After a full year of knitting this project, I spent 6 hours in May assembling this gorgeous fawn plushie designed by Claire Garland! I was determined to finally take my baby to a festival with me to show off all the hard work I put in. I am not the most seasoned knitter, however I... Continue Reading →
Video Game Guy Backpack Tutorial
Let's say for the sake of imagination that there's a story featuring an adventurous youth and his acerbic canine best friend, who live in a slightly macabre and trippy video game world and have adventures. We'll call it "Adventuring Friends." I think that in that world, they'd probably have a sentient portable video game console.... Continue Reading →
Amanita Muscaria Mushroom Pouch
Maybe creepy poison fungus seems more like an autumn thing, but there is some argument for the seasonality of the crochet project I have to share today! It wasn't meant to be seasonal - I created the Amanita Mushroom Pouch tutorial & free crochet pattern because I had requests to make a pattern for the... Continue Reading →
Krampus Hat Free Pattern
There's a lot of pretty cool stuff in my hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, but one of the most outstanding in my opinion is the annual Krampus Night put on by the awesome people at the Krampus Legend and Arts Workshop (K.L.A.W). A better explanation of Krampus Night and American versions of this traditional European event... Continue Reading →
Glow-in-the-Dark Mushroom Free Pattern
Welcome to day two of the Halloween Special! Day one featured a handspun pumpkin (handspunpkin?) which was more of a description than an actual tutorial, but today you'll never guess what I've got here. It's glow-in-the-dark. It's a mushroom. It's a FREE PATTERN! This spooky fungus is cute and quick and has a little secret... Continue Reading →
Halloween Special: Crochet Pumpkin
Um, Halloween is amazing. It's like Christmas for the spooky kids. It's like Thanksgiving for the sweet tooth crowd. And most importantly ITS AN EXCUSE FOR ADULTS TO PLAY DRESS UP. Also, have you disemboweled a gourd recently? Satisfying. The Fairy Tale Pumpkin pattern from Crochet Dynamite I used to get started, though I mostly... Continue Reading →