Yay For Crochet

🎉🎂Happy Birthday Henry VIII 🎂🎉
Born 28th June 1491 in Greenwich

📚Pattern from my book Hooked on Shakespeare
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Prepped and ready for this afternoon’s crochet workshop at Shakespeare’s New Place in Stratford-Upon-Avon! press

50 years (ish) since ABBA and this awesome crochet hat won Eurovision 🎶 🎤 🇸🇪

Turns out Woolliam Shakespeare is a Swiftie.

If you want to see him in real life, he’s currently residing theatre shop.

🎭🧶 “To crochet, or not to crochet” - that is NEVER the question when it comes to ‘Hooked on Shakespeare’! 📚✨
‘Hooked on Shakespeare’ by Gurinder Kaur Hatchard is a delightful book featuring a wide range of Shakespearean characters that she has cleverly bought to life in crochet form. Read my full review on my latest blog post 🎨📖
Did you know I studied Shakespeare as part of my Literature degree, I have to say that my favourite play s are probably Much Ado about Nothing or MacBeth - what about you?
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Want to learn crochet? I’ll be teaching a complete beginners class with at the beautiful New Place in Stratford Upon Avon. You’ll receive a kit with all the gear you need for your first amigurumi project. Head to to book.

🥚🐣 Happy Easter 🐣 🥚

☘️Free quick and easy Shamrock pattern ☘️
If you’re celebrating St Patrick’s Day this weekend enjoy! 🇮🇪

🗡️Beware the Ides of March 🗡️
Poor old Julius gets backstabbed (literally) by a group of senators, including his old pal Brutus, “et tu, Brute?”, he was warned maybe he shouldn’t be careful in 15th March…
Some pics of Julius and Brutus before it all went wrong and some of Caesar on his trip to Las Vegas where we went to Caesar’s Palace (of course!)

All patterns from the book “Hooked on Shakespeare” published by .press

Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn having a right royal date night to see 👑

You can find the crochet pattern for both of them (and Cardinal Wolesley) in my book Hooked on Shakespeare!

📚Hooked on Shakespeare is on sale! Head to .press to buy direct from the publishers and grab my book (and lots of other awesome crafty books) now! 📚📚

❤️Happy Valentine’s Day❤️
From Woolliam Shakespeare and all his crochet crew 🧶

So pleased that selected my Fox hat pattern to go in their special Cosy Hats booklet, free with issue 164. Sizes newborn to adult so the whole family can wear one on a winter’s walk. 🦊🧶

It’s Chocolate Cake Day! I’m pretty average at baking, but I do make a good crochet cake!

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Very excited to be taking part in the “Meet the Designers” event for . There’s lots of fab crafty events planned for the festival, head to their page to find out more!

Saville Row Christmas lights 💡 🎄 ✂️

Shakespeare loved a bit of spookery! From Macbeth’s foreboding hags 🧙 to Hamlet’s dad’s ghost 👻. Happy Halloween from the Hooked on Shakespeare crew! press

March Meet The Maker- Day 1: Brand Origin.
How (and why) Yay for Crochet began…🧶🧶
I thought I’d take part in this year’s “meet the maker”…I’m notoriously bad at actually finishing stuff though!!

Looking forward to my first yarn show of the year . It’s set to be an absolutely fab day, competitions, workshops and you’ll find me and my mini mes on our stall with fab patterns and I’ll be signing copies of my book “Head to Toe Crochet.” See you there!

🎅🏻🎄Want to whip this up in time for Christmas for a little one you know? You can get the pattern in this month’s issue of - as well as loads more fab ideas for Christmas. 🎄

🧶Can’t crochet yet? Have you tried my Couch to Crochet video series?
🧶You’ll go from crochet beginner to crochet winner with lovely step by step videos, for left and right handers.
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Just sharing some gorgeous pics from my book “Head to Toe Crochet”. Aren’t the babies just 🥰🥰🥰🥰?
Want to be in with a chance to win a copy? are running a competition, go to their page to find out more! 📚🧶

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