Amigurumi Unicorn

I realised I haven't updated my blog for ages!  Naughty me! It's not because I haven't been making new stuff, far from it.  I've made lots of new things lately but I suppose with trying to update my website, etsy, instagram, facebook, twitter etc I sort of forgot about my blog!

So I'm going to try and update with all my new things and I'm starting with my Amigurumi Unicorn. :)  I'd been wanting to make a Unicorn for ages so it felt good to finally get there.  It can be adopted from my etsy shop here. :)

Meet Vincent the Voodoo Cat

Meet Vincent - the Amigurumi Voodoo Cat. :)  He's a little present for myself.  It occured to me that I don't make anything for myself, all those cute critters but I'm pretty strict and don't let myself get too attached so they can be adopted.  But this time I wanted to make myself a Voodoo Cat friend and along came Vincent. :)

He might pop up from time to time helping me with my creative stuff and iphoneography but so far he's settling in ok and getting on well with my other two cats Hiro and Ando.

More Amigurumi Voodoo Dolls

I was asked to make a couple of Amigurumi Voodoo Dolls as a custom order. I've been making a few voodoo dolls over the past few months and love making them so it was nice to take on this custom order. I enjoyed making these two. Melvin and Matilda their names are (chosen by the customer) and I think they're too cute. :)

I've also had Voodoo Bunnies on the brain and just finished a black and purple one earlier too which I've become quite fond of. :)

Inside Crochet magazine

Yay I'm so happy to blog today about my crochet being in a magazine. :)  This is a first for me. :)  The magazine is called Inside Crochet and it's the latest issue (issue 7) which has just gone on sale this week.

It's my Amigurumi Monkey Mia and guinea-pig which have been used in the "Things We Like" section.  So pleased to see it there.  I've just scanned it in and added it to my main website too at http://www.cutedesigns.co.uk/.  Good magazine too, I recommend it. :)

Amigurumi Cats

Cats are my absolute favourite animal!  I've grown up with them and always had a cat about, they're just such cute, fun and curious little creatures. :)  So that may come as a surprise that there's rarely been an amigurumi cat in my shop to purchase over the last couple of years or so.

I've made a couple at various times but they just didn't look quite right to me, I don't know why.  I think cats are quite tough animals to do justice as they can come out looking evil.  Anyway I tried a new design which started out as a doodle in my notebook and was chuffed with the result. :)  I'm finally pleased with my cat design, so much so that I made two of them. :)  I love their little bells on their collars.

These little cuties will be up for adoption in my etsy shop. :)

Amigurumi Felix "Scout" McFrosty Penguin

Some of you may recognise this little fellow. :)  When I first started up on etsy I made felt plushies although the amigurumi crochet kind of took over in the end.  Well this is a little character my boyfriend designed for me and I think he's so cute. :)  He started off as a felt plushie and that's the way he's been for the last two and a half years or so.

But with deciding to concentrate more on my crochet I didn't want to lose some of my much loved felt plushie characters so I thought I'd gradually convert them to yarn and make little amigurumi critters out of them.  So here's Felix and in case he's new to you, here's his story...

Felix is on a mission from the Antarctic. Having heard about global warming his penguin clan sent him away to gather information on the world without snow and ice. Sadly, this was years ago and he is now lost and can't find his way home.

Fish was his favourite food but since leaving the Antarctic he has discovered a love for jelly babies.

Felix can be adopted at either my etsy shop or my folksy shop. :)

A little dusting of snow...

Yesterday morning I woke up to a light dusting of snow. Was surprised by this because even though I'd seen the weather was getting colder I didn't think we were due snow here. Thought it was further up north as it is today.

I'm done with the snow now and don't really want anymore. Saying that though it was a perfect reason to get some new photos taken of my little amigurumi snowy owl. I forgot to do it when we had all the heavy stuff but I think it looks nice for the pictures. :)

Amigurumi Polar Bear

Just a quick blog update tonight as I have to go out soon. I wanted to do a quick entry about another of my winter themed amigurumi critters and this time it's a polar bear. :) I've just listed it at my etsy shop so it's up for adoption and looking for a good home.

The Travelling Meerkat Comes to Visit....

I'm sure many of you are familiar with the adorable knitted meerkats from Nifty Knits. Well, as part of the Etsy Treasury Team Nifty has prepared two of her cutest baby meerkats for a global tour. :)

Nifty (better known as Heather Leavers) has sent out two of her little creations to become globe trotting adventurers. They will be meeting many of the ETTEAM (Etsy Treasury Team) members and learning something about their craft, or where they live and just having fun. Maybe even picking up a souvenir or two on the way.

Once home from their adventures the meerkats and their souvenirs will be up for a very cool giveaway hosted by the Etsy Treasury Team Blog. :)

So with all this in mind it was with great anticipation that a little meerkat was coming to the residence of Cute Designs for a visit. :D



Excitement was in the air as all my little crochet critters gathered themselves for a formal welcoming of little baby meerkat whose name is "Treasure" by the way. :) It was to be a very special occasion as none of them had met a meerkat before...



And then the moment arrived when little Treasure was warmly greeted by my formal spokesmonkey Marvin as they shook hands, big smiles and then the party began. :)

It was during the party that little Treasure began to realise that soon it would be travelling even longer journeys... alone.... and after making so many new friends this was quite a sombre thought for the little meerkat and one I wanted to help with so together we began the task of making Treasure a little travelling companion...



