Free pattern
Crochet Folk Art Bird
Create your own pretty folk art style crocheted bird using this pattern from Crochet Cottage.
Free pattern
Crochet Tea Light Holder
We’ve been enjoying working with cotton yarn recently; must be the weather! Lexie and I had some fancy chocolate puddings from one of those German stores, and when we had finished them, I noticed that the pot was simply too nice to put in the recycling. But it’s a tiny, Read more…
Projects
Project reveal – New Orleans a bit Agnessy Cowl
Penny is modelling my latest make, using Stylecraft Carnival in New Orleans. The pattern is basically the Agnes scarf from the Fiberflux blog, except I did it differently. Because I was using a different weight yarn, using a 6mm hook, I chained 27 to begin with, but I’m fairly sure Read more…
Projects
Further Adventures of Yarn
So, the cowl is complete. I whip stitched it from the inside, and worked the ends in. Afterwards, I had that shortish length left, and did wonder if it might stretch to a flower. I selected a 3.5mm hook, and tried a magic circle, ch 3, 2 tr, 3ch, sl Read more…
Projects
Yarn Stories
I’ve named this post Yarn Stories because I actually got to see this today, and touch it, and work with it. It’s really lovely. This donut ball is called Mulberry, and is Fine Merino and Baby Alpaca in DK. It works beautifully. It took me quite a while to find Read more…