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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles – Raphael Comforter This adorable comfort blanket features a cuddly Raphael head sitting atop a soft, snuggly blanket. Made using toy safety eyes to ensure there is no choke risk.

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Baymax Comfort Blanket This adorable comfort blanket features a tiny cuddly Baymax sitting atop a soft, snuggly blanket. Made using toy safety eyes to ensure there is no choke risk.

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Winny the Wine Glass Cuddly A small, wine glass shaped cuddly, perfect for every wine lover in your life! Can be made with red, pink or green wool depending on your tipple of choice!

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Have You Tried Turning It Off & On Again? – PDF Pattern PDF print of my Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again? pattern. Available for instant download after purchase.

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Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again?

Have You Tried Turning It Off and On Again?

  Finished item comes in a hoop, but can be framed if you would prefer.

Please get in touch and let me know what colour backing, fabric and thread you would like, all of these are interchangeable and I’m happy to work with you to get the look you would like!

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New Baby Items Set - Pink and White

A perfect set for a new bundle of joy! The set includes a hat, booties, cardigan and scratch mitts.

New Baby Set – Pink and White

  A perfect set for a new bundle of joy! This new baby set includes a pink and white striped hat, pink booties, and a pink and white cardigan with attached pink scratch mitts.

Perfect for sizes 0-6 months.

These items are made to order, so please allow 7-10 days after ordering for your order to be shipped.

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Knitted Ghostie Keyrings - Ghostie Bel

Knitted Ghostie Keyrings – Ghostie Bel

Ghosts Aren’t Just For Halloween! Meet Knitted Ghostie Bel Featuring a cute, crocheted pink hair bow and neck bow, Ghostie Bel is a hand-sized keyring perfect for attaching to back packs and other bags! Also available is her partner in crime – Ghost Dave!

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Knitted Ghostie Keyrings - Ghostie Dave

Knitted Ghostie Keyrings – Ghostie Dave

Ghosts Aren’t Just For Halloween! Meet Knitted Ghostie Dave! Featuring a cute, crocheted grey bow tie, Ghostie Dave is a hand-sized keyring perfect for attaching to back packs and other bags! Also available is his partner in crime – Ghost Bel!

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Baby Converse-Style Booties and Hat with Earflaps

Baby Converse-Style Booties and Hat with Earflaps

Cuddly Crocheted Baby Converse-Style Booties and Matching Hat With Earflaps Available in any colours, for boys or girls, this set is the perfect way to keep babies heads and toes warm! When purchasing please put in the checkout notes box what colours you would like! £5.99 is the price for individual sets.

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Baby Bunny Booties and Hat Keep your little one cosy with this adorable hat and booties set. Available in a whole range of colours! Please specify in the checkout notes box what colour hat and booties you would like!

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Hufflepuff Inspired Crocheted Book Mark

Save your page and show your house colours with this Hufflepuff Inspired Crocheted Book Mark! Featuring the iconic colours of the most cunning Hogwarts house, this crocheted book mark is the perfect gift for the Potterhead in your life! Available with or without tassels, and featuring a hand stitched black H for Hufflepuff, or any other initial. Please let me know your customization options in…

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Ravenclaw Inspired Crocheted Book Mark

Ravenclaw Inspired Crocheted Book Mark

Save your page and show your house colours with this Ravenclaw Inspired Crocheted Book Mark! Featuring the iconic colours of the wisest Hogwarts house, this crocheted book mark is the perfect gift for the Potterhead in your life! This particular book mark features the Ravenclaw colours stated in the book – blue and bronze. If you would prefer the film colours – blue and silver – please get in…

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Slytherin Inspired Crochet Book Mark

Slytherin Inspired Crochet Book Mark

Save your page and show your house colours with this Slytherin Inspired Crocheted Book Mark! Featuring the iconic colours of the most cunning Hogwarts house, this crocheted book mark is the perfect gift for the Potterhead in your life! Available with or without tassels, and featuring a hand stitched silver S for Slytherin, or any other initial. Please let me know your customization options in the…

