Crochet Pineapple Pattern

Yippee! Ask and you shall receive... only about 5 years or so after I first started making these popular Pineapples, do I finally get around to patterning them. Yikes! I'm slowly but surely releasing these long beloved characters of mine. Of course I can't just release an average pattern of a Pineapple, so I've also included a bonus pattern for a baby Pineapple along with instructions on how to make your very own Pineapple Family!

Pattern can be found here ———> Pineapple Pals Pattern

I hope you love and enjoy making these guys as much as I have over the years.


XxxCharlotte

Crochet Aussie Birds

Not sure if you know this but I'm an ex-pat! Well ok I've technically lived in Australia for 28 years, so I'm not sure if I can class myself as that anymore. I was born in England back in the early 80s (oh boy what a golden era of England was the early 80s lol). I was born down in the south west in a little town called Exmouth in Devon. A beautiful place where the greenest rolling hills meet the sea. I spent my first seven years toiling around the Devonshire countryside, before my mum met an Aussie bloke in a pub (of course she did!) and thus began our Australian chapter of life.

I was a little aussie kid from the minute I touched down at Melbourne airport. The man who greeted us at customs was a sandy haired golden god with a gleaming smile. He even gave us a "G'day"! We lived in a house which overlooked a river, with the most perfect beach just down the road. I got to ride my bike to school! I suddenly had a step dad and a new step brother. My step dad had a 4WD and we went camping every second weekend. My mother tells me I came home from my first day of Australian school with an aussie accent. I took to aussie life like a duck to water.

So my UK family won't like this... but I definitely feel more aussie then english. I do love my English roots (I whinge about the hot weather and given the choice would happily eat Baked Beans for the rest of my life), but I'm an aussie girl through and through now. This love for my adopted country often translates into my crochet life. I'm forever inspired by Australiana, and the kitschier the better.

When coming up with my latest pattern I jotted down a few ideas of some aussie themed crochet objects. And I kept coming back to three little birds which feature heavily in the cultural nostalgia of Australia and also in my childhood. I would debate Cockatoo, Galah's and Kookaburra's are more aussie then Crocodile Dundee. If you've never been woken up at one time or another by a squawking Cockatoo, I'd say you're actually in a different country. I have such a fond memory of being that little pommy kid laying in my tent on my first camping trip, blissfully listening to the Kookaburra's laughing.

So here is my crochet interpretation of the most iconic of Australian birds. With their pom pom crests they almost look like they could be part of some fabulous punk band.

And does the Kookaburra not look like a cute little birdie robber, who has just returned from stealing sausages off someone's BBQ?

You'll whip this cute trio up in no time at all. They're a quick and speedy make, and the pattern is graded as "Easy"