was born.
You can join Anna and Stitch London by bringing your own tiny fibre-feathered contribution along on the 21st of June at Stitch London or knit your own and upload a pic to the Mochimochi Friends Flickr group.
Chaffies: little white fluffy fellows with long ears and insatiable curiosity. The small creatures have gone out into the world on a mysterious mission. Apparently they could be anywhere from next door to the top of the Eiffel Tower.
The fluffy army are the subject of a search by comic artist and writer Jamie Smart. The Find Chaffy quest invites you to keep your eyes peeled for Chaffies and send in your pictures of their journey but that's not all you can do. There's a crafty invite in there too.
Some people aren't content with waiting to find Chaffy; they're making their own instead. A crocheted Chaffy, a rather fine Chaffy hat and a Chaffy bin have been discovered in deepest darkest Cheltenham.
There's even been a mashed potato Chaffy.
Get handcrafting your very own Chaffy and pass the images on while you wait for a Chaffy to turn up near you. Go on.
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