about us
Little Egg Crafts is co-founded and co-owned by 2 best friends - that’s us in our logo! The two of us run our small handmade shop and craft Instagram in our spare time alongside our day jobs. We started Little Egg Crafts in Sept 2020 on Instagram as a creative outlet to have together whilst apart during the height of the pandemic.
We’re both Hongkongers, born & raised. One of us is Mixed East Asian. One of us is Filipino. We're currently operating from where we're both currently based - one of us in England and one of us in Hong Kong!
Little Egg Crafts started as a passion project for us and has now evolved into a way to connect with the creative and ESEA communities.
Our items
At Little Egg Crafts we design and create amigurumi inspired by our shared Hongkonger culture, our heritages and by the things we love.
Amigurumi (編みぐるみ in kanji) directly translates to 'crocheted or knitted stuffed toy'. This is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed plushies using yarn. The word is a blend of the words:
'ami (編)' = crocheted or knitted,
'nuigurumi (ぬいぐるみ)' = a small, stuffed doll.
All our shop items are designed and handmade to order by us.
The materials we use are locally sourced supporting small businesses and/or charitable organisations where possible. We make our items with a zero waste principle and the stuffing we use for our amigurumi items are made from recycled plastic bottles.
shop with us
You can browse all our items on our Instagram Guides or on our Order From.
Make an order with us via our Online Order Form.
Follow us on Instagram (@LittleEggCrafts) to be the first to know about new shop items and all our latest updates!
shop with us
You can shop with us in-person from The Lion Rock Press in Hong Kong.
We also participate in in-person events and markets across the UK.
Follow us on Instagram (@LittleEggCrafts) to keep updated with when and where you can come find us!
our projects
Aside from crocheting and managing our little shop, Little Egg Crafts has been our platform to highlight ESEA (East and Southeast Asian) creatives and ESEA joy!
Some of these projects include:
- Roots/Routes: Celebrating ESEA Creatives - a digital zine publication (Sept 2023)
- ESEA creatives pop-up shop in London, UK in collaboration with @sketchykarr (Sept 2022)
- ESEA Year of the Tiger virtual market event in collabroation with @sketchykarr (Jan 2022)
- 12 Days of (early) Christmas (shopping) trade series (Nov/Dec 2021)
- ESEA Creatives Showcase in collaboration with @DontCallMeOriental (Sept 2021)
Roots/Routes: Celebrating ESEA Creatives
As part of East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) Heritage Month 2023, we created a publication highlighting ESEA creatives and our roots/routes in our work.
Roots/Routes: Celebrating ESEA Creatives is a digital zine publication available for free to read online. We launched it on our Instagram on 01 September 2023.
The aim of this project is to:
- Celebrate ESEA creatives
- Foster a sense of community
- Create a publication that can be used throughout the year to promote ESEA creatives
our Projects
We've had the pleasure to be featured in / participated in:
- Roots of Change event organised by besea.n in collaboration with the British Library (Sept 2023)
- Green Lunar New Year 2023 event at Museum of the Home (Jan 2023)
- MUJI Community Market (Sept 2022)
- Tigers Zine - Summer 2022 issue
- F Word Magazine 'A Knit to Remember'
- Resonate's '10 Wearable Art Creators You Should Follow' feature
- Little Yellow Rice Co Lunar New Year Exhibition & ESEA Business Showcase
- Shop Local HK's featured artist
- Canto Cutie Zine - Volume 4 (Feb 2022)
- Britain’s East and South East Asian Network (besea.n)'s Christmas 2021 Gift Guide
- The Strategist UK's '17 Best Gifts for Every Type of Person' article
- The Sole Supplier Asian Businesses and Creatives series
- Britain’s East and South East Asian Network (besea.n)'s Lunar New Year 2021 Gift Guide
- The Steamroom Year of the Ox Exhibition
- International Chinese Fine Arts Council (ICFAC) Featured Artist
contact us
@LittleEggCrafts
littleeggcrafts@gmail.com