Celebrating Life: In 2020, I encourage you to do something on the 20th of each month that will bring you active and conscious joy.
A Mighty Fine Day Bag: Reveal
Good evening and a very happy Friday to you! I am very excited to show you some photos of my completed Mighty Fine Day Bag. Although I love the textured simplicity of the bag itself, the tiny little Flower Pouch attached to it has stolen my heart. It is a flower, or a rainbow, or […]
A Mighty Fine Day Bag: Work in Progress
Last week, I told you about the yarn I will be using for my new crochet bag. This week, I will show you some sneak peeks of my Mighty Fine Day Bag. I don’t want to show you too much (because I want to keep a little something-something for the reveal next week), but I […]
A Mighty Fine Day Bag: The Yarn
I’ve got a new project on my hook: A Mighty Fine Day Bag, made with a mix of Jute and Cotton in colours inspired by my everyday life (more about that next week) and my once-a-year camping escape in Cornwall. Just like when I made the Memory Lane Blanket, the colours I chose are not […]
Fancy Nancy Square Pattern
In this post, you will find the instructions for turning your Fancy Nancy Mandala into a square using a modified version of Part 4 of Sophie’s Universe. Isn’t that exciting?? I designed the Fancy Nancy mandala in honour of my friend Nancy, who has since published her first book, The Toadstool That Wanted to Stay. […]
Squaring a Crochet Mandala With 128 Stitches in the Final Round
I love Love LOVE making mandalas. They are just so calming and mindful. Having said that, I love squaring them up even more. It is my fervent hope that we will eventually have a collective library of ‘squaring up’ patterns that can be applied to mandalas of any size. So, today, I am going to […]
Kay Square {Crochet Pattern}
I designed this Kay Square for one of my yarn retreats in 2018. It is named after my friend and tester Kay Crone, and is sister to the Emma Square. It is a fairly quick crochet square, and adding an extra round of dc will make it equivalent in final-round stitch count to most standard […]
Lobster Tail Crochet Baskets {Featuring Lobster Stitch}
A month or so ago, I was playing around with stitches… specifically with Crab Stitches. I LOOOOVE Crab Stitches. I hit upon this Crab Stitch Linen Stitch or Reverse Single Crochet Linen Stitch, and I fell head over heels in love with it! It has got the prettiest woven look and creates a lovely dense […]
Unseen Mandala: Pattern {Part 1}
I was supposed to share this Unseen Mandala pattern with you yesterday, but my day was hijacked by an ‘Unseen Thing’. An Unforeseen Unseen Thing! (You might need to read my Yarn Post about this project for that to make sense…) While I was sitting in the hospital waiting area, watching all the people (I’m […]
Unseen Mandala: Pattern {Part 2}
Welcome to Part 2 of the Unseen Mandala pattern. You can find Part 1 (and all the information) HERE. Chart Round 17 Sl st in the next dc and into the next ch-2 sp. Ch 3, [dc, ch 2, 2 dc] in the same ch-2 sp. *(Ch 3, sl st in the next ch-3 sp) twice. […]
Unseen Mandala: Reveal
Tada, my lovelies. TA! DA! This is my Unseen Mandala in all its 29-round glory. Made with Stonewashed Cutie Pies and one regular skein of Stonewashed Moonstone, it is 50cm/19″ big and full of happy colours. I spent a delightful afternoon taking photographs of it so you can see all the little details. Mr LAWIM […]
