This little fellow was first made as a Halloween treat for my dad. He was delivered in a little cauldron with Halloween chocolates underneath. Next to him were two more similar cauldrons, each with a different Halloween-y animal, for the rest of my family.

Of course, my first pattern on here had to be the little guy on my logo!

When I was eight years old, my mum sat down with my sister and me, gave us each a crochet hook that had once belonged to her grandmother and taught us how to make what I later found out was a granny square.

If she’d only known what she’d started.