Throwback Thursday: First Super Monstie

First Super Monstie

I made my first Super Monstie is August 2009 - so long ago! I still enjoy making them today, and continue to have the pattern available in my Etsy Shop :)

Read his blog post here: Super Monstie!

Apologies and Stuff

First of all I'm sorry for the lack of blogging recently! To tell you the truth I haven't been up to much, so haven't got alot to talk about!! Maybe I should use some journal prompts or something?!

So, not really much to tell you about. I was ment to go to the dentist on Wednesday to watch for the day (I told you I want to train as a dental nurse?) but I got nervous and didn't go :( Shame on me, I know. But I will hopefully have the courage to go along next Wednesday instead, they said they're not fussy when I go in so it's all good :)

On the crochet front - I've made a pink Super Monstie like Candy, a scarf which I made up myself (I will probably put the pattern up on here) and some cute pin cushions I found on Ravelry. I'll have pictures up soon, but my camera is dead at the moment.

It wants to be ready for tomorrow though - I'm off to Wembley Stadium in London to watch Muse! Yay!! I love going to gigs, and the stadium at Wembley is one of my favourite venues. That and the O2. It's between the two of them :) So I will take pictures and post them on here with a review - which will be glowing I'm sure!

Oh, and most importantly - Gus and Gladys are back home! Woohoo! I got loads of lovely goodies from my swap partner Beckashell; again I will post pictures when my camera is back up.

That is all, just thought I'd let you know what's been going on as I haven't updated for a while!

New Listing! Candy The Super Monstie!

You asked for more monsters, so you get more monsters! I give you...

Candy, the Super Monstie!
She is Len's sister!

She has been lovingly handmade using soft, bright pink acrylic DK yarn, has 2 safety eyes, 3 light pink acrylic DK horns on her head and back and has a felt mouth. She is stuffed with cuddley polyfill and has 'hollow heels', which means she can stand up on her own! She is roughly 14cms tall.

Super Monsties are cave monsters that originate from Chiselhurst Caves in Kent, England. On a trip there one Sunday I spotted a male and a female wandering round looking for attention from the tourists. They said they wanted to adventure outside the caves, so I took them home to Essex, where they have multiplied ever since. They are very moody creatures - each one has his or her own personality :)

For more details please visit her shop page here.

I hope you like her! <3

Win Len!

Just a reminder that there is one week left to enter the giveaway to win Len, the Super-Happy Super-Monstie!

If you would like to give Len a new home, please see the original post here for details :)

Thank you to everyone that has entered so far - Len is very happy that so many people are interested in him! He's even happier than before! :D

July Giveaway - Win Len!

You may remember back in January on this blog I had a giveaway? Well it was so much fun I thought I'd have another one this month!

This time round you can win...

Len, The Super-Happy Super-Monstie!

There will also be 2 runners up prizes of a free crochet pattern from my Etsy Shop!

Len is made of acrylic DK yarn, with a felt mouth and safety eyes. He stands at approx. 6'' tall and has 3 horns on his head/back. He even has a heart button sewn on his bum!

Len is a very happy Super Monstie; his favourite things are lively rock music, lemon sorbet, watching Wimbledon and relaxing in the garden on sunny days...

Len will be greatly missed from my ami collection - he's like an agony uncle to all the other ami's and often helps me name them too when they're being made.

But, alas, Len is getting bored of his surroundings and said he'd like to fly the nest. So I said I'd find him a nice new owner on my blog!

If you would like to be that 'nice new owner', all you have to do is answer one question:

'What would you like to see in my Etsy shop?!'

I've recently started putting some of my amigurumi up in my Etsy Shop with my patterns, but I don't really know what people want. So here's your chance to tell me exactly what YOU want to see! It can be anything amigurumi - whether you've seen me make it before or not - I'm up for a challenge!

Simply comment below, or email me at esshaych@hotmail.co.uk , and list the top 3 things you'd like to see up for sale in my shop. Please also leave a contact email/website where I can find you and tell you if you win.

***If no contact email/website is left I won't be able to contact you if you win! Please make sure you leave one!***

The giveaway will finish on Friday 16th July at 12am GMT. I will pick one winner at random and that person will win Len, and 2 runners up will win a free crochet pattern from my Etsy shop.

So that's it! If you'd like to give
Len a new home Please get in contact - he's very excited about all this!

What I've Been Making

Another busy crochet week. I got loads of my Super Massive Kokeshi Doll done, this is what I have so far...


She's HUGE! I'm making the hair now, which is gonna be a right pain as I hate using black yarn. I can never see the stitches properly. Oh well!

In between making the doll I've made a few amigurumi and a scarf. Here's the scarf...



I didn't follow a pattern, I just made it up as I went along. It's basically just a row of about 251 Sc foundation stitches, turn; *Sc, Ch 1, skip one stitch* to the end. Pretty simple but it gives a nice interweaving effect with the different colours. I might make another one in bright rainbow shades.

Next was a pink turtle called Pinkie...


I made her using my Tilly The Turtle pattern. I added a pink flower button to her head as I thought it looked cute! I'm thinking about selling her in my Etsy shop, I'm not too sure yet.

Then it was Bob the Super Monstie...



... I made him using my Super Monstie pattern. I like Bob - he looks really happy and was alot of fun to make. And quick, which is always good. I get bored if something takes me too long to make!

That's about it. In the coming week I'm gonna continue with the Kokeshi doll, and do little bits in between.