Advent Patterns, Patterns

Advent Shawl

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(Well, it is Advent season!)

Hello my lovely ones. How are we all on this cold wintery mornings. It’s been rather chilly hasn’t it! It is rather nice to have all the warm yarny woolies out though. We have had a bit of strange week – I picked my little lady up from her week long residential on Friday. It’s been so weirdly quiet! The house doesn’t seem to function without her at all. It seems strangely unbalanced. So nice to have her back in the house. Feels complete again. Not a fan of her being away. But I know they need to do these things to grow and spread their wings and oh boy, did they have fun.

So I just wanted to pop on & talk about Advents! I know many of you lucky ones will have had a gorgeous delivery this last week from some of our incredible yarn dyers. I hope you have all managed to grab the one you wanted. It is such an exciting time of year for the yarny world. Can’t wait to open mine. So exciting.

I have tried to behave this year and not buy too much yarn, so that I could buy the advents. They are a great way to create a really spectacular piece, as many of the dyers will create each mini skein of yarn to sit beautifully with each other. With many of them dyed in a gradient manner, allowing the colours to flow and compliment each other. As of next year, I am hoping to bring you more crocheted garments, so with this in mind, the advents are win win for me.

I feel that the advents can say a lot about a dyer and really gives them a chance to shine and show their true colours. Many of them start planing their advents in the spring!! Can you imagine! So a lot of hard work and thought has gone into these beautifully little advent parcels. Ekk. I am now getting super excited.

In the past I have been super lucky to have Orchidean Luxury Yarn Advents. They are so scrumptious and so luxurious. Such a pleasure to open each day and see what squishy yarny treats are in store for you. But this year I have also branched out for one of Lisa’s advents from For the Love of Yarn too. I am super excited to be bringing you an exclusive pattern for her advent later in the year, with all proceeds for the pattern going to Children’s Liver Disease. An incredible charity that is very close to Lisa’s heart too. I was so humbled to find that Lisa has chosen me as one of her top crochet designers for her advents, such an incredible honour. Thank you Lisa. So kind of you.

Some of you may be starting to think about what kind of projects you would like to work on with your advents, so I couldn’t resist sharing my Advent Shawl pattern with you again this year. It is one of my all time favourite advent yarn pieces and, as many of you know, I am never far away from it! Well it’s rainbow and it’s soft yarn and it’s warm, what more can I say!!

Now this year I have created the pattern in an easily downloadable file, so that you can get going with your advent project straight away.

As with all my patterns now, I would be extremely grateful for any possible donations, however small, to my Crochet for Charity Just Giving Page. At the moment, I am hoping to support Child Bereavement Charity, which has been close to our hearts for a few years now. Thank you so much in advance for any donations you are able to give.

So here are the links you need:

The Advent Shawl PDF Pattern

Advent-ShawlThe Advent Shawl PDF Pattern

Just Giving Crochet For Charity Page

Crochet for Charity Just Giving Page

Keep your eyes peeled for some other advent projects that may find their way onto my website too. There’s another one that I really can’t wait to share with you. In time, I will create an Advent Category on the website, so you will be able to find the patterns easily. Don’t forget that if you aren’t able to buy the advents, then all of these patterns can be made my yarn stash diving. Just grab a big bundle of your odds and ends and get crocheting. Ooo, imagine the possibilities!! Oh dear, what am I like.

Ooo, I nearly forgot. I may have been working on a rather secret advent project with the incredible Abby from Orchidean Luxury Yarns, so keep an eye out for that too. It’s a goodun, I promise you! But Mums the word I am afraid.

Anyways, happy hooking. Keep warm and have fun with the run up to, dare I say it – CHRISTMAS! Ekk!

🌈Xx

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Elma the Elephant

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First Charity PDF Pattern has landed!

Ekk, I am so excited!!

Here she is…

My very first Downloadable Charity PDF Pattern.

Meet Elma the Elephant. She is the most kind & thoughtful little elephant you will ever meet. She is always baking treats for her little friends and is never far away from a cuppa with a chum. Her favourite thing to do is to sit down & write a good story. You never know, you might find one day, that she is a published author, with many children’s books to her name. If you ever get your hands on one of them, you will be in for a real treat. 

I am so excited to be starting PipsRainbow’s new chapter. I am really hoping to bring you lots of lovely squishy crochet PDF Patterns, in exchange for a few pennies for charity. My very first charity and pattern are rather close to my heart.

Here’s why…

Six years ago, my daughter started school and made friends with a very brave little girl who had lost her little brother in a traffic accident that summer. Since then, both her and her family have had to come to terms with their tragic loss and the bravery they have shown, has blown me away. During this time, there has been a very special charity called Child Bereavement UK, that has been there through it all and has supported them and helped them to rebuild their lives. 

Child Bereavement UK help not only the parents but children as well, to deal with their grief. They also provide training to professionals, equipping them to provide the best possible care to bereaved families. Their support has been invaluable to my daughter’s friend and her family and in turn they have worked hard to raise thousands of pounds for this incredible charity. 

Each year one of my little crocheted creations has been entered into their infamous charity silent auction at their annual quiz & I am so happy that it tends to raise over a hundred pounds each time. This year it was Elma the Elephant, so I just couldn’t resist sharing her pattern with you all, in the hope that we can raise some more money for Child Bereavement UK.

I would be truly humbled for any of you who are downloading my Elma pattern, to donate to this incredible charity. So that we can continue to raise money and allow them to carry on providing the invaluable support to so many families across the country. 

Please give what you can, but I think the recommended donation would be around the £5 mark or higher if you are able to. 

Thank you so much in advance for your help in supporting this incredible charity. 

Let’s see how much we can raise for them.

This little elephant is a great pattern for any crochet lovers or beginners alike. It uses the simple Amigurimi method of crocheting in the round and is easy to follow. Don’t forget you can make Elma in two different sizes. I made the Quiz Elephant using Aran weight wool and a 5.5mm crochet hook, but the main PDF pattern, the grey elephant is made with DK weight yarn with a 3mm crochet hook.

Hope you enjoy it. 

So here are the all important links –

Elma the Elephant PDF Pattern

Elma-the-ElephantDownload

My Just Giving Page for Elma the Elephant

Just Giving Elma the Elephant

Don’t forget to donate!

Thank you in advance. So, so excited to be helping to make just a little bit of a difference for a charity. As always, please don’t hesitate to ask any questions and don’t forget to share your creations! Can’t wait to see them!

Happy hooking.

🌈Xx 

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