27 October 2010

*grin*

I can not help but smile when I make these sock animals. The colors of these socks just screamed to me sock animals!
I used scrap pieces of fleece to make their scarves.

I wanted to give them a bit of variety so I started to make bow ties.

I didn't just want to make monkeys so I attempt a cat. I gave it pointed ears a nose and whiskers.

Second try at a cat. The faces came out a little sad looking.

I was trying to make a bunny but I think it sort of came out as a very long ear dog.

25 October 2010

Fur

I got a request for an Alot. This link was sent to me.


After reading the blog about the Alot, I wanted to try to include a few features. In my mind I was already seeing something with a shaggy fur, I did not find the faux fur I was looking for, but found something that I could work with. I also wanted to incorporate a snaggletooth.

snaggletooth

Horns were another thing. I was on the fence with the eyes, but felt it was necessary since I wanted to include the snaggletooth and the imaginary line I was drawing was low on the Alot head.

horns and eyes

I made it long in length. This was so it could fold up and have a mouth that frowned.

The last detail was the mouth which was in a frown. The frown was created with a seam.


Things I would change on it... making the horns wider, the eyes further apart. And maybe a different fur. I'm still not sure giving the eyes a bit of poof was the right thing or not.

22 October 2010

Monster red, Monster blue...

I decided to do some monsters this year. Eyes were just for my frog towels, but I decided to try some other things with eyes. This is how my Monster red came out.


With Monster blue I was trying out a different style of eye. It will be left to the imagination of the user of this towel to decide what it is. I think piranha when I see it. I also started to think... hmmm maybe walrus. I got told it looks like a snake. What does your imagination think?


Additions to Little frog products.

I decided to do a little towel hood. These are smaller than my original hooded towels. They have some of my original hooded towel designs as well as some newer looks. I started with monkeys and pandas when I made them.(More to be posted soon)


One thing that has been stuck in my head this year, like one of those songs that you cannot stop humming, has been sock monkeys. The tall human sized Sock Monkey and friends that can be seen in a car commercial make me smile. I actually had not been a fan of sock monkeys but some how they have grown on me. One day I just could not help it, I took an old pair of socks and just started cutting and stitching.


My cat does not find this white sock monkey to be his friend. Of course white sock monkey does karate chops/ kicks and flying attacks on him. Which leads to a wrestling match of cat v.s. sock monkey.

I found some socks that had interesting colors and patterns. More pictures of sock animals to be posted.


I'll be at Neal Blaisdell this weekend!

14 October 2010

Yes, yes, I know...

*sigh*

Once again the year has gone by without my realizing. My lack of web posting is just dreadful. I'll have to figure out which pictures need to be posted. As well as updating my dot com. Which is still in a remodeling phase on my computer.

I'll be the Season's Best craft fair again at the NBC. This year it is the weekend before the trick or treating.