For Sheena

Sheena (Antoinette)and I are both fishy Pisceans - and we share a lot of artistic swimminess. She gave me a beautiful turquoise glass and hematite star bracelet that she had made, and I gave her these seahorses. As soon as I saw them on Craft Magazine's blog, I knew they had to be made for her, and I'm going to have to make some for me now too... It was hard finding felt without wool in it that I could use, but finally found some great colours. The pattern is at Futuregirl, and she has some fantastic things in her store - I also bought the octopus pattern for future makings.... I was going to make these into a wee mobile for her, but decided she'd probably end up using them as necklaces or something so I left them for her to decide :-)

For Geraldine

Geraldine saw the hair falls I'd made for myself one night - I was wearing them for a poker night for some reason (I think all the boys were wearing cowboy hats and I felt left out) - and she loved them. Mine are turquoise and silver, but I asked her bloke what colours she'd like and made a pair for her for Christmas. They're shades of purple and dark red, and she loved them (I hope!). Here's them on their own and me wearing them...

For Andrew

My brother is a DJ - old style vinyl and turntables and everything. He recently moved into his girlfriend's house, and although he'd slimmed down his record collection by about 9/10ths, they still moved a Defender's worth of records in. He collects records like I collect yarn, but yarn is lighter....

So I made this - it's a little rough around the edges because I was making it in secret on Christmas Eve and rushing! It's a stress record - for him when his music isn't working out right, and for his girlfriend, when he drives her mental. She liked the idea, but said it didn't have a brick in it, so wouldn't work quite as well as she'd like ;-)

For Elana

Elana is wonderful and I'm very lucky to have her alongside me on our knitting journey. We both learn different things about all kinds of crafts, and then teach each other our newfound skills. We both like to experiment and see what we can do with yarn and material and clay and glass and card and paper and silver and wire and anything else that inspires us. For her pure silk, I chose leafy greens and some dashes of turquoise, and the resulting yarn is called Forest Witch, for that is what Elana is at heart, and it's as beautiful as she is :-)

For Andy

My friend Elana has a boyfriend, 9 rats, a mouse and a cat. The boyfriend got this for Christmas. I kind of just started crocheting and wanted to see what it ended up as... and it became this strange purple thing that I called a R-at. It has rabbit ears and a cat tail, so figured a R-at (or C-abbit) would be as appropriate as anything....





As far as I know, the actual rats and cats etc haven't killed it yet, so yay :-)

For Rob

Jo's bloke was a hard one to make for, I was going to attempt to design Appa from Avatar, but didn't have the time and haven't watched enough of it. So, instead, he got a hentai tentacle monster (if you don't know, you really don't want to). I wanted it to be cute and innocuous in case of visiting parents etc, so it looks kind of like a four limbed octopus until you notice the strangely shaped protrusions.... Here it is on his head, sadly, it was the only pic I got before he ran off with it :

For Chris

The Rum King himself got a Pirate flag for his Birthday in July, a huge one, but he still wanted a hand-knitted one... awwww.... I just used big chunky yarn for this one, and backed it with fleecy stockinette :-)

I think I'm going to nab it back from him and put some garden wire through the edges and wrap it onto a stick, so he can plant his pirate flag somewhere :-)