Permanent Special Offer : up to 4 of my crochet and knitting patterns for free

I decided to create a permanent offer that permit you to get up to 4 of my patterns for free. That means you can choose any pattern you want! And it is not all: this offer gives you the possibility to access more than 24000 craft and other (art, photography, marketing, culinary, technology...) classes for free during 2 months. 

Get 2 patterns of your choice for free (to choose from my Ravelry store or my Etsy shop)

Conditions :

1. Sign up for a 2-month Skillshare Premium Free Trial* through this link :
   http://www.skillshare.com/r/user/naturofils

2. Contact me (on Ravelry, Etsy, Instagram…) saying you did and giving me your Skillshare name, I'll check the information and send you a coupon code to download the chosen patterns for free from my Ravelry store. Enjoy your membership and start learning by watching my classes and all the classes of your choice.
3. You can get 2 more free patterns by watching all my classes.

Conditions :

-Watch all my classes (19 at the moment) till the end.
-For each class give me the date when you watched it in order to let me verify the minutes watched in it this day. Play fair game : I only can see the names of the students enrolled in each of my classes and the total amount of minutes watched in it. Once I checked all these points, I'll send you 2 more coupon codes to download the chosen patterns.

*About your Skillshare Premium Membership Trial :

It will give you an unlimited access to all my classes (craft, culinary, language) and to all the classes of the site (more than 24000 and it constantly grows).

No commitments, you can cancel anytime. If you don't want to continue, cancel before the 2-month trial expires and you won't be charged. You can continue as Free member and access all the free classes of the site. If you save all the classes you watch while Premium, you will still access them as Free member.

You can also become a Skillshare Teacher creating and publishing your own class whether you are a Free or a Premium member. Send me your email and I'll refer you. If you teach a class within 30 days, you'll get a 50$ bonus. For more information see: http://skl.sh/1MEReBc

Find me on Etsy :

www.naturofils.etsy.com/fr

on Ravelry :

https://www.ravelry.com/designers/elena-lepretre

in Happily Hooked Magazine :

http://happilyhooked.com/elenalepretrehhm

video tutorials on Skillshare :

https://www.skillshare.com/r/user/naturofils

Follow me on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter (Naturofils).

Crochet Broomstick Granny Square

I'm not a fan of granny squares even if I've already done things using them, as a mini handbag, for example. You can love them or not but you can't deny it's such a clever and simple creation giving infinite possibilities.
This year we are celebrating it for the 5th time with @simplycrochetmag and thanks to @suregal27. 
Often considered as old-fashioned (even by its name) it survives and even stars on podiums. How many beautiful granny garments from slippers to jackets, dresses and coats I've already seen, how many accessories and home decor pieces like bags, bracelets, lampshades, blankets!.. With today's beautiful yarns and multiple shades even a traditional granny square becomes a masterpiece but it doesn't stop here. Talented designers create incredible squares with flowers, peacock feathers and even complicated compositions - real small crochet paintings. Knitted grannies also exist now. 
Today I want to celebrate this day with you, all my crochet friends and communities I like. It's been a long time I wanted to create something unusual playing with Peruvian broomstick and several days ago I don't know how and why decided to create a granny square transforming this stitch. I needed craft as therapy and I want to share the result with you. Those who want can download it from my Ravelry store for free today and I ask you to share if you find it interesting. It exists in 1 and 2-colour version. Happy#grannysquareday2018 to all of you!

Here is the back side of my broomstick granny squares defined by me but you can choose it as right side  because it's reversible. Do you see the difference? Tell me which one you prefer.

 

 

My Happily Hooked Maple Leaf

Autumn is not really my favourite season, it's the beginning of a kind of hibernation for me. I don't like cold periods of the year and it also when the nature starts to die. That's why I'm feeling a little bit sad at this moment. But it will reborn in spring and every season has its beauty, especially autumn which is particularly colourful and picturesque. And this autumn brings me joyful mood because one of my newest crochet designs has just been published in the September Issue (#42) of the Happily Hooked Magazine

What can symbolize autumn better than a falling leaf? And as the theme of this issue is Colors of Autumn, I created a Maple Leaf and shared all the stages of its making of in the magazine.

Following my tutorial you can create your own maple leaf and even any other leaf you like or find outside or in your garden, immortalize the beauty of this season, its colours. You can choose any yarn or thread of the desired colours. Mine was made with simple Zeeman cotton and polyester Sissy Sport threads of the terracotta shades.

The real item is on sale in my Etsy shop and the pattern can be found in Happily Hooked Magazine #42 following the link given above.
I hope you'll enjoy crocheting this leaf. You'll also find many other beautiful makes and interesting articles in this issue.

Enjoy the process of creation and the beauty of this autumn!

Le coeur de mon Arum/Calla

Ca y est, je viens de le faire enfin! Cela faisait un moment que je voulais créer un tutoriel vidéo expliquant comment j'ai réalisé le pistil de mon Arum/Calla crocheté car c'était trop long d'inclure la description pas-à-pas avec des images dans mon tuto. Il y a quelques jours j'ai enfin publié un nouveau cours sur Skillshare où je montre comment je crochète le coeur de mon arum avec des perles de rocailles. Tous les secrets de cette technique sont expliqués dans cette vidéo et elle vous permettra de créer de beaux colliers ou bracelets avec de beaux motifs que vous pourrez créer également vous-mêmes grâce au logiciel gratuit que je vous conseille dans mon cours. Pas encore prêts à vous lancer dans le design? Vous y trouverez alors un lien vers une multitude de diagrammes déjà existants pour commencer. 

Je vous montre l'intro:

 

Et ce n'est pas tout! Si vous vous inscrivez en suivant ce lien, vous aurez accès à tous les cours du site (plus de 16 000), y compris les miens, pendant 2 mois, gratuitement et sans aucun engagement (on vous demande d'enregistrer votre carte mais elle ne sera pas débitée, vous pouvez arrêter cet essai d'abonnement Premium à tout moment tout en conservant les 2 mois gratuits). C'est l'occasion de découvrir ce site américain où des professionnels de tous les domaines sont présents (si vous êtes créatifs et avez une boutique sur Etsy notamment, vous serez content de découvrir un cours avec des conseils de ce géant de vente de handmade). 

N'hésitez surtout pas si vous avez une moindre question! Pas d'inquiétude si vous ne parlez pas anglais car dans beaucoup de cas (comme pour les cours de loisirs créatifs) on comprend en regardant seulement. Et sachez que sur Skillshare tout le monde peut enseigner, donc si vous voulez partager votre savoir-faire, vous êtes les bienvenus aussi!!!

Do you want to know a secret, do you promise not to tell?

"Pourquoi est-ce que je cite cette chanson de The Beatles?" - vous demandez-vous certainement. Vous allez le comprendre. 

Aujourd'hui j'ai fini de crocheter cette marguerite blanche. C'est le 2e article où j'utilise cette petite astuce, ce matériau que tout le monde pourrait avoir chez soi. Je partagerai ce secret avec vous dans le tutoriel de fabrication que j'ai commencé à préparer. Cette fleur garde parfaitement sa forme et je pense que je vais la fixer sur un support broche-pince à cheveux. On peut créer des fleurs d'autres couleurs et les utiliser pour réaliser un collier, un sorte de plastron fleuri.

En attendant vous pouvez télécharger le tutoriel de ma broche Fleur rose depuis mes boutiques Etsy ou Ravelry ou l'acheter directement dans ma boutique ALM.