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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...

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...

Hi my dear friends... are you still there??? I really hope so!!! ;oD It has been a while, since my last post , last June... Well, apart the usual difficulties with internet, I decided even to have a break from my blog, as less people read it.... maybe we are all more obsessed with Instagram, right now ... honestly I think so! Anyway, I'm here to give you just an information or big news!! Yesterday I put my first booklet for sale on RAVELRY !!!! You have to find me, as homemadeatmyplace and then click on my featured designs and look for Designs with Diamonds .... and voila', my first pattern for sale is there!!!!! I was working all the last summer on it!!! Diamonds are my obsession, lately (at least the crocheted ones!!!) and I wanted to find the easiest way to join them together with the join-as-you-go method ... I think I did it!!! This work is not for beginners, but is addressed to crocheters with an intermediate level of experience with crochet. Th...