I am back, as promised, with a new pattern for you all! A lovely one-ball Christmas stocking for you all. With post stitches, because would it be me if I didn’t include post stitches in a pattern? 😀 The lovely people at Stylecraft have released some new Christmassy yarns this year, and I spotted this … More Diamond Nights Christmas Stocking
Hello all – long time, no see. I took you all at your word, and have spent the last few months not worrying about crochet/this blog/updates. As you know, for quite a long time I couldn’t crochet at all anyway – and besides, the garden has kept me busy, and the cats, and the chickens. … More Spin Me Around – redux
Hello, all. I realised it’s been a while since I checked in here, and although I have very little in the way of crochet updates for you all, I figured many of you would like to hear that I’m…y’know. Alive. Recovering. Whatever that means, and whatever that looks like! It’s over three months now since … More Still plodding on
Hello! And welcome to the Stylecraft ‘Blogstar on the Beach’ party 😀 After the fun we had last year, working on the Blogstars Garden Party, we decided we simply had to do something similar again this year. This year, rather than a garden party, we’ve geared up to head out to a beach. And this … More Pretty Parasol
Life has been very strange and difficult over the last few weeks, as I’m sure you can imagine. There have been lots of hospital visits, lots of firsts, lots of heartbreak. Immense amounts of that last one. I gave birth to my baby boy on 6th May, and though the whole thing was awful, it … More Still here
This is not the post I thought I would be writing next. I thought I would be talking about the baby cardigans and rattles I’ve been making. The blanket I’ve crocheted. The fact that my most stand-offish cat has decided she loves me, actually, because she can smell all the pregnancy hormones. Instead I need … More My baby
So in my last blog post, I talked briefly about an upcoming project that’s crochet-adjacent, rather than crochet related. I wanted to wait a bit longer to tell you all about it, and you’ll already have seen why in the picture below. Yep! I’m pregnant! Thirteen and a half weeks pregnant, to be precise. I … More Introducing Jellybean
First off – and forgive me – I have to get the obligatory Doctor Who reference out of the way. For several weeks while crocheting these, I kept hearing David Tennant’s Doctor in my head telling me not to blink, because obviously, as a Doctor Who geek, these quotations are burned into my mind. However, … More Army of Angels
Phew, what a month it’s been. December was such a chaotic, hectic whirligig that I’m not even certain I know what happened in it, except that there was a week where it was so horrible cold and I had to keep going out into it to defrost the chickens water, and obviously there was Christmas … More Ta da! Christmas blankets
Some weeks ago I shared a picture of a draft excluder I’d made, and promised to share some tips/some sort of pattern with you all at some point, if there was any interest. There was some interest! And here is the promised pattern. Though I do hesitate to call it a pattern, because it’s really … More Draft Excluder
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