The Susan tote bag is a cute and easy pattern, perfect for girls (and women!) of all ages! The Susan Tote Bag is a pattern that was designed during last summer. I was feeling a bit blah about my shop-bought handbags and wanted something a …
With the mania, stress and exhaustion of preparing for Christmas out of the way, we have the perfect selfish project – Robin’s Poncho – for you. You have worked so hard buying and making gifts for EVERYONE else, so now it’s time to make something …
Well, I think so anyway. Sara knocked it out of the park with this design at a time when she was worrying about what was going to happen with her Dad.
Sara took charge on the Christmas patterns whilst I dealt with our Halloween E-Book – and boy, was that a lot of work!! By the time I had it sorted, Sara had pretty much sorted Christmas. There were four ideas that she was working on. I don’t know how she manages to flit between ideas and projects and so much! My brain very much wants to do one thing at a time and get it finished before we move on. Before teaming up with Sara I worked on one project at a time – several WIPs just didn’t work for me. Oh dear …. some days I just have to tell Sara ‘Enough, this is stressful!’ We work well together and she gets it lol. We challenge each other in different ways, but I can’t imagine doing this with anyone else!
So, long story short (lol) … For our Christmas collection Sara had most of the concepts already in her head and gave me a rough draft of her patterns. I took them and worked them up suggesting little tweaks here and there and then wrote them up formally.
Have I mentioned how much I LOVE Robin’s Stocking? From a distance it looks like we use little delicate cables in this pattern … but we don’t! It actually uses the sedge stitch which is worked in rows with single crochets in between. When it is sewn together the rows go up and down. The effect is just perfect for a farmhouse Christmas stocking pattern.
If you want to know more about the sedge stitch and get your hands on our free stitch of the week pattern for it (some wrist warmers / fingerless gloves!), visit here.
The first stocking I made from the rough draft of Sara’s pattern was all one colour. It was cute but needed some pazzaz! The autumn red and off white in Caron Simply Soft were perfect for the two tone stocking.
These are the photos I sent Sara (so excuse my workspace mess!)
You can see the difference that the two-tone gives you. And there is only a couple of extra ends to sew in!
We are busy getting our living space revamped by the builders and are putting in a log burner. I can’t wait to get Robin’s Stockings up on the fireplace this year!!
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Gauge is not important as long as you are consistent.
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Join us today as we look at the sedge stitch in our Stitch of the Week series and create the Susan Wrist Warmers with us. What’s in a name? Despite having what I think is quite a dull and uninspiring name (it reminds me of …
