Cornish Knockers

Urban Threads

Scruff McScruff — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 22:51:49 +0000

Well goodness me, us charming gentlemen from www.cornishknockers.com are this months guest artists over at Urban Threads.

Urban Threads? In their own words:

Urban Threads is the brainchild of illustrator Niamh O’Connor, and grew out of her internship and eventual employment with the rather more mainstream Embroidery Library to bring fresh, high-quality alternatives to the world of machine embroidery. All together, we’re an employee-owned company of 23 people in Minneapolis, Minnesota – artists, digitizers, writers, designers, and computer geeks. You can meet some of the creative folks behind Urban Threads on the About Us page, and step into the studio for a little tour.

Urban Threads sells machine embroidery designs (in 11 formats), hand embroidery patterns (as PDFs), and digital stock art (as JPGs). Everything for sale on Urban Threads is a digital download; we don’t send anything via snail mail.

You can buy our Secrets of Skull Island embroidery pattern here.

If you’re not into embroidery you can also buy the design as digital stock art here.

If you’re not interested in embroidery or the stock art then we suggest you head over there anyway as they have some of the best looking staff members you’ll find on an arty crafty stitchy scribbly site, although in reality the male members of www.cornishknockers.com are probably better looking than the www.urbanthreads.com males.

New illustrations.

Scruff McScruff — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:25:44 +0000

I’ve been working on a new set of watercolour illustrations over the last few weeks based mainly around the Steam Inventors as well as Mine Machines. (See Knockerpedia). A range of originals are available over at The Knocking Shop our Etsy store. I’ve posted some samples here but you can see the full selection in the shop where you browse until your hearts content without any pressure from a shop assistant hanging around just over your shoulder.

Skullinator

Scruff McScruff — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 15:13:02 +0000

Willow White (inventor and Goth) has just perfected her latest invention. An ubersteam powered robot butler named Skullinator. Pass the biscuits!

A new watercolour and pen illustration available over at the Etsy Shop.

Say NO to the Pasty Tax!

Scruff McScruff — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 11:55:40 +0000

We don’t normally get involved in politics but the UK governments recent budget announcement of a VAT at 20 per cent will be added to take-away hot food – including chicken rotisserie, sausage rolls and pies – sold at fast-food restaurants, bakeries and supermarkets means that Cornwalls national dish, the centre of its cultural identity, the traditional street food of Cornwall, the ancient mining food of our forefathers will be TAXED. Your average Oggy will cost at least 50p more. That’s an extra £10.50 a week to some of us. £42 a month added to our pasty bill?! £504 a year to eat our own national dish! THIS IS SIMPLY CRIMINAL. It must be stopped before 20,000 of us have to march on London again..

Full story here.

Feel free to use the anti pasty tax banners wherever you like. Both designs are also available at the Zazzle Shop on t shirts.

New Wild Yaaarg subspecies discovered!

Scruff McScruff — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 12:50:04 +0000

www.cornishknockers.com/knockerpedia to find out more about the Wild Yaaarg.