Continuing the rainbow love with this beautiful crochet coin purse tutorial created by SparklePetal. If you’ve never added a zip or lined a crochet project before this is the one to start with, the tutorial is super detailed with loads of photos – perfect for beginners, or crocheters like me who haven’t picked up a hook in months!

With spring on the way the RSPCA is starting to become overwhelmed with baby possums that have lost their mothers, these orphans still need a place to sleep and chill out, and so they’re calling for volunteers to knit or crochet “Possum Pouches” to keep them warm, stimulate them and offer some home comforts. The pattern (posted below) is easy enough for a beginner. One thing to remember is to use natural fibres rather than acrylic to make these up, [...]

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 pops of colour everywhere. For now I shall be content in my little villa, but in the meantime I will continue to read Sarah London’s [...]

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 hiding around your house, ready to pounce on an unsuspecting visitor like the rabbit of Caerbannog. Roly Poly Rabbits from Suncatcher Crafts – Remember Weebles? [...]

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 pattern, these are sized for 3 month and 6 month old babes. Honey Bunny by Yvonne – A more traditional rabbit in a sweet little [...]

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 end to my unsung crafts that are hiding away and make a weekly post talking about what I’ve been creating over the week. I went [...]

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 internet you will never again be stuck looking at line drawings trying to work out exactly where your fingers are meant to be. Bethintx1 on [...]

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 down and there’s been a few tears from them because they’ve really put their heart and souls into it,” she said. “We were going to [...]

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 Worlds at ACMI in Melbourne yesterday. The jury is still out on whether the style queen made an unusual red carpet fashion faux pas when [...]

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 old pair of chucks to work your way up from. The pattern is for a size 8 shoe (I’m assuming in American shoe sizes) I’m [...]