Posted by I’ve been wanting to use the African Flower Crochet pattern in something for ages.
I’ve seen these bears, pattern by Heidi Bears, all over Pinterest
And also her hippos!
Then I read a post on the GrangeRange blog here about the African Flower hexagons she had made for Made By Patch’s collaborative blanket
I loved the Debbie Bliss cotton she used.
I had my next three projects for Minerva Crafts to choose so I decided to make one of them an African Flower Crochet cushion. I’ve 3 months to make it up, so no rush.
These are my colours.
These are my first few.
I’ll edge them all in white, varying the other four colours.
I’m really enjoying these.
The African Flower crochet pattern by Heidi Bears can be found here.
Glad to be crocheting again.
Love, Lucie x
Love, Lucie 
Those are looking gorgeous already.
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Thank you. On to my next colourway now.
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Oh I love that hippo 🙂
Your flowers look lovely. Gorgeous colour choices as usual.
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Isn’t he gorgeous? But sometimes you just have to admire and move on. ;(
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They look lovely. Looking forward to seeing more.x
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I should have quite a collection to show you by the end of the week.
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Those hippos and bears are the sort of things that make me wish I could crochet! It is Heidi Bear’s blog I am using to make my ‘toe-up, two at the same time, magic loop socks’ (just got to the heels!) and her step by step tutorial for these is incredibly comprehensive and so generous of her to have posted it with all those photos – must have taken her ages.
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I’ll definitely be checking out that tutorial, thank you. I have often thought about how on earth the 2-at-a-time socks came together. Never quite got my head around it.
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Your hexies look lovely. Such pretty colours 🙂
I have heidi’s Giraffe pattern to do and the Hippo is on my wish list too.
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Wow! I would love to have a go at it. But such a lot of work. I shall see how long these hexagons take before I consider one.
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Love your colours choice, the red really pops out in the centre. The African Flower pattern is really fun to make, quite simple but so effective. Hope you had a good break away and have returned refreshed and relaxed.
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Yes, quite refreshed. Just working on trying to keep it that way.
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Reblogged this on More Aah than F*** and commented:
I really love this crochet bear – though without my glasses he looks a bit like he has heat blotches!
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