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The Shy Lion
theshylion.com
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one guy's adventures in traditional crafts, with frequent interludes
#128265 in Alle , #768 in Crafts

Of Socks, Disagreeable Knits & A Hyaku-En Store Haul

Gentle reader, Our internet has been on the fritz lately, and while we’ve got a patch of connectivity I’m going to rush and get this post out, so here’s some show and tell! First up...

4 days seit

Of Oz, Clogs and Linocut Prints!

Gentle reader, When I finished high school in Australia, I went on student exchange to the US to do the last half of senior year all over again. Glutton for punishment, right? ^_~ Not really, it was ...

13 Mai 12 1 person likes this

My Mama!

Gentle reader, Remember how I told you in my last post that I was writing an article for JustB about my Ma? Well, it’s been published now, and you can read it here! I’m super stoked; I...

08 Mai 12 1 person likes this

Excitement Plus!

Gentle reader, If you are signed up to the Facebook page you might already know, but something super duper extra exciting happened over the weekend! The lovely folks over at Frankie Magazine featured...

01 Mai 12 1 person likes this

O Hai! I’m Not Dead In A Ditch!

Gentle reader, It’s been ages since I last posted. I do apologize! I’ve been meaning to get around to do a proper posts but, it just never happened. I’ve been a bit preoccupied. But...

27 Apr 12

Goodnight, Sleep Tight

Gentle reader, Something you may not know about me (or maybe you do) is that I have a properly hard time throwing anything away. It’s a problem. I have so much stuff! Some things I just know I&...

04 Apr 12 1 person likes this

Totoro Cross Stitch Chart! For Freeeeeeeeeee!

Gentle reader, As promised, I’ve done up a fancy, clean, non-chicken-scratch version of the chart I made to do my Totoro iPhone case. Feel free to download and bring some crafty Ghibli love int...

01 Apr 12

Intarsia & New Camera Part Two

Gentle reader, You’ll be pleased to know that there’ll be no cloaca-talk this time (except for just now, whoops!). But, there will be an update on the intarsia sweater I’ve been wor...

31 Mär 12 1 person likes this

Awardzies!

Gentle reader, I’ve been bestowed with an award, from Cross(stitch) Your Heart! I’ve not had the opportunity to have a very good sit and read of that blog just yet, but I did have a bo-p...

27 Mär 12 1 person likes this

Cameras, Birds (And Their Downstairs Mix-Ups), A Prelude to Intarsia & A Dash of Zombies

Gentle reader, You may recall that our house was broken into… TWICE, and the second time they took Joel’s camera (which I had somewhat commandeered). While we’ve vowed not to replac...

19 Mär 12

An Interlude: From Grizzle-Guts To Genuine Insanity (With A Bit of Kate Bush)

Gentle reader, I’d like to think that, over the months or more that we’ve been engaged is this odd little exchange between blogger and reader, we’ve become friends of a sort. And fr...

13 Mär 12

Toto-Phone: Finished!

Gentle reader, You peeps and my pals on FB seem to have gone properly mental over my Totoro cross-stitch phone case! Y’all are crazy! And completely sweet, and I heart you all. So, not to disap...

11 Mär 12 1 person likes this

Toto-Phone!

Gentle reader, Do you have an iPhone? When you got your iPhone were you like me and obsessed about just. the. right. case? My gadgets are my children, and it just won’t do to put them in just a...

29 Feb 12 1 person likes this

I Have So Many Loves For GlassTieStudio

Gentle reader, I’m pretty lucky. Like, so lucky it’s almost cray-to-the-azy. One of the ways in which I am lucky is that I have some of the best ladies in the world in my life. One of tho...

28 Feb 12

Of Veggigurumi And Undead Books

Gentle reader, I had the lovely opportunity of visiting Stephanie and Megan at Can Do Books in Hawthorn today. If you’re in Melbourne and you’ve not been, you really must go. Their select...

22 Feb 12

Who Has An Etsy Store? Mr. Thumbs Over Here!

Gentle reader, The title of this post probably makes no sense to you right now because for it to work you’d need to see me pointing at myself with my thumbs… so, read that title over agai...

19 Feb 12 1 person likes this

A Sock, A Beret, And A Tune

Gentle reader, After the Loch festival, I’ve been laying low – also because of some dental work, oy! – but I’ve been pottering away at some thing here and there, and I also ha...

16 Feb 12 1 person likes this

Putting Pen To Paper

Gentle reader, I’ve been pondering posts I can do that don’t require a camera, and Robbie over at Knitxcore must have unwittingly read my mind, because he posted this handwriting meme whi...

09 Feb 12 1 person likes this

The Loch Village Quilt And Craft Festival

Gentle reader, This weekend past I was fortunate enough to attend the Loch Village Quilt and Craft Festival. The committee that organizes it had seen my interview in the Sunday Age and invited me to ...

07 Feb 12

Of Puppies and Bunnies

Gentle reader, It’s a new week, and a new entry in the FO parade. I’m gonna jump right into it! le Bunny du Blue (that's French for Blue Bunny, y'know) First up is this little b...

22 Jan 12 1 person likes this

Of Balloons & Propellor Hats

Gentle reader, It ought to be a well known fact that one is never too old for balloons or propeller hats. See Figure 1.1. Figure 1.1 I’m not just blowing hot air! I really do have a propeller h...

20 Jan 12 1 person likes this

The Shy Lion on Facebook

Gentle reader, There’ll be more proper posts coming this weekend, but in the meantime, I’ve made a Facebook page for The Shy Lion here, and it would be awesome to see you there! You can f...

20 Jan 12

Of Bears And Presents

Gentle reader, Here’s is the next float in my FO Parade! Only one today, because I have something else awesome to show you too. Blue Bear says "Wassup!?" He’s more or less what ...

15 Jan 12 1 person likes this

Of Owls and Dinosaurs (Maybe Dragons?)

Gentle reader, I’ve been crocheting up a storm lately! I have lots of finished objects to show you, but rather than blast them all at you at once, I’m going to do it bit by bit. That give...

11 Jan 12

The Shy Lion! 2012! Aaaaaannnnddd…. GO! Crochet Classes at Thread Den!

Gentle reader, Apologies for the long post title! I got a bit over-excited. Oy! I have some cool things happening in 2012 and the first cool thing is that I’ll be doing even more teaching. So, ...

09 Jan 12 1 person likes this

December Travels – Chapter Three – Thrifting!

Gentle reader, This will probably be the last of my December Travels posts before I get back down to business. But, it’s also probably the post I’m most excited to share with you! I don&#...

06 Jan 12 1 person likes this

December Travels – Chapter Two – Christmas Lights

Gentle reader, One of my family’s traditions is to drive about town leading up to Christmas looking at all the Christmas light displays. There’s an especially large one held at Queen̵...

30 Dez 11

December Travels – Chapter One

Gentle reader, As many of you may know, I moved to Melbourne from Brisbane about a year ago and these holidays I’m spending two weeks in my home state of Queensland. Week one is almost down, an...

21 Dez 11

The Work-In-Progress Workroom, Also, Paper Cranes

Gentle reader, I haven’t been as swift with unpacking as I probably should have been since we moved in. But, it is what is, and regardless of my characteristic procrastination, my workroom is s...

14 Dez 11 1 person likes this

‘Whitney Sews’ Is Awesome

Gentle reader, I’m sure that I’m preaching to the choir here when I say that YouTube is a boon for crafters with a problem, query or a foggy memory. When I was a crochet noob and got stuc...

12 Dez 11 2 people like this

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