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Hama Bead Cat Pattern

October 20, 2013 by Merry Leave a Comment

Continuing on a cheerful theme of cat related crafts (I’ve not quite got to grips with Halloween yet this year, so I thought cats might be better!) Maddy has produced her signature cat in Hama Beads. Many years ago, though she doesn’t remember, they used to have a Willo the Wisp video and I think she is secretly channeling Carwash with this design.

Hama Beads Quirky Cat Pattern.

Here he is, in all his glory. A nice easy cat on a rectangle (or two interconnected square boards) in Midi Hama Beads. Maddy chose to do him in blue with black, white and pink details and I think you should be able to follow him from the photo. We will get round to doing a printable version of him too!

It was an accident but we quite like the little angle to his head. If you want to copy it, just gently stretch the beads and mould it while it is still warm from ironing the pattern.

There are more ideas on BeadMerrily.

Filed Under: Cats, Difficulty 2/5, Hama Beads, Maddy Makes Tagged With: cat crafts, halloween hama beads, hama bead cat pattern, hama beads cat, maddy makes, midi hama beads

Easy Crochet Butterflies

September 19, 2012 by Merry Leave a Comment

The internet is full of ideas for crocheting and knitting insects and goodness knows they are all better at it than me but one of the great things about crochet is that once you have hold of a basic stitch (a double crochet in the UK, a single crochet if you are in the US) you can have a good stab at creating something even with very little expertise. So, with summer fading fast, we bring you a ‘Maddy Makes’!

The beauty of letting someone just ‘go’ with something like crochet is seeing what they make of it. Maddy is 12 and has only just learned to crochet and she approached this from a very different angle to I would have. She crocheted a doubled length to be the body, then attached the green and crocheted a circle inwards to make the wings. I think I might have done the circles and finished off by stitching them to a tube of crochet but I quite like what she ended up with. She had a lot of fun inventing her butterfly and photographing it in the garden anyway, so who cares!

Here are some other patterns to try:-

Little Birdie Secrets

The obligatory Pinterest selection

King Soleil

Craft Passion

And a book I like too is 75 Birds and Butterflies to Knit & Crochet

Maddy used Rowan Hand Knit Cotton (nice and easy to hold and crochet) and a 4mm hook.

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Filed Under: Butterflies, Difficulty 3/5, Maddy Makes, Yarn Tagged With: crochet butterflies, crochet for kids, easy crochet ideas, how to crochet a butterfly, maddy makes

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