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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Busy busy! 🐝 A handful of eye & horn orders shipping out tomorrow, mostly June Patreon exclusives.

A set of colorful safety eyes (for toys) on black foam boards.

A pile of bubble mailer packages on a wood table.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Oh yeah, publishing my Hydra amigurumi pattern! 🧶

A crochet Hydra with a plesiosaur-style flippered body and three crested heads. The back is covered in crystals and pearls.

A rainbow crochet Hydra with a sauropod-style body with four thick legs and a long tail. It has three long necks.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Modeling & painting new creature bits & pieces.

Two curved antlers or horns that look like aged skeletal spines.

An in-progress Kirin pattern wearing the half-painted bone horns.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Long overdue for an update, oops! Let's see what I've been up to. Filling safety orders, of course. 👀😍

A black card displaying 10 pairs of painted safety eyes for crochet creatures.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

It was pretty funny! They reached out to me because they were doing a little grid of different crochet dragons, but by the time I responded they had already filled the spots. Then they were like, how about we do this other feature on you? Which was way better!

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Hey, I'm in a magazine! 😁 Simply Crochet did a lil' feature on me for their May issue! 🧶 #crochet

A page from Simply Crochet magazine, May 2025, showing Bex and her crochet creatures.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Today's entry into "weird stuff I make with my son," here's my crochet interpretation of his "Airacuda," a sharp-toothed, poison-tailed flying beast with scaly wings and four red eyes. 🧶

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

And then I had to learn about pterodactyl wings, which it turns out are very strange? They're not like bat wings or (bat-like) dragon wings where elongated fingers from the wing spars. They have little grippy fingers and then a looooooong pinkie where the wing membrane attaches. Now to design it...

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

A fun thing about this fantasy creatures collab with my 9yo son is that it challenges me to figure out crochet solutions for new shapes. Like this Airacuda ("like barracuda, but in the air") required a new body and neck design, a modification to my usual paw foot, and now I gotta make the wings 🤔

A crochet raptor/pterosaur kind of creature with taloned back legs and a vulture-like neck.

A child's drawing of a winged, four-eyed creature flying between jagged mountains.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Feeling sad, doin' a weekend pattern sale (on Etsy & Rav, links in bio). 🧶 Average 5⭐ review, they gotta be good!

A square image of four crochet animal legs and text reading "25% off patterns"

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Thank you! (Sorry for the really slow response - have been on a work trip all week!).

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

I occasionally sell finished items! But usually only when they are piling up and I'm motivated to get them listed 😅

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

He's SO good with names, I am always delighted!

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

My 8yo son is his Mama's boy and is very into creating fantasy worlds, so we decided to team up: he makes fantasy world maps, and I crochet the creatures who live in his magical lands. This is our first collaboration, which he has named the Sandstalker!

A crochet jackal-headed creature with a long, lithe body. It has a mottled brown body with a black head and lower limbs. Its erect jackal ears are slightly fluffy. It has a long-haired black tail and black skeletal antlers. It is standing on a rock against a backdrop of dried leaves.

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Astrid (yeehaw) 🤠🌈 ✨ @ansitru.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Do you think they'll like the amended version? 👀

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Ah ! It'll be fine 🤞

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Crafty Cat knitty bits @craftycatknittybit.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Fibre Faery Friday ✨🍄✨ with the new Fae blend. A super soft marriage of Cormo, Corriedale, BFL, Falkland and silk. I couldn’t resist a rainbow ✨🌈✨ and let’s call it Faery Wings ✨🧚‍♀️✨. Blended by Tom and Ellie @winghamwool ✨🐑✨. You can find it in my @folksyhq shop where a sale is on too ✨🐑✨.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

A long-time customer dug up an old IG post of some eyes I'd made and asked if I could do it again, so I said I'd try - and they came out even better! Might have to add these to the permanent lineup.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

It's pattern publication day! 🥳 Serpent Dragon is now available on Etsy & Ravelry. 🧶

A group of three serpentine dragons crocheted on taupe, green, or purple yarn, standing in the snow

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Dye Mad Yarns @dyemadyarns.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

love to scroll through videos and comment “hell yeah” on all the videos of people learning how to knit or crochet

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Yes, I know exactly! It took 2 skeins. Malabrigo is, tbh, one of the more affordable fancy yarns. You can get skeins of Rios, Worsted, etc for like $15-20. Most of my stuff is around one for the body/head/limbs bc I am cheap and rarely buy two skeins of one color 🤣

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Karen at Silver Seams @silverseams.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

I wrote up a little bit about putting @bexcreatures.bsky.social 's horns on my dragons. I suppose I could have waited until I had pictures of the finished dragon, but I am not known for patience.

