Finished knitting those booties for your new nephew? Cast off the final row of your new winter scarf? Sitting there clacking the old needles waiting for a new project to get your teeth into?

How about the human brain? Or the digestive system? Click here for more original ideas…

(Personally, I think this one on the right looks more like a flamingo sitting on a nest.)

Or you could go for disembowelled lab rats, like this creative soul on Etsy – click here. Ah, how far from egg cosies we have come…

Lara Crisp, Managing Editor

P.S Speaking of egg cosies, the James Anderson The Affair of… Omnibus, featuring all three of his Agatha Christie-esque mysteries (including The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy) has just come in from the printers  – looking stunning I might add. Available soon…