Amazing Acroba-chicks!

With feats of never before seen agility among fowl,
Unraku presents to you
the Amazing Acroba-chicks!

Once again, Unraku brings you a charming YouTube video to enjoy. This time though, Unraku showcases the puppet troupe's puppetbuilding skills with Unraku's own Acroba-chicks.

The Acroba-chicks are lovely little rod puppets with large expressive eyes, luxurious chick yellow fluff and very detailed hand made legs (made from wire & wood dowelling then hand dipped in paint.)

For more information on Unraku, visit: www.unraku.ca

Canada Day Celebrations

Knoggin Knitting Presents "Canada Day Celebrations"

Scene: An azure sky, a vast expanse of lush grass, vendors, white tents full of prizes and bingo, a red & white splashed crowd bursting with snippets of praise, pride and chocolate dipped ice creams. Yes, in that order.

It's Canada Day with Unraku and we performed our first outdoor show to an ever expanding crowd of happy people. Our band shell was behind the umpire's plate in a baseball diamond and our audience came in from the outfield to shout encouragement and laugh out loud. With our last minute alterations to choreography and limited practice we dazzled them with our passion for puppetry. With their applause we knew they forgave us our folly for wearing all black on a cloudless 27 degree day. We did it!

Much encouraged for the larger shows to come, here we come Canada!
Happy 141st birthday! (Lookin' good ole Girl!)

It's a great day to make puppets.
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This is the video link on YouTube of the first performance of my puppet troupe, Unraku. Enjoy! Unraku on Youtube

Knoggin Knitting Presents "Awareness"

Scene: A dewy morning with soft sunlight shimmering down from a blue cloudless sky. A tendril of green slowly pokes a shy sprout from a sleepy winter bulb
through the faded red cedar mulch.

I step softly toward my sleepy garden, breathing in the quiet mildly crisp air of morning. The Allium leaves are spreading outward catching droplets of dew on shiny new greenery. The nodding heads of creamy daffodils look coyly up at the rising sun with earnest regard. A robin hops along the soft mat of lush grass hunting for breakfast.

It's a great day to make flowers!

Knoggin Knitting Presents "Bunnies Galore!"

Scene: A dimly lit room with a spotlight on a veritable pool of petal pink wool which is ominously surrounding small figures studiously bent over the eerie sight of many rabbit parts.

Monday: 10 pm - Unraku Troupe decide on number and colour of puppets required.
Tuesday: I search for lighter pink wool appropriate for a herd of girly rabbits. The knitting of tubes begins. Give up at 1 am.
Wednesday: I continue knitting of tubes for felting. Felting begins. Give up at 3:45 am.
Thursday: Early am - I make one more tube & felt it. Go to work. Head to one of the troupe's studios to finish collectively sewing, stuffing, pinning, hot gluing, ears, tutus. Midnight arrives. 6 bunnies are ready (or at least will hold together for one chaotic performance.)
Friday: Performance!
We did it! And barely in time for the 2nd performance.
Look in the upcoming weeks for a video of this performance on YouTube and perhaps you can get your own bunny replica puppet at KnogginKnitting.etsy.com

P'Nut and Alleyoop

New creations on Knoggin this week:
P'Nut

AlleyOop

Best of friends!

Roros Eclectic Sock Emporium

Come one, come all! To Roro's Eclectic Sock Emporium!
Roro makes the most unusual Sock creatures:
Sock Monkeys, Sock Donkeys, Sock Cats & Dogs & Bears & Beavers
& Lions & Lambs & all their Sock Friends. Oh My!
She even makes cool hand embellished t-shirts with
the different sock critters dancing on them.
Huggable, lovable art with a hundred year old history
- every kid needs their own to love.

Spring is coming. So are snails!

beetlegirldesign.etsy.com
There's this fun lil shop on Etsy that does soft sculpture designs.
What makes them stand out is that Becky makes
unusual subject matter
super cute and utterly fascinating.
For example:
A Snail
Or perhaps a Rhino Beetle?
You can read more about Becky and her creations on her blog:
beetlegirl

Fantiny-tastic!

I was meandering through the whimsical world of Etsy and I stumbled into a fantastic shop of felted fabulousness! It's called Fantiny and it's lovely. Featured are the tiniest most sweet creatures needlefelted with wool.
I couldn't decide which animal picture was the cutest but since I will be seeing a Sock Monkey specialist this evening -
I decided to go with the tiniest sock monkey I've ever seen and it's a kit!
It comes with all the materials, the pattern and online support!
How wonderful!