Crocheting For Craft Fairs

Hiho! Hows everyone?! I hope you all well. I'm sorry it's been a while but, again, I haven't really been up to much crocheting. The little I have made I will share with you here...

First up is the army of Monsties I've been making; some plain ones...

... and 2 striped ones...

I made them using my Monsties pattern, a 3.5mm hook and I used 2 different sized eyes. After making Mr. Wonkey I thought it looked cute :)

Next I made another Mutant Cactus...

... No.103! He's a little cactus this time, and again I used different sized eyes and a 3.5mm hook.

Last but not least I made a big Eggbert...

... again using a 3.5mm hook and this time stick on eyes, which I glued on for extra strength; I also sewed the pom poms on. All these guys are going on my craft stall, which is just a week and a half away! Getting nervous!

New Listings! Pocket Monsties!

Wow, 2 posts in one day! Busy!

I've just listed the Pocket Monsties in my Etsy Shop!

All are made from bright acrylic DK yarn, have fun hair-do's, 2 small plastic safety eyes, a red heart on their bums and are stuffed with polyfil. They are approx. 3'' tall each, except Blue Pocket Monstie, who is 2.5''. Bless!

You can find them in my Etsy Shop!

I hope you like! :D

So Many Ami's, So Little Time

Since my giveaway earlier this month I've been so busy making stuff! All of your suggestions for things to make have been brilliant - I'm going to be busy 'till Christmas!

Here's a round up of all the things requested:

Food
- Monster Cupcakes
- Monster Toast
- Cookies
- Ice cream
- Sushi
- Strawberry
- Apple - An Apple A Day Week?!
- Pirate food
- Cherries
- Fruit In General
- Buns/Cakes

Monsties
- Super Monsties
- Pocket Monsties
- Career Monsties (Nurse, Fireman, Cop)
- Pirate Monsties

Monsters
- Fuzzy Yarn
- Baby Toys
- Multiple Arms/Legs
- Cactus Monsters

Aliens

Ghosts (Creepy, Cute)

Mighty Boosh Characters

In-animate objects
- Shoes & Boots
- Cars and Buses
- ipod Ami

Animals
- Whales
- Red Panda
- Racoon
- Platypus
- Seal
- Rhino
- Pink Baby Hippo
- Jellyfish
- Mice In A Shoe - Themed
- Centipede family (80's toys)
- Spider Couple
- Insects

Keyring/Keychain Ami's

Dolls
- Customisable Dolls
- Customisable Wekeshies
- Armed Forces

Armed Forces Tanks/Helicopters

Fairy Tale
- 3 Little Pigs and Wolf
- Little Red Riding Hood

Angels

Egg Cosy Hats
- Sombrero
- Pirate
- Elf
- Firefly
- Dunces Hat
- Top Hat
- Bonnet
- Witch
- Mad Hatter
- Dr Seuss
- Bear Ears Hat
- Sun Hat
- Beret
- Bobble hat
- Mohawk Earflap hat
- Earflap hat
- Bunny Ears

Pheww! :S

As you can see there's alot of things! I'm slowly but surely getting through the list. So far I have made:

Apples In Suits
I plan to have more of these in my shop next week :)

Super Monsties
I've sold this one already, and am in the middle of making another one - a themed one ;)

Pocket Monsties
I'm re-branding the Monsties 'Pocket Monsties' because they fit in your pocket lol I made these 5 last week and will be listing them very soon.

I've also been working on a shoe ami. This is proving to be very tricky! I'm having a problem with how to do the soles - do you crochet them or use actual shoe soles? But like I said, I like a challenge, so I'll continue to work on it!

Thank you again for everyones input - I do intend on going through the whole list, but it might take me a while :)

What I Did This Evening

I decided to go on a Monstie binge this evening after dinner, to see how many I could make! This is what I came up with in the past 4 hours!

Rainbow Monsties! Yay! They are about 3''tall and have fluffy fancy yarn hair. They also have mini heart buttons sewn to their bums!

I'm planning on having them up in my Etsy shop soon - I'd do it tonight but there isn't much natural light left to take decent pictures :(

Hope you like!

Oh, and the giveaway to win Len has now closed! Thank you so much to everyone that entered - I will be making the draw tomorrow! :D Len's very excited!

Monsties Tutorial

I've been asked by a few people about how exactly you make the legs of my Monsties pattern . I looked over the pattern and realised it's not that clear to understand, so I've made a little tutorial to show you. I hope it helps!

This is the Monstie up to and including row 15. At this point - if using safety eyes - you need to attach them. I use the end of row 15 as a centre point to position them.



After attaching the eyes, start row 16. SC 15....



... and then join with a Slst to the beginning of the row.



This completes row 16, and seperates the legs (:b)

This is the 1st leg after row 17...



... and this is the 1st leg completed.



Next, start leg 2 by attaching yarn with a Slst to any where on the leg (the space where you're gonna crochet the leg). This is going back to row 17 in the pattern.



Continue to row 19 and finish off. Your Monstie should now look like this...




All you need to do now is stuff the Monstie, crochet the bottom of the feet and sew them on...



... and glue/stitch on the mouth, add hair and you're done!



I hope that helped a bit; if you still have any questions just comment below and I'll get back to you asap :D

Thankies, and enjoy your Monsties!

And the Winner Are...

I made the draw for the Monsties Giveaway this evening with my Mum in the kitchen - names were sorted into 3 different bags according to which colour Monstie you wanted. All draws were fair - we don't like to cheat!

So the winners are -


Captain Coppermane won Blue Monstie!


Kerry won Green Monstie!


And Jill won Pink Monstie!

Congrats to all 3! And Thank you to everyone that entered the giveaway - I wish I had enough Monsties to let everyone have one :(

This giveaway went very well, I'll probably be having another one in the future. If I do, which one of my ami's would you like to win? I'm open to suggestions!

Thankies!

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Last Call For Monsties!

Hey! Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Just a quick post to say you've got 1 day left to enter the Monsties Giveaway! It will be closing around 9pm GMT on Tuesday (19th Jan), so if you still want to enter nows the time to do so!

For full details pleae visit the original post here or follow the Monsties Giveaway link to the right. I will announce the winners sometime on Wednesday.

Good Luck!

Monsties Giveaway!

Seen as I have quite a few followers on this blog now I thought I'd have a giveaway! Yay!

Up for grabs are 3 Monsties, each lovingly handmade by me! You get the Monstie of your choice, be it shocked Pink Monstie with the pig-tails; happy Blue Monstie with the mohawk; or terrified Green Monstie with the Emo fringe! You will also recieve amigurumi stickers by Moo and a 'Googly Eyed Dude'.


All you have to do is one of the following:

. Follow this blog

. Become a fan on Facebook

. Follow me on Twitter

. 'Heart' my Etsy Shop

. Watch me on Deviant Art

. Tweet about this giveaway and link back to this blog

. Mention this giveaway on Facebook, Myspace, Plurk etc and link back to this blog

. Blog about this giveaway and link back to this blog

You only need to do one of the 8 things listed above for your name to be entered into the draw, but for each thing you do you get an extra entrie - so the better chance of winning! Yay!

After you've done one (or more) of the 8 things listed simply comment below or email me at esshaych@hotmail.co.uk, let me know what you did/link to what you did, which Monstie you'd like and a contact email address or website where I can find you if you win. That's it!

The 3 winners will be selected at random using the 'names out of a hat' method, and put up on my blog and emailed after the giveaway ends, which is next Tuesday (19th January). Monsties will be shipped using Royal Mail 1st class, and I ship anywhere in the world :o)

That's all! Good Luck! :D