Celebrating Life: In 2020, I encourage you to do something on the 20th of each month that will bring you active and conscious joy.
New Beginnings Clutch Pattern
I am pleased to introduce the New Beginnings Clutch. It’s a simple tapestry crochet bag that looks as good in ten colours as it does in three. And it ties in beautifully with the fact that 2021 starts the LAWIM family on a brand new adventure. It also celebrates the VERY detailed tutorial I recently […]
How to Crochet: Tapestry Crochet in Rounds
In this tutorial, I will walk you through the basics of using tapestry crochet in ROUNDS. This technique is used when creating circles, squares, or tubes (like the sides of a bag, a cowl, or fingerless mittens/wrist-warmers) where the right side of the work is always facing you. For the purposes of this tutorial, we […]
A Mighty Fine Day Bag: Pattern {Part 1}
This bag is a nod to our camping trip in Cornwall a few months ago, and specifically the Mighty Fine Day we spent at Tintagel (King Arthur!!!) with our closest friends (more like family, really) and their boys. The colours are also reminiscent of my daily commute during Covid – the pigeons that took over the platform […]
A Mighty Fine Day Bag: Pattern {Part 2}
Welcome to Part 2 of the Mighty Fine Day Bag pattern. You can find Part 1 (and all the information) HERE. Strap Row 1: With RS facing, join Yarn B by making a standing sc in the marked st from Round 43. Sc in the next 7 sts. TURN. {8 sc} Row 2: With WS […]
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 […]