I received some lovely summer ice lolly fabric from The Craft Cotton Company and wanted to make some summery bunting using it, I didn’t want to just do triangular bunting with this so decided to go a bit different and make some kite shaped bunting – perfect for flying happily in the breeze this summer.
The tutorial is available over on their blog:
I’ve finally got chance to make some reusable face wipes and the added bonus was I had some cotton 4ply already in my stash that I could use for them!
100% cotton 4 ply
4.5 mm hook
Using 2 strands at the same time (either 2 of the same colour or two different colours).
Change to a different colour at the end of round 5 for a different colour on the outer edge.
Bobble stitch:
yo, insert hook, pull up, yo, pull through 2 loops (2 loops on hook) yo, insert hook, yo, pull up, yo, pull through 2 loops (3 loops on hook) yo, insert hook, yo, pull up, yo, pull through 2 loops (4 loops on hook) yo, pull through all loops.
Make a magic ring, ch1, 6sc into ring.
Round 1: 2sc into each sc (12sc).
Round 2: *sc into next sc, sc into row below. Repeat from * around.
Round 3: 2sc into next sc, sc into next stitch. Repeat around (18sc).
Round 4: *sc into next sc, bobble into next stitch. Repeat around.
Round 5: *2sc into next sc, sc into next two stitches. Repeat around (24sc).
Round 6: *(ss, ch1, ss into next sc) ss into next stitch. Repeat from * around.
Fasten off.
I wanted to make a few more storage baskets and decided to make some with a dinosaur theme – so here are some stegosaurus storage baskets, might see if I can do a few more different dinosaurs patterns over the next few weeks.
The pattern is available over on my Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HookStitchSew
After my first few crochet Dachshund makes I still had a few more I wanted to do and first out is this Corner to Corner Dachshund Cushion. The pattern is available over on my Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HookStitchSew
I wanted to make a hedgehog design on a cushion and decided that by using some patchwork triangles I could add some more texture to the cushion, and lots of triangles later and the hedgehog was completed! Think I might make another hedgehog cushion in the shape of a larger hedgehog and patchwork triangles on both sides.
The fabric was the Chickie fat quarter set by The Craft Cotton Company and the tutorial is now available over on their blog:
https://www.craftcottonblog.co.uk/single-post/2019/04/25/Hedgehog-Patchwork-Cushion
I liked my crochet Dachshund wall hanging so much and I really enjoy corner to corner so I decided to make another! However I wanted this one to be a little bigger, have slightly different hanging loops and have some tassels. So with those requirements in mind I set off and made a second version – here it is!
The pattern is available over on my Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HookStitchSew
I have been meaning to make some more crochet storage baskets but too many other projects have been sneaking in the way first! Now hat most of those are finished I have managed to squeeze in a new set or storage baskets, this time it’s a set of frogs!
Pattern is available on my Etsy shop:
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HookStitchSew
Earlier this year I took part in Zeens and Rogers granny cal 2019 and it took me a while to think of something I could do which would be a little different, then one day after spending a while messing with some graph paper and coloured pencils I thought about having a change of direction in the granny blanket. From that the granny log twist was born! I had to keep an eye on what row I was on when making the pattern as I had a habit of getting a bit carried away and forgetting I needed to add the twist in!
I have now made two of these blankets and have finally had a chance to get the pattern sorted and uploaded to my Etsy shop.
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HookStitchSew
This blanket has been in the pipeline for a long time now, I have been making a bit, changing my mind on the stitches used, undoing it then redoing it and not liking the stripe arrangement and undoing it…. for what seems like forever, however I finally hit a breakthrough a few weeks ago where I found the perfect stitch and the perfect stripe layout.
I found the stitch gave a perfect textured snugglyness to the blanket which I was looking for and now I have finally got the blanket finished and the pattern is now available over on my Etsy shop. I love this blanket so much I am already starting on another in a different colour!
https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/HookStitchSew
