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Win a Personalised Purly Pigeon for Red Nose Day 2013

Want a purled pigeon to call your own? You can win the knitted pigeon of your dreams! WOO HOO! And it's all in aid of Red

Teeny Tiny Knitted Teemo: League of Legends gets knitted

Folks, meet Teeny Tiny Knitted Teemo from the HUGE online multiplayer game I hadn't heard of. A post in which I confess my

One for the hipsters: Snake-Ridden Snapper

When the fine folks at Lomography asked me to use my woolly magic to customise one of their fabulous new Lomography DIY Sardin

Stitch New York is released into the wild

Start spreading the newssssss, it's published todayyyyy, you can knit cool things out of it, STITCH NEW YORK, STITCH NEW YOOOO

Knitting pattern: The Killing – Little Knitted Sarah Lund

Little Knitted Sarah Lund, is a handknitted version of the hardworking, jumper-wearing, tenacious detective lady from stabby D

How to be a Handmade Hero: Part 1 – A girl, a mouse, a jigsaw piece and a whole lot of optimism

I put on my Handmade Superhero cape and head off to Indonesia with Save the Children for the Craftivist Jigsaw Project. I'm ta

Free pattern: Bonkers Beanies for St Mungo’s Woolly Hat Day

This autumn I've teamed up with the folks at St Mungo's, a charity 'opening doors for the homeless', to champion their Woolly

Going Guerrilla Gardening: the discovery of Amelia Bearheart

In the heart of London grows a lovely field of guerrilla gardening lavender. After wondering about the green and leafy guerril

Update: Stitch London Olympics Week 2

Week Two of the Stitch London Olympics. Proving herself to be the Jessica Ennis of knitted pigeons Cooey has gone for gold in

Stitch London Olympics: the pigeon Olympic games

It's been a long and nervous wait but the Stitch London 2012 Olympics are finally here! Let's the Purly Pigeon Olympic Games b