So, one Saturday afternoon, we were playing Star Trek Top Trumps, like you do, and we thought – it would be great to have a Violet’s Vegan Comics Top Trumps game. I’m sure you can guess the rest but I’m going to tell you anyway 😀 We looked online and, lo and behold, found a wonderful website called Personalised Playing Cards dot com. We were so excited!
For the next two or three weekends we eagerly drew head a shoulder portraits of our story characters – heroes and villains – and then ummed and ahhed about what the categories should be and what score each one should get. We changed them repeatedly, and I’m still not sure we got it right, but then I don’t think the makers of the Star Trek cards did either. I mean – I love Neelix but how can he have a higher ‘To Boldly Go’ score than Spock?!
We had to draw 40 characters from our stories, many of them regulars, some of them only occasional or one-offs, and added their series title to the side.
It was a lot of fun and I wouldn’t be surprised if we make some more cards to add to our pack 😀
Wait – there’s more! 😀
And that’s the lot for now 😀 Why not make some yourself? So much fun! You can either make them yourself on card – cut up an old cereal box or something – or upload your drawings to the Personalised Playing Cards website like we did 😀
If you’d like the pictures of VVC characters we used, just contact us and we’ll email them to you.
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan children’s books and vegan things to make and do since 2012.
The winner of our first Last of the Month Prize Draw, exclusively for Violet’s Vegan Comics club members, is James Appleyard!
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Congratulations James, a copy of Vegan Rascals #1 will be on its way to you very soon 😀 Keep an eye on your inbox, and your SPAM folder, for an email from us.
Welcome to all the new members of Violet’s Vegan Comics club. We absolutely love your home-made membership cards and have added you to the Members’ Page 😀 If anyone else wants to enter our Last of the Month Club Members’ Prize Draw for a chance to win a new comic book, it’s easy to join – all you need to do is make yourself a membership card and show it to us. Go to the club page to find out how! But don’t wait too long – the last of the month is only four days away and the prize is a copy of the brand new Vegan Rascals comic!
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting, and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
The first issue of Vegan Rascals is finally here and we love it! A proper old-fashioned comic with multiple stories, a fact file, a puzzle page and a yummy chip butty recipe. And as if that wasn’t enough – there’s a board game on the back! Not bad for under a fiver eh?! 😀
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Of course all the stories are free to read here, but if you’d rather read a proper paper book, this is it! 😀
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Vegan Rascals #1
Pages: 57 Binding: Paperback Interior: Colour Dimensions: US Letter (8.5 x 11 in / 216 x 279 mm)
The story continues from yesterday but, if you missed the beginning, you can read the whole vegan comic here 😀
Woohoo! Don’t you just love a happy ending? 😀
If you’d like to read more funny and exciting stories, go home, and don’t forget to FOLLOW so that you don’t miss new stories when they come out (for email followers, it’s that white button in the sidebar with a white word you can’t read. I’ve tried to change the colour of the text but nothing I’ve done works. Anybody know how? 😀 )
Have a great weekend! ❤
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
I’m sorry the penultimate instalment of our current story has had to be postponed until tomorrow, due to unfinished artwork which Miranda is – as we speak – hurrying to complete. If you haven’t been following it, or you’ve missed any of it, you can read what’s happened so far in this exciting vegan comic, 😀 and while you’re waiting for its conclusion, enjoy this commercial break 😀
Go on – you know you want some 😉
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
Desperate to rescue Sindy Snowdrop from the evil Flat-Capped Menace are Marvellous Mildred and her friends, the Girl Scout Twins. The story continues from yesterday and you can read the whole vegan comic here 😀
😮 Oh Sindy! Just keep chewing! Hurry Mildred, hurry!
Don’t miss what happens next, tomorrow!
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
Hot on the trail of the evil Flat-Capped Menace are Marvellous Mildred and her friends, the Girl Scout Twins. The story continues from yesterday but if you missed the earlier instalments of Marvellous Mildred #4, you can read the whole vegan comic here 😀
I’m holding my breath – and I hope they are too! Good luck girls, I hope you make it. Find out tomorrow if they do 😀
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
Remember Sindy Snowdrop? She’s the adorable lamb who was kidnapped by the evil Flat-Capped Menace – you can read the story so far here – and this is what happened next! 😀
Vegan superhero comic for kids, Reflecto Girl #8, concludes. For the whole story, click here 🙂
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Stay in touch, episode 4 of Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins resumes on Monday, but until then, there are plenty more comics to choose from here.
Have a great weekend 😀
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, exciting and always entertaining vegan children’s books since 2012.
It’s that time of year again and, for those who haven’t read it before, here begins our Christmas Story: Big Blue Sky. I will share a little of it every day this week, but if you want to read it all at once, here it is 😀
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Story continues tomorrow ❤
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating funny, enlightening and sometimes action-packed vegan children’s books for readers of all ages since 2012.
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 download.
