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crafty and devious knitting stitching plotting crafty and devious knitting stitching plotting about free patterns gallery stitching crochet knitting bits and pieces rss massive ly late christmas gift post 31 mar so this post is late i mean really late like these are christmas presents in here late i was going to stagger all of this awesome out over several posts but my habits have been so lax lately i figured it was best to get them all out in one go so here it is the massive ly late christmas gift post first up my brother s christmas present he is quite a prosaic lad what he wanted was 20 to buy a steam game what he got was 20 and a cross stitched portal sign this untruthful cake was only part of a whole incredible series of portal warning signs by the crafty bikyclist and they are all available as free patterns highly recommended for the geek in your life for my dad s christmas present i went with a pattern i had bought some months previously when i was hunting for patterns to make his birthday platypus i found planet june s sea otter way too adorable to resist i remembered from childhood trips to the zoo that dad was fond of the cuteness of otters so i crocheted this one complete with clam shell accessory he now sits atop the tv adorning it with his adorability the last gift in the list was somewhat nerve wracking i wanted to cross stitch a christmas present for my boyfriend s mum who i was meeting for the first time spoiler we traveled over to visit in january i met her and she is rad we high fived over cooking craft and trashy novels i planned the design concept very carefully i didn t want to stitch something offensive but nor did i want to make something staid and boring in the end i decided on an old school pattern from one of my ex library books i picked a black bird because i knew she loved animals and because i wanted to put a twist in the whole nevermore trope the resulting cross stitch was somewhat more upbeat than poe i was very relieved when the pattern fit so neatly into this frame i checked the size before starting but didn t take into account the curlicues of the leaves thankfully it all worked out the stitched leaves slotting neatly into the spaces left by the brass foliage as a gift it was very successful it turns out blackbirds are one of her favourites when we left it was on display next to her bird cage perhaps to encourage the budgie to similar heights of awesome leave a comment posted by gemma on march 31 2013 in craftiness tags amigurumi awesome birds cake christmas cross stitch geekery gifts otters portal presents for dad the cake is a lie a nautical theme 10 jan for mum s birthday this year i had something stashed and ready to roll a little cross stitched lighthouse i made it for mum years and years ago then put it somewhere safe and forgot about it completely i found it again when i moved house last year and this time i actually remembered its existence when planning for gifts add a vintage frame and voila i also wanted to crochet something cute to go with it dad already got the whales so for mum i went looking for seal and sea lion patterns i eventually found one on ravelry from sandsteel designs some of the results looked variable but the pattern had some extremely clever shaping i had faith that if i got the gauge right i could pull it off i fished out a variegated greyish brown cotton sat myself in front of the tv and got stitching result adorability additional i have an excessive amount of christmas craft to blog so stay tuned for an upcoming four part post full of holiday cheer gamer craft mysteries and other such signifiers of the season 1 comment posted by gemma on january 10 2013 in craftiness deviousness tags amigurumi crochet cross stitch gifts lighthouses seals a cavalcade of crustacea or release the kraken 18 nov some months ago a friend of mine requested crocheted lobsters so i found a free pattern and stitched them up a friend of hers then requested a crab so i took a some heavy liberties with this pattern and made this little guy another friend suggested some mythical creatures may be in order perhaps a manticore or a kraken manticores seemed a little too challenging for my amigurumi skills so i went for the terror of the deep i did some research which led me to pose my firend a question squid like kraken or octopus like kraken he opted for the squid like model which gladdened my heart because the free octopus patterns i found were not particularly likely to inspire fear in the minds of the multitudes the pattern i settled on was loosely written but the result was fantastic i translated the instructions as i stitched and the resultant pattern is now over on my free patterns page with many thanks to the original designer trish of genuine mudpie the kraken was very well received but it left a gnawing sensation in my brain i could not find any free octopus amigurumi patterns that i liked so perhaps i should design one translating the kraken pattern was easy enough after all i speak the language and i know what shapes i want this sloshed around in my head for a bit and eventually i bit the bullet and did it you can now head over to my free patterns page to find my first original amigurumi design the actual octopus it s easy you only need to know chain slip stitch single crochet increases and decreases it s quick only 11 rounds and it looks like an actual octopus if you make one please send me pictures i d love to see how it turns out leave a comment