As part of our alt craft month, we will be posting links to cool ideas and inspiration as well as tutorials and articles. We are still taking tutorial and article ideas for the month so please email your ideas and stories to me at whipup[at]gmail.com.

If you have not yet joined up to ravelry you really really must. It doesn’t take long to get your invitation (it is still in Beta), and joining and using is really very easy. For me so far I have just been browsing for inspiration, but there is a whole new world in the forums, as well as fantastic pattern, designer and yarn finding data bases.

Of course ravelry is hardly ‘alt craft’, however I will be linking to a few projects that I found on ravelry over the next month which do fit the theme. And speaking of the theme - what is ‘alt crafting’ anyway? Making unconventional choices (materials + methods); taking different approaches to the problem, not conforming to accepted rules or standards; out of the ordinary and unexpected; slightly odd or even a bit weird. - Yes indeed its going to be a month of FUN!

Pattern for the thrifty critter is from the thrifty knitter

These bunny slippers from flickr user billthecat are adapted from a regular slipper pattern

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