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quenching qualms

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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: … Continue reading →

truthful troglodytes

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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 … Continue reading →

yodelling yoda

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Brioche knitted hats. Or: The story of my personal unravelling. No, it is definitely not as dramatic as t/hat. When i am learning new stitches, i definitely am a lot less confident with knitting. When it comes to knitting, as well as in crochet, i am usually happy to leave errors in, without undoing them. Even happier sometimes to leave them than to undo them. However, the error in this case was too great, and the potential repair in situ too impossible to complete, so the whole thing – half a hat – came undone. But, before i continue … Continue reading →

travelling tortoise

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Crochet is counting. Crochet is Maths. Maths is everywhere and in everything. I have recently been asked to check a statement for my grown up niece when she was applying for a Math teaching degree course: she needed to come up with everyday examples of maths being present, and why she was passionate about teaching it. Since then, i cannot STOP finding more and more examples for her! There are examples of maths in SO many things that we do daily. And what I do daily is crochet – as you may have noticed… When i was completing the … Continue reading →

mammalian mutts

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Teddy bears are for November.  Are they?  Let’s say that for the purposes of creative hooking in 2020, they are.  I have been making these for a while. Cute bears with big heads and bodies way too small to support their big thinking brains. There is evidence on this website, in a number of different places, feel free to check it out:  If you would like wonder over to HERE to see crochet creatures and therefore crochet bears related pages, or click HERE and follow the link for all the other blog posts containing more photos of brainy beauties, as and when they … Continue reading →

all shapes and sizes

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With Winter approaching – even though October and some of November have been quite mild this year – HATS are the word!! The Innocent big knit is now being prepared, my hats have gone a little while ago and will hopefully make the person who gets to own them smile… Age UK are doing a great job and it seems like there has been a few people getting involved this year again, knitting and crocheting hats for a great cause. And once the bottle of smoothie has been drunk, the size of the hats are brilliant for boiled eggs…. … Continue reading →

big knit 2014 update

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As you can read HERE this year i have decided to be a part of the BIG KNIT which brings together INNOCENT smoothie drinks and AGE UK to support vulnerable elderly in winter. You can DOWNLOAD my free pattern for a simple crochet FLOWER FAIRY HAT  from this page or anywhere on the website, as it is listed in the footer menu together with all other free documents available to download. I have send this pattern to both the above companies and they actually emailed me back saying that they loved it, which was more than i had hoped … Continue reading →

Bigknit 2014

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The big knit which is a collaboration between Age UK and Innocent Smoothie companies asks people to contribute hats knitted or crochet to fit on smoothie bottles which are going to be sold later on, once all the contributions have been made. This project is there to raise money for age UK so they can look after the elderly and make sure they are warm enough in the winter months. Since the older generation have lot to teach us, this project is a great one to get involved in. And since a lot of crocheters and knitters are of … Continue reading →

pixie hat pattern

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It may be a little early yet to be thinking of winter hats, but if you are to make one for each member of your family – as i can almost guarantee you will have to because they will love yours so much – you better get cracking… Following this new pattern you will make a gorgeous medieval looking, Nordic (Scandinavian) style little red riding hood hat… I love it because it has lots of pompoms…. Yours doesn’t need to include any, but the added bonus of it is that if girls want to wear their hair up the … Continue reading →

i did it!

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Some of you will remember my inability to follow patterns without changing and adjusting them – even my own… Others may remember my strange obsession with making any favoured stitch – or at least attempting to – work in a circular configuration… And lastly a select few may remember that the struggle to achieve this has not brought any fruitful results as of yet with the BAVARIAN CROCHET STITCH aka the wool eater, one which has become quite popular recently…… To find out more about where i got to so far read about it HERE…. Well….. Hold on to … Continue reading →