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Gryffindor Crocheted Book Scarf

Gryffindor Crocheted Book Scarf

So, a couple of weeks ago I shared with you my knitted Hufflepuff book scarf, which I made for my friends birthday. I was so happy with how it turned out I decided I was going to knit scarves for each house and sell them, so this week I set to work on knitting a Gryffindor book scarf. It didn’t go well. I’m not really sure why. I think a lot of the problem was that I decided to use a completely…

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Gryffindor Inspired Crocheted Book Mark

Gryffindor Inspired Crocheted Book Mark

Mark your page with this crocheted Gryffindor inspired bookmark. Available with tassles, or without tassels. You can also choose to only have one set of tassels, either at the top or bottom. Available personalised, with either a G for Gryffindor, or a name initial. Please get in touch to let me know your customisation options. Pictured is a bookmark with tassels at the top and a G for Gryffindor.

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For my birthday my mum bought me these two “Crochet your own…” sets. I had never done crochet before, but really wanted to, and this pushed me into learning.

The sets both came with a crochet hook in the size I needed, the wools that were needed, and a needle for threading in the ends. I struggled with the hooks that came with the sets because they were quite small, and sort of seemed to get lost in my hand, so I purchased a set of hooks that had larger, silicone handles from Amazon, and found them much easier to work with.

The wools and threading needle included in the kit, and the 3.5mm hook I used.

The crochet hooks that I purchased on Amazon!

                      Admittedly I restarted the slippers about 4 or 5 times, and it took me nearly a whole day to just make the first one. I kept losing count of where I was, and forgetting whether I needed to be using a single or a double crochet.  Once I got the hang of it though, I was quite happy with how the first slipper came together.

I found making the second slipper was a massive problem though. I thought I’d manage to make the second one quicker, having already made the first one. Boy, was I wrong. It took me almost twice as long to make the second slipper, because no matter what I did I just couldn’t get it to look the same. When I eventually got the actual body as close to matching the first one as I could, I moved on to trying to make the face, and had to give up because it just wouldn’t match. So, I figured the best solution was to give them little button eyes!

To be honest, I feel like the jury is still out on the eyes, they look a little creepy to me!

  Once the slippers were out of the way it was time to move on to the hat!

The fact that I had to start the hat with a magic loop, instead of a chain like I did with the slippers, was a little off putting at first. I spent a little bit of time on YouTube watching various videos on how to do it before giving it a try, and once I got the hang of the best way to hold the yarn, it actually wasn’t as difficult as I thought! The instructions for the hat were also much easier than the slippers (there was no pesky decrease!) and I got to practice my 11 times tables! Oddly though I actually found the pom pom quite difficult! I wrapped the yarn around the card and started cutting, and then it all started falling out of the middle!! Back to YouTube I went for help on how to make pom poms, and in the end I managed to get it right!

I am really happy with how all three items came out, especially since they were my first crochet projects, and I’m a bit excited about learning to crochet more and more bits!

The only problem is, now I’ve learned knitting and crochet, how will I find time for cross stitch as well?!

My first real crochet projects were a baby hat and slippers. Find out all about how they came together here! For my birthday my mum bought me these two "Crochet your own..." sets. I had never done crochet before, but really wanted to, and this pushed me into learning.

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Hufflepuff Knitted Book Scarf

Hufflepuff Knitted Book Scarf

Hufflepuff Knitted Book Scarf It’s my friend Amy’s 21st birthday in a few weeks, so I decided that was the perfect occasion to make a Hufflepuff knitted book scarf. I simply cast on 10 stitches, knitted 5 rows of yellow, 2 rows of black, 2 rows of yellow, 2 rows of black, 5 rows of yellow, etc, until it was at a length that I was happy with. For the tassles, because I don’t know how to crochet,…