Little Brown Pup

My latest crocheted critter. He’s ready for winter. Are you? I’m not.

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous here in Dallas. Too nice to work. Unfortunately, I’ve been working. How about you?

Percy

Allow me to introduce you to the newest pup in my Etsy shop, Percy. Crocheted from jewel tone purple acrylic chenille and soft grey rayon chenille. He’s looking for a permanent home filled with hugs and squeezes. Interested? Click on his picture and be whisked away to Critter Central to find out more about Percy.

New Stuffed Drawings

I’ve recently added a couple of new images to my line of stuffed drawings. After having so much fun drawing my Woodstock tribute guitars for the Plush Team’s Plushstock, I drew a cat playing a guitar on a creamy tan cotton fabric.

I enjoyed that project so much that I kept drawing on the same fabric and finally released an image that had been rolling around in my brain for months. My dog Mickey has developed the habit of laying around the house with his paws crossed, as though he were posing for his graduation picture. But when I try to photograph him, he moves.
So I drew him.

I plan on adding different fabric versions of these drawings to my shop in the coming weeks. These two are currently available there. I hope you enjoy my little stuffed drawings.

Save The Boobs

PlushTeam wants to save the boobs!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and to raise funds and awareness about this insidious disease, the members of PlushTeam have created mammary-themed plush. 80% of every purchase goes to the Susan G. Komen Institute, an international fund dedicated to raising money for Breast Cancer Cure research. Be sure to stop by the team’s Etsy shop to view all the wonderful boobalicious creations.

Here’s my contribution, click on the picture to be whisked off to the PlushTeam Etsy shop:

Black & White & Grey Stripe

These cuties are my latest custom critter creations. A very nice man commissioned me to crochet each of his adult daughters a version of their own cat.

I love custom critter creating. It is such a challenge to translate the photographic cat into yarn and stuffing cat. He was pleased. I was pleased. How about you, do you like these kitties?

Here’s the photographic cats:

Plushstock 2009 – Vote It Up!

It’s now time for you to vote for your favorite Plushstock entries from the fabulous Plush Team. Four categories to vote for:

• Musicians
• Instruments
• Hippies
• Peace Symbols

Voting will close at midnight EST on August 30. CLICK HERE TO VOTE.

I’m not going to tell you who to vote for in the instrument category. (hint)

Plushstock

August 15, 2009 is the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock festival and we members of the Etsy Plush Street Team are commemorating the event by creating special plush items.

This is my contribution, the peace guitars. I started to draw acoustic guitars, but then started thinking about all the peace and love and flowers of the time and it all merged together. I had two pieces of fabric I liked equally, so I made two guitars, drawing my design onto both pieces and altering a bit between them.

Keep an eye on the Plush Team blog, soon after August 15 you’ll be able to see all the commemorative creations. Enjoy.

Critter Central

Update: They have decided not to give me a space at August’s market and I was told, all this by email, that  if I was interested, they’d place me on a list to be considered for future markets. I’m not happy, but what can I do? I was there for the first and second market, took a chance on an unknown venture, and now that the crowd has grown and the press has noticed, they don’t want me anymore. Sour grapes, I know. I’m just feeling sorry for myself.

If you have visited my shop on Etsy, you already know that I call it Critter Central. But did you know that Critter Central can be found off line, in person, at White Rock Local Market once a month in Dallas, TX?

Here’s some booth photos from last Saturday. If you are a Facebook member, you can click here and see a bunch of photos from the market on the White Rock Local Market group page.

We all had fun in spite of the 102° heat. The next market is Saturday, August 8. If you live in Dallas or will be here that weekend, try to come by. You’ll be glad you did.

Scribbled Crochet

I have been carrying around this idea in my head for months, I wanted to make crocheted critters that look like they had been scribbled upon. Random, meandering swirls and twists and spirals. Doodle type designs.

After thinking about it for way too long, I finally embarked on creating a dark blue textured yarn cat. I crocheted, stuffed and sewed her up to point where I usually add the facial features. Instead, I crocheted a couple of very long chains with a contrasting color, burnt orange, cotton yarn. I then straight pinned the chains in a scribbled design. When I was satisfied with my scribbling, I hand sewed the chain to the kitty.

Fans

I’ve been playing around on Facebook for several months now, finding old friends, keeping up with what everyone is doing and admit that I find it kind of fun. So I set up a fan page there. For my critter creations. If you’re a member of Facebook, come on by and become a fan if you’d like another way to keep up with my comings and goings. See you there.