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 :-)

For Ross

For my fiance's twin brother, Ross, I made his dreams come true ;-) They're quite perverted dreams, unfortunately. I found a few patterns for daleks online, but they weren't quite what I was looking for, so I improvised. I started the amigurumi ring, and just went from there. He'd mentioned dark purple daleks at one point (a sign of sexual frustration...? ;-)) so I made it purple and black. Along with this, he got a poseable Billie Piper doll, which is were the dreams come in. Sometimes it's best not to ask, but he seemed ecstatic with it... It now has pride of place on top of his computer :-)

Jo's Presents

For my friend Jo, a very cute perky goth girl with a job that drives her crazy, I made two things. One is a purple and black double knitted pirate flag, for those times when she believes that she is, indeed, the Black Pearl (usually a bottle of rum or so after she should have stopped drinking!). It's smooshy fleecy yarn, so if she passes out on it it will be comfortable:

Having only just managed to assimilate her into our knitting cartel, she's making amazing progress and has even started designing her own patterns. I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with this! :-)

Christmas Makes! Eek!

There are a lot of them, so I'll give each one a post of its own. I started in September, and had a great time making everything. I love being able to give my friends something I've made myself and is personal to them. Most things I designed myself, where I didn't I'll give credit. I'm looking forward to doing some making for me now, but still have all the patterns to write out!

Companion Cube

As soon as I completed Portal, the first thing that came to mind was obviously, 'I must make a Companion Cube'. Somehow, this totally inanimate object has captured the hearts of every gamer I know (and I know a lot of them!). So I immediately set to working out patterns for it - with the main hindrance that I can't felt anything because I'm allergic to animal fibers. So I found some cheapish yarn to experiment with, and knitted and ripped and crocheted and ripped and so on until I got something I liked. This one is a mixture of knitting and crochet - knitting for the main piece, crochet to add the dimensions. I know it's missing the central 'bumps' - that's coming in the next revision, and it's a little rounded, but it's very smooshy and I keep having to pat down my friends as they leave my flat because they keep attempting to smuggle it out. That's a sure sign of success to me ;-) I'll put the pattern up as soon as I've got it right :-) I tried doing a knitted flat one - so I can give out the chart for that, but I didn't like it not having the dimensionality of the cube itself. So here you are - some really crappy pictures - will get better ones as soon as photographer boy stops playing Guitar Hero ...








Hope you like ... will post updates as it's revised....

Many updates coming!

I have so much to update! Going to do it all over the next few days....

In the mean time, here's some fun ;-)