My beautiful new home town! It has been very quiet around here… I moved house! I moved across the country late last year and into my house by the sea in December. I’m lucky enough that my house has a lovely sunny extension space that …
Hello! This one is for the pattern writers out there! I’ve been designing and writing amigurumi patterns for a while, but I have to admit…I’ve never been very good at working out the specifics of calculating how much yarn I used in the process. I …
To niche or not to niche; that is indeed the question! Fair warning – this blog post doesn’t come to a solid conclusion… It’s something that comes up over and over again for all creatives – ‘find your niche’: find your corner of the world …
Granny Square Day is coming up! This year, August 15th marks Granny Square Day, on which makers all around the world post a closely cropped photo of a granny square to their Instagram feeds, which creates a ‘blanket’ of wonderful, colourful granny squares when the …
Amigurumi (a “crocheted or knitted stuffed toy”) is usually created using the double crochet stitch (or the single crochet stitch, if you’re not from the UK), and working in the round. Have you ever noticed that some amigurumi dolls have a slightly different look to others? …
When it comes to general life I’m a pretty cautious person, but when it comes to crafting, I’m a jump in the deep end with both feet kind of girl. I’ve been curious about spinning for a while and the idea of undertaking the entire …
Image Source: Pixabay If you’ve been in the crochet world for a little while, you’re probably familiar with the term ‘frogging’. If not, to frog is to ‘undo’, or rip out a number of stitches in your work to fix an earlier error. I must …
A very Happy New Year! A new decade has begun and brought with it exciting news for The Fuzzy Bee…
The Lexie Doll started out as an experiment in shaping – I wanted to create a pattern from scratch as a doll base for future makes. I knew I wanted to try and make a slightly shaped head (rather than a ball shape), and so …
