Tag: make your own
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A Festival Blanket for Glastonbury
I’ve taken a short break from my knitting needles and crochet hook to enable me to blow the dust off my sewing machine and engineer myself a Festival Blanket! I say engineer because I kept thinking of things to add to it. The result will no doubt make me look completely ridiculous (hubby thinks I […]
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Chubby Dub Crochet Pattern for a Diddy Campervan
This little Chubby Dub Campervan may only be diddy but he’s got character! He measures approximately 10cm (4 inches) long and 6cm (just over 2 inches) tall. To make him you’ll need: Materials: 4mm crochet hook oddments of Double Knitting yarn (I used three colours: Red, White and Grey). a small amount of stuffing two […]
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Who’s hoping for minions of Easter eggs? (Day 4)
This is the final post on making a crocheted Minion to hide your secret Easter Egg chocolate stash in! Today we’re making his arms and finishing off. If you’d like to catch up, Day 1 tells you everything you need to know about materials and abbreviations. The posts are here: Day 1 – Lower body Day […]
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Who’s hoping for Minions of Easter Eggs?! (Day 1)
Me? Personally I don’t find chocolate remotely despicable but neither do my teenagers so I have to resort to hiding what I consider to be “mine”. This Minion is helping me out. I’ve told the teens that he’s a crochet hook holder but actually he’s hiding my chocolate egg in there – shush, don’t tell them! […]
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Hug-a-Bug, the crocheted Beetle
Who can resist the classic VW Beetle? My Husband had an orange Beetle as his first car. My eldest son, now 17, wants a Beetle as his first car too! With it’s friendly shape, the VW Beetle was the inspiration for my latest crochet pattern, the Hug-a-Bug. As with most classic cars, he has been […]
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Crochet your own Campervan
Up until now most of my Campervan projects have been knitted so I thought it was time to give crochet a go. I’ve had the idea of making a 3D model of a Campervan in the back of my mind for a while and crochet seemed like a great way to make something pretty structured. […]