Ellie's Enchantarium

Toys and games
Written by Ben Lange

Handmade crochet plushies and accessories

PLUSHIESCROCHETHANDMADE GIFTS

Four chunky crochet frogs in different shades of green, sitting in a row on a wooden tray with pink cheeks and black eyes

Ellie crochets everything herself in rural Nanaimo. Plushies, keychains and non-scratch dish scrubbies, which she will tell you are scrubbies and not dishcloths.

The detail work is where it shows. The sparkly safety eyes on her loaf cats are hand painted one at a time, the signs and business cards are hand drawn, and she buys her supplies from other Canadian businesses wherever she can. There are baby safe options if you are shopping for someone very small.

She works under supervision. Pebbles and Penny, the cats, and Mochi the dog check every stitch, and remind her to take breaks.

At a glance

MAKES
Crochet plushies, keychains and non-scratch dish scrubbies
GOOD TO KNOW
Baby safe options, and the loaf cats have hand-painted eyes
BEYOND THE MARKET
Plushies and scrubbies in her Etsy shop
BASED IN
Nanaimo, BC
Ellie behind her market stall, a gingham covered table with crates of crochet plushies, keychains and heart charms on a pegboard Crochet heart charms on a wooden tray in blue, pink, lilac, sage, black and purple, each finished with a satin bow A crochet penguin plushie in speckled grey and cream held in one hand, in front of a flowering rhododendron

Find Ellie's Enchantarium at the market

November 27 and 28 at Wellington Hall, Nanaimo. Friday 11AM–8PM, Saturday 10AM–6PM. No Sunday this year.

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Visit her Etsy shop

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