Competitions

Win a Personalised Purly Pigeon for Red Nose Day 2013

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 6 Mar, 2013 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, Blog, Charity knits, Competitions, Cooey the Pigeon, Events, Famous Things and Folks, Knitting, My Knits, Pigeons | 2 comments

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 Nose Day and the infamous #twittermillions. Join us!

Handmade Little My needs a home

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 19 Mar, 2012 in Blog, Book Stuff, Charity knits, Competitions, Knit the City, Knitting, London, My Knits, Random Knits, Whodunnknit For Sale | 1 comment

Little My is a feisty thing and possibly my favourite character from Tove Jansson’s Moomin stories. She knows what she likes, she’s not afraid to say what she thinks and, best of all, deep down she has a squidgy heart of gold.

She appeared on my needles one night and now you can win her.

VIVA LA FREE KNITTERS REVOLUTION!

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 19 Feb, 2012 in Blog, Competitions, Events, Fantabulous Crafty People, Knitting, Knitting Patterns | 10 comments

When I cast on a scarf in eye-gouging neon yarn at 6.10 on live BBC Breakfast TV I had absolutely no idea that those few garish stitches would be the start of a knitting revolution. But it seems the Scarf of Doom has become a symbol for Knitters’ Freedom.

Introducing Little knitted Nel (and how you can win her!)

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 23 Nov, 2011 in Charity knits, Competitions, Knitting, London, My Knits, Random Knits | 6 comments

I don’t make comics but I love them. In fact I love them so much that I share a studio with three fabulous comic creators (one of whom is my lovely boyfriend). So when all three of them took part in creating one of the most fabulous graphic novels the world has ever laid eyeballs on I was incredibly proud to watch it all happen. Nelson is a graphic novel created by a herd of British comics’ brightest stars. It tells the story of the main character, Nel Baker, from birth to the...

Behind the handmade: Cooey the Pigeon (with competition)

Posted by Deadly Knitshade on 28 Sep, 2011 in Beasts, Birds and Creatures, Book Stuff, Competitions, Cooey the Pigeon, Craft with Cooey, Knitting, My Knits, Stitch London, Stitch London Knits | 0 comments

“Who’s that pecking your left lunch? Cooey the Pigeon! Who sits and coos on Churchill’s hunch? Cooey the Pigeon! Who braves the hawk in old Traf Square? Cooey the Pigeon! Who just dropped whitewash in your hair? Cooey the Pigeon!” Traditional Cooey the Pigeon song, circa. 2011 ——————- Yes folks, it’s Cooey the Pigeon. London’s most lovely woolly winged bird of the people and star of the Stitch London book. Some call her...