Hooking With: High Desert Yarn

Hooking With: High Desert Yarn

Hooking With: High Desert Yarn This week, we interviewed Joanna Robinson of High Desert Yarn.  I have seen a lot of pretty Instagram pictures of hers and actually started following her before Sunflower Cottage Crochet was a “thing”.  Read on! Introduction My name is Joanna 

Houndstooth Baby Cocoon Crochet Pattern

Houndstooth Baby Cocoon Crochet Pattern

Houndstooth Baby Cocoon Crochet Pattern The Houndstooth baby cocoon crochet pattern is our first Preemie pattern release.  If you read our post on why the Preemie Challenge is so important to us, then you can understand why we have 6 cocoon patterns ready to rock!  

Fall in Love With Autumn Pattern Bundle

Fall in Love With Autumn Pattern Bundle

Let me introduce you to the Fall in Love with Autumn pattern bundle! I love autumn. It’s my favourite time of year, and not just because of my birthday! I love the quiet brisk walks with my dogs. The colors, the smells, the feeling of 

How To Do The Single Crochet Join Method

How To Do The Single Crochet Join Method

How to do the Single Crochet Join Method Today we’re going to learn how to do the single crochet join method.  In a previous “how-to” post, I showed you how to do the slip stitch join method. The single crochet join method is very similar 

Lemon Drops Kitchen Crochet Set

Lemon Drops Kitchen Crochet Set

Lemon Drops Kitchen Crochet Set of Patterns Introducing our Lemon Drops Crochet Set of patterns!  We’re super excited to show you all the different patterns included in this set!  We even joined an event to showcase it, the Hooked on Summer Event. Unfortunately this event 

Summer Stitch Along Week 3

Summer Stitch Along Week 3

For the next two weeks in June we are participating in the Summer Stitch Along. This is week 3 (15th – 21st June 2020). It’s an event that gives free PDF patterns to you that you would have otherwise had to pay for! How it 

Sunshine-y Hanging Towel Crochet Pattern

Sunshine-y Hanging Towel Crochet Pattern

Sunshine-y Hanging Towel, A Crochet Pattern Introducing our latest design, the Sunshine-y Hanging Towel crochet pattern.  I told Helen I would like to have more home decor patterns available, especially for summer.  Most people don’t really want to be crocheting big cozy blankets or scarves 

Round-up of Summer Patterns

Round-up of Summer Patterns

This round up of summer patterns was originally the Summer Stitch Along week 1 round up during June of 2020. The patterns were so cute that we couldn’t just delete the post! So we decided to keep it and amend it to be a round 

Crochet for a Cause Event

Crochet for a Cause Event

Have you heard about the Crochet for a Cause initiative happening this summer? Has lockdown has given you time to get a great start on creating your Christmas presents? Do you still have stash to bust?  Then this will be a great initiative for you 

Hooking With … Mary Beth

Hooking With … Mary Beth

Mary Beth is a designer I came across about a year ago now. She is the lady behind Crochet with Mary Beth and is such a sweet lady who likes to crochet fashion! I also like that she has some book reviews on her blog. 

Mother’s Day Pattern Round-up 2020

Mother’s Day Pattern Round-up 2020

It’s almost Mother’s Day! We had so much fun with the stash busting pattern round-ups that we have teamed up with some more fantastic designers to bring you this fabulous Mother’s Day round-up! In some parts of the world (like here in the UK) we 

Stash Busting Challenge Week 4!

Stash Busting Challenge Week 4!

The Stash Busting Challenge Week 4 has now finished!! Can you believe that it is over already? Did you collect the patterns when they were available? I have decided to keep the round-up posts because a lot of these patterns are available either free on