Monthly Archives: May 2014

Read more about the article Lemon merinque blanket pattern is READY!!
arts health / blankets / patterns

Lemon merinque blanket pattern is READY!!

This week was mostly spent finishing the lemon meringue crochet blanket (Get it?!) so i could therefore finish and publish the pattern... This in turn meant adding a new page, specially dedicated to crochet lace, which you can see HERE. The pattern is ready, and so is the blanket... YAY! Well, it is ready to a point of being big enough to be photographed for the pattern sample. I may still add some rows, as with crochet, you could easily go on indefinitely - or at least untill you can get yarn to work with - and crochet around your whole house.... There's an idea... :) Anyway, I am planning another one which…

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May 30, 2014
Read more about the article crochet bears
arts health / creatures / ramblings

crochet bears

Ever since I was little, like so many children I have loved teddy bears. When I started getting involved with craft and once my elders trusted me with a needle, I have copied a pattern from a favourite teddy of my sisters and made number of different coloured bears for presents… They were miniature bears made from faux fur, and i still remember how much fun i had making them. I was about 12 then, and here I am at nearly 20 years later, still thinking about making teddy bears. The process has changed, but the comfort of a teddy bear seems to remain. The child inside me (and dare I say inside…

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May 19, 2014
Read more about the article The First Update!!
arts health / news / ramblings

The First Update!!

How Exciting!!! The first ever news post for The Creative Hook.... better get cracking.... :) The Creative Hook is still a little baby company and therefore still in the process of letting people know who i am and what i do... The major part of my work recently has been marketing... Website re-design, leaflets, you tube videos, online pattern stores, workshop venues and such like. I am not going to bore you with the process, nor am i going to overload this post with links, you can see all the relevant information on various pages of www.thecreativehook.com One of the main exciting things is that Crochet has arrived in Timperley.... What i mean…

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May 16, 2014
Read more about the article personal statement
arts health / ramblings

personal statement

15th May 2014 I have finished a Visual Arts Degree at Salford University a while ago but have only recently started realizing that my current job in sales is not what I am passionate about and started thinking what sort of sector would I be most happy working within. I have always loved crochet, and used it all the way through art school but wasn't quite sure how to use it when I finished University. For my Degree show I have organizes all the female members of my family to crochet a piece of work which I have subsequently framed and displayed as a sort of Female Family portrait through their handiwork. I…

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May 15, 2014