My Eco-friendly Pattern in a Crochet Mag!
The April edition of Happily Hooked is all about eco and it features my new banana yarn eco-friendly pattern and an article I wrote about recycled yarns.
Recycling
Paintbox Recycled Cotton Yarn Review
Unbiased honest yarn review of Paintbox Recycled Cotton Worsted yarn, a popular weight yarn that is 100% recycled cotton.
Why I use Recycled Yarn
It’s recycling week, so I thought it poignant to write a post about why I use recycled yarn. Recycled yarn may mean a number of different things to different people but when I refer to it, generally I’m talking about new yarns that are manufactured from recycled materials. I started using recycled yarns a few …
Paintbox Recycled Ribbon Yarn Review
Unbiased honest yarn review of Paintbox Recycled Ribbon yarn, a super chunky weight 100% recycled yarn.
Banana Yarn Review
Banana yarn review. It’s a bit bonkers, deliciously soft and silky, ethically produced and as environmentally friendly as it gets. Read all about banana yarn.
10 Ways to More Eco Friendly Crochet or Knitting
Want to be a ‘greener’ crocheter or knitter? It’s easier than you think. Here’s my top 10 tips to help you be more ecofriendly.
Ecofriendly Yarn Reviews
I realise I’m using some wacky and new yarns that some of you will have never heard of at the moment. Soooo, I thought I’d share my honest experiences of them so you know exactly what to expect should you wish to go ecofriendly with your yarns too and try them out. I should say …
Cloud Applique – Free Crochet Pattern
Free crochet Cloud pattern. Can be used as an applique or on a mobile. It goes lovely with my sun and rainbow patterns as a super cute mobile.
Sunshine – Free Crochet Pattern
Free crochet Sun pattern. Can be used as an applique or on a mobile. It goes lovely with my rainbow ( and cloud coming soon) pattern as a super cute mobile. Or perfect as an applique on it’s own.
Recycled Yarn Rainbow?
What every crafter wants from a yarn is a great range of colours! I use the gauge of the rainbow… if I can make a rainbow I’m very impressed with the colour range. But I also want it to be truly eco-friendly, delivering a positive service to world in it’s existence, so it needs to …
Bananas for Banana Yarn
Completely and utterly, it’s driven me crazy, I’ve had ALL the emotions with this yarn! Spoiler alert, this post ends well, banana yarn is my new love! I originally wrote this with the title Banana Disaster! My first experience (note I say first) wasn’t a good one you see, it went wrong… horribly wrong… it …
Delicious Purplelicious Recycled Bag
The making of a gorgeous recycled purple bag, using plarn from bread bags and recycled cotton yarrn.
It’s Bananas!
It’s Bananas… no really it actually is. It’s banana yarn: recycled, ethical, vegan, silky and beautiful and I’m gonna crochet with it…
There’s New Recycled Yarns!
There’s more recycled yarns out there! I’ve found some fabulous new ones and some outstandingly incredible ones that were hiding…
The Definitive (ish) list of Recycled Yarn
If you are looking for recycled yarn, this is THE post. It has all the available recycled yarns we can find and where to buy them.