Vicky Hutchings

@craftybunny

She/her I knit, crochet, spin and embroider a bit. Devoted cat servant to Herr Professor Hector Von Whiskers

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Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· 3d

But I did it, and it even works. I hope I never get it into my head to try anything like it again...

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· 10d

Earlier today I found some image collages I could have used for last week's #ShowMeYourKnits but fortunately they're all shawls so I can use them for this week instead 🧶

A collage of four lace shawls knitted from the same pattern, which features a stylised flower motif and a scalloped edge.

All four use the Tiong Bahru pattern by Åsa Tricosa and the yarns go from a cobweb weight silk from Fyberspates (top left) to a heavy lace weight merino from Madeline Tosh

Two lace shawls knitted from the 1001 nights pattern by Anne-Lise Maigaard. The pale green one in the upper photo uses a cashmere/silk cobweb weight yarn (not sure where it came from) and the striped purple/green one in the lower photo is in my own handspun

Two hand knitted shawls using the same pattern - Chasing Rainbows by Boo Knits and the same yarn (Gina mohair/silk lace from Posh Yarn, now sadly discontinued).

The shawl on the left is a soft green with small golden beads and the one on the right is a pinkish mauve

Three examples of lace shawls knitted from the Regrowth pattern by Toby MacNutt.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· 19d

Reminds me of when this handsome fellow kept trying to move into my house. He was lovely (and an absolute tart) but there was no way that the resident feline would have accepted another cat...

A short haired grey cat with amber eyes reclining on wooden decking and giving the camera his very best "hello ladies" look

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· 19d

This week's theme for #ShowMeYourKnits is things you've made twice or more. I've got plenty of examples, but my most extreme was knitting Regrowth by Toby MacNutt (available for free on Ravelry) three times in as many months...

A section of a hand knitted lace shawl made in a lightly variegated pale green yarn.

A section of another shawl knit from the same pattern as the previous one, this time in dark green yarn with tiny green seed beads

A lace shawl knit from the same pattern as the previous two, this time in pale grey yarn with tiny pearlescent seed beads and a border in deep red yarn (yes I did lose at yarn chicken and run out of the grey...)

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· 27d

For only the second time in my adult life, I find myself catless. I'm doing okay - he'd been suffering with dementia for a while and was ready to go - but the house is awfully quiet without him.

A handsome black and white tuxedo cat gazes off to the right. He has the classic mask markings, green eyes and a pink nose.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· May 31

So how has your weekend been? I've spent a good chunk of mine crocheting sparkly rainbow clothing for Fugglers... (Froggy is not my work, but he *is* very cute.)

Two Fugglers in crocheted rainbow outfits are on a green table in a sunny garden. On the left of the photo is a purple one in a freehanded attempt at a playsuit and on the right a green one in a granny hexagon coat. In front of them is a cute green crochet frog.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· May 22

Did I really need a new e-spinner? Absolutely not. Is it making me very happy nevertheless? Oh yes! Can't do masses of spinning until the tendonitis in my left thumb improves (can't spin with the thumb brace on because velcro) but I had to give it a twirl. 🧶 #spinning

A dark tealish green Argonaut electric spinning wheel with a layer of fine singles already on the bobbin. The wheel rests on a cardboard box, and behind it is an open door with a garden beyond.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· May 21

I really wish I'd taken a picture when it was freshly styled before the wind and rain did a number on it, but I got my hair chopped off earlier this week. So glad to be rid of all that straggly damaged hair...

A middle aged white woman with short messy reddish brown hair and grey eyes looks into the camera

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· May 10

There's a long way to go before it's finished, but at least I've made a start on painting the main bedroom. Once it's done I can move my stuff into it and start on the second bedroom. (I also assembled a king size ottoman bed solo. This was not one of my best ideas.)

A bed with a buttoned burgundy velvet headrest against a wall that has been partly painted a deep rose pink.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· May 1

First day in the new house and I definitely made the right decision. I'm sure that there will come a point when having family so close by gets a bit much, but at the moment it's nice. And I have drunk fighty octopus coat hooks!

A silver coloured coat hook on a white door. It looks like a drunk octopus looking for a fight.

A black and white tuxedo cat sits looking out at a garden through patio doors. He is not pleased that he's only allowed out under close supervision

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Apr 17

Some properly vintage cable knits for #ShowMeYourKnits - I'm afraid I don't have pattern or yarn details (beyond bog-standard acrylic/wool blend aran weight) as the one on the left is at least 30 years old, and the other not much newer.

Two rather old hand knitted cabled sweaters. The one on the left has multiple cable patterns in a traditional cream coloured yarn, while the one on the right has simple braided cables in cream yarn with brown nepps

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Apr 10

The photo isn't great as I was leaning out of the bedroom window to take it, but I love the leafy patterns my new solar powered lights cast on the table...

Two faceted glass solar powered lights rest on the top of a round table in the dark. The light shining through the facets creates many-petalled flowers of light on the table top.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Apr 6

The feeling at the start of a new knitting project when it stops being fiddly and awkward and the pattern starts to emerge... Pattern: Meg March Shawl by Kath Andrews Yarn: Posh Yarn Gina Lace and Gretchen Heavy Lace #Knitting #BriocheKnitting

The front (lighter) side of the beginning of a brioche knit shawl in golden mohair/silk and purple BFL/silk yarns.

