She’s finished and on the job…

The little amigurumi ninja is finished, and hanging-out in the garden to make sure that no baddies are coming to get us.
Her face was drawn using a uniball marker on a piece of cotton duck, then attached using fusible webbing. To be sure it wouldn’t come off, I’ve run a small line of stitches around the [...]

First project for the day

Here is this morning’s project – a pencil case for one of Meg’s friends at school.
I love sewing in the morning – don’t know why I don’t do more of it…
The basic pattern for this little bag came from a tutorial I found through Craftster. It originated on a site called Drago[knit]fly and can be found here. It [...]

Motivation

Motivation can come from the strangest places. On Monday – a public holiday here in Melbourne – I spent the day in the Emergency department of our local hospital with my mum, who had what we think was a really severe bout of food poisoning. While I waited, I crocheted – keeping my hands busy [...]

Amigurumi Ninja

This Queen’s Birthday weekend has given me a chance to catch up on a couple of UFOs – including a quick crocheting project that I couldn’t resist trying: my first original amigurumi.

This little ninja (again, drawn by Meg) has been the inspiration.
I’ve got her body and one arm made, with the second arm and legs ‘on [...]

Small sweets

My latest passion is amigurumi, having discovered it recently when I was searching the net for crochet patterns.
I love that the animals are small and cute and quick to crochet, so that a lot can be achieved in a few spare minutes here and there. And lets face it, sometimes that is all the time we [...]

Sniffles and stamps

Hello. Welcome to the first post of Whatsername & Thingummybob!

Meg, miserable with a cold, stayed home again today for the fourth or fifth time in the last three weeks. Everyone seems to have this virus – first you have it for a week, then you start to feel better and crow at the improvement, only [...]