Ditzy and Dotty

I've decided to start a new blog dedicated to all things yarn, visit it here , http://www.DitzyandDotty.WordPress.com Or come and see photos of my own designs visit me here , http://www.Sal...

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When your children ask that you make them something do you feel really proud that they want something made by you and jump to it straight away, forgetting everything else that needs doing? I don'...

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Wow, that was a long break in posts! But I'm back now and hope to update this blog a little more often. I have a new blog up and running, click here  to visit. The aim of this new blog is to s...

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After the success of our September yarn bomb , when the weather was nice and sunny, we decided in our wisdom that it would be a good idea to create a yarn bomb at the start of the term after Chri...

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Scarves are one of the simplest things to make from crochet.  I’ve only used treble crochet and chains to make this one.  Like my granny square tutorial I am using a cotton yarn and a larger...

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Christmas is coming – no matter how you try to deny the fact, and who should we see on the front cover of Simply Homemade this month – my little Rudolf. Sometimes it seems a bit odd to me ...

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I thought today I’d add a post showing you how to make a granny square. The yarn I’ve used for this is a 100% cotton yarn which photographs nicely, and a 4mm hook (which is slightly larger th...

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After the success of our school yarn bomb, and the interest we’d had from the other school mums, Sam, Andrea and I decided that we should arrange a crochet group.  A quick call on Facebook, an...

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After being totally immersed in the crochet yarn bombing project over the last couple of months, for a change I decided to do … more crochet!  This time some gifts. Firstly these wrist warme...

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With our first yarn bomb being dismantled shortly, I thought I’d share some tips and things we learned. Firstly you will need: A LOCATION – if it has a view like this then all the better...

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 Well today I can finally show you the project that has taken up so much of my summer and has resulted in the severe drought in my blog writing! A yarn bomb project for our local primary sch...

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I’ve been a bit quiet for a couple of months, but I have been madly crafting, and over the next few weeks I’ll be sharing some of the things I’ve made with you.  Firstly however I have t...

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When the lovely people at Terrys Fabrics emailed me to see if I would be interested in their craft bloggers cushion challenge competition, I popped over to their site to see what fabrics they ha...

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I’ve just looked back through my blog and realised that I never got round to posting the second part of my “just because” post – oops!  The first part of this post can be found here  if...

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For a while I made jewellery which I sold at craft fairs, but since I’ve discovered my love of fabric and yarn is all-encompassing, I’ve decided that the jewellery has to go!  Over the next ...

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Introducing my new cross stitch design, well actually it’s based on a picture designed by my son, but as long as I pay his royalties in chocolate biscuits, he’s kindly given me permission to ...

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One of my crafting friends had her birthday last week and I wanted to make her a small gift.  I was at a bit of a loss what to make until she mentioned that she had cross-stitched the keep calm ...

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Several months ago I decided that what my nephews couldn’t live without was a giant snakes and ladders game, big enough for them to use themselves as counters.  Annoyingly this is the on...

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I have been crafting over the last few weeks, and a few times I’ve tried to write a blog post about it, but words seem to be playing tricks on me and hiding somewhere deep inside my brain and r...

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Do you ever have the urge to make something that serves no purpose and has no reasoning behind it other than ‘just because’? My banana basque was one of these mad ideas as was a teeny ti...

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I was spending a lovely few minutes browsing on Etsy and what should jump out of the page shouting “Pick me….pick me!” but this crochet pattern for a Minion .  The pattern is for two diff...

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So far I haven’t shared any of my makes from February’s Crafty Creatives Box, so without further ado, here are a couple of the makes.  The first is a design that features on their blog, and ...

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At the beginning of the year I saw a blog post on Whipstitch asking if anyone would like email sewing buddies.  I signed up, and using a very scientific calculation (favourite colour - Red & nu...

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Slightly later than I’d intended to show this, but here are my ballet themed items in this month’s issue of Simply Homemade A ballet bag, some crochet legwarmers, a bun cover and a tutu...

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As promised, here is the template for making the felt owl: Print it out on an A4 sheet and cut out the template pieces.  It’s fairly easy to put together, but I’ve added a few instruct...

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