Etsy CreateCrochet Team - how talented are these guys!!

Here are some great items from the Create Crochet Team from Etsy

How cute are these? Perfect for your little one this summer.

Baby Daisy Gladiator Sandal Adjustable Strap

By crochele

Your laptop is naked without one

Turquoise and Espresso Crochet Laptop Sleeve

By longestyarn

I love the colours in this scarf, so cheerful and summery
La Vie en Rose Flower Scarf

By lilycobweb

My favourite colours, gone are the days of buring your hand on your coffee.

blissthings coffee cozy with lavender pom poms

By blissthings

Perfect for summer days, would look fantastic casual with jeans or dressed up for an evening out.
Blue Crochet Cotton Shrug

By justbehappy

The colours in this hat are irresistible

Shades of green leaf embossed cotton beanie

By BenjaminKrudwig

You know I am a sucker for anything purple! But this neckwarmer is quite special - those buttons are magic!

Purple/Grey Neckwarmer

By justbehappy

Oh My God, these are the definition of CUTE
Ella the Giraffe

By irenestrange

So elfish! I know that we are coming into summer, but here in the UK you never know when you are going to need warm things!

Enchantment Hoodie Scarf

By ballofyarn

These remind me of Uggs.  How sweet!!

3 to 6 Months - Cute Baby Boots Booties

By CrochetTLC

Walnut Baby Bear - Jumper

So I decided that my bear needs a jumper .... and I want to put a WB logo on the front - after all it is the Walnut Baby Bear.

So here is the pattern I am intending to follow.  Now I just need to crochet it !!

What to do with this ....

This was one of those "see how it evolves" pieces.  I had an original idea, but this came out much bigger and chunkier than I had planned - having said that I still like how it looks.

It is made with crochet rings & cotton yarn.  I think it sort of looks like a stylised sun.

So now I have a dilemma, what do I do with it?  I am waiting for inspiration to hit but so far nothing has come. 

The walnut baby bear

The Walnut Baby Bear is my latest project.  I want to create a good toy for newborns and have started to crochet a bear/doll.  Its not going to be a classic teddybear.

Up to now I have a head, body & 2 legs ... arm #1 is in progress.  It is all crochet using 4Ply 100% cotton yarn & will be stuffed with standard fibrefil toy stuffing.

The finishing touches will be some ears and a nose.  I plan (right now) to sew on eyes and a smile, but as with all my inventions it will probably evolve when I get to that point.  I am thinking of adding a jumper with a WB Logo.

Spinning my own yarn - I've taken the plunge

I am quite excited about this.  The temptation of the explorer pack from fibrecrafts.com was too much.  I've ordered one of these packs.

I am not sure how long it will take to arrive, but I'm like a kid waiting for Christmas right  now waiting for it to arrive.  I have to try and tame my excitement & realise that spinning is likely to be quite difficult to get the hang of.

I'm in two minds about finding fibrecrafts.com, its got such great stuff ... I could end up spending a fortune !!!

Spinning yarn

I've been toying with the idea of spinning my own yarn.  Now I have absolutely no idea how to start with this so I engaged with my friend "The Internet".

I have found a site that sells "tops" which I have now discovered is the name for the wool that I can use to spin into yarn.  World of Wool seems to be a good source for the raw materials, but I still need to find a spindle & give it a try.

The Fibrecrafts website seems to have a pretty reasonable selection of spindles

as well as selling tops.   Go to their website for more details of the items below.  I am seriously tempted by their Explorer pack.

I think the excuses to not try out spinning my own yarn are drying up.

I also found a pretty good resource for information on spinning, Joy of spinning.  Its given me some inspiration.  

Well ... I think I really should try to use up some of the extensive stash of yarn that I have already hoarded.. or maybe not :)

Crochet summer bag, with flowers

This was one of my evolving projects, I was on a "making flowers" kick and then needed to make them into something.  So I thought of a nice summer handbag/purse.

I love the yarn I used, its Sirdar's Luxury soft 4Ply cotton yarn.  It does have the tendancy to split but its lovely to work with and the finished product is so soft and touchable.

I didn't want to make a plain or just striped bag, so I used the spike stitch to create a nice effect.

I also didn't want to just sew some flowers onto the bag as "decoration" so I made the flap from them

Just for fun I also threw in a small butterfly in the flowers :)

I have not decided if this is for sale or not yet ....