Buttons and Bootees

For Christmas I received this fab crochet stitches card pack from ! It’s a pack of different crochet stitches cards, with over 50 different stitches to try.

So I had an idea 🤔…

If I made a swatch of each different stitch sample each week then by the end of the year I will have the squares to make up a blanket! This is a year long commitment!!

And to make it even more fun, I have added each stitch to a little surprise ball and selected a range of dk yarn from my stash, putting samples in little vending machine capsule balls too. So each week I can pick out a surprise stitch and colour of yarn!

The first I have chosen at random is the Arcade stitch! A new stitch for me, and if you’ll see from the picture I actually made it wrong 🙈! Before frogging and restarting for the sample square!

I’m already ready for week 2, I wonder what stitch it will be next!! 😬

2024 makes!! The first collage is all my best makes of 2024, from wearables, the Taylor Swift dress! To the frog takeover, gifts and charity makes!

Then the next collage is a collection of craft workshops or classes! I started the last year with an aim to do something crafty every month! And with that I have tried new crafts, or learnt new skills and generally expanded my love of all things crafty!!

I took a job in the creative industry which at the start really fuelled my love of crafts and crochet. But that soon took a dip when it didn’t quite work out and I lost the love of it all.

So here’s to 2025, a new year to embrace crafts again, find my ‘crojo’ and maybe even start back the craft club which I have missed so much! Meeting once a month crafting together, until the craft barn was sold! Hopefully we can find a new venue to host us and reignite our club in the new year!

What were your best makes for 2024? And what do you have planned for the new year?

I think I need another year long project like the temperature blanket from 2023… 🤔 looking for something that I can dip in and out of!

How many wip are you starting the new year with?? 🙈😂

Happy new year, and happy crafting! 🩷 🧶 ✂️ 🧵 🪡