Crafty Marie

Summer has officially now started for me now my daughter has just broken up from school for the long summer vacation. She's off now until the beginning of September and this is the time where we get busy doing a selection of crafts that adults and kids can do together. As well as doing our own thing too. With this in mind (and conscious of other people in a similar position either looking after children, grandkids or helping out at summer camps and parties) I've put together a very long resource page packed with 50 summer crafts.

Today I'll be showcasing my finished amigurumi fairy doll made with a free pattern in issue 19 of the Simply Crochet magazine: the issue that also had the fabulous summer bunting in it too. Loved that issue. I'll also be giving a list of my favorite free fairy patterns that I've found online for you. So bear with me because this could turn into another long post. First up, this is the first fairy doll I've made. So far I've done small stuffed items like strawberries, the unicorn which was also another free pattern in Simply Crochet and even a doll but not a fairy. Of course, as soon as I saw her, I thought she'd work great on display next to the unicorn. I opted for pastel shades: cream, lilac, mint green, pale blue and pink and of course had to make some tweaks to the original pattern too. I'm not good at just leaving things alone. I always have to change it up a little.