With crafts – there is no room for boredom!

Since my childhood years I have enjoyed crafts especially knitting and sewing. It was not until recently that I also discovered fun in crocheting. I cannot say I reached the comfort level with it yet as I still need to watch videos providing instructions and refer to the explanation of crochet abbreviations. However, working with a hook and single thread is easy enough to provide the comfort of engaging in an activity that is calming but results in a piece that is useful, attractive or both.

It all started with a Facebook video that I decided to watch. The video was made by Donna Wolfe from Naztazia.com and like all her videos, it was very well prepared with the focus on the viewer’s complete understanding. The video showed how to make a hat using beautiful star stitch pattern. I decided to try it and loved it from the very beginning. Once I finished the hat, I knew I could not stop there.

Since then I made two pillowcases, spider web and a spider to decorate my daughter’s room for fall and Halloween.

My most recent project was to crochet a bunny for my daughter. This time my pattern came from the book by Kerry Lord “Edward’s Menagerie”. The task was a bit more complicated than a hat or the pillowcase, as it involved multiple adding and decreasing the number of stitches, however I realized that the most difficult part of the toy making process was sewing the pieces together.

Nevertheless, crocheting the bunny was only a warm-up. I already purchased more alpaca yarn and will definitely spend the evenings of approaching winter on increasing the animal inventory.

P.S. The pictures present other pieces of my artwork and I will write about them in another post 🙂