Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crafting. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 May 2024

Saturday 25th May Bank Holiday Craft Fair 2024

 Very much looking forward to the next craft fair on the Bank Holiday Saturday, 25th May, in Glastonbury Town Hall, Somerset with West Country Fairs. I'll have a range of crochet and handmade items including a couple of new linocuts for this year based on Glastonbury Tor and the Little Egrets who who visited our local flooded fields this Spring.



hand dyed crochet items


Small linocut prints. (Tor & Stile)


Cards and prints.


Handmade crochet and fabric items.



Dip-dyed paper collages. (Overhead I, Overhead II)


Wednesday, 21 February 2024

Crochet Sparkle Coaster Pattern

These pretty sparkly coasters are easy an easy project to make with my free pattern:


Crochet Sparkle Coaster Pattern

Recommended yarn: Lincatex Gold Rush®
decorative metallised thread
(1 x 20g ball per 4 coasters)

Recommended hook size: 3.00 mm (11)

Approx diameter: 10.5cm

 


Round 1:  4 chain, join with a slipstitch to form a ring.

Round 2:  3 chain, followed by 15 trebles into ring, slipstitch into top of 3 chain.

Round 3:  5 chain, 1 treble into same stitch (equals 1treble, 2 chain, 1 treble), *miss one stitch, 1treble, 2 chain, 1 treble into next stitch**. Repeat from * to ** to end, slipstitch into 3rd chain of 5 chain.

Round 4:  3 chain, *3 trebles into 2 chain space, 1 treble into next treble, 1 treble into next treble**, repeat from * to ** end, slipstitch into top of 3 chain.

Round 5:  Repeat Round 3.

Round 6:  1 chain, 1 double crochet into same stitch, 3 double crochet into chain space, 1 double crochet into second of the 2 treble stitches, *3 double crochet into chain space, 1 double crochet into second of the 2 treble stitches**, repeat* to ** to end, slipstitch into 1 chain.

Round 7:  I chain, 1 double crochet into same stitch, 1 double crochet into next stitch all the way round, slipstitch into 1 chain.

Round 8:  3 chain° (equals 1 treble) , 3 trebles into same stitch (to form most of a fan), miss two stitches, *1 double crochet in next stitch, miss two stitches, 5 treble into next stitch (to form a whole fan), miss 2 stitches**, repeat from * to **. On last whole fan end with 1 double crochet in last free stitch, 3 chain, slipstitch into top of 3 chain°. 

Fasten off with a thread long enough to carefully weave or sew back into stitches to finish off.


Tuesday, 19 January 2021

New Handmade Cards and Crochet Keyrings for 2021


I'm delighted to offer a new selection of individual handmade gits and cards in my Etsy shop. Including a new card design ideal for St. Valentine's Day, a finger labyrinth and Good Luck cards.

I try to make sure I am including local or UK sourced materials, reduce the amount of plastic and use recyclable packaging where possible throughout my range.

  Crochet keyrings using British Wool, featuring flower or wheel motifs.




Handmade cards, each one is individual, using a block printed Hamsa motif in watercolour.





'Grow Love' card featuring a flower motif  hand stitched onto watercolour paper. 


Hand stitched onto watercolour paper that is traditionally made in Somerset and mounted in a lightweight card frame this finger labyrinth is ideal for a moment of quiet reflection.


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The wool is ColourLab DK from West Yorkshire Spinners. 
West Yorkshire Spinners – Reared, sheared and spun in Britain (wyspinners.com