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Putting horns on dragons

Silver Seams published a post on Ko-fi

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

OMG, how did I miss that you bought my horns?!?!? They look so good on your dragon! The screws can definitely be fiddly. To be totally honest, I often just poke the post in and then glue them in place instead of messing around with the nut on the other side.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

She's done! 🪄🧶🐉 Just in time to release the pattern later this week. #crochet #fantasy #dragon

A blue-purple crochet dragon with a long, serpentine body. She has white antlers, a grilled collar and back scales, and is decorated with rhinestones. She is standing in a winter landscape.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

She's done! 🪄🧶🐉 Just in time to release the pattern later this week. #crochet #fantasy #dragon

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Thank you! The taupe serpent dragon is a pattern I'm hopefully publishing this week 🤞🏼

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Looking at these gives me such a mix of feelings. Happiness and pride, but also sadness about how difficult things were then. Trying to work & parent with my preschooler at home, the fear of being pregnant early in the pandemic then being stuck home with a baby.. shit was dark. But there was yarn.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Decided to break in the new account by going back to the beginning. Here are my first amis from spring 2021! 👶🏼 I started crocheting then as a way of keeping my hands busy on those pandemic evenings. I had a full-time job, a 4yo, a baby, and a lot of anxiety! 🧶

January 2021: My first "stuffie"... A ball.
Description: a cream, brown-flecked crochet sphere held in a white woman's palm.

February 2021: First finished amigurumi, a stegosaurus.
Description: An orange crochet stegosaurus with red back plates against a gray background.

May 2021: A baby blanket for my stepsister's little girl.
Description: A white baby blanket made of crochet bobble stitches, with lamb legs and head, folder over the railing of a white crib.

A small crochet raven (black wings and body, gray beak) in a green hood. It is Kiri, a kenku character from Critical Role, Campaign 2 (a D&D/TTRPG live play show).

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Lola | Third Vault & Johnson Ofair @thirdvaultyarns.com · 15/02/2025

A very busy yarn filled day at Unravel Festival. This was half my stand!

A yarn filled exhibition stand with lots of different colours. There is a table with a structure that has yarn in cubes and rectangles on it. With large semicircular shawls spread across the table cloth. On top of the structure are project bags in tie dyed fabrics. There are grid walls with yarn to the right of the table.

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I'm obsessed with it. I buy bundles of scraps on Etsy - people put them together in these really pretty themed bundles that make it super easy to create a really textured, gorgeous mane or hair!

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BextraOrdinary Creatures @bexcreatures.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

In the interest of moving off some platforms and building a presence on others, I decided to create a separate account for my fantasy crochet stuff 🦄🧶 So hi! I'm Bex, my lil' biz is called Bextraordinary Creatures, and I enjoy designing & making mixed-media beasties! #crochet #fiberart #fantasy

A crochet hydra stands on a rock in a forest. It is made of variegated pink, orange, and red yarn. It has three crested heads with different-colored safety eyes, four sauropod legs, and a long tail.

An ice-blue crochet unicorn standing in a light dusting of snow. It has a 3D-printed icy blue horn and a mix of white and silver novelty yarns for its mane and tail.

A serpent-like crochet dragon. The body is a camel-colored yarn with a darker brown embroidered design tracing the curve of the body. It has a dimetrodon-like sail on its back and a frilled neck lizard type of decoration around its neck.

A green crochet dragon resting on its side in front of a rosebush. The body is green yarn with some decorative crystals along the back. It has large pink butterfly wings and pink 3D-printed antennae.

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