Well, here it is, at last. The pattern. The pattern... for the crochet house shoulder-bag that I designed. It's been a while coming. Would you like to make one? It's not that hard, honest, just a little fiddly around the windows. But I've explained everything in the pattern. And if you run into any problems, you can always give me a shout. I'm really very, very excited about this thing. Sometimes a crazy idea in your head just works. And it's free! :-) So without further ado, shall we Continue Reading
The Carnival Bag, And The Stylecraft Giveaway!
Welcome to day five of the Stylecraft Blog Tour! Fancy a free pattern and a chance to win a whole caboodle of yarn, regardless of where in the world you are? Read on, Macduff... So, just for the benefit of anyone who is new round these 'ere parts, (hello at the back, there), a few months ago I co-judged Stylecraft yarn's competition to find a new shade for their range of Special DK. With me were the editor of Let's Knit magazine (who waited very patiently in the car park before we went in, Continue Reading
Scrawlin’ The Scrawl
Hunched up against the howling autumn gales, I've been knitting. A lot. This will come as a surprise to absolutely nobody who knows me at all. I've been keeping one project semi-secret until now, because I'm writing up the pattern for you, and because I'll probably initially be putting the blimmin' thing 'out there' via a guest post I've got coming up soon on the Deramores blog. (But don't disappear: the free pattern will also appear here, too.) Anyway, the idea came from a simple Continue Reading