Faux Book-box

I started out making a squishy book, with a plastic container as a size guide but that idea morphed into a cover for this ex-fishing hook box. I stitched individual cover panels & a spine panel in the brown, then I created the sides in a long strip decreasing width to fit the latch and hinges in off-white. Then I stitched it all together using a wool needle, and gave the top its white side. To help it all stay together I poked strategic holes in the plastic box so I could sew the crochet panels in place, and who doesn't love playing with candles, bobby pins and plastic?
It's not quite finished, but at least that is the majority of one Christmas present down!




And for someone who had about three colours of wool to her name before two weeks ago, I'm doing pretty well, don't you think?

Crochet Flannel Shirts?

Normally I don't do the whole progress updates, but I like this photo:



I may or may not have been making Dolly rock out to Bad Religion with me while I was latch-hooking on the hair... Dolly can headbang like no ones business, let me tell you.

Hopefully after I get my delivery of button eyes from ebay, I'll find a good pair to use and then I'll trim the fringe and give a little bit of an overall hair cut but until then, Dolly can play at being a rock god for a little while longer. Maybe I should make a guitar... Or a beer hat & a flannel shirt, and leave it as an air guitar, who else could say they have a handmade bogan crochet doll? Oh, the possibilities.

EDIT: OMG, I just realised Dolly needs a mullet to be a true bogan. And a little VB can. And a ute. And really be nick-named Dolza, Dollo or Shazza (don't want to discriminate).
ANOTHER EDIT: I got my buttons in the mail just now, and I found one that's perfect! Too bad its a singular button rather than a pair. :( But now I know what size and style of eyes I want to use, so that's a start!

A Doll!

I'm full of ideas for people for Christmas, but in order to make all the things I keep thinking of, I needed to learn to make a doll. So here one is.
Apparently I cannot follow a pattern that well, because when creating two legs and two arms from the same pattern, I ended up with noticeably different sizes. Didn't help I BROKE the hook I was using, stupid cheap piece of plastic crap. Serves me right for choosing the cheap option! But then I bought a set of pretty new shiny metal hooks from Ebay. :)

Here's the pattern I was using: Basic Doll Body