Crocheting for Charity
After making the tiny baby hats for the 12 Days of Christmas Challenge, I decided to carry on making crochet items for charity. These are the things I made in January: There’s lots of little tiny hats...
View ArticleJanuary Crochet-Along
I’m a few days late as it’s already February! Whilst everyone else was linking up I was still not even half way, and then I got a little side-tracked sorting out my post for the Sew Fab Pattern Sale...
View ArticleMandala CAL – Week 1
I do like a crochet – along, and this one looks really interesting. The finished article (a mandala) is created using overlay crochet to create patterns. Before we started we had to select our 4...
View ArticleFebruary Crochet-Along
It’s the end of the month already, and time for the February Crochet-Along link up! This month we had a choice of three projects, all with a Valentines theme; an envelope, a Danish heart or a cupcake....
View ArticleFebruary Crochet for Charity
This month it’s been mainly about booties, lots and lots of them! And I also took part in the Valentines charity crochet challenge from Sunset Crochet and made this hearts hat and boot set with hearts
View ArticleMandala CAL – Week 2
It’s nearly the end of the second week of the Mandala CAL so I thought I’d share some more pictures. I wish I’d taken a picture after every round as it looks so different after each one is added! …...
View ArticleMandala CAL – finished!
It’s the last week of the CAL and I finished mine just in time! It think it looks pretty good It is made with Panda 8-ply cotton and is pretty big, measuring 41cm in diameter! This week the CAL …...
View ArticleMarch Crochet-Along
This month’s crochet along was a knotted headband, using the free pattern from All About Ami. It was a nice quick my pattern, and I made mine using 8-ply (because I own no 10-ply at all) cotton (as I...
View ArticleNewborn Crochet Booties
Recently I offered to test a new pattern for some girly crochet baby booties. I thought they would be a good addition to the parcel I am sending for my new niece! I chose pink to make them super girly...
View ArticleNeapolitan Baby Blanket
I have finally finished this blanket – yay! I started it about 3 months ago, and finished the actual blanket quite quickly. Then I put it to one side ready to add the border and it’s been there ever...
View ArticleWedding Hearts Blanket
We’ve been away for almost a month, travelling to the other side of the world to my brother’s wedding. Now we’re back I can share the wedding present I made. About 18 months ago I trawled Ravelry and...
View ArticleBaby Rainbow Hat
I can cross one present off my Christmas list! This rainbow hat will be for my youngest niece. The pattern is one I found on Etsy. It’s called Tutti Frutti designed by The Hat And I. I made the 6-12...
View ArticleChristmas Stars
This month’s crochet-along was stars, and Alycia wrote a great photo tutorial on how to make them. I thought they’d make a great Christmas decoration, and made a set of 8 stars. They were very quick...
View ArticleCrochet Snowflakes
I managed to get a copy of the book ‘100 Snowflakes to Crochet‘ from my local library. The book looks like this: I thought it was a great book as each snowflake has a photograph of it, plus written...
View ArticleCharity Baby Items
Last year I took part in the 12 Days of Christmas charity preemie hat challenge. This year I took part again. These are the twelve hats that I made. I chose just the one pattern and made each one in …...
View ArticleWinter Hats For All!
Most of the adults in the family got hats as their Christmas present this year. I made nine hats in total, including the rainbow hat I made for my youngest niece. The second hat I made was another...
View Article2013 in pictures
I went looking for photos of all the things I’ve made this year. I found a lot more than I was expecting – I’ve been busy! Crochet: Clothes sewing: Bags, pouches and pencil cases: Other sewing: Quilt...
View ArticleTardis Hat
We’re back in the UK and it’s a bit chilly! W has an owl hat I made him, but since it’s a year or so old his head has grown and he needed one a little bigger. What better for … Continue reading →
View ArticleCrochet Owl
The sewing machine is still on its round the world cruise, so I’m doing lots of crochet at the moment, in fact I started and finished 4 things in the last week – this must be a record for me! …...
View ArticleBaby Hat
It’s probably about time that I caught up and posted photos of the things I’ve made in the last 6 months. There’s not too many, but there are a few that have been sitting waiting for a while to be …...
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