March 18, 2010
The bunny ears will now stand up on their own! The power of yarn wins through again. It was annoyingly fiddly, but basically just required changing the size of the ears so that they were less long and using a doubled piece of yarn on the sides of the ears, so that they were stronger, but not too heavy. It will all be explained in the pattern, eventually.
Meanwhile, my son has discovered that Round Rabbit is very ball-like. And therefore excellent for throwing.
I managed to get this photo of Rabbit in mid air, looking a little startled.
And perhaps the most amazing test of the strength of my design/knitting is that the top photo was taken after the bottom photo.
March 15, 2010
The floppiness of this particular bunny’s ears and the colour of the yarn makes him look a little bit like Rolf from the muppets. This is not intentional.
Now how to strengthen those ears without losing the shape?
March 12, 2010
Getting to the End of a Giraffe?
Today, through some strange arrangement of the planets, I find myself with much more time than usual on my hands.
This does not happen very often.
Of course when you have an etsy shop there’s always something to list, read, promote, advertise, tweak or photograph. But I am dedicating today to some knit design.
I’m working on a short row giraffe, which is a great challenge and very time consuming. If I manage to work out the legs today I will be very pleased. I also need to tweak the Round Rabbit pattern to make it a little more elegant. And then there’s the heart shaped pillow, which looks great before the stuffing goes in and terrible after. So that’s probably just a gauge problem.
Really, I don’t have time to write this, there’s knitting to be done!
March 10, 2010
I’m currently writing out my pattern for the small and large Round Rabbits. When they’re finished, they are mighty cute (see below). But each piece of the bunny is knitted separately and as I hate sewing I’m inclined to shelve the pattern and work on something more elegant.
What do you think?
Is there too much sewing in the bunny pattern or does the cuteness make up for it?
March 8, 2010
The Etsy Mom blog is running a competition to win a Natty Knits Yellow Knit Chick in it’s own little nest.
All you have to do to enter is pop over to the Etsy Mom blog and leave a comment saying what item you like best in the Natty Knits etsy shop. There are other ways to enter too, all explained very clearly on the Etsy Mom blog.
This giveaway will end on Monday March 15th at 11:59pm PST. Each entry is assigned a # and the winning # will be drawn by random.org and announced on the Etsy Mom blog as well as emailed. And entries will be accepted from all over the world.
It’s really easy and you’ll win an Easter gift! Now that’s a bargain.
March 5, 2010
There are certain times of year when I find myself buying cards for every occasion. March is one of those times. We have birthdays for family and friends, my wedding anniversary and UK Mother’s Day. So I always have lots of greeting card favourites on Etsy at this time of year.
When the treasury came available last night it seemed a bit silly not to put them all out there for everyone else to see.
I’ve already bought some of these cards and will probably buy more.
And perhaps the most amazing test of the strength of my design/knitting is that the top photo was taken after the bottom photo.