Treasure sat patiently in my yarn and helped when it could watching and taking in the slightly familiar process of a travelling buddy...



Gradually it started to come together although Treasure seemed to be getting a little confused with the anatomy of it's friend and thought it was a hat!



But after a little more crocheting and some help from Treasure a little amigurumi acorn arrived and will now be travelling with Treasure as a souvenir and a friend to keep it company on the long journey.

It's been a pleasure to host Treasure the travelling baby meerkat. :) Soon it will head off to it's next place... somewhere around the world and I send it lots of fond farewells. :)

Rainbow Bunny Blobs

I finally finished making all of my Rainbow Bunny Blobs. :) I've been gradually making them inbeween making Autumn and Wintery type critters. I had a lot of fun making them, mainly because I got to use colour yarns that I rarely get to use. :D

I love seeing them all together, they look so fun and bright. :D All will be available on my etsy shop although I'm listing them gradually.

Getting ready for winter. :)

Doh! I haven't updated for a while, sorry about that. I kept meaning to especially since I reached 200 sales at my etsy shop. :D This was something I was immensely proud of but then I got busy and didn't get a chance to blog about it. So I'll do some late celebrations now. :) *does a happy dance*

I've been designing and starting to make some new winter themed designs. :) I'm having fun with this as it's nice to be doing something new. I'm looking forward to finishing them ready to be photographed and then eventually putting them up for adoption in my shop. Watch this space. :)

For my love of yarn....

I've not been very well since Monday as I came down quite suddenly with a pretty bad cold / cough / sore throat thing. I'm so rarely ill and usually shake things off pretty quickly but this one really got me this time. :( Still, even though not fully recovered yet I'm much better now.

I've not felt much like crocheting this week and spent a lot of time playing my Nintendo DS. (Just completed The World Ends With You today and recommend it). :) But my boyfriend treated me today to a new storage thingie for my yarn. :) This is what I've been spending part of my afternoon setting up.



I'm so chuffed with it and it's much better than my last one which I'd outgrown i suppose by gradually getting more and more yarn. :) Much tidier. I couldn't fit all of it in the picture though as it it a little taller but you get the idea.

Amigurumi Bunny Rabbits

I've been making little Amigurumi Bunnies over the weekend. :) I wanted a design that was fairly simple without many limbs but still (hopefully) appealing to look at. Sometimes I dislike sewing limbs on, it's my least favourite part! Just makes a change to create a few things where you don't have to do much of it. :P

I've enjoyed making these little bunnies though and they look quite cute sitting there together, I want to make more in other brighter colours too. They can be adopted from my etsy shop. :)

Bitten by the Kawaii-Bug

I've finally got around to starting up a blog I've been meaning to do for ages. :) I love looking at all the cool stuff out there that people make and want to feature more of it, I sort of started doing on here a while ago but I don't think it fitted right. So I started up a new blog called Kawaii-Bug. Please pop over and give it a visit if you have time. :)

I'm hoping to make regular updates to it.

Charm-ing! :)

I'm happy to blog that Cute Designs now has a new category of Kawaii Supply Charms. Lately I have been enjoying making little fimo charms and turning them into mobile phone charms, especially cupcake charms. :) I love cupcakes!

I thought I would open up a new shop section incase people were interested in purchasing charms for their own craft projects. These are just a few to get the new section open but I have many more planned and coming soon. :)

New look to Cute Designs...

I've been quite busy since my last update. I had a week away on holiday which was lovely. And then I came home to deciding that I wanted to re-do my website. So over the last couple of weeks or so I have been quite busy setting it all up and just finished uploading it all last night. :)

Please if you have a moment to go and take a look, browse around and perhaps even sign my current unloved looking guestbook? The link is http://www.cutedesigns.co.uk

Fanku. :)

Amigurumi Petite Pigs

New to my etsy shop - Petite Pigs. :)

Petite Pigs love nothing more than a gossip and giggle with each other. They also love to snack on chocolate drops and have a wallow in melted chocolate. :)

Some plushie newness. :)

I haven't updated in a while. I kept meaning to but it's been quite stressful the last few weeks around here. They went through a stint of redundandies at work and it was all pretty harsh. :/ I got to keep my job which is good but some of my colleagues and friends around me weren't so lucky and have all gone now. :( We've all been trying to adjust to more work and people gone.

But moving on to something lighter, now the worst is over I feel like I can settle down to crafting again. :) Starting off I took on a custom order to bring Moshi Monster Poppet to life and I was quite pleased with the result.



I have a few other things I need to photo but will hopefully be back to more regular updates and also my Crafty Features too. :)

Buttered Toast Kawaii Plush Pin

I just realised I never listed my toast pin I made with my others so have corrected that now. :) It can either be buttered toast or cheese on toast. More about it at my etsy shop here. :)

Amigurumi Polar Bear

Since winter is here and Christmas is fast approaching I thought I would make one of my little bears a little speical and the result was an Amigurumi Polar Bear. :) I think he came out quite cute and I was pleased with it. Complete with a ribbon scarf to keep him warm. :D More about him here at my etsy shop. :)