Aoibhe Ni - Tunisian Crochet

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Ard Ri Shawl Ard Rí – or “High King” in Irish – is a celebration in colour and texture. It’s 208 cm wide (that’s 82 inches), and it is so, so easy to adapt it to make it bigger or smaller.

Editing does wonders, pattern testers are the best, but sometimes a little polish years later by the designer can make all the difference.

What do you think of my remake so far?
Have you crocheted Ard Ri already? You can review the pattern on my site.

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That’s the great thing about getting to dip back into one of my greatest hits; I can improve the quality of the work now that time has passed and I have a little distance from it.
#ArdRiShawl

Progress on the #ArdRiShawl remake is coming along, folks! And, luckily, I’m taking notes as I go so I can edit the pattern a little to clarify a few points.
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Videos are so hard to do when you haven't planned ahead!! 🧶

Note to self: plan ahead next time.

Still... Brad, the Tunisian crochet shawl is now available and on sale on my website. www.yarntowers.com

Bríd Shawl Inspired by the legend of Saint Brigid’s miraculously expanding cloak, this shawl builds up over 32 segments (one for each county in Ireland), until it becomes a perfect, full circle. Using a…

It seems everywhere is cold and wet and/or snowing at the mo.

But if you have some DK to spare and a 6 mm hook, you can wait the weather out while making this double-wrap shoulder warmer.
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Bríd is Tunisian Crochet with a little wee bit of trad' crochet thrown in. 😘

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I think we all know what the correct answer here is.
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Teaching a left-handed person to crochet? Here are some handy tips and tricks. right-handed left-handed crochet, teaching a child to crochet, rightie teacher, leftie student, I can't teach my kid to crochet

Are you a left-handed crocheter?
Are you a rightie trying to TEACH a leftie to crochet?
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I got you, fam.
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If they equate "inauthentic behaviour" with inactivity, then I'm inauthentic about 50% of the day. 😆

Oh, wow, I'd be screwed too.
My parents would regularly produce lists of new vocab for my sister and I to learn over dinner.

Latin, generational slang, colloquialisms, obsolete words.

But when I think about it, what they were essentially doing was turning us into organic LLMs, one meal at a time.

Lop An added layer with a bit of flair! Lop is thick, warm and versatile. Make one to stuff in your bag when you head out into the cold. You’ll be glad you brought it! Lop is available in bust si…

If you bought a copy of my 2011 crochet pattern "Lop" on either Rav or yarntowers.com/product/lop/ 🧶

FYI: An eagle-eyed customer recently found a mistake so I've updated it on both platforms. Everyone was notified, but if you haven't heard from me, please let me know and I'll sort it out for you.

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huh.

Apparently, not using my Twitter account for a couple of years, not logging in, and not touching that fascist, hateful platform with a ten foot barge pole consitiutes "inauthentic behaviour".

Seems about right.

After all, I'd hate to undermine Twitter's "integrity". Snort.

Hahaha! That says it all, really.

Hah!!! Well, even if your dog is way too busy zooming around to have time to learn to sit politely during the day, I bet they'll at least enjoy snoozing on it in the evening, when they finally run out of steam.

It's genuinely a very satisfying part of the process.
Good luck!

My Scrap Mat Formula My Scrap Mat Formula Every few years my yarn stash gets “a little out of hand”…

The solution definitely won't fit in a simple skeet, I'm afraid. 🧶

But, luckily, you asked the question I was already half-way to answering over on my craft blog:

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Ew, Darina.

No!

It's all double crochet, and there's a trick to keeping it flat that goes beyond the logical maths.

And yep, it's multiple stands. A handful of yarns held together that range anywhere from chunky to laceweight, depending on what I have to hand.

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A crochet mat on a yellow wood floor. It's made up of random gradients of red, orange and pink yarns, with a darker grey border. The kitchen cabinets in the background are teal, and I feel that's an important thing to point out because I painted them recently.

Every now and then, I accumulate enough yarn balls, half balls, and random impulse purchases to crochet into a floor mat. 🧶

This is my latest, and I adore it.

Does anyone else do this as a destash exercise?

It's story time! 🧶

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I stabbed under my left thumbnail with a hairbrush prong yesterday, and today, my thumb is killing me.

RIP, my comfy crochet evening. 😭🧶

Will you help me decide something important and crochet-related over on my blog today? 🧶

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Ogham.

I'm gonna go with that, then.

Though, capitalised, it looks pretty ugly.

"Pompom".
Ugh.

Crafty Peeps!
Which is it: pom-pom? pompom? ponpom?

...or some other ungodly and pedantic spelling?
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#knitting #crochet #crafts

Ard Ri Shawl Ard Rí – or “High King” in Irish – is a celebration in colour and texture. It’s 208 cm wide (that’s 82 inches), and it is so, so easy to adapt it to make it bigger or smaller.

For more info on Ard Ri, please click here:
yarntowers.com/product/ard-...

Bríd, the blue and orange shawl, was designed and crocheted specifically for a tunisian crochet workshop I teach, so I don't have that one available as a pattern just yet.
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If you see them, or are gifted them this festive season, please let me know.
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Ard Ri (gold and purple) is particularly distinctive, because that gold yarn (with brassy, pink undertones) was only dyed for a very short time and so is quite rare.

A blonde haired white woman wearing black is standing in front of a light pink wall and is holding out a large gold and purple tunisian crochet shawl

A close up of a pair of hands holding a section of a gold and purple shawl. The section has laternative stripes of the two colours.

An over-head photo of a blue and orange curving shawl laid out on a wooden floor.

A close up of a blue and orange shawl laid out of a wooden floor, showing the triangular segments that make it up.

All right, crafty folks.
I need everyone who sees this to keep a look out for the following shawls. They were lost by FedEx on the way to Barcelona Knits, and have been declared "unrecoverable".
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This is thoussands of euros of work & materials, not to mention their value at Trunk Shows & Workshops.

A big, black great dane relaxing in the sunshine, looking towards the camera. Behind her is a small, walled garden.

A bit black great dane lounging in the back of a red van. She's lying on a flat grey mat and is wearing a red lead. In the background a very proud woman is smiling from her spot in the driver's seat. Not pictured: This is the first time our big dog was brave enough to hop into the van and relax. It was a very proud moment.

A blonde-haired woman is sitting on the stoop of a small wooden garden shed. She is barefoot and looking to her left at a big black great dane who is up-side-down, legs dangling in the air and sunning her lovely pink belly. Both the dog and the woman seem very happy with how their day is progressing.

A small, blonde-haired woman and a big black great dane dog nap in the sunshine. The woman's hand is relaxed against the dog's chin. The dog's back is pressed up against her front so that they're spooning. Dappled light covers their faces from a tree overhead (unpictured)

It's almost one week since our beautiful dog Korra crossed the rainbow bridge, and the reality of those words still leaves me utterly bereft.

I'm unmoored, at a total loss.
She was everything; a big silly goof, a philosopher, a shiny new soul we were entrusted with on earth.

My heart is broken.

Admittedly, I agree.
I spent time today crafting a smaller one instead.

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Much nicer on my crochet hat.