Thumbs Up Approval

Last year my youngest wore one of my monkey beanies that I have available in my store.
But this year I thought he might be getting a little too old to get away with being "cute".

After hunting for the right ear flap crochet pattern I found this one from Alli Crafts.

And I think the photos speak for themself and show just how much my son loves his new head wear!

Octonauts To The Rescue!

I had never heard of this show before, but in one of the many craft/gift swaps I am involved in the mother had mentioned it as one of her son's favourite shows and book.

I first had plans to look up what the characters looked like, and see if I could create a soft doll type of concept for the characters, but I was super excited when I was able to find a couple of crochet patterns!

Not all of the main characters had patterns available for them, (I believe there is about 4 of them?) and I'm sure I could have changed the colours and altered their features to create the others.

Here are the patterns I used, save you hunting for them also :)

Captain Barnacles
Kwazii

Cupcakes For The Diet Concious

Wouldn't we all like to enjoy something sweet without it going straight to our thighs or feeling guilty about have ANOTHER!...How about some cute crochet cupcakes? (Can never have too many of these either!!)

Ingredients:
chocolate brown wool for cake
coloured wool of choice for icing
long beads or multicoloured embroidery thread for sprinkles
soft fill to taste

Method:
CAKE
1) 6 sc in cirlce
2) 2 sc around (12)
3) 2 sc around (24)
4-10) sc around (24)
finish off and sew strands in.

ICING
1) 6 sc in circle
2) 2 sc around (12)
3) 2 sc around (24)
4-8) sc around (24)
9) 5 sc next st, skip next st, repeat around
finish off, leave tail long enough to sew icing on to cake.

CONSTRUCTION:
stuff cake
sew icing onto cake, just above the ruffles so they flare out
leave opening to stuff the icing and make sure cake is right shape
sew closed
sew beads or coloured thread scattered over the top of icing



And you're DONE!
It's that SIMPLE!
ENJOY!