Geeky Squidoo

Fibre Arts and Crafting

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Prompted Musings – The Future of this Blog

What are you most excited about for the future? Sometimes you just have to go with the click-bait title, in fairness this post will discuss

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Stitching Ahead: Sneak Peak at My WIPs & Upcoming Escapades

With most of the recent blogs being about what I’ve been up to or making, thought it would be a nice change of pace to give you a sneak peek

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Campfire Crochet – Cozy Creations by the Coals

This week, I’ve been away on holiday. For some of that time, I’ve been camping! For me, camping is the perfect time for crafting and crochet

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Finished Pattern – Peacock Amigurumi

This weeks finished pattern is the Peacock Amigurumi by StringyDingDing As you can see this is the cutest peacock pattern! (One of very few

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Prompted Musings – Badly Blowing My Own Trumpet

What are you good at? Everything crafty! Joking aside, I’m not bad at sewing, I’m a complete beginner at spinning, I’m a keen but mediocre a

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Finished Pattern – Leggy Froggy!

My little bug-eyed froggy This week’s pattern review is the Leggy Froggy pattern by Crochet by Karina. This was my first test pattern I had

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Prompted Musings – Small improvements quickly add up!

What’s one small improvement you can make in your life? Sometimes, the open-ended questions from Jetpack are the best! As this is a crafting

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Finished Pattern – Scrump from Lilo & Stitch

Today’s pattern review is of Scrump from BlytheMeMore. This was initially purchased to make for a friend, but it was so cute I couldn’t help

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Spinning a Tale – The lessons learned from 2 years of spinning

The 2nd Skein of Yarn June this year will mark 2 years since I purchased my EEW nano and began my electric spinning adventure. Since then, I

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Finished Pattern – Snakey Snake

This week’s finished pattern is the free Snakey Snake by Chronic Creator. This was made for a friend because, well I wanted too and I could.

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A new spinning wheel – Enter the Argonaut! (And her matching lazy Kate)

So having done a fair bit of spinning on my EEW nano, it was becoming clear that a bigger wheel would be a useful addition. Enter the Argona

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Finished Pattern – Feather’s McGraw

Bringing you yet another pattern review from a birthday present, again already gifted so there will be no spoilers. This is a pattern from C

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Finished Pattern – Silly Goose!

Such a Silly Goose! Oh where to start with this one! This is the Silly Goose pattern by Scarlet Creations. decided on a whim to do this one,

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Spinning a Tale – Bamboo Tops

With the Tour De Fleece this year, I wanted to join in, in some way. What better way than to explore those 25g balls of fibre purchased from

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Prompted Musings – Crafting and relaxation

How do you relax? With crafting! When you work a full time job, crafting is often a go to hobby for relaxing. Spinning! Spinning bright oran

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Finished Pattern – Norbert The Gnome

This week, I jumped into a free little pattern to create a Gnome for a friend. Norbert The Gnome by Stella’s Yarn Universe. Pink is this sea

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Finished Pattern – Yoshi Lovey Crochet Cuddly

Let’s-a Go! Time for another pattern review! This time we have worked our way through Yoshi Lovey by Damn it Janet, let’s crochet. Honestly,