Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged ASL, children's books, crochet, etsy, frog prince, Jon Scieszka, puppet, sign language on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I showed you these a few days ago, so now it is time to show you my finished puppet. I am really happy with how he turned out. He is a lovely shade of bright green, with a huge smile. His crown is complete with red and purple beads.
Now I just need [...]
Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged crochet, J, letter, pillow, puppet on May 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I have finally returned to my puppets and worked on making some arms with hands the other evening. Any ideas whose hands these will be? If you have been paying attention, you can probably guess. Here is a hint: think fairy tales….
I just finished this and mailed it off for a [...]
Posted in children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged Big Bad Wolf, crochet, etsy, giveaway, pattern, puppet on April 15, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I completed writing out, taking photos, and having others check out my Big Bad Wolf puppet pattern recently and am braving offering it for sale. Now for the fun part. To launch my pattern selling debut, I am going to give away the pattern to a blog reader this week.
Here is what you [...]
Posted in crochet, etsy, tagged ballerina, crochet, etsy, puppet on April 5, 2008 | 1 Comment »
My Kate’s Red Shoes Ballerina has been featured on this blog:
Blue Pebble Designs
Thanks so much for noticing her!!
Posted in American Sign Language, children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged ASL, ballerina, crochet, etsy, fairy tale, puppet, sign language, The Red Shoes on March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
After making my first ballerina puppet with the standard pink tutu, I decided to think about fairy tales a bit and come up with a ballerina from a fairy tale. I remembered I used to listen to Kate Bush when I was younger and had a cd called “The Red Shoes.” The song [...]
Posted in crochet, etsy, tagged crochet, doll, etsy, puppet, Rapunzel on March 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
After finishing the Big Bad Wolf, I decided to try another girl type puppet doll so that I would not have to think about shaping the head. Instead, I had the challenge of figuring out hair. I like this one, but it has also given me different ideas of how to do hair, [...]
Posted in crochet, etsy, tagged crochet, etsy, fairy tales, puppet, red riding hood, shopping, wolf on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wolves seem to be in every other fairy tale, so when my dear husband challenged me to create a puppet wolf after I finished my Red Riding Hood I figured it would be a good idea. Since I was going to all the trouble of creating him by myself, I spent a long time [...]
Posted in children's books, crochet, etsy, tagged children's books, crochet, doll, etsy, puppet, red riding hood on February 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I just finished this darling new puppet last night during the Super Bowl. (Click the photos to see more in my shop.) I had to figure out her face and hair. I checked out several sites online with suggestions for putting yarn hair on a doll. Many of them expected more [...]
Posted in crochet, etsy, tagged cotton yarn, crochet, doll, etsy, puppet on January 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This lovely doll is currently in the washing machine in a pillowcase, testing for shrinkage. The pattern called for acrylic, so I had to go up two hook sizes and am testing washing machine on it. Hopefully I will have a good result and will be able to continue steps towards offering her [...]
