Crafty Marie

Summer starts here! Well, not officially but we have been blessed with some amazing sunny and warm weather just recently which is really helping to kick off the summer season crafting - and what better for this than some sweet, crochet strawberries to make and enjoy with this free mini crochet strawberry pattern. I'll be stringing mine up on a garland for my daughter's girly birthday party. But they do look cute presented in a bowl and I can imagine what cute additions and embellishments they'd make on a little cushion too.  The basic crochet strawberry pattern is below for you. It is my own pattern that I've worked on. I've seen these made up before but not exactly to my own tastes so I worked out my own pattern to get the exact shape and style that I was after.

Cherries are a favorite summer fruit and a really fun theme for crafting with too. With this Cherry Perler bead pattern tutorial, you'll be able to make a cute pair of cherry embellishments. These cherry Perler bead embellishment designs will work as sweet additions to handmade cards, scrapbook pages, gift tags, party favor bag decorations and cute detail to add to bags and purses. They'd make great hair and fashion accessories for you to craft too. Mine are joined together with some fancy, patterned ribbon which helps them look so cute. I plan to sew mine onto a mini crochet cushion when I get the time to make one.

As soon as I saw an adorable pattern in issue 18 of the Simply Crochet magazine for a sweet baby unicorn, that was my weekend crafting sorted! I adore fantasy creatures and I love the way that this one sits down, especially as it is going up on a display shelf in my office. If you've been reading my blog here at CraftyMarie, you'll know that I'm still very new to crochet. In fact I only just started it this year. That's why I'm so proud of making this adorable Amigurumi crochet unicorn. This unicorn is actually my first completed toy pattern since I've only worked on simple items up until now like granny squares, cushion covers and pincushions. So to work a whole pattern for a toy was pretty daunting.