Pattern Progress & Exciting News for the year ahead!

Already the start of another week, and into a new months already too!

It’s been a good week or more since I last posted I think… but I have been working very hard on lots of exciting things!

Firstly, I have promised news of my Ear Warmer Pattern & Tutorial – it is now available to download, alongside the Flower Coaster Pattern & Tutorial & a Beginner’s Basic Chunky Scarf Pattern/Tutorial on my website.

**All of these pattern are available for FREE, all I ask is that those who can afford to do so can offer a small donation to help cover my time/yarn costs to enable me to keep writing/designing!**

Writing these (and taking the photos for them!) has been taking up LOADS of my time, so much so that the mittens one is still a work in progress… photos DONE but just writing up to do now!

Hopefully it will all be worth it in the long run!

I have been slowly and steadily working my way from crocheting for fun or as a hobby to making this my lifelong “career” for a while now, as those of you who have been following my journey will know!

I have been a self-employed crafter officially since April last year, and things have been steadily improving sales wise since then.

I am now trying to work my way from just a crafter following patterns, to a designer, making my own items, from my own ideas in my head, and writing these designs up as patterns for others to follow. So yes, I do think all this hard work writing up my first very own patterns is very very important!

I have been using these patterns/tutorials as the basis for workshops that I have been asked to run at a local crafting boutique which currently runs classes in sewing/knitting and various other crafts already.

We are currently in the process of setting up my first workshops in MARCH, so apart from being a wee bit scared I am also very excited! Please do keep an eye on Beaullah’s Boutique in Chelmsford if you are local, it would be fab to see some friendly faces in the workshops!

The first few workshops will probably be fairly basic ones, but we are hoping to offer lots more as the year progresses!

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You may be wondering where the cupcakes fit into all of this…

Well they are the new design I have been working on!

It has taken a fair while and A LOT of hard work crocheting, unpicking, re-crocheting to get them how I want.

Based on an original pattern I purchased from the very talented Rachel at Crochet Spot, I have re-worked & re-jigged it til I have them how I want them, the right size & looking how I pictured them in my head, but worked in DK rather than  the worsted/aran weight that is typically used in the U.S.A.

There aren’t any for sale on the website just yet, as I had 5 to make as a custom order for Kathryn of Bespoke Nappy Cakes & Baby Gifts. But I am happy to take custom orders until I get the chance to build a stock up – just email me rose@victoriarosecrafts.co.uk to order.

They will be £5 pain or £6 beaded plus P&P which is £1.50 for one, but can be combined for multiple items.

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I also now have many events (craft fairs/markets that sort of thing!) booked in the diary for this year, so if any of you are close to the Essex/Hertfordshire/London area and want to come along and say hi, please see my events listings here or on Facebook.

My first event of the year is Chelmsford Vintage & Handmade Market, run by Truly Madly Vintage on Saturday 26th Feb.

Have a great week everyone

Rose XXX