Monthly Archive: July 2023

Boop!

I’ve been so busy with custom makes that I just haven’t had any time to sit down and write something down and test it, but I made Boop! on a whim for a customer...

A photo of a crochet jet plane. The plane is white with light blue wingtips and nose cone. It has dark grey pilot windows separated by white frames and two big engines with light grey fronts.

Jet Plane

This one I made for a birthday present, and I had a lot of fun putting it together in a short space of time. Materials Skill Level Easy. You will need to be able...

A green crochet frog sitting in the middle of a multicoloured granny square blanket meant to represent a lily pond. At the centre is a bright blue hexagon. Radiating out from that is a darker blue hexagon and then squares in blue, brown and green. The frog is sitting on a green lily pad and is surrounded by three lily pads sporting yellow-orange flowers.

Frog Lily Pond Comforter

I had been wanting to create a little comfort blanket pattern for a while, and I realised that I had yet to do a frog (one of my favourite animals as it happens!), so...

A photo of a purple crochet scarf with thistles in darker purple and green evenly spaced up the centre. The scarf has a fringe made up of the lighter and darker purples yarns

Bonnie Thistle Scarf

This is a pattern I have been wanting to do for a long time, but I never got it quite right until now. I wanted to bring out the colours of Scotland without going...

A photo of three crochet toys called Tree Thangs, which are basically long tree like toys with floppy hands and feet, leafy hair and round faces with two brown eyes and no nose or mouth. In this photo is a very large copper coloured Tree Thang with its hands on tow smaller ones about a third of its size which are caramel and light brown colours

Tree Thangs

Tree Thangs are very simple to make. You can crochet one up in a day easily. Beware however – once you make one they have a tendency to multiply 🙂 Materials Note that the...

A photo of a pink crochet elephant sitting with his back legs splayed out and his front legs straight in front of him. He is bright pink with black eyes in white circles and has light pink foot pads, toes and inner ears. He is wearing a bright green bow tie

Mum’s Pink Elephant

My Mum recently came to stay for a while and we ended up talking about an elephant I had made her from a pattern a few years ago, which she has kept on her...

A photo of a red crochet lampshade with bobbles around the bottom sitting next to a red toaster, a black microwave and a Wookie Cookie biscuit tin

Easy-Peasy Lampshade Cover

The shade of the little lamp in my kitchen was looking a bit worse for wear, so I decided to crochet a quick cover for it. The pattern is very simple and should work...

A photo of a mint green and grey crochet hat and scarf. Both are ribbed and the hat has a pom pom on the top

Simple Hat and Scarf Set

I made the first hat for my partner as we were out walking and his head was getting very cold. Then I was due to go up to the Scottish Highlands to visit my...

A photo of two crochet ducks sitting next to one another on a cream chair. The duck on the left is blue and green with green wings, blue face, blue feet and a purple beak. He has large blue eyes on white and a green set of three feathers on his head. The one on the right has a yellow head, orange beak, pink head and wing feathers, green eyes and yellow feet

D.B. McKurkin

Double Beak (D.B.) McKurkin is a bit of a mystery, There is a story that he hijacked a flock of geese and made them give him 200 000 squid before he parachuted away into...

A crochet witch in a deep purple dress and stripey purple witch hat, flying on her brookstick, which is grey with purple-pink bristles, her skin is purple grey and she has a long nose. She is wearing purple striped leggings and long purple shoes.

Witchy-Poo

Who doesn’t need a witch on a broomstick flying around their room? Materials I used the following colours for Witchy-Poo, but you can use whatever you prefer. Colour 1: Good Old Fashioned DK Violett...