This is my new basic rose that I designed especially for my classes this weekend. I’ll be teaching how to make these at the show (Saturday 3.30pm, Sunday 2.30pm) if you’d like to learn how to make them too. Here’s a vase of worsted weight roses for my table display: And a rose hairclip I […]
Wow. What a response! Thank you all for your comments – it means so much to me that you like my most personal work to date 🙂 Okay, so now you’ve seen the finished product, but I think I need to share a little of the insane amount of effort that went into making my […]
You probably all know the story by now: I’ve had a pet project for the past year – to crochet a life-size realistic baby orang utan as a freeform art project (no pattern!). It’s been a long time coming, but I have finally finished him! I have a lot of detail I could share, but […]
I just realised there’s only a week and a half to go until Easter! If you’re still looking for some ideas for things to make for Easter, how about crocheting some PlanetJune designs? I thought I’d save you some time and look through my own catalogue to see what Easter-y patterns I have: New for […]
I thought I’d try writing a different kind of post today: an insight into my design process, and what happens when things don’t work out as planned. Remember this picture? This is the orang utan I started crocheting at last spring’s Creativ Festival. My goal was to make a life-sized, realistic baby orang. After the […]
Thank you all for the book congratulations! I’m sorry I didn’t have any real photos of it to share – the book is still in layout, so there’s nothing finished to show you yet. But soon, I promise! Now, back to the crochet patterns. To make up (I hope) for my absence, I have two […]
Did you know that 2009 is the International Year of Natural Fibres? Natural fibres include plants (cotton, flax, hemp, bamboo, etc) and animals (sheep, goat, alpaca, camel, angora rabbit, etc). This is perfect timing for me – I’ve been thinking for months of making a series of animals out of yarn made from their own […]
If you follow me on Twitter, you’ll already know that I just discovered I live a one-hour drive away from the yarn-lovers paradise (aka the Bernat/Patons yarn factory outlet), and, as if that wasn’t exciting enough, there’s a big sale there this week – eek! I headed out there this morning, through what should have […]
