Tag: free
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Holly & Snowflake swap their winter dresses for Halloween Costumes
Halloween is almost here and Holly and Snowflake are getting ready to go out trick or treating. They’ve decided that their Holly and Snowflake dresses aren’t quite right for the occasion and have asked me to make them some new costumes. They both wanted to be witches and as they are the best of friends they […]
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Easter Egg Hunt Crochet Along ( CAL )
My friend Emma and I have been working on a crochet along for Thomas B. Ramsden, the name behind Wendy, Robin and Peter Pan yarns. Our theme is based around an Easter Egg Hunt. Between us we’ve come up with patterns to make Chick, Rabbit and Flower themed baskets to collect eggs in. We have […]
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Who’s hoping for minions of Easter eggs? (Day 4)
This is the final post on making a crocheted Minion to hide your secret Easter Egg chocolate stash in! Today we’re making his arms and finishing off. If you’d like to catch up, Day 1 tells you everything you need to know about materials and abbreviations. The posts are here: Day 1 – Lower body Day […]
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Who’s hoping for Minions of Easter Eggs?! (Day 3)
This is part 3 of the instructions on how to make this little blue and yellow guy. He’s very well trained in helping you hide your secret Easter Egg chocolate stash. Here are the links if you’ve missed the previous posts, Day 1 (Lower Body), Day 2 (Head, Eyes and Goggles). Today we’re making his […]
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Who’s hoping for Minions of Easter Eggs?! (Day 2)
This little chap is highly trained in subterfuge and able to cunningly disguise the fact that he is on a secret mission to keep my teenagers from finding my (did I say it’s MY?) chocolate Easter Egg! Continuing on from my previous post this is the second part of the instructions on how to make […]
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Who’s hoping for Minions of Easter Eggs?! (Day 1)
Me? Personally I don’t find chocolate remotely despicable but neither do my teenagers so I have to resort to hiding what I consider to be “mine”. This Minion is helping me out. I’ve told the teens that he’s a crochet hook holder but actually he’s hiding my chocolate egg in there – shush, don’t tell them! […]
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Yan, Tan and Tethera, the dangly crocheted sheep from Yarndale
Yarndale 2015 was a very busy occasion! These little sheep made their first public appearance there and seemed to enjoy themselves immensely (though they get a little boisterous when excited!). I’d made some extras which sold out almost straight away so I thought I’d share the pattern with you. You can currently get it as […]
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Campervan Bauble “Dub Ball” Free Knitting Pattern!
This PDF knitting pattern is to make a Campervan Bauble Christmas tree decoration. Mine was about the size of a tennis ball and made from scraps of double knitting yarn (DK) on two 3mm (UK11) knitting needles. You can of course knit in the round on double pointed needles (DPN) it’s just that I knit […]
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Doodling with yarn
Sat at HandPicked Hall yesterday I started doodling with yarn, like you do, and found myself crocheting a flower garland (or is it bunting?). Either way, it helped to keep me occupied and also seemed a good way to use up this odd bits of yarn. I thought you might like to have a go […]