Hark Arts & Crafts

03/10/2025

IT'S OCTOBER! And amongst its other highlights, it's the birthday of my sister's friend
She's a big fan of Weird Little Guys, and so my sister commisioned me to make her one.
After accidentally making the huge WLG (see a few posts back, on 4th Sept) i dialed it back a bit and made this dude.

He's from a 13th Century Bestiary, and you can look at a digital copy on the Bodleian Libary's website, if the fancy takes you.

i was particularly taken by the weary faces of these cats.  They look like they pay taxes.

had a much happier face when she received him.

03/10/2025

Okay, minor hiccup to the Weird Little Guy challenge.

Last week is MIA because i decided to Girlboss To Close To The Sun and add an ~*ombre*~ to his legs. Dispite having never tried one before. And dispite having not enough of my wool.

Anyway, that particular Little Guy is sitting things out on a shelf, until i don't want to throw us both out of a window.

This week's to follow momentarily.

18/09/2025

i know, i know; it's a bit too early for this kid of Midwinter Milarkey.

Buuuuuuttt, it is less than 100 days until Christmas. Which, y'know, exciting in some ways, mildly worrying in others.

Anyway, this Weird Little Guy started off as just a little pixie face that i didn't know what to do with. Then he got put in one of my many bags of unfinished projects, along with the beginnings of a Pudding Bauble, and lo: PUDDING PIXIE.

11/09/2025

Extremely cool Renaissance Artist Hieronymus Bosch actually had his own workshop of students. And if i ever get my hands on a time machine, that's where i'm going. A whole art school of people making up Weird Little Guys; most of whom are puns, or memes, or references we know longer have context for 😩 I WANT THAT CONTEXT 😩

Anyway, that does mean that we have several "Bosch" paintings that were actually by students of Bosch. Like the 'Visio Tnugdali' (or 'Vision of Tundale' in English).

This Little Guy is from that painting. He's also currently having a bit of a Moment. i was halfway through what i was calling "the doot-faced egg man" when a Youtuber i follow ( ) put out his "Frootletoot" video and also had plushies made. There's also a 3D print design available from

But you don't want those. You want this guy. Lovingly stabbed and smooshed by me, and now going up for sale on my .

04/09/2025

We start with the least little of my Weird Little Guys.

As i said: my sister asked if i could felt a weird medieval cat. i said sure, opened a pinterest board, and fell into some sort of fugue state.

When i came to my senses a week later, i found myself in possession of a creature larger than my actual cat.


The original picture is from a 16th centure French book of hours. Many thanks to - their tumblr and IG were invaluable in my research.

02/09/2025

Right. i am setting myself a challenge: from now until ~*Halloween*~ i'm gonna post on Insta. Once a week. For serious. For real real.

And what will i be posting?

👏 Weird 👏 Little 👏 Guys 👏

i have always been lowkey obsessed with WLGs - marginalia creature, animals drawn by people who never actually saw that animal, the kind of dudes Heironimous Bosch came up with. That sort of stuff.

Then, about a year ago, my sister messaged me, asking if i could felt one for a friend of hers.

The obsession kicked into High Gear.

Instructions unclear: house now full of
little felted noses and legs. Small dudes in various states of undress and dismemberment litter the front room. Partner frequently flinches when coming downstairs of a morning and being faced with a fluffy monstrosity with half-finished eyes.

i am in a Heironimous-flavoured Heaven of woollen body parts. But also, y'know, running out of space in my house. So the WLGs will also be going up on Folksy (possibly Etsy, but maybe not cos Etsy sucks). YOU TOO COULD FILL YOUR HOUSE WITH WEIRD LITTLE GUYS.

07/07/2025

June wasn't the best month for me (and July isn't shaping up much better tbh) but you must celebrate your wins where you have them. And i have won against my mending pile!

A bit of patching on my denim dress; a bit of sashiko on my partner's pjs; a new button & buttonhole + a touch of a take-in on some charity shop shorts.

But the thing i'm most pleased with is the green shirt.

It originally belonged to a Uni friend of my sister (hi, ), who couldn't fit it in her luggage when she went back to America. And then my sister gave it to me. And that was nearly 20 years ago.

Which might explain why it had So Many Holes 😆 But it is one of my favourite shirts, and so i would not allow its Long Watch to End. Another shirt that had shrunk makes up the patches/flower middles, and most of the embroidery floss came from charity shops (or from my lovely local independant shop ). So i am feeling very eco-friendly, as well as very pleased with the results.

Sadly, with the mending pile defeated, i must now go back to boring chores: like job-hunting, and the washing up.

23/05/2025

Greetings! it is and for my i have decided to innovate. Thus: one caked-up Reverse Mermaid in finest . Check out that !

14/04/2025

Behold! Easter bunnies. Adorable little Easter bunnies, with a pleasingly egg-like shape. £12.50 plus P&P. Order now and we'll post before Good Friday!

These little fellas are a seasonally appropriate egg-shaped core with all the proper attributes of a bun. Observe the floppity loppers. Contemplate the thumpity stampers. Consider, if you will, the booplesnoots. 100% wool felt, 100% handmade. Each bunn...

05/04/2025

GUESS WHO FINISHED A THING!?

i've been having a bit of A Time Of It lately, and my brain decided that joy was /only/ to be found in starting wild new projects. No finish, only start.

But then i had a really miserable day, where no joy was to be found in anything, and that misery somehow allowed me to finish this.

Anyway, wild new projects. This bad boy involves embroidery, beading, and needle felting. Because i'm really feeling embroidery right now. And also i have too many beads and sequins.

17/11/2024

psst! next Saturday i will be at Glangrwyney Craft Fair from 10 till 4 and since i have been diligently i shall be selling and what i have been

( has been and gone so i am now allowed to be hype, no matter what the grumpy Bear says about "it's not even Advent.")

25/10/2024

Something for the ?

Born of the exciting discovery that LEDs don't get hotter than the human body (so you can shove them in ANYTHING), this light up takes 2 AA batteries and pride of place in YOUR window.

i will sell it to you on Folksy or Etsy – i am harkartsandcrafts on both platforms! Buy it now and i shall ensure the Bear posts it first thing Monday morning.