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Sweet Cecilia stitch for the Mama Sweet Cecilia Cardigan.…
Sweet Cecilia Bonnet The Inspiration I am always on the look out for beautiful crochet edgings. I found a few on Pinterest and was practicing one of them. All of a sudden I was in the middle of making a dress. I had chosen this beautiful pale pink cotton yarn and it was almost the exact same colour as some David Austen Roses that I have in my…
Inspired By My Cottage Garden If you are like me and like to keep it simple, this is the perfect crochet flower for you. It will look amazing on any of your crochet creations from blankets to bonnets, crochet bags to hats! It is the flower pattern that I use in my beautiful “Flower Fairy Collection”. I am so inspired by the gardens here in the Cotswolds and…
I would like to welcome the incredible Christina from One Loop Crochet here to talk about the dreaded “gauge”. She has been such an incredible help to me in my designing and is so good at explaining things clearly so I had to ask her to write a post about gauge. You can follow her on Instagram here and here website is Oneloop.ca Why should you care about…
This beautiful little crochet flower is the feature in my Flower Garden Collection. Any type of yarn can be used. I have used cotton aran yarn but you can use whatever you have lying around at home.…
Crochet Photography, How To Take Amazing Pictures Of Your Kids
April 20, 2020Let me first be very clear. I am not a photographer. I can barely tell you the difference between exposure and aperture. I am still learning every day how to take better pictures. I only know a few of the settings on my Canon DSLR. This post if for anyone who is an amateur photographer like me and just wants to up your picture taking game. These are…
Hey friends. The Countryside Collection is here. After I designed the cardigan I could not stop thinking about how incredible the stitch pattern would look on a pinafore, romper, baby blanket and bonnet, so I went for it. Let me tell you, it has been a ton of work, but also so rewarding. The Inspiration When I moved to the Cotswolds from Canada, I was absolutely enchanted by…