Craft Blog

There isn’t much to say about the Sarah London blog, other than if you’re a fan of beautiful color combination and amazing crochet pictures then you’re in for a treat. The blog makes me want to move into a gigantic loft apartment with loads of windows (self cleaning, of course!), white open spaces with bright [...]

Part three of Bunny Week – like Shark Week, but with lower production values and less teeth! I’m now totally inspired to have a Craft Blog Shark Week, I wonder if I could find enough shark themed crafts to do it…hmmm. Today we’re focusing on the crocheted rabbits, perfect for slipping into Easter baskets or [...]

Time for part two of our easter rabbit patterns, this time for the knitters! Knitted Bunny by Jackie – Awesome pattern for beginner knitters, it’s a square of stockinette stitch sewn in just the right way to create the bunny shape. Knitted Bunny Booties from Woman’s Weekly – Good old WW brings out another great [...]

I make a lot of little bits and pieces that don’t tend to make it on to the blog, I’m not entirely sure why, particularly as some of my quickest and simplest tutorials (The Notebook Cover Tutorial and The Pincushion Tutorial) end up being the most popular, but this year I intend to bring an [...]

Amigurumi is a Japanese inspired form of crochet, worked in spirals it allows you to create projects in no time flat without worrying about joining rounds and because most of the projects are small it’s a great way to stashbust half skeins left over from other projects. Learning to Crochet With the magic of the [...]

Less than a day before the “Casting Off Ceremony” vandals have destroyed the installation piece of knitting covering the side of an entire bridge in Melbourne’s west. From the ABC News: The festival’s director, Karen Hadfield, says the giant knitting was hacked down and is now hanging from the bridge. “We’ve had a few knitters [...]

Cate Blanchett caused a stir last night when she turned up to the opening of Screen Worlds at ACMI wearing a traditional granny square blanket fashioned into a dress. News.com.au had this to say: OSCAR-winning actor Cate Blanchett has been nick-named Cate Blanket after stepping out in a colourful crochet patchwork dress to open Screen [...]

Craftzine flashes back to one of their previous issues and reprints this pattern for a pair of knitted Converse All Stars! Designed by Katie Tesarowski in response to a challenge that she’d knitted everything in her wardrobe… apart from a pair of shoes. All you need is a couple of skeins of yarn and an [...]

Magda Sayeg, founder of Knitta Please, is heading to Sydney with a promise that “There is no way I will leave Sydney without making my presence known.” and she “doesn’t care” if she gets arrested. Edit: [previous text = Of course, the fact that Kings Cross council have organised and given Magda a grant to [...]

My sister is having her first child sometime in August (depending on his schedule and her diabetes!) so I have been hard at work putting together a package to send to her after the bub is born. A collection of all the bits and pieces that I’ve found essential in my experience as a mum. Looking [...]