This summer I made my first sock monkey from a pack of children’s socks I bought at a market. I used one pink and one yellow for this one. I don’t think I posted about it back then, so here she is in all her cuteness (Smilla the cat above, she wanted in too). I […]
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Making teddy bears, bunnys, amigurumis, cats, using patterns, sewing cuddly friends and gifts for children.
From Mom’s yarn basket
I found a ball of white wool yarn in mom’s knitting basket. I couldn’t resist it. I crocheted another amigurumi teddy bear, my first white one. I really like her blue eyes and black full eye-lashes. What do you think? This one has already moved away from home (to Kiruna!) and will be a baptismal […]
Making tiny gifts
The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart. Helen Keller More small creatures today! I have a few kids inside my heart all the time, but they vary as some grow up and others I don’t see any more. These are […]
Adventures in the garden
Photo-shoot in the garden, featuring a small pink creature I made this week in moms sewing room. Mom made a big turquoise picnic blanket and occupied the sewing machine, so I picked up some materials and hand sewed this wee one. She (the little softie) didn’t want to be in any photos, she just wanted […]
Tea party in Wonderland
It is a great day today. It is the first day of the rest of our lives, and we can do with it anything we want. Change, lay still, move, evolve, have a tea party, give out presents, enjoy the sunshine, write, create, blog… Anything! I’m wrapping a birthday gift for tonight, arranging a going […]
Handmade Cloth Dolls now with clothes
I made a couple of little personalities this summer, but I never got around to finish them. Or at least, feel that they were finished. Charlotta is a white cloth doll with stripy hair and embroidered eyes. I love how she looks, but the ballet skirt I made her looks really cold now in the […]
Scottish patterned teddy bears
A couple of weeks ago I drew a pattern of a little bear, and cut it out in a fabric I got from Mimi. It is inspired by some online teddy bears that I’ve seen that uses thicker wool fabric, I don’t know if I would’ve thought about using a fabric like that otherwise… But […]
Hello Kitty, Hello Normality
I crocheted this cat after a Hello Kitty picture, and I think she turned out really nice. Hello Kitty is something I’ve been enjoying for a long time, since I was a kid. I think she was born the same year as I was, and she is coming back now as my generation is becoming […]
Two amigurumi friends in one photosetting
I’ve been spending a lot of time at flickr this weekend, sorting my photos in folders, looking at photos in different photo pools and trying to find all the home made stuff that I haven’t blogged about yet! When I’ve finished something creative I try to take good pictures of it, in good light, and […]
Alien I, II and III
I made three white aliens this summer. Alien I, Alien II and Alien III. The other ones are at my flickr account with photos, one has a pink ribbon and the other one a black ribbon so that you can hang them. I’ve sold one and have two left that I will put up in […]
Mullis the little mole
This is Mullis the little mole. I made him a couple of months ago, but then I added brown buttons as his eyes, which made him look blind. I didn’t like him like that. So now that I’ve taken the ordinary buttons off and added “real” glass eyes with black irises instead, I like him […]
Cat Softies for Everyone
In the begining of the summer I made lots of small cats from a pattern I created – do you remember them? Here they are again, some of them still hanging out in my book shelf: Why are they still living with me? They want to explore the world! What are you waiting for? Don’t […]