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06 Oct

New Get Squared designs coming – and they are just for Kids!

Posted by Jenny King

Do you have a little one coming into your life either as your brand new baby, grandbaby or a friend’s baby then I have the most exciting news. Or do you want to make some simple yet trendy garments for you older children? If so I have the solution. I have used the ease of the Get Squared ® technique to create a children’s range of crochet garments that require no seams, are worked from the top down, and like Get Squared ® require you only to know the age of the child or their chest measurement to complete the garment. Simple repetitive stitching, no wordy patterns, no seams and quick easy garments are a promise.

09 Mar

Crochet, Top News

Some of my Favourite designers

Posted by Jenny King
crochet, patterns

I am running a competition about your favourite designs, and I tried to entice you to share them by offering you FREE yarn! It occurred to me that perhaps I should lead the way and share some of my favourite designers and their designs. Funny, most of them are knitted. Please remember that I don’t knit but I have tried to emulate many of their designs and translate their sense of style into crochet patterns so that we crocheters would not feel left out. Some of these designs I’ve been able to secure the permission of the knit designers to try my hand at the crochet version, and some I have finished and some are in progress. And if ever there is a 10-day week I may get them all done. So here are some of my favourites. and I’m still want to know yours so please share them with me by posting to my

02 Feb

Crochet, Top News

Jenny’s Got Yarn

Posted by Jenny King
cotton, crochet, knitting, yarn

I’m back in the yarn business again. I wasn’t going to, I know, but I just couldn’t help myself. I love beautiful yarns. I can’t in all honesty say it was against my will. When I was given the opportunity to design them to my very own specifications in the colours I desire I was like a moth to a flame.

I’ve always been in the search for the perfect yarn, aren’t we all? Normally my first choice would be wool and there are many wools that I love but let’s face it I live in Queensland, Australia and there are only 6 weeks a year I can wear it, and even then I would have to stand outside, on the football field, after the sun goes down to wear it.

27 Mar

Crochet

Some birdy inspiration to celebrate Crochetville’s Crochet Month

Posted by Jenny King

Sometimes I get inspired by cute things, tiny little things of beauty. And I just have to re-create them. I don’t know if that is just because I can, or maybe just to see if I can. Sometimes the impulse is too strong to ignore.

20 Jul

Crochet

Jenny featured in Fibre Hooligan

Posted by Jenny King

Jenny was recently interviewed by Benjamin Levisay, CEO of XRX in the US for Fibre Hooligan.

Fibre Hooligan is a great pod cast series focusing on all things textile!

Check it out here.

14 Jun

Crochet

Australian crochet designer joins 5000 Poppies Project

Posted by Jenny King

As part of the 2015 Anzac commemoration, the 5000 Poppies project will be “planting” a field of more than 5000 poppies in Federation Square Melbourne.

The 5000 poppies project has been created to commemorate more than a century of service from Australian men and women in war, conflicts and peacemaking operations.

10 Jun

Crochet

My friend Ellen

Posted by Jenny King

Let me introduce you to Ellen. On one of our first meetings Ellen suggested that we make ourselves into human International crochet symbols. And the funny part was that we did , and it seemed like such a good idea at the time.

02 May

Crochet

Jenny’s designs in Vogue and Crochet! Magazines again!

Posted by Jenny King

More of Jenny’s great designs are featured in the 2014 issue of the annual Vogue Crochet edition. If you want to get one from your newsagent you may have to request it because it is an International edition. You can see the cover and Jenny’s FOUR designs above.