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Wintergreen Free Form Crochet Part 7 filling gaps and Part 8 new yarn and a...
This picture is what started this free form. I took it walking round Heath Lake on a misty morning and then I used it as the inspiration for the patch below.Part 7 How to fill awkward gaps.Trouble is...
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Part 9 Making the scarf wider with lovely new yarn
This is my hoard from the Waltham Abbey Wool Show, which I have been dying to try so now I have finished up the yarn tube I am going to use it.Part 9 Using new yarn to make the scarf wider.First piece...
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Wintergreen free form crochet - the finale.Part 10
I love making the fringe on a free form. Just find everything green in the house, then attach it, in stringy form, anywhere you like along the edge.These two show the ends: beads, rings, corkscrews,...
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Summer Stock! I've been making giant floral rings ... lots of them.
The Spring and Summer craft fair season is nearly upon us - eeeek! This year I have designed a really cute flowery finger ring to compliment mum's head garlands (free pattern for those here if you'd...
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My Crochet Holiday Snaps
On the way to Portugal, classic scalloped shawl but ran out of yarn, So this is not finished. Close up below using Drops delight yarn. Lost my phone cosy somewhere on the journey so I made these one...
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Doily or Mandala a Crochet Dilemna
When reading this, bear in mind that I am not in the first flush of youth which may account for my confusion.My Grandma and my Mum crocheted doilies for all sorts of reasons but I remember them under...
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Crochet wraps the World
After researching mandalas last time I came across this lovely free pattern for a queen mandala CAL.Already 13 weeks of instructions have been published and I think the plan is to end at week 17. I am...
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How to make a bag to keep your yarn tidy. Free instructions
I keep most of my wool upstairs but I keep my current yarn like this. As I am making rainbow granny squares at the moment I need lots of colours but when you rummage about the balls unwind and you get...
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Crochet Bee for sale but how much should I charge?
One of our best selling items is this little bee. I thought it would be interesting to work out exactly what it costs to make. So I have carefully weighed and costed all of the materials.Yarn used =...
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Craft Fair Tip. How we display prices.
Thought I'd share the way we display our prices on our craft fair tables.It's a very easy and cheap make but seems to fit our 'rough and ready' display and our brand. It is also made to be perfect for...
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Free Crochet Pattern for the Cutest, Most Bonkers Pug Puppies.
To celebrate the launch of my latest pattern for Portia Pug I have decided to share the patterns for her little, teeny puppies for free. Hope you enjoy them and please pop over to our FB page and share...
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Size isn't everything
When we need to replenish our stock we usually decide that one of us will do all the snakes and the other all the bears. We generally share the projects between us --- but ---- after the Wokingham May...
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Baby Bunting Hints and Tips
Vicky and I have just made some kits to make bunting like this. The kits are aimed at beginners so this post contains more hints and tips.You can buy a kit in our Etsy Shop. The kit also contains...
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Upcycle project: Magnet Display
I've been making piles of crochet magnets at the moment. The emojis are selling almost as fast as I can make them.So that I can transport and display them I have upcycled an old toy belonging to my...
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Crochet People
You have to wonder about two women who are willing to pack woolly objects into boxes and then get up at a ridiculous hour in the morning in order to fill a car with the said woolly objects, together...
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How to make a pretty bowl. You don't even need to crochet but it is more fun...
First you need a doily - I made this one from part of a pattern in 'Crochet Monthly Magazine. You can just do the number of rows that you need for the size of bowl you want. This is an excellent source...
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Copy Crochet?
Not long ago I was accused of having copied someone's friends pattern. I was stung as I knew I had designed the bees several years ago. Anyway it turned out to be the other way round.The number of...
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Free Halloween Pumpkin Chocolate Cosy Crochet Pattern
Pretty decoration or a cover for those ambassador chocolates, to make a sweet Halloween gift.INSTRUCTIONS1. ch 12 turn2. dc in second ch from the hook and then 1dc in each ch across ( 11 stitches...
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Excuses, Excuses (for WIPs)
It has been such a long time since either of us even thought about the blog. We have been very busy with fulfilling orders and commissions, making things to sell at craft fairs. making sure our shelf...
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3D Free form cottage
I love free form crochet but I have never tried three dimensions before.A fairy or witches cottage?Walk round.Some details: Owl and ladybirds Large blue butterfly and tiny yellow fly.Hungry...
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How to Crochet a Rainbow, Spiral Dream Catcher. Part 1
You will need very small amounts of coloured yarn. I have used Stylecraft Special Dk. You can use as many colours as you like but I recommend no more than 6 or 7 while you practise the technique.This...
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How to make a rainbow spiral dream catcher. Part 2
Joining the crochet and the hoop is a little more complicated.If you are following the pattern and not making a change in number of colours or size of hoop, then you will need roughly 230 dc to cover...
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Dream CatcherMaterials1 x 25cm ring2 x 7cm ringsBeads ribbons and tassels for decoration.about 20g of DK yarn 3.00mm hookless than 50g of double knitting yarn – I used cotton but any yarn of the right...
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Jars and Frames ... so far
Many years ago we used to sell goldfish in bags like you used to get at fair grounds. They were very popular. I don't know why we stopped. Then, a little while, ago we were asked to supply fish in...
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