Sunday, October 30, 2011

Crochet creatures!

My first commission - I'm so proud!

A colleague asked me to make a giraffe for his wife as he had bought her a day as a giraffe keeper as a birthday present.

Several hours later and I had found a lovely little pattern on Cult of Crochet, a brilliant blog with lots of free patterns.  All I needed now was the right yarn, cue a trip to wool, a fab little shop in Bath.  They weren't at all phased by my request for giraffe type yarn and after fondling nearly all of their stock I settled on Rowan colourspun and set off home to make my giraffes.  I also picked up a lovely green yarn so decided to amend the giraffe pattern and make a brachiosaurus, as you do! 

And here is the result:

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