Tagged: Crochet

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.

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 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

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

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

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

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...

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...