I have moved sites!

I will be uploading all new blog posts to my new website which will continue to follow my crochet projects but also showcase my other art and design adventures!

If you wish to see my new works, head on over to zeborahgrace@wordpress.com or visit me on Instagram @zeborahgrace.

If you are interested in buying products (e.g. shirts, phone cases, notebooks) with my designs, head on over to my Redbubble account.

And if you want to keep up with the cactus side of Cacti and Crochet to buy cacti or my crochet items, contact us on Facebook!

See you around!

Find me on Instagram

Sorry it’s been such a long time since I’ve posted on this blog!

In the middle of last year I lost all my edited photos from the previous year when my computer died 😦 Unfortunately that meant I also didn’t have a computer with the software to edit new photos either! I am only just getting back to editing all those older photos so I can keep putting things up online.

In the mean time, if you are interested in seeing more of my crochet projects, both old and new, I have just started an Instagram account so that I can share photos with you even when I don’t have the time to write a whole post.

Head over and follow me @zeborahgrace

As a bonus, you’ll occasionally get other arty/crafty photos as well as crochet!

See you there 🙂

Four little crochet water droplets

Water droplets

Water droplets

Water droplets

P.S Here’s a preview of a current work in progress…..any ideas what I’m making?

Crochet Cactus Jewellery

These sets of cacti earrings and necklaces were designed to bridge the gap between the cacti and crochet components of our little family business (read more about us here). In particular, I was hoping that they could get some of the cacti-obsessed visitors to our regular craft market stall interested in looking at the crochet too.

Little crochet flowers and their many uses

These little crocheted flowers were always intended to become part of a bouquet of hydrangeas. It was a last-minute idea I had for a friend’s birthday, but when I started making the components, I discovered a crochet hydrangea was absolutely not a last-minute-appropriate idea.

So in the end I used a few of the flowers and crocheted a leaf to make a cute curly flower pod at the last minute for my friend.

Teddy Bear Beanie

This beanie was inspired by the yarn which my husband brought home for me a few weeks ago. I wasn’t certain I loved the colours, but I liked the soft and interesting texture and I LOVED that hubby brought me home yarn!

So I wondered, what can I crochet that makes sense of these dull browns/greys? I also wanted to make up my own pattern, so I knew something simple was a good plan.

Obviously, a cosy teddy bear hat was the answer!

My (mostly less than satisfactory) attempts to invent a better Misfit Flash wrist band

So a month or two ago I picked up this second-hand Misfit Flash at auction on eBay for a bargain. It’s pretty much one of the least fancy fitness trackers out there, and no longer sold new as it is from a previous generation of trackers, but it is from one of the respected brands in the fitness tracking world.

I’d been thinking of getting some sort of activity/sleep tracker for a couple of years – not because I’m at all into fitness (I have to admit I basically detest anything that increases my heart rate), but because I wanted to have a better understanding of my sleeping and activity patterns over weeks, months and years as part of generally monitoring my health. And if it happened to inspire me to actually do some exercise, that wouldn’t hurt either…..

Unicorn Beanie – mane tutorial

I often start crocheting with an idea in mind and then find a free pattern for something similar on Pinterest to use as a place to start from. But even when I intend to follow the pattern because it’s already awesome, I almost always end up changing something along the way and creating my own version of it.

This beanie was different. First of all, the pattern sparked the idea rather than the other way around, and secondly, other than switching up the colours, making the horn longer and using a slightly smaller crochet hook, I pretty much followed the original pattern for this adorable unicorn beanie right to the end!

The Learning Curve

My crochet journey began with knitting.

I learnt to knit when I was about 8 years old. A Dutch friend of my mother’s taught me along with my older sister because although my mum could knit, my left-handed sister struggled with learning the English method which clearly favoured the right-handed. I found knitting a useful skill, particularly to while away the many hours in the car as my family travelled around Australia with a caravan when I was 10 (see below for some pictures of my beautiful country – taken by my 10 year old self on my old film camera).

Devil’s Marbles

Our caravan – home for 3 months

Ayers Rock (Uluru)

Old Police Station Waterhole

Katherine Gorge/River

Florence Falls, Litchfield National Park

Wangi Falls, Litchfield National Park

The Start

I guess a blog has to start somewhere so here it is….the start.

Why am I blogging and what am I blogging about? Well, here’s the story.

My husband and I recently started a Facebook page in an attempt to bring our vastly different interests together……you guessed it, cacti and crochet. Not sharing many interests and looking to more productively occupy our time while searching for work, we decided to see if we could start a local business. Well, the very very micro, not sure we really wanted a ‘real’ business sort of business. Initially, just a place where we could share our passions and find others who wanted to share them too – and if people were interested in buying things, all the better!