The pokemon crochet journey!

Hey everyone! Thanks for hanging around even though things have gone a bit quiet here. I have had so much happen lately and I'm only starting to now catch up. Over the Christmas and New Years holidays, I became majorly sick then after that I developed a really bad toothache. Turns out, I need my wisdom teeth out sometime soon. Go figure! I've also made plans on a direction in my life so I'm going to need to sink lots of time into that as well as work hard at my real life job to earn money but that means I'm going to have to make more effort to find time for crochet which is what I love to do. I thought about it long and hard and I have decided I do want to keep maintaining this blog and I do want to continue with my journey to make a pattern for every single pokemon in existence. Whether I'll achieve that in my lifetime is something I'm going to leave for another day just because I want to crochet so many things that I keep losing track. Writing patterns i...

Hey everyone! As I've been saying, I've been playing with my thermomix a lot recently. I've come across a recipe by a fellow Perth resident here  which I've played around with and tested in my TM5 and this is going to be the first recipe I'm sharing! How exciting! This is a very easy recipe that's going to be used in another recipe that I'll be posting soon. So stay tuned! Anko - Red Bean Paste Filling Makes 620g. Ingredients 200g Azuki Beans 150g Sugar Method 1. Rinse the beans in water and remove any impurities or any irregular beans. 2. Place beans into the mixing bowl and add 300g of water. Boil the beans 100C counter-clockwise operationGentle stir setting 10 minutes. Drain the water. (This step can be skipped. Some people believe that the beans should be soaked/cooked this way to remove any bitterness. I haven't found any bitterness by skipping this step. Azuki beans can be cooked and eaten without soaking unlike other b...

Hey everyone! It's been a long time since I've been able to write up an update. So many things have been happening lately. I've gotten a Thermomix for one. That is the best decision I have made for myself as I've started cooking a lot more recently and varied my diet in healthy and tasty ways. Before that, my life was full of boring stir fry's over and over again. Don't get me wrong, stir fry is delicious but I was eating the same stir fry every night. Now, my diet is full of stew, steamed fish/chicken, noodles, pasta and everything from scratch. There has also been a cute little addition to my family. My niece was born recently and she's so adorable. Cute little poop machine. She's making cute little faces and constantly sticking her tongue out at me. I've been trying to make things though! I have finally finished up the minion pattern. I thought I had a lot more photos than this, so I apologise that this is mostly a text based pattern than ...

Wow! It's been a month since I blogged here! I need to be better than this but so many things have been happening lately so I'm going to write a quick update here. I have just been delivered my thermomix. I am now a thermie person and I'm very much loving what this thermomix is helping me do in my life. It's not worth the investment for everybody but it's very much worth the investment for me. This blog will start including some recipes I've made as well as crochet patterns. I'm so very excited! Please stay tuned for things I'm going to post. Currently, I'm working on some minion inspired patterns. I'm about halfway through the first pattern and it's going to be released with a variation as well. It'll be a free pattern that I want to share. So that'll be out in another week or so! Then there are some thermie recipes that I shall be trialling. I don't want anything on this blog that I haven't tried myself and absolut...

Hey everyone!! I have been working on a few commissions lately which I am so very very excited about. It's another set of the turtles I have made and an order for Garrus from Mass Effect. I'm so excited to be designing this cute little guy and he's really testing my abilities as there are a few pieces which I haven't made the shape of before. There is also a recipe to be posted when I have time to write it up because I've been playing with panna cotta a lot lately and it's getting me really excited. That and I have gelatin that I haven't used for a while so I'm able to use that all up which is great. On Tuesday I'm diving into the Thermomix world and having a demo and I'll probably buy a machine because it'll mean that I will have time to cook some tasty foods I haven't been cooking (rissottooooo) and still be able to crochet all the amazing ideas that I have but haven't had time to tinker with. ANYWAY, that's enough of my...

Hello everyone! Sorry it has been so long since I've completed a fortnightly freebie. I went to Japan and came back and now I have had a little rest and worked on some things. I have finished a pokemon pinch purse and a sailormoon doll. I'm so proud of them! They're both going to be in my stall at the next convention and maybe my online stall depending on whether or not I have any stock left. I'm trying not to have too many things in my online stall otherwise I might have nothing left for the upcoming convention! So today I come to you with the pudding pattern that I promised before I left for Japan! I had posted pictures of the pudding but never ended up getting the pattern completed. THEN when I came back from Japan I found that my photos didn't make it on my camera so I made the pudding again, changed the plate design slightly and now I can finally have the pattern on my blog. Pudding body Round 1: CH2, SCx6 in the 2nd stitch from the hook (6) ...

First day in Kyoto wasn't a very exciting one. We did a few things but not quite as packed as others since we checked into the Anteroom. It is a very cute little hotel with an artist gallery made with work from what I can tell is local artists. While we were waiting for check in (3pm), we went to explore the Nishiki markets which was quite a lot of fun. I bought a lot more clothes than I anticipated and we bought and soy based ice cream which was tasty and had an after taste of tasty soy milk you get in the bottles at Asian stores. We then headed back towards one of the smaller alleys down the main market as we found a soba restaurant that has been open for about 400 years and they have tasty hand made noodles. I ordered a dish that was called the "sushi of the soba world" and I thought it would be some form of deconstructed sushi with noodles underneath but when it arrived it was a sushi that had wrapped soba instead of rice! And it came with a plate of dipping sauce tha...