It all started with a skein of yarn... Last October, I was invited to join my colleagues and crochet friends at the annual meeting of the Scheepjes designers in the Netherlands. We meet up every year and participate in the themed workshops. Last year, we learned how to dye yarn, and that was my first every experience with hand-dyeing yarn. You can read more about it here on my blog. I brought...
My crochet designing career started nearly 11 years ago (and I still cannot believe it was so long ago when I first introduced my own crochet pattern on Ravelry). Before that, I had been crocheting for years already, since I learned to crochet at the age of 5. And because we did not have access to fancy crochet magazines, often I created my own patterns with leftover yarn I had at hand. The yarn fibres...
Hooded scarves have become a huge trend this year. You could see them literally everywhere: on the shelves in the stores, on the pages of the fashion bloggers, and of course among the new releases from indie designers. Hooded scarves have become popular mostly in the knitting world, and I thought it would be nice to design something similar in crochet, too. Browsing Pinterest, I have seen many...
Welcome to the first blog post of the year 2025. Do you make resolutions at
the end of the year? I used to promise myself to start or quit doing something
on January 1st, but well… We do not change overnight and in fact, we stay the
same person in the morning, after the New Year's champagne is finished, and
fireworks are silent. So no, I have not made any resolutions for this year.
Except...
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