Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, jaeger, merino, Scarlet, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Thursday, December 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Finn’s felted stocking
Originally uploaded by fiona-kelly
Eek! Slightly more of a colour run when it felted than I expected. The red isn’t so Christmassy and the cream… well it’s now more of a definite pink… even the snowman is the same shade (i’m not even going to bother photographing that). On the plus side the fringing [...]
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Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, jaeger, merino, red, Scarlet, wool, xmas on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The fringing is finished so it’s now in the washing machine. Keep your fingers crossed the red doesn’t leak too much and turn the cream pink!
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Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, jaeger, merino, Scarlet, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Wednesday, December 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the snowman so far for finn’s stocking. It’s also in the machine and I’ll add the rest of his details when I sew him into place.
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Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finn christmas stocking, fringing, jaeger, merino, red, Scarlet, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
just 5 more rounds to go
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Posted in December 2008, tagged christmas, crochet, DK, Felted, felting, Finns Christmas Stocking, fringing, jaeger, merino, red, WIP, wool, xmas, Yarn on Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
just a bit more to do. I re-did the toe section and I’m now doing some fringing around the top. a little snowman decoration next before felting..
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Posted in June 2008, tagged amigurumi, competition, cow, crochet, Felted, felting, lion, win on Tuesday, June 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The naming competition for my last amigurumi pattern was so much fun I thought we’d have another competition… But this time something different as the pattern I’m working on is called ‘Haggis’ the highland cow. So after much thought the competition page was born and here we go again! There are two chances to win [...]
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Posted in June 2008, tagged 4ply, amigurumi, crochet, Felted, felting, Haggis, highland cow, wool on Friday, June 6, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been back to working out the pattern for Haggis the highland cow this week. I started with the hooves and hoof decorations. They came together very easily… I only needed to make one change to the hoof base and the heart came out just right first time… Phew!
The horns though have been a real [...]
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Posted in May 2008, tagged amigurumi, crochet, Felted, felting, lion, pattern, Pdf, Plushie, softie on Monday, May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Thank you to everyone for all your name suggestions and you’ll be glad to hear our little dog douglas is a lot perkier… the anti-biotics seem to have kicked in… we just have to keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn’t cough them back up half an hour later!
It was extremely difficult [...]
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Posted in May 2008, tagged 4ply, amigurumi, crochet, Felted, felting, lion, softie, wool, Yarn on Tuesday, May 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
The washing machine is fixed and I just couldn’t wait to show you how the lion prototype turned out. I used up some of my stashed 4ply/fingering yarns just to work the pattern out hence the multicolour!
I’m busy typing up the pattern.. so I’m now setting a closing date for the competition to name him/her… [...]
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Posted in May 2008, tagged amigurumi, blog, crochet, felting, finn, lion, names, pattern on Friday, May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Finn is growing up so fast it seems… as of this week he’s now saying ‘mummy’ & ‘daddy’ properly. These days all I hear through the monitor when he goes for a sleep is a lot of giggling, bouncing on his mattress like a trampoline & now chanting ‘mummy”mummy”mummy”mummy’ when he’s supposed to be sleeping. [...]
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