This year, Chinese New Year starts on February 5th and it’s the year of the pig. Last year I made a dog and the year before that a rooster for Chinese New Year. Making a Chinese New Year pattern is now kind of a tradition, so here is the pig I made for this year!… Read More Free Pattern: Pig for Chinese New Year
For Christmas I made this tiny snowman. Because of his size and weight he’s perfect to send to friends via post! You can also use this pattern to make a bigger version – just use thicker yarn. Because of the small size of this snowman, they are perfect if you don’t have a lot of… Read More Free pattern: Tiny Snowman
Edit: I actually wrote this post in April 2017 but for some reason never published it! So here it (finally) is 🙂 After Dick Bruna died last month, I made this little Nijntje/Miffy pattern to honor his memory! Nijntje is the Dutch name for Miffy and is a shortening for the Dutch word for “little… Read More Free Pattern: No-sew Nijntje / Miffy
A while ago I made graphs for teddies made for Knot Forgotten (here is the original post). They recently changed the patterns a bit, so here are the new graphs that will work for the new patterns! If you haven’t crocheted using graphs before, here is a video that explains how it works and… Read More Free pattern modification: Updated graphs for knot forgotten teddies
English translation below the Dutch review Een tijdje geleden was ik in de Zeeman en zag ik deze wol die ik niet kon laten liggen. Ik heb hem gekocht en heb een kleine review geschreven voor jullie, zodat jullie weten of hij het waard is! Ik heb de blauw-groene versie gekocht (kleurnummer 60) Feitjes… Read More Review: Zeeman Royal Melange Yarn
These toys are for fundraising only! They are NOT for sending to Australia. Please keep making the big toys! I just made these patterns so people can sell these small toys to raise money for shipping their big toys. The big toys are the priority :). DO NOT SEND THE SMALL TOYS TO AUSTRALIA Click… Read More Free pattern: Mini Knot Forgotten Inspired Toys
When making dolls like these ones below, they may not always stand up straight. To fix this, you can fill the bottom of your doll with something heavy, like dried chickpeas or rice. But it also helps to make sure your doll’s feet are flat, which is what I will teach you now 🙂 It’s… Read More Tutorial: Make your doll stand using plastic mesh
In 2018, the Chinese New Year starts on February 16 and 2018 is the year of the dog. Last year I made a rooster for Chinese New Year. Everyone really seemed to like that pattern, so I figured I’d make it into a tradition, so this year I made a dog! I will also have… Read More Free Pattern: Dog for Chinese New Year
Klik hier voor patroon in Nederlands I’m busy crocheting bunting for this Dutch project, which aims to break the Guiness World Record for handmade bunting. They aim to make 10km of bunting (which is 40,000 flags!). At the end of the project, the bunting will be sold and the proceeds will go towards helping people… Read More Free pattern: Granny bunting
Here is a chart showing different “languages” of writing a pattern. Sometimes I come across the perfect pattern, but it’s not written in US terms. I’m probably not the only one who has this problem, so here is the chart I use to “translate” these patterns. I’ve included the 5 “languages” I most commonly come… Read More Basics: Crochet abbreviations – chart, keyboard, US, UK, Dutch