Anastasia Popova

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  1. The secret is out!!! — 10 comments
  2. Arianna Baby Blanket — 6 comments
  3. Snow Queen Hat now in crochet — 6 comments
  4. I won!!!!! — 5 comments
  5. Farewell 2010 — 4 comments

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Aug 01

Training Them Young

Look who came to class few weeks ago: Yeap! My niece Michelle and Denine’s niece Leyla are learning to crochet. Leyla came few times last year when she learned single crochet, chain stitch and double crochet.  She made two little monsters in single crochet.  Then school started and we have not seen her, but during …

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Jul 22

Twisted Beanie

As I mentioned in a previous post Michelle was very specific about the hat she wanted. She picked a color for the hat out of my stash – Sugar n’ Cream in Robin Egg. I finished the hat for her and decorated the edge of the hat with white yarn. Originally she wanted a red flower, …

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Jul 18

Summer Hats

Back in April I made two summer hats for girls and photographed them on Maksim niece – Michell. Yes, I pay my models in crochet stuff, why do you ask? Yesterday, we were looking at those pictures, actually I was showing her that she is on my website, and Michelle mentioned that she would really like …

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Jul 18

Baby socks pattern

is finally done and available.  I started making those socks about two weeks ago.  Remember when it was extremely hot, like 103 F hot?  Yeap, that’s when I was started working on them. I made the pink one first, which turned out to be in newborn size. Then, I sizes the sock pattern up to …

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Jul 13

Time to start making holiday presents.

I remember when we were cramping up on finishing holiday gifts last year (3 days before the party), someone  mentioned that it might be a good idea to start gift making earlier than November, maybe even in July. Guess what… It is July! I checked! My fancy brand new phone says – July!  Time to …

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Jul 08

Cupcakes are driving me nuts

and I am not talking about calories and cholesterol. I am trying to crochet one, actually trying to write a pattern by crocheting as little messed up cupcakes as possible. So far I made two, which according to survey look more like aliens and monsters, or something round that requires eyes. Judge for yourself: Maybe …

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Jun 16

I won!!!!!

I won, I won, I won, I won, I WON!!!!! I am so freaking excited!!!!! There is not such thing as to many exclamation points, thanks for asking. Last year (October to be precise) I submitted three pattern to crochet a day calendar. A few month later I received new that one of them would …

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