So remember the Cygnet Seriously chunky metallics yarn, well I knew exactly what I wanted to make with the Lithium. Just look at this red, it’s absolutely stunning, and crying out to be made into something Christmasy. Needless to say, it didn’t take me long, and I was crocheting away with my Clover 10mm hook.… Read More Festive Fun Crochet Christmas Stocking
It’s getting cold here in the UK, and last year I made myself an infinity cowl, and never got around to writing it up. My famous words are, when anyone sees me wearing something I’ve made. I’m honestly starting to sound like a broken record! So, finally, I have sat down to let you know… Read More Whirlette Wonders Infinity Cowl
It’s 100 years since the end of the 1st world war, and in the UK we remember this with the Poppy Appeal run by the British Legion, where we all wear poppies from the end of October, to 11th November – Remembrance Sunday. I’ve made poppies over the years, and sold them with all monies… Read More Free poppy patterns
Hello, In the boiling hot summer, I was commissioned to make this little A line dress I’d submitted as an idea to Simply Crochet. The yarn arrived, a beautiful 10% Alpaca from King Cole called Timeless, and I set to work. This was a joy to make and design, and the yarn is so so… Read More Simply Crochet issue 77
As I said in my last post, I’m a little bit obsessed by pumpkins currently. It the most autumnal thing, along with the leaves turning and the berries appearing in the hedgerows that mean the end of summer (Although we’re having a super hot day of 25 degrees C today, and the sun is shining).… Read More Pumpkin fever
Happy Autumn everyone. Now this to me signifies the end of the summer, the end of sunny days, and almost certainly a time when I want to hibernate. I’ll be in bed, or struggling to stay awake from when it starts to get dark. It means cosy nights in front of the fire, under lots… Read More Pete the 30 minute/ 1 ball Pumpkin
If you read my last post, you’d of seen we went to a local sunflower field as a trip in the school holidays, and I just had to come home and have a little play with some yarn. (Where has the summer gone, just realised I didn’t post this, after spending the time writing it,… Read More Sunflower Applique Pattern
Now here is something I didn’t think I would ever be making, a crocheted, sofa arm cover, a request from Mr OTH too! Where to begin with this. I almost started this last week, with some chunky yarn I had left over, but when I asked for an opinion, we couldn’t decide on the colour. … Read More Crochet Sofa Arm Cover Pattern
Hello, So, following on from my last post, the actual bike basket! This was great fun to make. and something I’d wanted to do for a long time – I just needed the yarn! I thought it was going to take loads of yarn, but in actual fact it took only one bobbin of the… Read More The Crochet Bike Basket Pattern
The UK is in the midst of a super heatwave, and I adore the hot weather, and we’ve had it for 2 months now. It may surprise you to read this, but in the UK, we never have weather like this, the last hot summer on record was 1976 – before I was born! It’s… Read More The heatwave and a crochet glass cover