I saw this post on Craftzine yesterday about the new Japanese fashion of wearing colourful haramaki aka ‘belly warmers’. I think this is the best idea I’ve seen in a long time! Ever since the advent of low-rise jeans, women have been stuck with a little cold gap between the bottom of our shirts and […]

As promised, here are the instructions to make my roll-up crochet hook case. Click the images for larger versions. First, you need to figure out how big you want your case to be. I drew the figure below to design my case. Here are my calculations, in case you want to vary the size: I chose 24 […]

This is a tutorial for a really simple cushion cover. It’s really quick and easy to make (and cheap!) as it doesn’t require a zip – the cushion is inserted like a pillow into a pillowcase. Measure your cushion’s length and width. My cushion is a 35.5cm square but any rectangular cushion will work just as well – […]