Bears'n'Monkeys...

 I completed this one a couple of days ago - watercolour on paper, private commission.

Also done a little bit of monkeying around...

Tiny...

Just a little snippet of my current commission...

Woah!

Partaking of my weekly wander through the garden centre, I spotted a familiar book on the shelves!  The Nudinits Christmas book came out a couple of weeks ago - I spent many weeks writing patterns for it at the beginning of this year.  It was a lot of work and it is great to see it for sale in a shop, especially as it was on the same shelf as a Mary Berry book!

We went up to the Knitting & Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace on Saturday to join the author of the book & creator of Nudinits, Sarah Simi, for a showing of a couple of animated shorts and a chat about the book in the theatre area.  It went very well - everyone laughed in the right places & nobody walked out - and ended with a bit of book signing.  Those are my hands on the screen, knitting away despite very sweaty fingers!

Check out the book - it's very funny and the patterns are excellent...does not contain patterns for the characters, just naughty knitted Christmas decorations.

Peanut!

 I had a sweet little commission this month - to design & make a replica of Bear 902 Peanut! 

 I have to admit that I had to think about this for quite a while before I knew how to go about it.  I bought some different fur fabric (called wolf hair for some reason) and hoped that it would be OK.

 Cutting the pattern was quite tricky as I had to ensure the fur lay smooth and in the right direction in all pieces. 

After I sewed the ears on, it all looked a bit weird, like a very hairy rat and I was a little panicky!  However, after taking Peanut out into the garden and giving her a very good haircut, suddenly she emerged looking pretty good.  A little bit of shaping with some stitching around the face, and she was ready.  Off she goes in the post tomorrow to surprise someone...

Bearfaced...

Whilst waiting to find out what my next commission will be (I know it will be another bear, but which one...) I dashed this one off to warm up.  Watercolour on paper.

Look What Came...

 Earlier this year I did a LOT of work designing & writing patterns for a new Nudinits book - and here it is!  My copy arrived yesterday and I've got to say, it's a doozy!

It's always great to see your name in print!

The book is on sale now.

River Lyn, Devon...

On Tuesday I finally had several hours free to devote to this one.  It was more or less complete but needed a couple of extra touches and varnishing yesterday.  This is the view we had from our holiday cabin in August - quite something!  Acrylic on canvas and a bit larger than I normally paint.

I already have two people interested in buying this, but if they fall through, it will be for sale in my Etsy shop.

*SOLD*