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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

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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...

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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 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

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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 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.

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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 photo of three crochet treat baskets sitting next to one another on a wooden surface against a red wall. On the right is a Santa version with a Santa suit as the body and two splayed legs with black boots and red trousers with fluffy white trimmings at the ankles. Over the basket the two red arms make the handle, ending in fluffy white trimming at the wrists and white mittens. In the middle is a smaller basket with a white middle around which green Christmas wreaths with red ribbons made from crochet chains are displayed. It has two green Christmas trees with red baubles as the handles and a white tinsel like trimming round the base. ON the left it a basket made to look like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer with a red nose, fluffy trimming, two big eyes and fluffy trimmed ears and antlers that form the handles of the basket.

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Little Christmas Treat Baskets

This year I am busy making a number of little Christmas treat baskets for family and friends. These are fairly quick and inexpensive to make and can hold things like sweets and other smaller...

A crochet treat basket made to look like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. The basket is face on showing his large red nose, big eyes and ears. The basket handles are his antlers and the ears, round the nose and bottom and top trim of the basket is made using furry brown yarn. The basket is filled with little Christmas treats

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Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer Treat Basket

Materials Yarn Skill Level Easy, but this is not a beginner pattern as you need to be able to work front post single crochet stitches and to increase and decrease stitches. You will need...

A photo of a crochet Xmas themed basket with a red rim, white body and red bottom around which white tinsel yarn is threaded. On the white body there are green wreaths with red ribbon in them made from crochet chains. The basket has two Christmas trees with red baubles stitched on as the handles. This is the side view showing one of the tree handles straight on

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Wreaths and Trees Treat Basket

This is the first little basket I made this year. I made this a little smaller than the Basic Treat Basket size before I decided to go a little bigger with the other ones....

A photo of a little crochet treat basket sitting on a wooden sideboard. The basket has been made to look like Santa's body in red, with fluffy white trimming down the middle and around the base. It also has legs which are dangling over the sides with black boots and white fluffy trimming, and arms with white gloves raised above the body for the handles. It is filled with Christmas goodies

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Little Santa Treat Basket

This was the first treat basket I created in 2022. I made the first basket just with the legs, but this year I have added his arms as I am putting handles on all...

A photo showing three crochet works in progress with argyle patterns. On the top is a colourful piece in blue, green, pink, yellow and orange. Underneath to the left is a piece in shades of purple and blue and on the right one in shades of brown and cream

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Adventures in Argyle

In 2019 I picked up on the buzz around planned colour pooling (or planned yarn pooling) which uses variegated yarns to create Argyle patterns. I thought it was a really clever technique so thought...

A photo of a yellow crochet happy face with two black toy eyes and a smiley little red mouth. The face is still being worked on

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Mindfulness and Crochet

Mindfulness has become a bit of a buzzword these days, and as such some have become a bit dismissive of it, but the movement towards mindfulness is an important one in a hectic and...