A Life in the Making

New crochet collection

April 18, 2016

When I go silent around here, you can bet that either it is school holidays and the crazy crew are home or I am deep in the end game of a new collection. The last 2 weeks, both coincided and today I waved goodbye to my 3 adorable but hard work children and we launched pre-orders for our new coll...

A List for A Wednesday

September 30, 2015

Yarndale was awesome!! Honestly, I can't believe the enthusiasm and support for The Crochet Project. Thank you to everyone who came to say hello! Blackberry Crumble is now available for download here. I love this jumper - super flattering and a pretty easy make.There are just 5 days left to p...

New Pattern: Hello, Sunshine!

September 21, 2015

My design process goes something like: think up a new design fall in love with it, dream about it, get super excited to start plan it out, do the maths, write the pattern start making it realise I have made some epic error some where and the have to rip back message Joanne telling her that I am q...

New Release: Twist It Cabled Cardigan

September 07, 2015

Despite their importance to my work, republishing old patterns from magazines does tend to be last on my todo list. Have a huge backlog to republish and despite my best efforts, I just never manage to get to them.However, when I knew one of my favourite models was back from uni for the summer, I...

Making It Work As A Designer: My Essential Tools

August 24, 2015

I am a picky sort of person. Every morning, I have to have my exact brand of tea, in a certain mug, made in a certain order with exactly so much milk and honey or my whole day is off. Its no surprise then that I only use one particular brand of crochet hook, one specific kind of pen and there is...

Stitches I Love: Cable and Shell (or Puff) Wave

August 21, 2015

Today I wanted to feature another stitch that I love. I found this stitch in a Japanese crochet stitch dictionary and played around with where I could use it for some time. I originally planned it as a big puffy wrap, and it still may become that one day, but the more I worked with it the more I...

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