The back (darker) side of the beginning of a brioche knit shawl in golden mohair/silk and purple BFL/silk yarns.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Apr 5

I have a tendency to put my glasses down and then forget where I put them, so I've come up with a solution...

A fourth Doctor build a bear wearing a large pair of glasses

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Apr 2

What do you think of the new hairdo? (It's a hideous photo, but it did make me giggle...)

A middle aged white woman wearing crocheted wisteria on her head

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Apr 2

Not a bad way to spend an hour or so on a sunny Thursday... #Crochet #CraftSky

A tumbled pile of crochet wisteria garland lies on a light green table alongside a hand made coffee mug. In the foreground is a flower spike in progress, and behind are trees and blue sky with a stone wall partly covered in ivy on the right hand side

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Apr 2

This week I have been mostly crocheting wisteria... 🧶 I'm using the free pattern available here: www.onceuponacheerio.com/2026/05/croc...

A crochet wisteria garland with bright green leaves and flowers in various shades of blue hangs from black metal railings in the sunshine. Behind the trees are just coming into bud, and the sky is blue with a few small white clouds.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 27

At times it felt like this shawl was never going to end, but I'm finally casting off! Of course I've realised that my blocking pins are already packed away, so I will either have to go fossicking in the room full of packed boxes or leave it until after the move...

The lower edge of a hand knitted lace shawl, showing a bind off in progress. The needle holding the live stitches is at the lower left of the picture, with the bound off edge going up towards the top right corner.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 23

Just as well I wound the second skein of this hand spun yarn yesterday - 12 (600+ stitch) rows to go and the first skein has almost run out. 🧶

A hand knitted lace shawl in progress. It's being knitted in hand spun 3ply lace weight yarn in shades of blue, purple, green and grey. Just above the needles at the top of the photo is what is left of the first skein - there is really not very much of it

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 17

A beautiful sunshine-y day, and warm enough to sit out on my suntrap of a balcony with a cuppa, listening to the serenade. (At least until the denizens of the dog park down the road decided to make their contribution...)

In the foreground, a mug of coffee rests on a green table. Behind it is a balcony with wooden decking and black metal railings, followed by trees and fields. In the background stone built houses stand on the crest of a hill, below a bright blue sky.

Screenshot from the Merlot app, showing the bird species detected from the location in the previous photo:

Great tit, common chaffinch, goldcrest, house sparrow, dunnock, long-tailed tit, Eurasian blue tit, coal tit, common magpie, Eurasian treecreeper and Eurasian wren.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 11

A bit of sofa-on-sofa action going on in the hallway! And now that they're here and I no longer need to listen out for the delivery van I can go have a (much needed) nap...

Two beige leather sofas stacked in a pale blue hallway

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 10

On the plus side, I've managed to get a couple of Stressless recliner sofas for the new house from the local hospice charity shop. Not the colour I would have chosen but I've wanted one forever, and they were less than a tenth of the original price.

A cream leather high backed sofa on a blue carpet

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 8

I knew there were long-tailed tits nearby as I've heard them, but I think this is the first time I've caught one on camera

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 6

It's just as well he's so darn cute, as this furry little gitface won't let me sleep past 5am...

A black and white tuxedo cat with large golden green eyes and a pink nose sits facing the camera

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 4

Sometimes they share, like this goldfinch and blue tit (I wasn't paying enough attention to the autocorrect and very nearly claimed there was a goldfish on the feeder)

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Mar 4

95% of the clientele at the bird feeder are tits (fnarr fnarr) but we do get the occasional not-a-tit...

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Feb 28

Lace week again for #ShowMeYourKnits? Now you're talking! I don't knit nearly as much lace as I used to (there's a limit on how many lace shawls one can store/give away) but I've probably made hundreds over the years. Details in alt text...

A lace shawl with nupps knitted in multicoloured cobweb weight yarn.

Pattern: Tiina Lilleaed by Tiina Arusoo
Yarn: Posh Yarn Kirsten Cobweb in "Let them eat cake" she says

Detail of a lace shawl knitted in bright magenta pure silk yarn

Pattern: Twinity Shawl by Anne-Lise Maigaard
Yarn: Posh Yarn Verity Cobweb in Love is Reckless

Section of a hand knitted lace shawl in dark blue yarn. It features a diamond shaped solid panel with an iris motif formed from nupps.

Pattern: Goddess Irida's Flower Shawl by Lidya Shomina
Yarn: an orphan skein of Posh Yarn Kirsten Cobweb

A textured hand knitted lace shawl in bright red yarn. The body of the shawl features lozenges of hexagon mesh stitches interspersed with leaf motifs.

Pattern: Saudade by Susanna IC
Yarn: Rohrspatz & Wollmeise Lace Garn in Vamp WD

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Feb 28

The bird feeder has been cleaned and refilled, so here's a golden hour coal tit for your feed.

Vicky Hutchings @craftybunny· Feb 21

I'm barely on FB these days, but one of today's memories feels worth sharing. The first thing I went to on my own after losing Dave and the fact that it appears in @robinince.bsky.social's subsequent book I'm a Joke and So Are You. (It was totally the right thing to do, btw)