There are a ton of patterns out there for crocheted bags and not all of them leave me very inspired as combinations of squares and sewing up are rife. Occasionally a goodun' does come along and when it's a good as this simple little bag you feel the need to share.
The free pattern for the Munro Bag from Roman Sock is about as simple as crochet a bag gets. The simple zig-zag pattern and cool colour combination make it a quick and easy project to keep to yourself of hook together for a friend in dire need of a bag makeover.
You can see some of her far-too-cute amigurumi creations over at Curiousity Cute too.
There is no arguing with the fact that amigurumi is just cool. Make a creature that is small, woolly and has a beseeching pair of peepers and people are falling over themselves to get in on making some of the cute for themselves. An amigurumi dragon, you say? Go on then.
This Fierce but Friendly Really Dragon is a cute and scaly free pattern from Crafters crafter Angry Angel. He's cute, he's crocheted and you can use him to scare the bejesus out of entire tiny villages once he's sewn together.
Amigurumi meets fire-breathing cuteness. Win.
At last the weather is starting to turn a bit miserable and us fans of the woolly can begin planning a parade of cosy WIPs to keep us company as the we amble towards autumn. Starting you off from the top down I present a natty little slouch beret from one of craft's queens.
Vickie Howell's Urban Jungle slouch beret is a free crochet pattern offered on Caron Yarns and is a simple project to kick off your craft for the coming cold. Its put together in a handy PDF too so its pretty much all ready for you to print out and get hooking.
Caron also offers a bundle of other free patterns for you to get your needles into both knitwise and crochet.
You can see many more projects and patterns from the lovely Ms Howell on her website here.
Fingers really should be more interesting. There they are attached to your hands looking pink and rather dull. What's to be done? Perhaps attaching horribly cute animals to them might help.
A handful of crochet 'Wild Thing' Finger Puppets from Meet Me at Mike's and your fingers can safely start a wild rumpus in their new crocheted garb. Hurrah!
The tutorial reckons it takes 15 minutes to whip up a wild thing for your fingers and there's tips on customising your finger fellows too.
Meet Me at Mike's is rather fabulous for a whole raft of craft tutorials so make sure you have a wander through the rest of the site once your fingers are better dressed. In particular there is some lovely embroidery for you to get your needles into.
For those of you who get bored with crochet patterns that seem to go without an end here's a nifty little one for you. A scarf made up of teeny tiny squares that you can churn out at your whim.
The Little Squares Scarf from Do You Mind If I Knit deals with that common complaint of startitis that many of us stitchers feel.
- If you fancy crocheting a little square or seven then go ahead.
- Then forget about it for a while and move on to something else.
- Once your antsiness has worn off you can return to your pile of squares and chain a few more.
It can take you a week. It can take you a year.
I like the idea of making a square or two in yarn leftover from other projects so your scarf becomes a record of all your other stitching triumphs. You can add to it as you move through your other stitching projects.
Just don't ask me to help you sew the tiny squares together.
Crochet is a bit of a mystery to me. As a knitter I've always planned to learn to crochet but never quite got there. As is life's way this means that countless tantalising crochet projects constantly pop up for me to lament my lack of skill over. So I pass them onto you crafty folk out there in the hopes that someone can use them.
The Ordinarily Extraordinary Blanket is a free crochet pattern from Dottie Angel. The craft master lives by the sea with barefoot happy kidlings and a bearded dragon so I'm already intrigued by anything she does.
The best part of her pattern is that she shows you exactly how to join the squares with clear pictures and simple text. I think even I might be able to give it a go. Maybe.
Ordinarily extraordinary and fit for hours of cosy crafting. Love it.
Like a mysterious Cold War spy Stitch and Bitch London has had a facelift, changed its name and is living a new life. It's first big event in a woolly whirlwind of stitching that invites you to get your stitching exhibited in London's world-famous Science Museum this summer.
To celebrate the change newly hatched Stitch London has teamed up with London's Science Museum in a global stitching event that anyone can contribute to.
The Stitch Yourself project calls for people to send mini-mes of themselves, Stitched Selves, which will be part of a stitched science installation as part of the Science Museum's Who Am I? gallery in June.
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