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knotty kaleidoscope

Before I ramble on, let me clarify my intention for today’s blogpost. Today marks an end of my latest change, today I share again, today I bring celebration of ending a learning phase and beginning a shiny new working phase in my professional development. As such, it is suitable to talk about a kaleidoscope of knotty transformation… i feel I used to really dislike weaving in the ends and would dread finishing a crochet project for this reason. Well. I loved finishing the yarn, I loved the last race to the finish line for the project on my hook to be done, then I would get the dreaded Sunday night feeling. Back to…

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January 31, 2026
Read more about the article lace lingers
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lace lingers

Continuing on my last STARRY eyed post looking up to heavens for answers to the nature of our being, I want to bring us down to Earth, back to our bodies and embodied experiences (don't yawn yet, it gets deeper). I want to look at the connections we create and continue in our making. The themes that keep us going, in fact propel our creativity forward. Other people To be precise, the important adults that shaped us as kids. It would have been your 89th birthday this year, and I miss you now more than ever. As I was frantically making star shaped blankets for all my friends, I looked at them one…

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January 12, 2026
Read more about the article magnetar mastery
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magnetar mastery

"I am Stardust gathered fleetingly into form." - Laini Taylor Stars! There are many people who liken our being to stars, including Joni Mitchell and Jostein Gaarder (read HERE). A magnetar is a type of neutron star with a powerful magnetic field, the strongest in the universe. I don't know, I cannot say, why the STAR Crochet blanket pattern has captivated my mind and hands recently. I do not know. I found it by chance, randomly seeing someone posting about a 6-day crochet-along blanket. It kept popping up. So I found the pattern HERE and HERE started... I am including a YouTube tutorial below, very helpful for us visual learners: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhPSXvp3Dqk I made…

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November 15, 2025
Read more about the article nurtured necessity
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nurtured necessity

It is cold! Winter appears to be LONG this year. And COLD! When I recently started updating my BLANKETS and WEARABLES pages, I noticed a trend in the photos I took of my crochet creations. I have not been able to blog regularly because of other commitments. That is okay. I have various things pulling on my time and consciousness, mostly for educational and personal development reasons. It's all good. I am still able to crochet, please do not worry. Just that I am doing it less frequently, because my mind is otherwise engaged. And so are my hands - typing mostly... So when I crochet, at the moment, I make easy things…

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February 14, 2025
Read more about the article octagonal optometry
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octagonal optometry

As it turns out, I have another blog post in me for this year.  Another final one, before the year 2022 is finished, and before I leave you all, my lovely readers, to your own devices, and to perhaps catch up on my many a blog posts that you may have missed over the last 4 years.  Oh my, I have just had to check, and I have been writing my regular, monthly blog posts since 2019.  Whilst we are getting sentimental, please indulge me.  I have been writing my blog posts since 2014, which means that 8 years have passed since I started writing blog posts about my crochet endeavours. I have…

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December 1, 2022
Read more about the article peppy pontoon
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peppy pontoon

As we all know, end of the year is nearing. This usually means a lot of reflection on my creative year, as well as work year, and all other things that were there for the year. So how about, then, the year 2022?! With this in mind, it is a good place to reflect here, and validate, and explain, and share experiences. Start with the most colourful: For those of you who have been following, this will be no surprise. I do have an announcement to make here, which again, for my @instagram followers is no news now, but it is nice to give this a proper space, and a send off! I…

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November 1, 2022
Read more about the article quenching qualms
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quenching qualms

End of October brings Halloween. Start of November brings All Saint's Day and Guy Fawke's Night. It also brings Diwali, the festival of lights. But it is not any of these festivals, nor anything crochet related to these i want to talk about today. I do hope, you have had a lovely celebrations of autumn and winter time approaching. Today's story is about a lovely cardigan. And about sharing a pattern. Also of course about autumn cosiness and hot mugs of cocoa by the fireplace. Well, that's the romantic vision of autumn, at least. What really happened was this: One of my colleagues brought in a crochet cardigan she made. She knew i…

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October 1, 2022
Read more about the article rolling raver
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rolling raver

Ugly arse blanket and how it really ISN'T! To begin with I was ill. Having to isolate. Being cooped up in our spare bedroom. Making sure that i did not infect the rest of the household. Naturally, i had loads of opportunity to do crochet. What i also had alongside this opportunity was a substantial blocked feeling of not wanting the next thing i make connecting with the ill feeling forever and always reminding me of it... Therefore, at this point i am stuck! In more ways than one. Understandably angry. Feeling frustrated and sad and anxious and all these things which you may naturally imagine anyone at all feeling in a situation…

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September 1, 2022
Read more about the article truthful troglodytes
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truthful troglodytes

Initially, today is about knitting.  More in detail: Knitted dishcloths tradition passed on from one family to another. Obviously, I love creativity. Creativity is my passion! If you are a first time reader - it is true. If you know this about me already as a consequence of being a fan of my blog: Thank You! For coming back and sticking with me, reading my meanderings about my creative endeavours. Always, Thank You for being patient when i repeat myself... In fact, today i would like to talk about knitting squares. Yes. Knitting indeed! Not crochet. Knitting! If you know me, and are interested to read me distinguish between the two, and how…

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July 1, 2022
Read more about the article ultraviolet unicorn
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ultraviolet unicorn

To see the proper development and to trace the actual story of these blankets, and if you really truly feel like reading a few more blog posts... Read first HERE in Phenomenological Pondering, then HERE in Utilitarian Utopia. When I sold the first blanket, i had great interest and people ordered more. Two more. Maybe three. I cannot remember this fact exactly, as it was over a year ago that that happened. Sometimes it is difficult to remember yesterday.... Full disclosure: I am writing this post last minute (well a week before it is out - which is super last minute for me). My initial plan was to have the fourth finished and…

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May 1, 2022