Magic with hook and needles: About me

About me

Hi there :-),

it is so nice, you would like to know something about me. I feel really honored. Thank you! My name is Vendula and Magic with hook and needles is my beloved magical world of crochet designs. It is not only my work - it is my hobby, passion of my life and my life :-). My friends call me Vendulka. You could see this name " Made with love, Vendulka " on the stamp on my pictures. I have two girls - these little miracles, my rainbow fairies - they give a sense of my life... And yes, all cannot be possible without my hubby, because of him, I have these two miracles and because he believes in my dreams...

I do knitting from my childhood. This is me and my mom on the side and her friend in the middle when I was 12 years old. And of course, the sweater I am wearing, I made by myself :-) Do you see these width sleeves? :-) Hihihihi. My mommy teached me how to knitting and crocheting - without exact terminology, without videos, internet, and patterns. I just made, what she made - from mommy to her daughters <3 And if there was some mistake? So my dear, try it one or two or... times. Patience and precision training :-) Today I am so grateful for it. And this stayed inside of me. If you would like to create something? No drama, just take your hook or needles, find the patience and precision inside of you and do it :-) And now I see, that my creativity and precision is hidden in my girls too. They made so wonderful creations from paper. Always I am so amazed and so grateful again... <3

I had to tell, that I loved needles more. The beauty of crocheting I found after my first daughter was born. True reason? She was the really tiny girl and every hat was bad for her. So I took a hook and tried it over and over until she had a hat, which suited her well :-) And in the meantime I fell in love with crocheting. I loved its freedom. You could take it everywhere with you. The way you could use the colors and everything. It is different as knitting, you just looking after one stitch, ooooh! :-) I really admired and enjoyed these quiet time with me and my hook.

With my Sunny :-)

With all of my work, I am trying to break the cliché, that the crocheting is boring and outdated technique. I like to show that the crocheting can be funny, colorful, fashionable and cool. I am using many details in my work and sometimes making the details take me the same time as crocheting of the main part :-)... But I think that small detail can change something ordinary to something special. It's same like in the life - just depends on the details :-) My patterns are written very in detail, because I really would like to the final creations will be nice, that the people would be satisfied with the final work, know something new and be proud on oneself, that they made it by their own hands. Would you like to see a gallery of finished projects came out from my patterns? Just click here or here :-)

I believe in the power of the colors and that the colors could brighten your days. Therefore is all my work so colorful ..:-)

What you could find on my blog?

Well, I just love to write this blog. It is like my own personal candy shop, my diary... :-) It is a gallery of my work and some small fragments of my life too because I can not select it. If you like my patterns and you would like to buy some of them, please visit my Etsy shop: www.vendulkam.etsy.com or other shops, I am on Ravelry, Craftsy You could buy some patterns directly on the blog too. You wrote to me, that it will be easier for you to find the patterns, so I added the options for buying the patterns directly from my blog too. Thank you very much for your support. Even I added some buying options here, I would wish, this blog would still stay as my creative diary more than shop :-)

If you would like to see, where my work was published? Please click here

Do you like free patterns?

I do! :-) Just click here, there are some of my free crochet patterns and tutorials waiting for you to make it :-)

Closing

... I really would wish, you will feel at home here. I wish, that the positive energy, I am making all my designs with, "jump" to you through the screen and lights up your day.

Yours,
Vendulka from Magic with hook and needles

P.S. I am still in a little fight with my English. I apologize for mistakes in grammar. I am trying to work on it every day! Thank you for your patience with me :-)

Update:

September 9, 2014:

Some of my favorite and important pictures and little stories from my life :-)

Pepik

In this picture - it is me and parrot, which I found in winter in front of my grandparent's house when I was 4 years old. It was cold, the snow everywhere and in the middle of the garden, where he was, sitting and watching on me. He probably flew from someone. And my grandparents - they rescued him and took care of him for the next 25 years. His name was Pepik. He was soo funny :-), he sang some songs, and grumbled when the light was on and he wanted to sleep. He was riding on the stick like on the scooter. When I came to him and whispered him about his beauty - he always begun spread out his wings :-) Oh, I loved this little guy!

with Pepik

History of my patchwork crocheting

In past, before I became a crochet designer I made many many hats fitting directly to clothes as a customer orders. You could see some of them in this gallery. I remember every hat I made. It was great for practicing and improving not only my crocheting but designing also. And one of the requests was to make a hat to fit patchwork tunic... I looooove patchwork. But I can not sew at that time. And I told to myself, so if they could sew it, why I can not crochet it? :-) It is maybe 6 years ago and I still remember the beautiful little girl, I was making the hat for. Her name was Valinka.

And I think that something inside of me changed after I made this hat. I started to thinking about my crocheting directly by the different way and I really desired to find my own way.... Not to fit the hats to someone designs, but make my own designs :-) So I have to thanks to Valinka and her mommy, who gave the trust to me and thanks them I could begin spread out my wings like Pepik :-)

This is my first patchwork hat with my first patchwork heart. I never forget it this creation. This hat changed everything :-)