Mom’s Mantis
He’s not quite stable enough to stand on his hind four legs, but he’s pretty cute nonetheless.
Celeena Cree Creations
As I mentioned a couple of posts ago, Celeena Cree Creations is offering a free pattern to social networkers who post about her etsy shop, she’s also giving free patterns away with any purchase. Here’s my take on it, if you decide to follow suit, be sure to contact her through her shop or on Ravelry, where she’s known as SwitchCleo.
Here’s a sample of her knitted creations, this adorable little alien just sort of calls out to sit on your keyboard, doesn’t he? She’s got a bunch of these little guys, as well as some really nice beadwork earrings. She has a lot of bead earrings up as well. The rainbow turtle in particular is jaunty and fun.
Her prices are very reasonable, everything I saw was under $10 US, and many items are less than $5. Please check it out.
Yarn Lover’s Bumper Sticker
Some of you may recall that I won the drawing for a yarn themed bumper sticker from Diary of a Smart Chick:
She sent me two copies of this sticker, one of which has a home somewhere much more interesting than the back of my car:
Blog Contests and Giveaways
I didn’t win a pattern from Classic Cable Knits from Small Things. I did enter the Goodknits yarn giveaway (April 2) and the Yarn Madness giveaway (deadline April 10) – the entry involves posting a picture of the prize choices, so here it is:
I like the mantis!! I am surprised, though, that he’s not stable enough to stand up even though you used copper wire in his legs. I have been toying with the idea of making some critters for my niece and thought pipe cleaners would do the trick, although if that plus wire didn’t work for you, I have to re-think this.
I think part of the problem is that I didn’t have the copper wire all the way to the end of the limbs. I hope that’s all of it, but can’t be sure.