This deep green is my current favourite colour, so I decided to make a black and green crochet sweater. It will have alternate green and black panels and the arms will be the same colour. I am using a crossed double crochet stitch throughout and a 4.5mm hook, so it is a very easy pattern…. View more
I’m making the famous Elf Coat that is all over social media following (moralefibre.blog) Morale Fibre’s design. I must say her instructions are really very good. I got the yarn from a local store and was able to get a great deal for a bulk buy, so I am quite pleased with that. … View more
Recently I decided to start something using Tunisian crochet, so i bought the hooks. Then I spent a lot of time trying to figure out something easy that I could make so I could practice this new kind of crocheting. Well, that did not turn out the way I had thought. I got a little… View more
I am on a working holiday in Harlech, Wales. This is our first day here and the weather is windy and rainy. We were expecting this so we got a cottage with some spectacular views and so, sitting inside for today at least, it not a hardship. Of course I brought my crochet along and… View more
I decided to make some more Christmas tree baubles. This one is a couple of holly leaves with red berries and it now hangs over my wreath on the door. Here is a tiny snowman head. The nights are longer and I feel that crocheting is not only relaxing but also helps to pass the… View more
Autumn has arrived. The days are getting shorter and it has been raining on and off. The leaves have turned golden and are already falling off the trees. The end of the harvest season is almost there with Halloween and Samhain around the corner, signalling the arrival of the darker half of the year and… View more
I had bought a lot of red yarn so I thought I would make another crochet top. This is made with DROPS COTTON DK YARN – Safran- Egyptian mercerised cotton, which I really love. The pattern is from internunet.com. It took me a while to make this according to my own size but it is… View more
Well I have just finished a crochet little black dress and I am very pleased with it. I will put up the photos of that and other finished projects soon. Now that lockdown has eased in the UK, I am looking forward to catching some good shows and the first one I am going to… View more
Most of us have been inside the past year or so. Slowly lockdown is easing in the UK and we can all start looking forward to life being the way it was. For me it wasn’t exactly very different. I work from home and I had my crochet to keep me company. I am looking… View more
My crochet journey started in 2019. It was something that I had been thinking of doing for a while and the purchase of a 5mm crochet hook and yarn for a scarf set me off. There was no looking back. I immediately got “hooked”. Crocheting helped me during the whole of 2020, a year that… View more
