Violet's Vegan Comics

Tag: knitting

  • Make your own Marvellous Mildred doll

    * If you fancy making a vegan comic hero doll, it might help you to know that Miranda adapted a Jean Greenhowe pattern for the Venus doll and a Sue Stratford knitted cat pattern for Marvellous Mildred. Here are some other possibilities: https://springorchidfiles.com/free-knitting-patterns-for-dolls/ and here are some more: https://littlecottonrabbits.typepad.co.uk/knitting-patterns/ *************** Violet’s Vegan Comics – making…

  • Make your own Megan doll

    If you’d like your own Megan doll (from the Megan & Flos vegan science fiction comics), here’s how to make one 😀 First, find a pattern.  I used Jean Greenhowe’s “ten of the best” pattern which is from this book but there are plenty of others to choose from, including lots of free ones you can…

  • And then there was Denzel

    The Anderson family are not complete without Denzel so here he is 😀 I followed this free pattern of a Scottie dog by Sue Stratford and made him look as much like Denzel as I could.  I knitted him in white and stitched on the orange colour after he was sewn and stuffed.  He’s a bit…

  • Meet the Family

    Old Red is fully furnished and ready to be enjoyed by the Andersons – so where are they?  Where are the Andersons?  Oh look, here they are: Miranda knitted Aiden and Cara and Casey and Brietta, and it didn’t take her long. She got the pattern from loveknitting.com where it is free to download.  It’s…

  • The Andersons’ Knitted bus: The End

    You may have noticed that in the end the bus isn’t furnished exactly as shown in the story.  That is due to the fact that it has the proportions of a camper van because of the pattern I used.  This Old Red is therefore not long enough to fit in all the furniture I’d planned to…

  • The Andersons’ knitted bus part five: The floor and the wheels again

    If you look back at Part 3 of the bus-making process you will see how I started work on the wheels and the floor.  This is how I finished them: It turned out after all that the toothbrushes weren’t quite long enough to use as a single axle between two wheels so I used four…

  • The Andersons’ Knitted Bus, Part 4: a bed for Mr and Mrs

    First you need a large, empty matchbox. Find some decorative paper that looks like it would make good-looking bedding … … and wrap up the matchbox like a birthday present.  Then find another matchbox. Measure it and mark the middle. Take out the drawer and cut the insides and outsides in half. Now you have…

  • The Andersons’ bus part three: some wheels, half a floor and a repetitive strain injury

    It’s perhaps not as cool as a sports injury but, when you’re too excited to pace yourself, a repetitive strain injury is just as inconvenient.  I have been knitting for several hours a day for about two weeks with no ill effects but after making the bus’s wheels I had such bad shoulder pain that…

  • Andersons’ Knitted Bus – Part 2

    For Part 1 click here 🙂 Ok, on Wednesday I got as far as sandwiching the stiff card between the inside and outside of the two long sides of the bus, so on Thursday I did the same with the front and back ends: As with the long sides of the bus yesterday, I drew…

  • Knit the Andersons’ bus!

    Click for Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7 and Denzel the dog 🙂 I found this fantastic pattern online and decided to have a go at adapting it to make The English Family Andersons’ bus 😀 The beauty of this pattern is that the bus can be played with inside and…

  • Make your own Reflecto Girl doll

    Here’s how: First, find a pattern.  I used this one but there are plenty of others to choose from, including lots of free ones you can download.  So, I won’t give you pattern details, you can just download whichever pattern you fancy and then make her look like Reflecto Girl.  If you don’t know how to…

  • Keeping warm with odds and ends

    You may remember I have already knitted a hoodie like this out of leftover  and unravelled yarn but I gave that to Miranda so I needed another one.  And this one only took me 2 months to make, which is a record for me! Whilst this one is not made of unravelled yarn, I didn’t…

  • Jean’s Saturday

    For the story so far, click here Jean’s Saturday: to be continued …

  • Knit your own Father Christmas

    A bonus of Miranda working at Raystede animal sanctuary‘s charity shop is that she comes across lots of useful things like old knitting patterns and left over yarn that people have donated, which she can then buy and make use of.  And now you can make use of this one too 🙂 And I know you…

  • Remember I wanted a new hat?

    Remember I wanted to make a new hat With the yarn from old hats I’d unravelled? Remember I said Random Rose made a hat, A beret with ridges she cabled? **** Well I followed the pattern that Rose kindly shared, Though the yarn had lost elasticity. The needles I used were not quite the right size, But I wasn’t going to…

  • I want a new hat!

    I want a new hat, It’s as simple as that! But I’ve got no money to buy one. I know what I’ll do, I’ve got old hats – two, I’ll unravel to make a new one. Rose shared a pattern, A cool beret pattern, Which I’ll use to make my new hat. The purple from my…

  • Say it with knitting!

    Whether it be on your clothes, a cushion cover or a patchwork blanket – you can say it with knitting! First of all decide what you want to write.  Then make a plan. You’ll need some squared paper which you can buy or make yourself.  Each square on the paper will represent one stitch on…

  • Re-knitting UPDATE

    The hoodie is done! See Re-Knitting in Things to make and do

  • Re-Knitting

    Knitting is a very enjoyable hobby as well as being a very useful skill.  To be able to make your own clothes, toys and accessories is a brilliant way of being self-reliant and can also be eco-friendly. As a vegan shopper you won’t want to buy wool or alpaca or silk, but as an eco-minded…