Day Nine: Catapoodle

A cat knitted with some sort of shaggy wool that is like a poodle fur equals Catapoodle. Made from 50g Noro Silk yarn, which is really expensive but this particular skein comes from a charity shop. It sort of knitted a bit like a rug but the colours turned out nice. This cat is really easy to knit but as the face was a bit flat I did some needle sculpting to bring out features. It's funny how it turned into a male cat.

 For all of you who would like to make on, it only takes one evening, here is the link, beware of foul language though: http://geobabe.livejournal.com/227621.html

Day Eight: Sketches for Story Characters

Recently I have done some work on story writing together with my husband. Nothing much, mainly for fun , but it seems to suit me. In the stories the main characters are rabbit, fox and eagle. As we have recently written a longer story I thought it would be good to try out some illustrations for it. My idea is to do something with either collage or embroidery but it is good to start with life drawing.

The first fox and rabbit story can be found here: http://www.brankavidovicbutler.blogspot.com/2011/12/magic-feather-story-fox-and-rabbit.html

Initially it was for a project an artist was running in America but I, as per usual, misunderstood the concept completely and went off on to one of my own little journeys. But on the way I found these little characters.