I have a new look, a new logo and a new attitude. Hello! Welcome to the brand new Heart & Sew. Recently I've made a very scary decision to get serious about designing patterns. Until now I have treated crochet as a simple hobby and have maintained this blog sporadically purely for my own love of designing and writing.

I decided (with a little encouragement from Tom) to really try to follow my dreams and turn Heart & Sew into a name in the crochet world. To even think about doing this I had to sort some things that were bugging me about this blog, first and foremost being the design. My old layout was made on the cheap by a very talented and very kind website designer from Etsy who was wonderfully flexible in customising the template to suit my (then) needs. I had just started designing and wanted a simple but pretty layout - somewhere I could just shove my first pattern out into cyberspace with everything crossed and hope for the best. The design was made and the pattern posted thinking "What the hell? I have nothing to lose."