I love designing shawls, wraps and scarves and now I've added a cowl to my collection: the Bobblicity Cowl. Normally I design small peacock-inspired motifs, but once a year or so I like to make somethinga little bigger with a lovely stitch pattern. For this cowl I chose to make a lot of bobbles using Scheepjes Our Tribe yarn. This yarn is so soft and warm, so the large bobbles will feel great against...

I'm very happy I can show you the latest design in my crochet shawl series. Well, strictly speaking this isn't a shawl, but hey it'll also keep your neck warm and cosy :) It's so soft with the large textured bobbles so I've called it the Bobblicity Cowl.In a previous post I already told you the story behind the yarn (read it here) and also that it's a wonderful in-between holiday project that you...

Yesterday I promised you a sneak peek of my new crochet design using Scheepjes Our Tribe using the colourway that carries my business name The Curio Crafts Room. So here it is! All soft and colourful and warm and cosy and bobbly and......a really quick project :) Aren't the colours fab? The very rich blue matches 'my' variegated yarn perfectly.Can you tell what it is? Well, in this photo it isn't...

 Exciting!! I've designed something warm and cosy with my own The Curio Crafts Room yarn! But first, let me tell you how I came to have a yarn named after my crochet business :) As you may know, I'm a Scheepjes blogger and at the end of 2017 Scheepjes had a huge surprise in store for all us bloggers: we could select our own colour palette for a new yarn they had developed. We got to select...

I'm very happy that my collection of shawl designs is growing steadily. I've just finished number 5 (!) and I plan to design more and publish them as free patterns here on my blog. Below I have the pattern for the Zea Mays Shawl for you. It's a symmetrical triangle shawl measuring approximately 170cm across the top with a 108cm depth of point and is made with 1 Whirl (555 Forbidden Fuchsia) and...

Are you looking for a relaxing summer crochet make that you can wear when the sun goes down? Then my latest shawl design might appeal to you :) It's a symmetrical triangle worked bottom up and I've named it the Zea Mays Shawl as it has popcorns galore. I love a little bit of texture so each pattern repeat has a popcorn in the centre as you can see in the photo below.As I mentioned in my previous...