So, I won’t give you pattern details, you can just download whichever pattern you fancy and then make her look like Megan. If you don’t know how to knit yet, you can either learn, or sew a ragdoll instead 🙂
Anyway, this is what I did:
I used DK (Double Knitting thickness) acrylic yarn from my bag of oddments – no need to buy anything new. Her clothes don’t have to be blue, you can choose what she wears, and if you don’t have a bag of oddments, they often sell bags of leftover yarn in charity shops. I used UK size eleven (3 mm) needles.
The pattern I used starts at the ankles and works up to the top of her head (working in stocking stitch – one row knit, one row purl). I started in dark blue, for her jeans, then I changed colour, and knitted her light blue top, up to her shoulders,
then I changed colour again, to pink for her head. Then I cut the yarn, leaving a long length to thread through the stitches. Hey – didn’t I say I wasn’t going to explain the pattern? Sorry – I guess that’s useless information if you don’t have the pattern, and superfluous if you do. Oh well 😀
Excuse my photos by the way, my camera phone is very old. But you get the idea with that 🙂
Arms
Feet
Then I knitted the arms and the feet. Megan is wearing baseball boots, so I knitted the feet two thirds white, one third red. As you can see from the photo of the finished doll, they are proper red. I don’t know why the photos here make them look brown 😀 Then I sewed laces into the red part.
Then it was time to sew her up and stuff with kapok (natural organic fibre harvested from kapok trees, used for centuries – probably – for stuffing pillows and soft toys). But if you don’t have any kapok, you could fill your doll with cut up strips of old T-shirt. Any soft material will do.
Before stuffing, it was necessary to sew down the middle of the dark blue legs section, to create two legs, and after stuffing I tied a length of yarn around the base of the pink section, to make the head 😀 The boots were folded, sewn and stuffed before being attached to the ankles; and the arms sewn, stuffed and attached at the shoulders.
Next she needed a face! I just sewed her features on, and not very well at first – embroidery is not my strong suit – so I unpicked it and tried again. And again, until I was happy with it 😀
She doesn’t look like Megan yet does she? That’s because she needs hair!
So I made the hair by cutting lots of long lengths of yellow yarn, tying them in the middle, and sewing them from top to bottom of the back of Megan’s head. Ouch! Your pattern will show you how 😀
If you only have a little bit of yellow for her hair, the pattern shows you how to make a hat or a hood for her, and then you’ll only need a little bit to stick out the front. 🙂
Now she looks very Megan-ish! But there’s still one more thing she needs – do you know what it is?
Her solar-powered gravity-adjusting belt of course!
For this I cast on five stitches of purple and worked in moss stitch (every row knit) until it was long enough. I kept measuring it up against the doll as I went along, until it was the right length. Then I cast off, sewed the ends of the belt together, and added the gems. Or did I sew on the gems first, and then sew the ends together? You decide 😀
Ta-daa!
She looks ready for adventure doesn’t she?!
Why don’t you make yourself a Megan doll? Or a Reflecto Girl doll? Or any of our heroic vegan characters. And do send us photos if you make any, we’d love to see them 😀
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Violet’s Vegan Comics – creating vegan comics, vegan stories, vegan nursery rhymes, vegan children’s books and vegan things to make and do, since 2012.
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from Wednesday. For the story so far, click here 😀
Sindyyy!!!!! 😮
Why is the Flat-Capped Menace taking baby Sindy to a ship?! Will our heroes get there in time to stop him?! These questions and more will be answered when this story continues, which will happen as soon as Miranda finishes drawing it.
For now – have a great weekend! 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from Monday. For the story so far, click here 😀
Blast that Flat-Capped Menace and his robots! Hurry Mildred – they’re getting away!
Come back on Friday to see if our heroes can stop them before they reach the ship 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from Friday. For the story so far, click here 😀
Uh oh. This is not going well at all. Poor Sindy Snowdrop is getting further and further out of reach! Come back on Wednesday to see what our heroes do next! 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from Wednesday. For the story so far, click here 😀
Bungee cord? Whatever next?!
Find out what’s next by coming back here on Monday 😀
Have a great weekend 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from Monday. For the story so far, click here 😀
Uh oh 😮 Plan B?
If at first they don’t succeed, they’ll try and try again – on Friday 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from Friday. For the story so far, click here 😀
Oh my goodness! So close! 😮
Will they be able to rescue little Sindy? Come back on Wednesday to find out 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
For previous episodes of Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, click here. Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from yesterday:
😮 Pedal fast girls – that baby’s life depends on it!
Have a great weekend but don’t forget to come back on Monday to find out what happens next 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
For previous episodes of Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, click here. Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from yesterday:
Hurry girls! Will our heroes get there in time to save Sindy Snowdrop? Come back tomorrow to find out! 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
For previous episodes of Marvellous Mildred and the Girl Scout Twins, click here. Episode 4 – Serious Trouble for Sindy Snowdrop – continues from yesterday:
That evil kidnapping fiendish villain! Where on Earth are Mildred and the girls?! Come back tomorrow to find out! 😀
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Marvellous Mildred, the Girl Scout Twins and the Flat-Capped Menace are characters from the vegan comic by Miranda Lemon.
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