Weekend crochet for babies by Sue Whiting

About 3 weeks ago a Lauren from New Holland Publishers sent me an email wondering if I might be interested in doing any reviews for them. As you may know New Holland publish a wide range of crochet, craft & knitting titles. I emailed Lauren to say I’d be delighted to have a go a [...]

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Haggis’s horns have been giving me a headache

I’ve been back to working out the pattern for Haggis the highland cow this week. I started with the hooves and hoof decorations. They came together very easily… I only needed to make one change to the hoof base and the heart came out just right first time… Phew!
The horns though have been a real [...]

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The lion prototype is felted!

The washing machine is fixed and I just couldn’t wait to show you how the lion prototype turned out. I used up some of my stashed 4ply/fingering yarns just to work the pattern out hence the multicolour!
I’m busy typing up the pattern.. so I’m now setting a closing date for the competition to name him/her… [...]

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Scrummy new yarn to play with…

I only ordered this yarn yesterday lunch time. When I got back from taking Finn to his Jump & jiggle session this morning at 10.45am…. the parcel had been delivered!
I couldn’t wait to get the box open and have a sneaky peek before putting Finn down for his morning nap…. so after a quick look [...]

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