Henna Miettinen, MerryMandrake

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Crochet: Animal Toy
Need a new friend for the Year of the Snake 2025? Look no further, for this snake pattern creates quite a realistic looking slithery friend. It utilizes spike stitches, front post double crochets and backloop only stitches to achieve a textured, scaly look, and as such it’s a suitable project for the experienced crocheter who’s familiar with th...
Crochet: Afghan block
This square has the trusty standard granny square as its base, but it’s spruced up with rows of leaves to give it a warm autumn mood. Once you get the idea of how to create the leaf layers you can easily scale the square smaller or bigger to fit your needs, but this tutorial walks you through creating a square with four layers of leaves. Perfec...
Crochet: Softies - Other, Hanging Ornament
This small human skull requires no sewing nor filling! It’s light enough to be easily hung as Halloween
Crochet: Animal Toy
The Mongolian death worm, also known as “olgoi-khorkhoi”, is a somewhat obscure cryptid creature, rumored to live in the Gobi Desert. It’s said to be fearsomely poisonous and able to grow into considerable sizes.
Crochet: Applique / Embellishment
This wing pattern creates a beautiful pair of feathered wings to be attached into any crochet project to customize your crocheted creatures to next level. Perfect for fantasy creatures, birds or angels. Comes with a tutorial for wiring and insertion into different projects.
Crochet: Animal Toy
This detailed wolf amigurumi art doll features a full-body armature to allow for posing the finished wolf into different poses. Of course, the armature can be skipped if so wished, resulting in a floppy-legged, huggable wolf friend.
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square features an ammonite design on its center, perfect for fossil lovers and paleontology
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square features a poisonous front-facing belladonna flower at its center, with a ring of leaves and dark blue poison berries around it. The berries pop out of the square for a slight 3D-effect. Perfect for witchy, whimsy decor!
Crochet: Afghan block
This unique rectangle-shaped granny block has taken inspiration from illustrations of energy points called “chakras” in human body. The seven different rainbow colors correspond to these chakras and create a beautiful, eye-catching pattern to this block.
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square has the queen of the fall harvest, the pumpkin, at its center, and a ring of leaves around it. Perfect for cozy fall-time projects! By varying the colors you can end up with many different moods for this square.
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square features a ring of spruce trees and a central sun/moon. By varying the colors the square can depict an atmospheric night-time forest or a cheery midday scene, or anything in between. The finished square is quite big, measuring about 21cm/8,2inches when made with worsted/aran weight yarn and size 3,5mm hook.
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square features a big central fly amanita mushroom, made with 3 different colors in orange-red-dark red spectrum to make it really pop! You can make the square feature only the fly amanita, or you can continue and create a circle of little mushrooms around their queen…. :)
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square features four skulls with bone designs around them. The mood of the square changes along with the chosen colors; with vibrant colors the vibe is reminiscent of Mexican Day of the Dead, and by using only black and white the square turns out rather gothic. Explore with different color palettes to create awesome skull squares, f...
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square features a magical trinity knot design on it. Also known as triquetra, it’s an ancient symbol used by many different cultures and peoples. It’s also a popular symbol for modern day witches and wiccans.
Crochet: Applique / Embellishment
This fantasy dragon/bat/demon wing applique is a fun way to spruce up your jackets and sweaters, and it also makes for a cool decoration to sew into bags and other accessories.
Crochet: Softies - Other
Need a deceptively simple but adorably quirky crochet project? Why not this ceaselessly staring pyramid buddy! It will silently judge you whatever you do.
Crochet: Toys and Hobbies - Other, Doll
This guide contains instructions for making a spell poppet. Two variations are included; one that’s filled as you go, and one that has a hole in its stomach, so you can make the base poppet ready, decorate it as you wish, and then fill it as part of a spell later.
Crochet: Animal Toy
This cute little hoot-hoot is a quick and easy craft and the result is adorable! It’s a great project for using up some scrap yarns, and the finished owl makes for a fun mascot for your desk or car. It’s a cute gift too!
Crochet: Wall Hanging
If you want to spruce up your wall with a guaranteed conversation starter, look no further. This crocheted werewolf head is a masterwork project which will display your crochet skills for all the world to see. Plus, it just is pretty wicked cool! Perfect decoration for all fantasy lovers!
Crochet: Toy Food
Morel mushrooms are one of the most prized treasures to be found by any hopeful forager. With this pattern you can create everlasting morels to remember those good times in the forest by, or give them as gifts to your mushroom-hunter friends and relatives. Make a bunch and display them in a bowl for some rustic home decor! Or, if you have kids,...
Crochet: Softies - Other
Cute, tiny amigurumi elk skull, what more could you want!
Crochet: Hanging Ornament, Doll
This wiccan goddess charm is a symbol of fertility, nature and life, and makes for a nice protective hanging ornament in your house, or perhaps as a gift given to expecting mothers.
Crochet: Afghan block
This granny square features the eye of the fearsome Fenrir, the mythological wolf beast from Norse Edda. Of course, the interpretation is left to the eye of the beholder, and the design could just as well be said to be a dragon’s eye, or a general mystical eye :)
Crochet: Animal Toy
This cute raven makes for a great little familiar, keen to stare at whatever you may do. It has detailed feathers and an adorable, crouched pose. Designed for worsted weight yarn, but works with any yarn weight. The wings and feet are made separately and then sewn into the body.
Crochet: Softies - Other
This Baba Yaga’s Hut is witchy, small, and packed with details! It uses some specialty stitches such as front post double crochets, back post single crochets and picot stitches to create details and texture to the walls and the roof, and as such it’s a project suitable for at least intermediate crocheters, or for beginners with some prior exper...
Crochet: Decorative - Other
This impressive slavic mythology inspired Baba Yaga’s Hut stands a whopping 43cm tall, and is sure to grab attention. It has armature-reinforced chicken legs and the hut itself has interiors and a removable roof so you can use it as a LED candleholder, or as a candy bowl! Or you could hide secrets inside it…
Crochet: Animal Toy
Gothicat is a unique, cute goth-kitty doll, complete with an armature, a pretty frilly dress and a lovable attitude with a death-stare.
Crochet: Hanging Ornament
These little baubles have been designed to symbolize the spirit of Yule, the celebration of winter solstice and the rebirth of the sun. Instead of generic round balls or other popular tree ornaments, these pagan baubles will surely set your Yule tree apart from others!