Lariath- Live a Little.

I had a request from a friend to make a pouch for her Switch Joy-Con Controller Straps as they didn't fit into the case she already had. So I made a very simple pouch. Out of all the lovely yarn colours I own she chose grey....grey, need I say more? But here it is: It fits small crafty things in too! The pattern for this is very simple its just a sheet of single crochet stitches made to the size needed then sewn up the edges leaving a flap at the top. It's so quick and simple and really versatile that I am probably going to be making a few of these. Other than a Switch Strap pouch or a craft pouch it could be used as a coin purse, a pencil case (which, come to think of it, may be handy for me as I start university again soon), a make-up case, hair accessories pouch...you get the idea. I plan on making mine in funky colours with interesting buttons. Hook off! Enjoy this post?

Just a quick post as I haven't been on here in a while. My life is so busy right now!  I like to make cards; I feel like they mean more because they take time and some thought to make. Also they can be as personalised as you wish! My friend and I love Studio Ghibli films and we adore Susuwatari (Soot Sprites). Therefore I decided to give a Susuwatari card a try.  I think it's quite cute and the integrated card stand works really well, I am defiantly going to be adding that to my future cards. Also it's orange! See more of my Studio Ghibli projects  Here Enjoy this post?

I made Totoro  for a friend as a gift and could not resist making the Chibi Totoro too. Just too cute and small not to! I found Chibi very quick to make, yet a little fiddly due to the small size. I am going to be making myself one too because I love it so much, especially with the little leaf! (I went a bit crazy with the pesky Susuwatari.) The pattern for Chibi Totoro can be found Here  and the pattern for the leaf is at the end of  this pattern. Here Chibi is with friends:  I am hoping to make a Chi Totoro and No-Face soon so watch this space. Update: See other Ghibli projects  Here . Hook off.  Enjoy this post?

I have completed my third blanket for Sixty Milion Trebles. (Find out more information about this charity  Here ). I thought I'd give myself more of a challenge after completing my first c2c blanket . This time I tried a graph. I spent a while trying to decide on a graph pattern that was simple. I eventually decided on an elephant pattern as I like elephants and it looked simple enough. However at one point I ended up with 8 balls attached to my blanket and kept getting them all mixed up and tangled. The amount of times I had to rip back my work because of made a mistake was silly. Then there were the ends, THE ENDS, weaving in all those ends took me nearly as long as it did to crochet the thing (I'm really selling this I know). But it was a learning curve. I learned how to carry yarn without it showing and how to design my own graphghan. I am very pleased with how it turned out for a first try even if I did find it frustrating in parts. This has added 21,778 trebl...

String art is getting more popular at the moment. I've been wanting to try it for a while now, I just needed an excuse to give it a go. A friend and I make gifts for each other each Christmas so this was my excuse. However I didn't get to see him until April so this post had to wait. It took me a while to decide what picture I wanted to try with string art. I didn't want my first string art project to be something really complicated but I also wanted it to look good, as it was a gift. Trying to find something that my friend would like, that wasn't too complicated, was difficult. He loves wolves so I was determined to make a wolf. I think I spent more time trying to decide on a picture to try than actually making the thing. I also spent ages trying to find some wood. So I ended up buying a chopping board... may not have been the best idea though as I will explain in a bit. So what I used: -nails -poster paint -thin string -chopping board -paint brush -hamm...

Who doesn't love a bit of Studio Ghibli? My favourite of them all being Howls Moving Castle. I decided to make Calcifer for a friend after she got a tattoo of him on her (as she calls it)'Geek leg'. If you don't know who Calcifer is then: Boo! I couldn't find a pattern for Calcifer that I liked on the Internet so I decided to give it a go myself, it seemed simple enough. I started by crocheting a tear drop shape with yellow in the centre gradually moving to orange and then red to get the fire effect. The end result was a multicoloured teardrop which didn't really look like fire. Luckily I'd seen a few days before that brushing crochet projects makes them fluffy. Perfect. I gave it a go. Brushing crochet (without a pet brush which is what your supposed to use apparently) takes a LONG time. So I sat for a while brushing this colourful tear drop, trying really hard to make it look even slightly like fire, until my hands ached and I had to give u...

I've been looking forward to posting this for a while, I made it as a Christmas present for my friend however life has got in the way and we haven't seen eachother. This is now my favourite amigurumi that I have made! He is adorable! I may be biased though because I do love a bit of Studio Ghibli. I think this is the biggest amigurumi I have made so far. It took me a while to make but I enjoyed every minute of it and as it's a gift I was thinking about my best mate the whole time :). The only bit I did not enjoy was sewing on the appendages but thats a personal opinion because I hate sewing and always panic that they are in the wrong place. The instructions for this are very easy to follow and there isn't any complicated stitches. If you can single crochet, decrease and increase your sorted. The size was a bit bigger than I expected and I ran out of stuffing half way through... here are the dimensions of my finished product: Hight (Inc. ears): 9.25 inches Wi...