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    8 Crochet Hacks to Make Crocheting Easier

    March 15, 2018September 22, 2023 Blog
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    8 Crochet Hacks to Make Crocheting Easier Who doesn’t love a hack or 8? Here are some crochet hacks. If you’re a beginner, these will help you to improve yourΒ crocheting and even give you more time to do the hobby you love! If you are more experienced, you…

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    Shell Stitch Crocheted Mug Cosy Tutorial

    February 16, 2018September 22, 2023 Blog
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    Shell Stitch Crocheted Mug Cosy Tutorial Even though it’s still February and it’s cold, in a couple of weeks it will be March and that means spring! I’m not a gardener. My garden is a muddy patch with a trampoline in it. Last year I tried to grow…

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    Easy Crocheted Cardigan Tutorial: Solomon’s Knots

    May 5, 2017June 24, 2025 Blog, Other Crafts Archives
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    Easy Crocheted Cardigan Tutorial: Solomon’s Knots A couple of months ago I was sent some beautiful chunky yarn from Wool and the Gang. I had three balls of Heal the Wool, but I had no idea how much of something it would make up! So I decided to…

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    How to Crochet Bobble Edging

    February 26, 2016June 8, 2018 Blog
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    How to Crochet Bobble Edging is the 3rd in a little series of posts about different crocheted edgings. If you missed the others, you can find them here. Shell Edging Picot Edging Bobble edging is trickier than the others. It involves an unusual little manoeuvre where you have…

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    How to Crochet Shell Edging

    February 5, 2016March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    How to Crochet Shell Edging is the first in a series of 4Β tutorialsΒ I am writing about different crochet edgings. If you hang around to the end of the series, there will be a free pdf printable of these edgings plus 2 more! Edgings can be used to decorate…

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    A Crocheted Bowl Pattern

    January 26, 2016March 23, 2016 Living a Creative Life
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    A Crocheted Bowl Pattern is the 4th in a series of posts I’ve been writing about storage ideas that you can make quickly and easily! If you haven’t seen the previous posts in this series, you might like to check them out. A Drawstring Bag From a Pillowcase…

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This is one of my favourite trees. It's round the This is one of my favourite trees.

It's round the corner from my house. I think it's a sycamore, and although I know very little about trees, I believe sycamores belong to the Maple family, which means they are especially gorgeous in autumn.

Can you see how on the right the leaves are changing colour? It's like it's got one arm in its autumn coat. 

I'll be keeping an eye on this tree over the next few weeks because I know it will be beautiful πŸ’–πŸπŸ‘Œ

Don't have a favourite tree? I'm sure you do! But if you really don't, I encourage you to choose one next time you are out. Or a few of you can't pick one πŸ’–

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #autumncolours #septembernature #smallthingsmatter
The house martins who spend the summers in their n The house martins who spend the summers in their nests under the eaves of my house have gone, back to sub Saharan Africa where they will spend the winter.

Every year their arrival announces the imminent arrival of summer, and their departure marks the beginning of autumn. 

Hand stitching these little birds has been a way to slow down and acknowledge the seasons changing. It's not a big thing, it hasn't required lots of time or a special trip somewhere, and I already had the fabric and the thread. But it's enough to recognize that autumn is here, and that nature operates in cycles. The house martins have left but they'll be back in the spring.

It's also what I hope the Wild Blossom Companion offers: gentle invitations to notice and mark the changing of the seasons.

#creativelife #wildblossomlife #wildblossomcompanion #slowstitching #noticingthenaturalworld
Under the eaves of my house there are house martin Under the eaves of my house there are house martins' nests. Every year in April,  the house martins' arrive, and all through the summer I hear them chattering in their nests and see them swooping about. 

The sound of those little birds chattering is part of the summer soundscape, until one day I realise that it's quiet, and they've gone. It's usually in late August or early September, and it's a sign that autumn is on its way.

One year they didn't arrive until June and I was worried. But they still came back! 

The house martins remind me that cycles and seasons often involve both beginning again and letting go.

To mark their leaving this year, I've been embroidering a little abstract piece that feels like birds in flight. It's a way of holding onto them even as they leave, and reminding myself that they will be back in the spring. 

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#wildblossomcompanion #slowstitching #gentlecreativity
I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blo I chose the theme of soft for September's Wild Blossom Companion. The light is more golden now and less harsh, there are fluffy seed heads and soft grasses, fluffy clouds and pets to cuddle.

September is that soft edge between summer and autumn. The colours are becoming muted, with more faded greens, ochre and dusty rose. 

We might reach for a favourite jumper in the freshness of early morning, or a blanket as the evenings draw in.

We're invited to walk softly as leaves start to fall.

What does softness mean to you, and how do you weave it into the creative bits of your life?

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#wildblossomlife #quietmoments #softtextures #slowingdownforcreatives
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