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Black Friday Sales ::

Posted by vicki brown on

So I know it's only Thursday, but I thought I would let you all in on my sales secrets a little early!

You may or may not know, that before I became a crochet designer I spent the majority of my time making items from polymer clay.  I have a little etsy shop called Lilleyand it is solely due to this enterprise that I was able to remain away from work after my maternity leave ended. Though this side...

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Design Wars 5 :: the final reveal ::

Posted by vicki brown on

Woohoo...the final reveal of all of the designs created by the Design Wars 5 challengers has been posted!

  Final Reveal AD

 You can see all the wonderful creations and vote for your favourites over on the Design Wars blog, of course if you fancy voting for my design I won't dissuade  you from doing so ;) So here is my final design ::

  Rainbow Slipper Socks Crochet Pattern

I'll post more about the slippers themselves tomorrow, but if you can't wait...

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Stranded Knits by Ann Kingstone ::

Posted by vicki brown on

I've been a big fan of Ann Kingstone's work for a while now, especially her stranded knitwear (wetwang being a particular favourite that I really really will knit for myself one day) if you haven't come across her designs before I strongly recommend you go investigate.

Gorgeous new book by Ann Kingstone arrived on my doorstep this week.

So I was thrilled to get my hands on a copy of her new book, 'Stranded Knits'. It's such a beautifully put together book. If...

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Robot Hoodie ::

Posted by vicki brown on

I managed to persuade Milo to do a little bit of modelling for me at the weekend and Sunday was the perfect day for it too, just the right weather for him to be parading around in the Robot Hoodie I originally designed for Inside Crochet.

  RobotHoodie-6

You may have noticed that I do love a bit of colourwork...especially on the yoke. I would say the majority of my designs probably have a colourwork yoke like...

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Design Wars :: Yarn ::

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design wars yarn

 You may remember me talking about being accepted to compete in Design Wars 5 a couple of weeks ago.

  design wars yarn-2

 Well...on Friday my yarn delivery arrived!

  design wars yarn-3

 I'm so excited, the yarn is beautiful and the colours are wonderful.  I cannot wait to get stuck in.

  design wars yarn-4

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