Lariath- Live a Little.

I saw some bear rug coasters on the Internet and couldn't resist trying to make a crochet version. I made up the pattern as I want along, just making a circle for the body adding some arms, legs and a tail then sewing the head on. For the head I used the same head as for the Crochet Bear  that I made last year. The only issue I had with these was that the arms and legs did not lie flat which really annoyed me. A search the interweb showed me how to make yarn projects lie flat through a process called Killing . Killing sounds very dramatic but it's quite easy to do however done wrong and you will literally "kill" your project. I was a bit skeptical of the method but gave it a try anyway. Really, I should have tried the method on a swatch of crochet first but I was running out of time. Another worry was that the coasters would curl up again after time or after being folded for a period of time. I pinned the arms and legs down so that they were lying fla...

A group of friends and I meet up every two weeks for a catch up and board game night. Every year we have a Christmas night and have a Secret Santa and mini buffet. This year I decided to make some cakes. They are vanilla cupcakes with buttercream icing, the recipe I used can be found  Here . I have used this recipe many times now and always get compliments, it hasn't failed me yet! I decided to do green buttercream icing to try to make the cupcakes look a bit like trees...not sure they do but i tried. I didn't have any green food colouring so I added some yellow to the buttercream and then added blue gradually to get the colour I wanted. (This took me ages as I didn't want to add too much blue and cause the colour to go awfully wrong). Eventually when I got a colour that I liked I piped the icing onto the cake. Now, I don't actually own a piping kit for icing so I had to DIY this by using This Method  it works and it's useful if you have no other means of ...

To help get into the Christmas mood I made these Cute Mini Christmas Snowmen: For these snowmen I used this very easy to follow Pattern . I had no safety eyes so I used black yarn for the buttons and eyes and I used a small orange bead for the nose. I think the one on the left looks slightly evil with his horizontal eyes and top hat... I also added tassels to the scarves and made a mini bobble hat for one of them as I am now obsessed with mini bobble hats!  I followed  This Pattern  for the mini hat.  Enjoy this post?

My posting is slacking a bit at the minute but I am ridiculously busy with work, making gifts for Christmas and being sociable...Christmas is a busy time! But I have recently made quite a few things so I've got quite a few posts to come.  Here is my latest project, Mini Santa Minion: For the minion I followed this  Minion pattern . The pattern asks for blue yarn however I didn't have any blue yarn left so I decided, as it's Christmas, I'd make a Santa Minion.  I followed the pattern as linked above but instead of blue yarn I used red yarn and made a little Santa hat. The Minion pattern was very easy to follow and didn't take very long to make. The pattern says to use felt for the eye however I decided to crochet the whole eye and I added a mouth as I did for my Crochet Minion Mug Cosy . For the hat I followed this  Mini Santa Hat pattern  but made it slightly bigger so that it would fit the minion nicely. The pompom on the top i...