Toys from last year (2010 & 2011) Part 2

These are a few more of the toys I made last year based either directly on or inspired by patterns from the books Super Cute: 25 Amigurumi Animals by Annie Obaachan and Amigurumi by Lan-Anh Bui & Josephine Wan.

 These are miniature versions of the bunnies and elephants I've made before

 Monkey wearing pants (naturally)

 The sleepy mushroom and psychadelic snails are little rattles and are smaller so that toddlers and little ones can grab them and bash them against things.  They are also completely child safe which I was pretty chuffed about!

Ballerina Bunny

Another little rattle, based on the same pattern as ballerina bunny but smaller :)

Present for my dad's birthday! (he's a fan of chooks)

Present for Miss Abby Road's Ph. D. Graduation!!

Crafty As A Fox Labels

Hi everyone! 

I've finally taken some time off from work to get some little jobs done before I start my last Social Work placement. These jobs are supposed to involve paperwork, essays and house work, but somehow has translated into lots of crocheting, sipping cups of tea, watching Sense & Sensibility and spending way too much money in craft shops! 

However, I also have finally put together all my Crafty As A Fox labels for the toys I sell. 

I'm quite pleased with the result which is kind of a mix of dodgy looking and (hopefully) charming...

Now to get crocheting!!!

I also have 'accidentally' bought... (honestly it just fell into my hands I didn't mean to purchase it) a wonderful book "Crochet Modern Vintage" which was released by Panda for their 8ply Cotton range.  Lots of awesome ideas with granny squares and lovely lacey scarves and necklaces.  I'll pop up any photos of my creations dodgy or not. 

The girl looks suspiciously Indie and tiny - but hopefully the patterns will work for normal people too!

Catch you all later xx

Some of last year's toys (2010 and 2011)

These are a few of the little toys I made a couple of years ago to say thankyou to my lovely Social work placement supervisors at the Royal Hobart Hospital.  The teddy is a Tour De France teddy that has just won the yellow jersey.

Some of these toys above are made strictly from pattern, taken from Super Cute: 25 Amigurumi Animals by Annie Obaachan and Amigurumi by Lan-Anh Bui & Josephine Wan (so I don't sell these for profit just for presents)  but others are my own creation.

Little Lion Man

This is a pattern inspired toy but one that I tweaked a little for additional cuteness.

Collingwood Teddy Bear
This is my own pattern, as a present for my sister on Grand Final Day (Collingwood vs Geelong)

and another version complete with little football..

Our Friend The Hedgehog

Here is an awesome excerpt from Terry Pratchett's book, Wee Free Men.  (Hence 'Our Friend The Hedgehog').

The teachers were useful there. Bands of them wandered through the mountains, along with the tinkers, portable blacksmiths, miracle medicine men, cloth pedlars, fortune-tellers and all the other travellers who sold things people didn’t need every day but occasionally found useful.

They went from village to village delivering short lessons on many subjects. They kept apart from the other travellers, and were quite mysterious in their ragged robes and strange square hats. They used long words, like ‘corrugated iron’. They lived rough lives, surviving on what food they could earn from giving lessons to anyone who would listen. When no one would listen, they lived on baked hedgehog. They went to sleep under the stars, which the maths teachers would count, the astronomy teachers would measure and the literature teachers would name. The geography teachers got lost in the woods and fell into bear traps.

People were usually quite pleased to see them. They taught children enough to shut them up, which was the main thing after all. But they always had to be driven out of the villages by nightfall in case they stole chickens.

Today the brightly coloured little booths and tents were pitched in a field just outside the village. Behind them small square areas had been fenced off with high canvas walls and were patrolled by apprentice teachers looking for anyone trying to overhear Education without paying. The first tent Tiffany saw had a sign which said:

Jograffy!

Jograffy!

Jograffy!

For today only: all major land masses and oceans

PLUS everything you need to know about glassiers!

One penny or All Major Vejtables Acsepted!

Tiffany had read enough to know that, while he might be a whiz at major land masses, this particular teacher could have done with some help from the man running the stall next door:

The Wonders of Punctuation and Spelling

1 – Absolute Certainty about the Comma

2 – I before E Completely Sorted Out

3 – The Mystery of the Semi-Colon Revealed

4 – See the Ampersand (Small extra charge)

5 – Fun with Brackets

Will accept vegetables, eggs and clean used clothing

She found what she was looking for at a booth hung with pictures of animals including, she was pleased to see, a camel.

The sign said:

Useful Creatures. Today: Our Friend the Hedgehog.