Crochet Fairy Tales – Kerry Lord

Insert wire into the vines and twist together to make the beanstalk stand. Alternatively, if not using wire, stuff and sew the vines into place twisting around each other. Leaves – working in Chive, make leaves as for the Beanstalk Seedling as desired and then add to the Chive vines. “Throwing his rucksack over his shoulder he began to climb up the beanstalk.”

25g Chestnut, 25g Fudge, 25g Yellow, 25g Ruby, 25g Camel, 25g Orange Centraliser Body, Neck & Head Working in Chestnut Begin by dc6 into ring Rnd 1 (dc2 into next st) 6 times (12) Rnd 2 (dc1, dc2 into next st) 6 times (18) Rnd 3 (dc2, dc2 into next st) 6 times (24) Rnd 4 (dc3, dc2 into next st) 6 times (30) Rnd 5 (dc4, dc2 into next st) 6 times (36) Rnd 6 (dc5, dc2 into next st) 6 times (42) Rnd 7 (dc6, dc2 into next st) 6 times (48) Rnd 8 (dc7, dc2 into next st) 6 times (54) Rnd 9 (dc8, dc2 into next st) 6 times (60) Rnd 10 (dc2, dc1 SPIKE STITCH three rnds below) 20 times (60) Rnds 11-12 dc (2 rnds) Change to Fudge Rnds 13-19 dc (7 rnds) Rnd 20 dc18, place centraliser, dc24 (incomplete rnd) Split the 24 stitches marked with your centraliser into the round and work this 24-st round as follows: Rnds 21-23 dc (3 rnds) Rnd 24 (dc6, dc2tog) 3 times (21) Rnd 25 (dc5, dc2tog) 3 times (18) Rnd 26 (dc4, dc2tog) 3 times (15) Rnd 27 dc Rnd 28 (dc2 into next st) 15 times (30) Rnds 29-35 dc (7 rnds) Rnd 36 (dc3, dc2tog) 6 times (24) Rnd 37 dc Rnd 38 (dc2, dc2tog) 6 times (18) Rnd 39 (dc2tog) 9 times (9) Gather remaining stitches to close.

Stuff the body, neck and head and then fold the back opening flat and sew across to close. Beak Base Working in Ruby Begin by dc6 into ring Rnd 1 (dc2 into next st) 6 times (12) Rnd 2 (dc1, dc2 into next st) 6 times (18) Sew into position on centre front of head.

Eye Patches (make two) Working in Ruby Begin by dc6 into ring Rnd 1 (dc1, dc2 into next st) 3 times (9) Sew into position on either side of beak base. Beak Working in Yellow Ch9 and sl st to join into a circle Rnds 1-2 dc (2 rnds) Rnd 3 (dc1, dc2tog) 3 times (6) Rnd 4 dc Rnd 5 (dc1, dc2tog) twice (4) Do not stuff. Sew into position on top of beak base.

Fairy tales have long cast a powerful spell over my imagination, and as an avid childhood reader with an insatiable appetite for any story involving magic, talking animals or little folk of the forest, I feel that I was somewhat destined to one day write this series of books.

You are always, however, a collector rather than a writer of fairy tales, and so in my reimagining of these much-loved traditional characters I hope to instil that with some of the very special magic of crochet and retell these well-known stories in my own way. The origin of the six fairy tales in this book are varied, woven together by having at their heart the setting of a cottage that is often, but not exclusively, found within a deep dark wood. They come from the folk traditions of German, Danish and English, and with the exception of Andersen’s Thumbelina are regarded as traditional oral rather than literary tales.

Of course the most famous of all tales within this collection are the Grimm’s stories of Red Riding Hood, Snow White, Hansel and Gretel and Elves and the Shoemaker. The most important and ever-popular collection of folk tales to be written down, diving into the brother Grimm’s Children’s and Household Tales was like following a long twisting path of breadcrumbs deep into the forest. The Hansel and Gretel story that I thought I knew very well was in fact just one version of the tale, and the more I read the more I uncovered curious extra details, as well as total omissions of the parts that I often found most intriguing and plot-twisting changes to characters.

Throughout their lifetimes and seven editions and reprints of their work, the Grimm brothers themselves rewrote and edited the stories, reshaping them to their modern world to the point where some bear little resemblance to the original oral record. What I quickly discovered while starting to read more and more versions of the same fairy tales was that if I wished to crochet characters from them, then I would first have to write my own stories.

By their very nature fairy tales shift and change with each retelling, and so I realised that before I crocheted a single stitch I would first have to design the fairy tale world for my characters to live in.

This is a short excerpt from the opening of “” by Unknown, quoted for review and introduction purposes. All rights belong to the copyright holders.

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