Craft Blog

I make a lot of little bits and pieces that don’t tend to make it on to the blog, I’m not entirely sure why, particularly as some of my quickest and simplest tutorials (The Notebook Cover Tutorial and The Pincushion Tutorial) end up being the most popular, but this year I intend to bring an [...]

Amigurumi is a Japanese inspired form of crochet, worked in spirals it allows you to create projects in no time flat without worrying about joining rounds and because most of the projects are small it’s a great way to stashbust half skeins left over from other projects.
Learning to Crochet

With the magic of the internet you [...]

Less than a day before the “Casting Off Ceremony” vandals have destroyed the installation piece of knitting covering the side of an entire bridge in Melbourne’s west.
From the ABC News:
The festival’s director, Karen Hadfield, says the giant knitting was hacked down and is now hanging from the bridge.
“We’ve had a few knitters down and there’s [...]

Cate Blanchett caused a stir last night when she turned up to the opening of Screen Worlds at ACMI wearing a traditional granny square blanket fashioned into a dress.
News.com.au had this to say:
OSCAR-winning actor Cate Blanchett has been nick-named Cate Blanket after stepping out in a colourful crochet patchwork dress to open Screen [...]

Craftzine flashes back to one of their previous issues and reprints this pattern for a pair of knitted Converse All Stars! Designed by Katie Tesarowski in response to a challenge that she’d knitted everything in her wardrobe… apart from a pair of shoes.
All you need is a couple of skeins of yarn and an old [...]

Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta Please, is heading to Sydney with a promise that “There is no way I will leave Sydney without making my presence known.” and she “doesn’t care” if she gets arrested.
Edit: [previous text = Of course, the fact that Kings Cross council have organised and given Magda a grant to spread [...]

My sister is having her first child sometime in August (depending on his schedule and her diabetes!) so I have been hard at work putting together a package to send to her after the bub is born. A collection of all the bits and pieces that I’ve found essential in my experience as a mum.
Looking around [...]

I first made one of these for my friend Morgan, it was my second ever sewing project and I just hope and pray that she never shows it to me ever again as there was some dodgy sewing going on there! I guess we all have to start somewhere, this one is slightly more [...]

A very exciting email arrived in my inbox this morning…
K2TOG [Knit Two Together]
The Age 2008 Melbourne Fringe Festival is embarking on a very Exciting – and top secret! – public art project that involves knitting and YOU.

10am – 3:30pm, Saturday 2 August
Handspinners and Weavers Guild
12-20 Shakespeare St, Carlton North
On this day you will receive your [...]

Recently I’ve been working from “Mr Funky’s Super Crochet Wonderful” by Narumi Ogawa. I love Amigurumi and Japanese crochet patterns in general, and this little guy begged me to be made when I flicked through the book.
Pattern: Mr Funky’s Pretty Little Kitty from Super Crochet Wonderful, the pattern is also available at Narumi Ogawa’s Etsy [...]