In the previous tutorial, you learned about starting, chaining, slip stitches and single crochet (double crochet in UK). Today we will continue our journey into the fabulous world of crochet. It is time to learn the other three basic stitches: half double crochet or hdc for short (half treble in UK), double crochet or dc …
Scroll down for the word of November! Oink, oink! What to do with “Pig”? I started thinking about Piglet, Minecraft pigs, crochet a pig of my own design, piggy bank, piggy back rides, and even thought about materials: if I wasn’t going to use yarn, what else could I use? I ended up with perler …
Since the weather is getting more like fall, I start to dread getting into the car in the morning. It’s not the cold car holding me back, because that is easily fixed by turning up the heat. It’s the cold steering wheel. For some reason, that never really gets warm while driving, even with the …
Crochet has had me hooked for over two years now, and I think it is time to share the love. Once, my mom taught me how to crochet, and now I’m passing it on to you: with this guide, you will learn the basics of crochet! This time I will be focussing on how to …
Scroll down for the word of October! Sometimes, things don’t happen how you imagine them. Like last weekend, when I was working on the Jar of Ideas of September. It was the last weekend of September, and I had a few things to do, but I had enough time planned to finish this painting. On …
The last few weeks I have been under the crochet-radar. It felt like all I ever did was crochet, while I have so many other hobbies! With the Jar of Ideas I tried to stay away from crochet because of this, but still I wanted to spend more time with my other hobbies. Since I …
Scroll down for the word of September! Ah, Barcelona. The third city I pull out of the Jar of Ideas. I kind of see a theme. One of my sisters probably wrote all the major cities (in Europe? Or the world?) on pieces of paper, to fill the jar a bit. Since I have never …
Sometimes when I watch a series, I find out that it is based on a book. That always triggers me, because I like to read. Most of the time, I search for the book online and try to find the first few pages for free. Just to see if it is worth reading, or if …
The moment I saw corner to corner (C2C) crochet, I was sold. As a nerd, I immediately started imagining 8-bit patterns that would be awesome with this technique. One design was so awesome, I had to make it. I ordered yarn and drew out the pattern, so I can easily cross the squares that I …
Scroll down for the word of August! While July in the Netherlands was extremely dry, I had to make something with the word “Plants”! Normally that would fit July like a charm, with it’s blooming nature and lots of green scenery. Unfortunately this is not a good year for plants: because of hot temperatures and …
I found some time to make a list of all my current projects and I want to share them with you! I can imagine that you also have a lot of projects on your hooks, and maybe this will inspire you to finish some of them. As a general rule I don’t want to be …
In case you haven’t heard of the Four Day Marches in Nijmegen, let me tell you what it is. Once a military training, people walk 30, 40 or 50 kilometers for four days in a row. This all happens in the beautiful surroundings of Nijmegen, a city in the Netherlands. Depending on gender and age, you …
Even though the Mystery Blanket of 2017 hasn’t been my favorite project and I don’t really like the outcome, it has been valuable for my journey as a crocheter. Because it exists of different yarns and patterns, I got to learn so many new stitches and feel so much unknown yarn! This is a list …
Scroll down for the word of July Imagine you love anything that’s in the fantasy-genre. Imagine then pulling the word “Elves” out your Jar of Ideas. The possibilities are endless! And that’s why this word was more difficult than others: I could do so much different things, but nothing was perfect. I thought about different materials: …
If you have been following my Instagram, you know I often make sheep rattles. They are fun to make, but the pattern is written in Dutch. That’s a bummer for you non-Dutch speaking crocheters! Today, that’s going to change: I will translate the pattern in UK and US terms. These are the materials you need: …
Take a look at the upper left corner. Notice the flags? From now on, this website is multilingual! You can easily switch between languages and all the blogs will be written in English and Dutch. Great news, right? It gets better. Not only are Dutchies able to switch to their native language, they can also …
My first crochet hooks were the hooks I got from my grandmother. I also got my mom’s hooks, which are similar to my grandmother’s. I have been using these for a year and a half, when I needed a specific hook-size for a project. In my grandmother’s and mother’s cases I couldn’t find a 9 …
