2018

Yes, this is the obligatory New Year post where I talk about how this year is going to be different and blah blah blah. I can’t say for sure that this year is going to be different but I’m really going to try to make it that way. Where 2016 was a year of big […]

Tutorial: How To Crochet a Chain

A chain is probably the most important thing to learn to crochet. Because once you know how to chain, you know the basic principle of any crochet stitch. And the best thing? It’s super easy! I once tried to teach my boyfriend to crochet. He learned how to chain and that was about it but […]

Update: Weight loss, getting organised and current projects

So, it turns out that starting a blog around the same time as starting a job wasn’t the best idea and I’m sorry about that. I’m mostly sorry to myself as I had so many plans for what this blog would be like and none of them have come to fruition. I know that this […]

Crochet Girl Gang CAL

Current Project: Crochet Girl Gang CAL

Remember how I said that my goal was to finish a blanket I was working on by the end of January? Yeah, that didn’t happen. Never mind, I haven’t been crocheting much at all actually. But since I’ve started trying to lose some weight I’ve been getting back into it (helps to stop me from […]

The end of one year the start of another

The past year has been a tough one for me even though so many good things have happened. In my last post I wrote about how I was suffering with depression and that I probably wouldn’t be posting much because of that and the fact that I haven’t posted since then proved that to be […]

Life Update

I haven’t been posting on this blog nearly as often as I intended to when I started it and so I felt that I should probably explain what’s been going on. Over the last few months I’ve been really struggling to focus on one thing for a prolonged period of time and so the amount […]

Tutorial: Slip knot

As someone who has crocheted their whole life I take for granted some of the basic things that you need to be able to do in order to crochet and one of these is the slip knot. Even without having knit or crocheted before you may already know how to tie a slip knot but […]

My Return to Cross-Stitching

I can still remember being in Year 2 at school and being taught how to cross-stitch by stitching our initials. For whatever reason I couldn’t get my head around it and so my work looked a mess compared to that of my classmates. I got a bit upset about it and so my mum, being […]

Current Project: Patchwork Cushion Cover

I love the beautiful simplicity of a basic granny square. It was the first thing I learned to make. But I’m always after more of a challenge – pattern that’s different in every round. Which is why I saw this pattern called Esme’s Winter Cottage, I was chomping at the bit to give it a […]