Tag: Winter

  • Crocheted Eye of Rainbow Providences

    Crocheted Eye of Rainbow Providences

    A recent series of crochet rainbows and all-seeing eyes.

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  • Digging, sifting, pruning in Portugal

    Digging, sifting, pruning in Portugal

    Further helpxing in Pombal, Portugal. Digging pools and making friends.

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  • Frozen wonderland, aka last days in Somerset

    Frozen wonderland, aka last days in Somerset

    Winter is here and life in Somerset is icy. A few nights have dipped below zero (Celsius). While we have piled up all the knitted blankets, shawls, sleeping bags and doonas from storage and are cosy under them at nights, it is very much not cosy outside of them. We have had a few days

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  • Making crocheted earmuffs for winter, Part Three

    Making crocheted earmuffs for winter, Part Three

    Making crochet earmuffs for the winter chill Welcome to Part Three of my crochet earmuff tutorial! In Part One, I wrote about creating the crochet body, which the crochet petals are worked onto. In Part Two, I discussed how to go about making those petals. Part Three is about bringing it all together, to create

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  • Making earmuffs using crochet, Part Two

    Making earmuffs using crochet, Part Two

    Making crochet earmuffs how-to, Part Two To save my sanity (pattern writing gets very tedious) I have broken up this post into three parts. Part One (making earmuffs for the winter chill) which includes the ingredients, can be found by following this link. The stitch list Chain stitch (ch) Slip stitch (sl st) Single crochet (sc) Single

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  • Making earmuffs for the winter chill, Part One

    Making earmuffs for the winter chill, Part One

    Making earmuffs to keep the cold out of my head I don’t know how everyone else does it in the northern hemisphere in winter. I swear, the cold blows straight into the part of my brain that gets a brain-freeze, and shortly after, I develop a headache. So I made a pair off earmuffs this

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  • Blanket stitch shawl, simple reuse design tutorial

    I made a woollen shawl from a blanket, here is the DIY tutorial for how to make your own.

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