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Free Crochet Coaster Pattern.
I have had a lovely week. Ben and Danny came to stay over night and as usual we went out for breakfast at Tesco not as romantic as Tiffany's but a wide choice and very reasonably priced. It meant that...
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Crochet hats, some buttons and beads and CE marking.
Apart from the usual things there are three things in my head: The Hurst Show which is two days long and I am not sure we have enough stock. The Fibre East Show which is a new venture for us and we are...
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Summer Flowers in Your Hair? Free Crochet Daisy Chain Pattern.
Vicky is changing the face book photograph practically every day in order to show all the things we can and have made. The hippy flowers for your hair seems to have hit the right note for the summer....
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My way of making Dorset buttons - Step by Step instructions.
Vicky tells me that Dorset buttons are being talked about at the moment so I thought I would show you my method of making them. Be warned I have only ever seen the buttons from a distance so there is...
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Decorate your garden with crochet?
I was trying to think of fathers day ideas when I remembered Vicky's idea to make decorations for the garden so: The Row markers for pot plants or the allotment maybe have changed a bit? Daisy,...
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Garden Crochet
Yesterday mum touched on my new campaign to take crochet into the outdoors. I love yarn-bombing/yarn-storming when it is done well and I think there's a real place for lovely yarny things brightening...
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CE Testing Crochet Toys
If you were to see an old woman weighing bean cans and torturing small crochet creatures in her kitchen, I expect you might suggest she needs medical help. In fact this is just to comply with the...
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More Garden Crochet for the Flower People.
Next show/fair is in just over a week so all my crochet has been in preparation. But it is still for gardensSpare buttons glued on to wooden row marker sticks Not really crochet but pretty. All of the...
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The garden is a happy (hippy) place.
We have been talking about crochet for the garden well here is another idea? Something about bunting makes me happy. Perhaps it is its association with celebration. Here is some of the bunting that...
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Inspiration B and Q and Free Braid Instructions
Last time I promised to tell you about tile spacers because I knew how interested you would be!!!Well it wasn't true because the thing I used was a plastic packer for jamming doors and windows in...
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Hurst Country Fair: wet/dry, happy/sad and Unicorns
The country Fair at Hurst was very interesting. Saturday was very miserable it rained most of the day and when it wasn't raining it was absolutely pouring. We spent most of the day covering and...
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Applique, Christmas Kits and Anonymous
I don't seem to have had much time for actual crochet this week. Graham and I have been going to pick up things bought on ebay and when we do we make a point of looking for something to see in the...
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5 Reasons to Take This Crochet Health Survey
This is a guest post from Kathryn Vercillo, author of Crochet Saved My Life and blogger at Crochet Concupiscence. She’s running a crochet health surveyright now and wants you to know why it would be...
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Crochet kits, hats and PYO
Vicky and I are in head exploding mode!! We have never done a big show before - two days of Fibre East, we have no idea how much stock we will need or what we will need when we get there to be able to...
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The Yarn Truffle Crochet or Knitting Challenge
Once again inspired by Vicky I set out to show people what could be made from one of these:A bag of Yarn Truffles. 50g of colour themed yarn!This is the contents of the bag shown but each bag is...
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Persephone the Pig and Red Riding Hood
Only two days to Fibre East so I havn't really got time for this but I couldn't resist. First this is a lovely pattern designed by Vicky so I thought it would be a good idea to have an example so...
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Fibre East Successes and Lessons Learned
We are both still recovering from our first big show. We learned lessons, made some money and above all met lovely people who shared our passion for crochet and yarn.This is the set up - it wasn't long...
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Free Christmas gift for all our crochet friends - you can do bullions
Summer show over so start thinking about Christmas and some new things to add to the old favourites. Before that here is an early Christmas present. We were asked so often how to do a bullion easily I...
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First Christmas Ideas and a flash of genius
We really have started to think about Christmas and I wanted to do something a bit different so I raided the loft and actually found the Christmas decorations ( this is a miracle if you know my loft)...
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Circles Mandalas and Dream Catchers.
As you can see, this week I have been going round in circles. I have been looking at some of the beautiful mandalas that have been submitted for show at YarnDale. They are amazing and inspiring so I...
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