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TOILET ROLL COVERS

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Baby Wipes

Lulu

Roland

Toilet Trainer

Wicked Witch

Royal Flush

Some of our favourite covers were not included and are now available individually. We are particularly fond of the Paper People shown above. Baby Wipes can remove her cardigan and hat, Roland can wear his hood up or down and Toilet Trainer can take off his zipper jacket. These seven patterns are available individually, or in a collection called Roll Models.

Buy the collection now or buy the individual patterns on the Order Form.

Theory of Rollativity

A few years ago we had the silly idea of making toilet roll covers. Everything revolved around the word-play in their titles. We made about fifty covers and they all had 'roll', 'paper', 'tissue', or similar words, in their names.  

For example: Swiss Roll was a red cover with a white cross, to represent the Swiss flag; a pink pig was Ham Roll;  Paper Tiger was self-explanatory; a computer keyboard was Tissue Type. The working title for the book was On a Roll.

The idea was quickly taken up by Guild of Master Craftsman Publications and thirty covers were chosen for inclusion in the book. The original titles were abandoned. The book was published in September 2007, under the title Toilet Roll Covers.

Crochet Spiral - 2 colours

Crochet Spiral - 4 colours

Crochet Spiral - 6 colours

Counting Numbers

Lucas Numbers

Crochet Fibonacci

Knit Fibonacci

Square to Eternity

Tilting at Windmills

Pentominoes

Pi

Eleven toilet roll covers with a mathematical, or geometric, theme.

The patterns are available in a collection called Rolling Around. They are not available to buy individually but we would be happy to email individual patterns for a donation to our favourite charity.

Buy the collection now or on the Order Form.

Roll-top Desk

Rock’n’Roll

At one stage in the preparation of the book it was suggested that some of the ideas for the book might be adapted for hats and/or tea cosies. These photos are variations of one of the toilet roll covers in the book. The difference in size was achieved by using other thicknesses of yarn. The shaping is identical.

Roll of the Dice

Roll of Honour

Wallpaper

Roll Call

Paper Dolls

Graph Paper

Tissue of Lies

Chicken Roll

Roller Blinds

We made another special toilet roll cover - for the Danny Wallace TV programme How To Start Your Own Country.

The cover depicts the flag which was designed for the country (which was named Lovely). Any establishment displaying Danny's flag  could declare itself an embassy. This cover was called Bog Standard. It was used as a prop on one programme and the photograph taken in our bathroom was used as the closing shot of the final inter-active programme of the series.

We also made a pair of mittens which were plain on one side, with a flag on the other  side so that King Danny could choose which way to wave to his people.   

 We don't usually make items for other people, because of the amount of time they take, but, when we were approached by Sky Sports and asked to make two toilet roll characters for a charity event, the challenge was difficult to refuse.

PAUL O’GRADY - COMMISSIONED FOR THE PAUL O’GRADY SHOW

It was very difficult to make this recognisable character - until we had the idea of including Paul’s dog Buster.

SKY SPORTS - RON ATKINSON & RUUD GULLIT

DANNY WALLACE - HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY

There are currently no patterns available for these covers

Swiss Roll

Roller Coaster

Blog post about all of these covers, and more