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Yes, I wrote a new pattern !!!! It's Christmas related and it gives you some ideas to crochet 5 different stockings: You may crochet just the one you prefer or even all five, right? The pattern for sale is full of colourful pictures and it consists of 38 pages. The crochet skills required : easy/intermediate You have to know basic stitches as (US crochet terminology) chains, slip stitches, single  and double crochets, the "join-as-you-go" method used to join both toes and heels to the rest of the socks. With the same pattern you can crochet the following stockings: The Big Stocking The Colourful Granny Stripes, the Pompom and the Fringes Stockings and the Baby Stocking What do you think??? You are free to use any yarn weight and hook size : it will be fun!!!! The pattern is easily adaptable to any size and you can embellish each stocking as you like : give a lot of freedom to your creativity and have a lot of fun!!!!! The p...

Last week was the turn of Geoffrey !!!! The pattern is written by Emma (we know each other since our beginnings in Blogland!!!), the witty and brilliant crochet designer of  Potter&Bloom  !!! A group of testers was selected by Emma trough her Ravelry group :  potter & bloom podcast  . You can have a look at the other testers' scarves on their blogs (as for Rosina's , the hostess of  Zeens and Roger  ) or through their Instagram feeds (  zeensandroger  and  plutofigaro ). Hope I'm not missing anyone!! Emma showed a lot of pictures of Geoffrey on her Instagram feed, too ( potterandbloom  ), on her blog (  Potter & Bloom  ) where she writes that the pattern will be available soon for sale, and on her YouTube Chanel (  PODCAST EPISODE 10  ), where my work was mentioned (!!!) . Emma was positively impressed on how I "reinvented" her pattern playing with a lot of colours ... she said that I'm so "creativ...

As you know, I really like to write my own patterns and to publish photo tutorials ... Very often it is a time consuming kind of task and the amount of work is huge, even when the item the pattern is written for is not that big... I know that many crafters had a go with my patterns and surprisingly there have not been complains about problems in understanding my words or crochet passages... phew!!! I love to try patterns written by other crafters, too. I like it especially to be aware that there are different ways to explain a work, different styles, different range of difficulties and new things to learn ... always something new to learn!!!! A pattern written by another person gives you new challenges and pushes your curiosity to new levels, right? I love all that, I really do!! So, I was really excited to join a selected group of crocheters (Nicole  @tangleandstitch , Janet  @janetleigh37 , Conny  @frogs_crochet , ...

Sorry, but it took a while to edit some pictures and to put together all the ideas about this blanket!!! Before the start of last summer holidays and so before the end of last scholastic year, too, I started to think about a way to join diamond motifs together with the "as you go method" ... It was quite challenging, but not impossible : I was sure of that! So, I started to crochet a basic diamond and from that I developed different (!!!) patterns and motifs.... All my summer was dedicated to this research and the result is in a booklet for sale on Ravelry : Designs with Diamonds !!! Today in this post I will give you all my notes about this blanket (my birthday gift for my son Tobia), but there will be no written pattern or tutorial. I just followed one of the main patterns developed for my booklet ! In specific, if you are interested to make a similar blanket and you are willing to buy the booklet on Ravelry (in this case : thank you so much! <3), you have to fo...