Sunny Rooftops
This is a digital urban sketch of the rooftop view from my bedroom window. Lockdown life means most of us are stuck inside for the majority of the time. This…
This is a digital urban sketch of the rooftop view from my bedroom window. Lockdown life means most of us are stuck inside for the majority of the time. This…
(If you just want to play the game and not read through all my preamble then this is the link to get there.)Each year my other half creates a little…
At the end of February I spent a day life drawing reptiles at Crocodiles of the World in Brize Norton. Six of us gathered away from the main enclosures, in…
Lobster watercolour illustration, A3 landscape on a plain white background. Line work and some texture details were first laid down in orange and turquoise tones of coloured pencil. A general…
Watercolour sketching across the duck pond in the Royal Victoria Gardens in Bath. An hour with my sketchbook on a quiet, bright morning in Bath. Minimal pencil drawing followed by…
This pattern is for a seamless amigurumi mushroom or toadstool with a ribbed underneath to represent the gills. They are made in one piece, starting at the base of the…
You will need two colours of dk/worsted/aran weight yarn and a 5mm hook. The two yarns should be approximately the same thickness. Here I needed ~35g of pink and ~45g…
I’ve seen many different instructions for this kind of spiral pattern and I tried a few but they didn’t seem to work out properly so I started from scratch and…
This crochet stitch is nice and thick with an interesting texture to look at. It's very easy and only uses sc and dc stitches but looks much more complex than a…
I turned my Earth pom pom into a toddler space hat. If you would like to do the same follow the instructions below for both the hat and the pom…