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 [...]
It's known, in the world of amigurumi everything is possible. Even a pig wearing a swimsuit with white and green stripes and brings everything it needs for a day at sea: towel, bucket, scoop and a rubber ring (tailored to his belly!). While I doodled this pig (for the 2016 [...]
I'm over the moon. My first dress on the cover of Simply Crochet magazine, I would never have imagined! Despite the many days (and one night) to make all the pieces, sewing carefully and finish all the details in time, almost do not believe I did it myself. I'm the [...]
We are close to the second month of the calendar, January seems to fly away with the wind and Valentine's Day is coming up. To celebrate this day dedicated to love I exclude chocolate hearts and honeyed phrases, but not the crochet hook. This year, for me, the symbol of [...]
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 [...]
When I was a child, the Christmas tree was always full of wooden decorations beautifully painted. My favorites were the sleds, loaded with small wooden cubes-packages. Then the rocking horses, I was fascinated by the brush strokes on the saddle and the stiff mane. The heaviest were the balloons, painted [...]
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 [...]
Everyday I see a child wearing a Spiderman costume. He/She plays, runs, goes on a kick scooter in a very natural way, and the child dresses a close-fitting blue and red jumpsuit, sometimes the mask cover his head up to the eyes. If I was a child and I had [...]
“When do you make an amigurumi cat?” This is the question I received to all my friends that love cats. Here it is. A classic cute kitten – a touch selfish and haughty enough – with a white and blue striped t-shirt. While he walks in an unusually hot London [...]
Summer is upon us and - even if in this part of Europe the weather does not allow skirts and tank top - the sea is always in my thoughts. So I made a new doll, mermaid and "turquoise" fairy at the same time. Maybe she can give us good [...]
