Welcome! My name is Rhondda and I am so happy you found my small corner of the internet 🙂 At Oombawka Design you will find hundreds of free crochet patterns, step-by-step photo tutorials, video tutorials, crochet alongs (CALs), free pattern roundups and a friendly online crochet community. Thank you for visiting, commenting and sharing my posts. I appreciate each and every visit.
All About Oombawka Design
Oombawka Design was created as a way for me to share my crochet projects with my friends and family. Initially, I was crocheting and selling little stuffed toys.
The name “Oombawka”, came from a word my daughter used for a little toy I was crocheting at the time – the Mini Meows (or Little Oombawkas).
My daughter (who was almost 3 years old then) called them her ‘Oombawkas‘ – so when I was trying to decide what to call my blog I chose Oombawka because I was pretty sure no one else in the world had ever used the word before and because there was a personal meaning to me. You can read my full story here: About Me 2017
Oombawka Design began in 2013. My hobby has become my full-time job and I love every single moment of it. Crochet is my ‘happy place’ and being able to share my designs with you and help you to learn how to crochet makes me happy.
I hope to be able to continue blogging and sharing my designs with you for years to come.
My Official Bio
Rhondda is a freelance Crochet Designer and full-time Blogger at Oombawka Design Crochet. Here she shares her love of crochet with the online crochet community through her beginner friendly free patterns and tutorials. Rhondda recently contributed 5 designs to the book: Bold Baby Crochet. She currently resides in Ontario, Canada with her husband and two young children. Find her patterns on Ravelry as RhonddaM.
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How to Crochet: Seed Stitch
How to Seed Stitch Crochet
Crochet Dishcloth Pattern 6 Inches by 6 Inches
How to Crochet: Catherine Wheel Stitch Tutorial
How to Crochet: Popcorn Stitch Tutorial
How to Crochet: Spider Stitch Crochet Tutorial
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All the best,
Rhondda
Hi Linda, When you visit the post that the giveaway is in there is a Rafflecopter widget. It is what you need to click on to enter the giveaway. Everyone who visits and clicks to enter on the Widget (it is like a pop up that has options to select from) gets 1 entry each day they click (for the days the giveaway is taking place). Then there are extra options that you can choose from to get extra entries. Some include visiting a Facebook Page, or visiting an Instagram Page. Once you visit you click that you visited and it gives you an extra entry for those. If you can’t see the widget when you visit the post I have also included a link to open it as a brand new webpage (it says “click here” just above where the widget should show up. If you are entering the giveaways on our Giveaway Link Party those are hosted on other’s sites – for example at All Free Crochet they often have yarn giveaways. So you would click the image of the yarn and it takes you to the other site. When you get there it tells you about the yarn and at the bottom of their post it asks you to enter some information to enter the giveaway. Hope this helps a bit 🙂 All the best, Rhondda
I feel like a ”SURE FIRE IDOT” I have come to your site many times, trying to sign up to win your give a ways !!!! But I just can not figure out how to get it done, CAN YOU TELL ME JUST WHAT IT IS I AM DOING WRONG ??!!! I really like coming to your site, I find lots of things I like !!! Thank You Linda Kelly