Always a sucker for Amigurumi, these knit and crochet patterns from Amy Gaines caught this writer's attention on Twitter. So cute and easy to do, Amy Gaines has just about every design imaginable on her Etsy site. She's sold over 7000 patterns and kits and has 100% feedback, so she must be doing everything right. An online fad for creating and collecting amigurumi began in 2003. By 2006, Amigurumi were reported to be the most popular items on Etsy, where they typically sold for $10 to $100. Why not try your hand at it? Make the dolls and toys patterns and kits and sell them or make for gifts.

The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote the story of Alice in Wonderland in 1865. Knitting Socks for Alice is an analogy of how one passion for intrigue woven with words has semblance to a knitter’s passion to create. Profile of exciting fanciful new enchanting sock pattern book filled with origins rooted in legend, myth, and gothic fairy tales.