Baby Mary Janes “Red rose” and “Fiesta”

A while ago I posted about the Baby Mary Janes “Fiesta” collection and promised I would show you more pictures of this little cute booties, shiny and soft, full of wonderful colors. Here is the updated version of that post, I’m taking this opportunity to show you the Baby Mary Janes “Red rose” which are […]

Shiny hair barrettes (free pattern)

I frequently use hair barrettes to tie my hair up, they are very comfortable and a nice accessory for my daily outfit.     This is a part of my hair barrettes and clips collection, I have crocheted them using the shiny yarns Gatsby and Bolero from Katia, a 3 mm. crochet hook, and a […]

New wool and cool baby booties

During last few weeks I have been working in various projects for the winter season, among them in the new baby booties collection. They are crocheted with a 100% wool yarn (trico fieltro), high quality, soft and full of colour. This wool can be used for felting projects, but these ones are not meant to […]

Felt baby booties and slippers

As you may have noticed Trico-fieltro is one of my favourite wool yarns for winter projects, mostly for booties and slippers, but it can be used for bags, hats, gloves and any other warm and colourful project you can imagine. I have worked in different patterns for babies and adults. This post is only about […]

Learn how to crochet the basics

Crochet for me is relaxing and beautiful, but sometimes not easy to learn to. One of my aunts taught me when I was a little girl, she used to crochet classic crochet covers and table cloths working with a 1, 1.25, 1.40mm. hook (that’s tiny!). So I learned that a double crochet was a “little […]

Pink days

Spring is almost here and bright colors are coming with it. Pink is one of my favourite colours, specially this shiny yarn, very easy to crochet and to create different shapes, like this charming double flower headband and the flower necklace with silver beads and black swarovski glass. This set comes in a special gift […]

Black, grey and white ruffled scarf

Cold weather is already here, we have to be ready to wear our scarfs, gloves, hats… Some time ago I published a post with a video explain how to knit a pompom scarf, needless to say they are trendy, and also some new yarns have arrived with different shapes and colors, the one I’ll show […]

Learning to knit a scarf

By the end of March I found this video and thought it was very interesting but maybe too late for a scarf… I was wrong, never it’s late for a scarf depending on where you are located. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNU7_QakNQs[/youtube] Last few days I have been suffering sore throat and I have been using my recently finished […]