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I’m ramping up production of bunnies in the work room at the moment. I’ve got a stall at the Village Hall Spring Gift Fair and I’ve decided to make Bunnies and maybe a few chicks. I have 3 favourite rabbit patterns and Im making several of each. The biggest is Millie Rabbit, I’ve made lots…
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Did you know that February is national heart month? To celebrate this and encourage awareness, the Elswick Crochet Crew have created a post box topper with the dual purpose of celebrating Valentines Day and Heart Month. If you take a look at the British Heart Foundation’s website you will see lots of ways to help…
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Trying something new Ive been crocheting for a long time, more years than i care to remember but even an old dog like me can learn something new occasionally. I’ve been having a go at corner-to-corner (C2C) crochet, and I love it. If you do not know what it is, it is a way of…
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Hookers do it with WIPs and chains! We’ve all laughed at phrases like that but a serious crocheter always has WIPs, works in progress. January is a great time to go through your project and decide what to keep. As I’ve said before, January is my time to make things for me and this quite…
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January for me is a time to take stock, both literally and figuratively. As this is my quiet time, I go through all my WIPs and decide what I’m going to finish and what I’m going to frog. When my Nana taught me to crochet, more years ago than I like to think about, she…
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The 12th night has passed and we are officially out of the Christmas period and it’s time to look ahead to a new year. New year’s resolutions are so easily broken, so this year I’m going to try something new instead. I read that it’s much easier to try something new for 30 days than…
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For a couple of years, I’ve been doing online demonstrations. I love doing it, either through Facebook Live or also with the Royal Voluntary Service. They run a Facebook page called the Virtual Village Hall. It started up during lockdown to give people chance to take part in all the activities that they would have…
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I have a love/hate relationship with craft fairs. I love going to them as a seller but hate them if I don’t sell anything. This year I organised an Autumn Gift Fair in November at my Village Hall, so I decided I would have a stall with a few friends, none of us having enough…
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Ive been working on a new line of designs – Wee Jack’s Pet Emporium – inspired by my little fluff munchkin. Being a true crafty pet momma, I’ve made quite a few things for jack over the last year he has lived with us and I thought I’d try them out on the wider public.…
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I’ve had this Rick Stein tote bag for a lot of years. It was a present from my mum after a holiday to Cornwall. I love fish and have a lot of things on a fishy theme and used this bag almost constantly. But as a consequence, the lining deteriorated and I put it away…
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