Monday, 21 May 2012

Ron Weasley



I've just completed this Ron Weasley doll as a custom order. He's wearing a Molly-Weasley-style Gryffindor-coloured jumper with an "R" monogram. He was unpleasantly surprised by the size of the spiders in the local park. You wouldn't have thought it possible in England, but there you are.

Harry Potter is available as a knitting pattern in my Etsy shop and I'm thinking about making up the pattern for Ron as well. That tiny jumper is surprisingly easy to knit!

Thursday, 15 December 2011

Angel Snape


Tracy S has created this absolutely brilliant angel Snape for her Christmas tree using my knitting pattern. I think he looks even more like Alan Rickman than my dolls do. I hate to think how many detentions Tracy is going to receive as a result of doing this, though.

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Young Snape and Lily Potter


Inspired by The Prince's Tale sequence from the final Harry Potter film, here are very young Severus Snape and Lily Potter, back when life was happy and James Bloody Potter hadn't messed everything up.


Lily is wearing a simple blue dress with a purple trim. Severus is wearing an ill-fitting jacket (see, it was intentional, not just bad knitting), a cream shirt with tiny buttons, and navy jeans. In the film, if you look very carefully, you can see that he is wearing the classic misfit footwear combo of socks and sandals. I'm glad he didn't carry this look into his adult life. It was too hard to knit microscopic socks and sandals so he just has black shoes.


These two dolls are teeny tiny, compared to my usual 14 inch adult figures. They are around 9 inches tall, so they should be in scale with the adults.

These two youngsters were a special order for an Etsy customer, but if you'd like these for your collection, drop me a line.

Monday, 14 November 2011

Snape treasury


Excellent Snape treasury on Etsy curated by Sharon (who has a very Snape friendly Etsy store). Thanks for including knitted Severus Snape: you are awarded ten house points.

Lots to love in this treasury, but my favourite is Quacked's Severus Snape plush keyring. He looks like he has seen something really hideous (Lily snogging James, probs) and is hiding inside his robes.

Thursday, 10 November 2011

Wizarding Winter Fair 2011


Knitted Severus Snape will be appearing at the Wizarding Winter Fair in Macclesfield on 16th December 2011. In fact, rumour has it that you may be able to win him as a quiz prize. I don't know how happy he'll be about that...

If you fancy winning Severus, as well as enjoying a wizarding craft fair, bake sale and an evening of Wizard rock, buy your tickets now! £5 in advance or £7 on the door.

The Wizarding Winter Fair folk advise: "WIZARD ATTIRE IS STONGLY ENCOURAGED. SPOT PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN FOR THE BEST COSTUMES. STRICTLY NO MUGGLES ALLOWED. By attending you are helping to raise funds for ALOHOMORA 2013, and in turn our chosen charities!"

Tuesday, 25 October 2011

Moody stuff


If you're looking for a quick Halloween costume project, this could be just the job: Kelly's crocheted Mad Eye Moody patch.

You'll be needing a 4mm crochet hook, black, blue, white, light brown yarn, a tapestry needle, stuffing, two buttons and elastic.

Free pattern here so get stitching!

Wednesday, 12 October 2011

More Captain Jack


Another photo of Captain Jack enjoying the wind in Worthing - more photos on my Knit For Victory blog should you want to see them...