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MAKE MINE MOTIFS

When you visit Selina Page’s Ravelry shop, you’ll notice two things right away – lots of Christmassy crochet gonks, and all manner of different animals made entirely from African flower motifs. Some of these animals are just heads, meant to be mounted majestically on the wall, while others – like the squirrel she made for issue 124’s African flower supplement – are entire animals fully made of motifs. The one slight outlier is the official Elmer the Patchwork Elephant that Selina created for issue 138, but even he is made from a collection of motifs, sewn together to make one amazingly lifelike

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