My new backpack crochet pattern reminded me that it's a really long time since I've updated my blog. I'm tangled between balls of cotton yarn and long-term projects so I forget my virtual home, which fortunately is always ready to welcome new and old crochet enthusiasts. I have updated Instagram [...]
On December 16th is the Christmas Jumper Day! A great excuse for a party, wearing funny clothes, listen Jingle bell and at the same time we can do something good raising funds for Save the Children. It's that time of year where bells, lights and red bows popping up from every [...]
It is not a simple doily, it's a crochet Mandala! It is a little microcosm that contains a story, sets in the past or in the future. Spring Mandala starts to the center and grows outward, stitch after stitch, round after round, colour after colour, bringing within thoughts and even [...]
I'm in London for a few months and I already did two removals. First house was temporary and there was not the sofa (and even enough room for the sofa), the second one, the current one, has a large living room with two couches. Go from 0 to 2 seemed [...]
After I Knit Fandango and the Knitting & Stitching Show in London I immersed myself in a new yarn fair: Unravel. My traveling mate is always Kate (Made by Kate), we always manage to stand out for our habits among the stalls (hoping that nobody understands the stupid things we [...]
Winter is just started, but thinking about the time to make handmade objects (even if small!), it's never early to look forward one or two seasons. So, this year, the first free crochet pattern is a tag with a blue nightingale, with a yellow beak and a mess up tail. [...]
She is on the cover of the 2016 Simply Crochet Calendar: the crocheted doll that makes a crochet scarf (a scarf on a doll scale and scarf on a human scale). Drawing the characters for the calendar, imagining every little detail made by cotton yarn and stuffing fiber, it has [...]
What it was the third news still secret in the last post? The Simply Crochet Calendar 2016 with my illustrations! They are not just cute and colorful doodles, they are the drawings at the base of my amigurumi. I realize them to understand the proportions, choose colors, decide the details [...]
Roomy, versatile, cool, sturdy. These could be the adjectives to describe your perfect summer bag. Well, easier said than found. So while you look for your dream summer bag, why not crochet one yourself, with the help of a hook and an incredibly colourful cotton yarn. Being unable to make [...]
I am recently in London, but I already had many surprises. The latest was last friday when I discovered the English yarns world in a fair entirely dedicated to small-medium local producers and a few from other countries of northern Europe. In the exploration between skeins and balls of yarns [...]
