I crocheted some egg shells using yarn made from plastic bread bags. (Some people can look at you funny when you say things like that, but I know I'm not alone in such activity.)

I roughly based the pattern on the one in 'Amigurumi World' by Ana Paula Rimoli but I modified the size so I could fit a chocolate egg inside each shell. It's actually really easy you just need to know how to crochet in the round. Wholemeal bread packaging gives nice brown and blue speckled eggs but you can make them more colourful too.

I made lots and put them in eggboxes to give as Easter presents.

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My two-year-old niece cried when she first opened her birthday present. Not the desired response. So it was that an old sock came to be known as Scary Giraffe.

Fortunately within minutes, all was forgiven and Scary Giraffe was accepted (although the name seems to have stuck).

The funny thing was that I was actually trying to make a kitten.

The design came after flicking through John Murphy's excellent book, Stupid Sock Creatures

If you want free inspiration, there's plenty of sock monster making advice on the web too. Try here or here for starters.

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Super quick and easy. I had a bit of fabric left over from a woolly jumper I felted in the washing machine so I straight stitched round a bunny shape (leaving a small gap to turn inside out and stuff). The face was embroidered on. Hello rabbit.

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