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 I had super happy post yesterday when the new edition of Simply Crochet landed on my doorstep. I had the pleasure in designing a mini sloth brooch for this issue, inspired by the blue one, who adores sloths (I’m routinely asked if we can get one!). I was sent 3 little balls of… Read More Simply Crochet issue 75
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
NOW CLOSED Hello, So this post is a little background, as to why I made my next blog post……. very confusing order, but it does make perfect sense really to me anyway, and I wanted to give you the chance to use the discount code (offthehook) to get 10% off any order at Rito Hobby before… Read More Infinity Hearts Dahlia – Giveaway
Hello, I’ve been very prodcutive lately, but can only share some things with you at certain times. This time, I made a gift for a friend. A friend who is moving away, and has the contents of 2 houses to fit into one – so they really didn’t need a housewarming present, but I wanted… Read More The Starburst Granny cushion
Not only are we still in a bit of heatwave, at 25 degrees today I’m not complaining, we are in the middle of the 6 week school holidays we get every year, which means amusing the pink one and the blue one, and unfortunately not too much crochet. We’ve been to London already for the… Read More School holidays
Hello, So I finally finished my bag! Want to see it? Made just out of granny squares, it’s even been out for a few outings already too – you can read about the making process here! So the last time you saw it, it was waiting patiently for a delivery from the postman. Namely, the… Read More The Granny Pop Bag
I’m like most people, I learned to crochet and suddenly all these new words and techniques have popped up. Today I’m tackling “Blocking”. You’ll probably read a lot of patterns that will say “block your item” or “block your squares to x size”. So what exactly does this really mean? Basically its exactly the same… Read More What is crochet blocking?