Pretty Potato

My Vanity Shame: How I Decluttered my Cr*p Room

This is my shame. I’m going to air it out , clean it up and hopefully… keep it that way. We all have that room in the house that you close the door on when guests come around and pretend...

Intermediate, free crochet pattern: Unicorn toilet roll/ toilet paper cover. Keep your toilet roll cosy with this cute crochet unicorn cover than than be customised to any colours or animals you like!

Unicorn Toilet Paper Cover

Sometimes someone asks you to make something you never thought you’d ever make. This project was one of those projects. Remember those crochet dollies that used to sit over your nanna’s loo roll? And when you learn how to crochet you...

A Discovery: The Price of Yarn in Macedonia

We’re back! It’s been an amazing couple of weeks away but now it’s back to reality. We saw some lovely sights, ate amazing food and somehow I managed to make it a holiday full of crochet at the same time!...

A Trip Away: Macedonia

Todays blog post is my last before we jet set off on our holly-bobs, so I’ll be quiet for a week or so. We’re going to Macedonia which is a country I didn’t know much about until this year. Here’s...

My top 5 baby blanket patterns for girls: a collection of my favourite free baby blankets from granny squares to ripples

Top 5 Free Baby Blanket Patterns for Girls

I think one of my favourite things to crochet is baby blankets; they have that feel of crocheting a whole blanket without having to spend absolute months on them but I also feel like more love goes into a baby...

How to: Removing Labels and Glue from Recycled Jars

Pretty jars make any kitchen look beautiful! But before you can put all that hard work into decoration, etching or decoupaging your jars to make them pretty, you first have to go through all the hard work of preparing the...

A Leibster Award!

I was really pleased to be nominated for this Liebster award by the lovely Amanda from Lazy Girl Loves! It’s so nice that she enjoyed reading my blog and thought to nominate me! For anyone that maybe unsure of what the...

My Next 5 Crochet projects:

Todays post was going to be a little pattern for a commission I’ve just received, that was until I ran out of yarn barely halfway through…. Talk about bad planning. In all honesty I had almost a whole skein of...

The 5 Biggest Beginner Mistakes when we learn to crochet

5 Biggest Beginner Crochet Mistakes

Learning to crochet is hard (check out this article if you’re beginning)! It seems all very complicated: you get your head around all the weird stitches and terms somehow your work just doesn’t look right…. Well there are lots of...

5 things I learned when playing with chalkpaint: homemade chalk paint can be a little problematic

5 Things I learned when I played with chalk paint

So this week I had a play with chalk paint; I had an old nasty mirror hanging around and wanted to spruce up the frame to make it acceptable to hang in the house. The project got off to...