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Learn graffiti knitting at Yarnstorm Bootcamp

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 16 Feb, 2012 in Events, Fantabulous Crafty People, Other People's Street Art, Tutorials and How Tos | 0 comments

The UK’s first ever graffiti Yarnstorm Bootcamp is announced! Yay! Spend the weekend learning the art of the sneaky stitch with me, The Fastener and Plarchie the Squid.

Happy Valentine’s Pigeon

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 14 Feb, 2012 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, Book Stuff, Cooey the Pigeon, Knitting, Stitch London, Stitch London Knits | 2 comments

A very mushy loved up Valentine’s Day from Cooey the Pigeon and her new friends, the Flutters. Awwwwwwww.

Craft with Cooey: how to love the snow

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 12 Feb, 2012 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, Cooey the Pigeon, Craft with Cooey, My Knits, Tutorials and How Tos | 13 comments

Cooey the Pigeon loves the snow. And you should too! If you have forgotten how and become a snow moaner, let Cooey remind you why snow is the coolest thing ever.

Graffiti yarnstorm: Weekend of the Woolly Wildflowers

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 5 Feb, 2012 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, France, Knitting, My Graffiti Knitting, My Knits, Other People's Street Art, Solo Graffiti, Travel, Woolly Wildflowers | 11 comments

Zuts alors! What do you get if you mix one yarnstorming graffiti knitter, one pile of insanely coloured yarn and the biggest comics festival in Europe? You get the Weekend of the Woolly Wildflowers!

Free pattern: The Smitten Softspot handmade heart

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 3 Feb, 2012 in Blog, Free patterns, Knitting, Knitting Patterns, My Graffiti Knitting, My Knits, With Knit the City | 2 comments

A free knitting pattern for a squishy stitched handmade heart for Valentine’s Day, plus terrible renditions of classic love songs and some awfully dreamy knitted Gods in the nip. Awwwwwwwwww yeah!

Craft with Cooey: How to make iPhone / Touchscreen gloves

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 20 Jan, 2012 in Blog, Cooey the Pigeon, Craft with Cooey, Tutorials and How Tos | 17 comments

Cooey the Pigeon takes her needle to a pair of humble gloves and shows you how to make them iPhone-tastic. What a crafty genius she is.

Whole lotta mouse-making going on

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 2 Jan, 2012 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, Behind the Handmade, Knitting, Knitting Patterns, Mice, My Knits, Random Knits | 2 comments

Just when you think there couldn’t possibly be more mice to knit they keep multiplying. A family of six mice can turn into about 60 mice within 6 months, and it seems my mouse patterns are just the same. Here’s a peek at more of my mouse patterns…

Free Chrismouse Pattern: Toerag the Tube Mouse from Stitch London

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 24 Dec, 2011 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, Behind the Handmade, Book Stuff, Free patterns, Knitting, Knitting Patterns, London, Mice, My Knits, Stitch London | 2 comments

I’ve teamed up with the fantabulous folks at Craft to release one of the patterns from the shiny Stitch London book into the wild.

You’ll have to keep quiet or I’m not sure he’ll come out. Ready? Shhhh. Meet Toerag the Tube Mouse…

Whodunnknit Goodies at Duckie Christmas Market

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 17 Dec, 2011 in Book Stuff, Events, London, Whodunnknit For Sale | 6 comments

Fancy getting your paws on some exclusive Whodunnknit stuff? Want to wear your crafty love with pride? Feel the overwhelming need to adorn your walls with fabulous prints of Knit the City’s woolly adventures in sneaky stitching?

For six days Whodunnknit’s shop will live! LIVE I TELL YOU! MWA HA HA HAAAAAAA!

Free pattern: Stitched Slake Moth + Plarchie meets China Mieville

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 16 Dec, 2011 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, Events, Fantabulous Crafty People, Knitting, Knitting Patterns, London, My Knits, Plarchie the Giant Squid, Random Knits, Squid | 0 comments

Slake Moths, from China Mieville’s Perdido Street Station, feed on people’s dreams, they excrete nightmare-making invisible poo, and they leave their victims behind as drooling hunks of human vegetable.

So what would make a more perfect tribute to Mr Mieville’s monsters than to immortalise them in lovely squishy yarn, I ask you?