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I’ve been on holiday to Nice recently and have fallen out of my blogging routine completely! However, I haven’t fallen out of my baking routine.
These beauties were made using my favourite vanilla cupcake and cream cheese frosting recipes. I then decorated them with these fruity looking chocolate coated sunflower seeds.
I [...]
It’s hard to be a crochet blogger today without admitting that you admire (and are even inspired by) Twinkie Chan’s food themed crochet projects. Seriously, Twinkie’s crochet is amazing and I often drooled over her tasty treats before I learned to crochet myself. But at that price?! Surely I could make one myself?! …and so [...]
So after all this crocheting with a boring grey metal hook I’ve been getting a bit bored, especially when I’ve seen so many pics with metal and plastic hooks in so many delicious colours!!
I headed to my local Hobby Craft first, and found these three lovelies in the sale section, only 99p each
Then [...]
The next thing I’ve hooked up is this gorgeous heart scarf from YouCanMakeThis.com by Hip Chick Crochet. This is the first pattern that I had ever downloaded from the internet. I actually made this with my sister in mind, but she is yet to receive it, oops! And again, I’d say it is a good [...]
My second ever crochet project was a boy beanie for my boyfriend, Andy. He has a very large head (you know what they say… wait a minute, what do they say??) and finds it very hard to get hats that fit!
This particular pattern, by Laura Killoran, is again from The Happy Hooker and is actually [...]
Please excuse the myspace-esque photo, unfortunately no one else was around at the time to take my picture.
Here is my very first crochet project! A beautiful flower scarf using the Garden Scarf pattern from The Happy Hooker. The pattern was written by Michelle Ameron and is great for a beginner, I think. The pattern [...]
I’ve uploaded a new theme which I designed and built myself (starting with the free Sandbox theme).
I’ve used images from iStock Photo and Shabby Princess as the basis for the design and with a little CSS know-how, voila!
I’m still to do something with the Archives and Links page (and maybe the footer, and the post [...]
Ok, first things first. My inspiration for teaching myself to crochet was the Happy Hooker book from Debbie Stoller’s Stitch ‘n’ Bitch series.
I actually bought this book for my sister for Christmas for all the cute designs and to give her a new hobby. But I now need to buy her a new copy as [...]
You may know me as Christina Sparkle, Christina Fowler or the girl with loads of Gwen mags!
I plan to use this blog as a diary of my crochet adventures. So come here to see me experiment with all kinds of patterns, yarn and other crochet stuff!
I just taught myself to crochet only a few weeks [...]
Hello! I'm Christina, the author of twinkle and sparkle, a web log where I document my adventures in crochet; yarn, hooks and patterns.
I originally come from Nottingham, UK but since going to uni I've lived in Leeds. Now I co-habit with a Dandy Mandy and our two fish 'Up' and 'Down'.
