My crochet inspiration as a young girl was McCalls. That magazine featured crochet fashion from the 70′s, and the most vivid in my mind was a bikini set and a colourful granny squares vest. I never managed to crochet any of the wearables in the magazine, I tried but it wasn’t possible for me. The patterns were too complex for an absolute beginner and all I had was DK weight acrylic yarn.

However, I felt strongly about crochet wearables – from clothes to accessories – and I forever wanted to make them so much more than other items of crochet.

As a kind of celebration of those youthful first crochet years browsing McCalls crochet magazine, I made these Crochet Girl Patterns. These are all quick and easy, small crochet projects that I would have loved to make as a young girl, thus the name Crochet Girl. These projects are all made from DK weight acrylic yarn. You can also use sport, fingering or worsted weight yarn. And of course, these projects are all crochet for wearing – accessories and small items of clothing.

So, here’s the first pattern in My Crochet Girl collection.