posted by gemma on november 18 2012 in craftiness tags amigurumi crab free patterns kraken lobster octopus my favourite monotreme 31 oct i was stumped for what to make for my dad s birthday this year just completely puzzled about what to make mum gave me the brainwave finding a platypus pattern in one of the books she d borrowed from the library i loved the idea so i started to make it but the utter lack of shaping made me sad and unwilling to continue the platypus was still a solid concept though so i scoured the internet for better patterns my search ended as was fairly inevitable with planet june s platypus pattern the shaping was very clever and the end result fantastic my dad was fairly chuffed with this crocheted monotreme as he rather enjoys platypus spotting when given the opportunity for the uninformed platypuses are extremely rare and extremely hard to see in wild environments given that these brown creatures hang out largely in the brown mud of brown creeks i was pretty happy too it s the length of my forearm and therefore the biggest piece of amigurumi i ve made to date and yet it s still really cute 2 comments posted by gemma on october 31 2012 in craftiness tags amigurumi gifts platypus presents for dad pod people 21 sep earlier this year my parents went on a whale watching holiday and dad was quite taken with the tiny huge baby whales that they saw so for fathers day this year i made him a pod of whales complete with pale whale babies the pattern is from planet june and the results are extremely cute 1 comment posted by gemma on september 21 2012 in craftiness tags amigurumi fathers day gifts my presents for dad whales marking my territory 28 aug when i moved house earlier this year it took a while before it really felt like home one of the things that aided the transition was this please ignore the weeds we do after all this yarnbomb is on the tree outside my house it s more me than any other yarnbomb i ve ever put up i used leftover scraps of neutral toned noro a gorgeous japanese luxury yarn most of the scraps were pure wool but some were also wool silk blend the colours are beautiful and the all natural fibres are well suited to longer term installations which i intend this to be thanks to their breathability this yarnbomb has been through one inspection so far the rental agent noted upon leaving that there was a scarf on that tree we agreed that yes there was a scarf on the tree which could be removed easily if requested with no such request forthcoming this yarnbomb hereby stakes my claim home is where the craft is leave a comment posted by gemma on august 28 2012 in craftiness tags knitting yarnbombing this is the giant post of boyfriend craft 28 jul over the last year or so i have been making various pieces of crafty awesome for my boyfriend also awesome but i have been exceptionally lax in blogging these creations so in an extremely tardy fashion here are some of the geeky boyfriend crafts i have made over the last year birthday a quote from his favorite terry pratchett character sam vimes from the book night watch the flowers at the bottom are lilac blossoms which are seriously plot relevant in the book also a cross stitched triceratops birthday card the triceratops is from from makoto s cross stitch super collection which has fantastic mini designs christmas cthulu cross stitch from needlenoodles and zombie vampire from zombie felties we had at the time been playing a lot of arkham horror on reflection that fed heavily into my crafty psyche plus cutesy lovecraftian nightmares and steampunk style zombie vampires are just cool y know valentines day a heart of course i stitched this ages ago but could not pass it over as a valentines gift it just struck the right note between geeky and romantic anniversary a weighted companion cube from nerdigurumi and also well portal made after we began cohabiting and therefore crocheted in secrecy at odd times and in weird places stitched with love and weighted with glass beads your weighted companion cube will never threaten to stab you aaaaaand birthday again a hand embroidered felt d20 of my own devising again stitched as a covert operation the project began as a crocheted d20 but in the end felt was a much more manageable medium especially with that much embroidery and sewing up while it s not entirely game legal it does roll surprisingly true also i made a jaffa marble cake with dark chocolate ganache it was delicious needless to say we are well suited in our geeky tastes 5 comments posted by gemma on july 28 2012 in craftiness tags amigurumi boyfriend craft companion cube cross stitch dungeons and dragons embroidery felt geekery gifts portal vampires zombies anachronistic funtimes 22 jul for my birthday party this weekend we threw a party of anachronistic funtimes costumes were ardently encouraged i went quasi victorian because i already had the boots the corset the dress the skirt the fan the velvet cameo necklace all the things really my hair was braided and coiled round my head it took a crazy amount of pins and clips to keep in place it is however an excellent use for my waist length hair in other news today is pi approximation day for the uninitiated july 22 22 7 3 14 π in celebration of this mathematical occasion i baked an apple and rhubarb pi pie it was delicious leave a comment posted by gemma on july 22 2012 in craftiness tags costume pi day pie steampunk older posts search recent posts massive ly late christmas 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