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Holiday Crafting Over.. What’s Next?
This is a great one. I have every plan to actually make something for me. Not just something, but a large afghan for our living room. Last year… or maybe the year before? I made my daughter K a striped sampler. Oddly enough, It’s recently come to my attention that we have hardly any afghans read more
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Lace Star Ornament #2 | Free Pattern.
Last year I wrote about an ornament I’d made in a previous year, that I’d more-or-less reproduced. It’s fine, but it was really hard to block. Anyway, I’ve decided to do one similar, but a bit bigger. This one is (guess what?) easier to block. Mission accomplished. So here’s the pattern for your holiday enjoyment. read more
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Reinforced Fantail for Cotton Bamboo Yarn | Easy Crochet
The Fantail stitch is a quick and beautiful crochet stitch. Sounds great, right? Yup, it is great. I don’t even know how many times I’ve used it. Unfortunately, fantail doesn’t work terribly well with non-elastic yarns. Cotton and rayon fibers (for example) have little-to-no elasticity. How do I know? Yup, I tried it. As an read more
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Crochet Howto: Spiked Puff Stitch Tutorial
A while back, while working out the stitches for my Sampler Squares Afghan I played around with some variations on a spiked puff stitch. My goal was to make something relatively simple, that you didn’t need to do a lot of stitch marking for. I came up with a very simple one that didn’t require read more
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Just For Fun… Crochet Humor
A couple of videos I made for (guess what?) Fun!I hope you enjoy. read more
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Lots of Loops — You can do it!
5 Tips for Crochet Puff Stitches About a month ago, I posted a tip about dealing with an issue specific to Jasmine stitch. I got some feedback that many people have trouble pulling through a lot of loops on hook for any stitch that requires it. As a big fan of puff stitches of all read more
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Summer Crochet Hat
Guess what? I finished the hat. I ended up going with a narrow, soft, cloche-like brim. I think I’ll call it “Evelyn”. And I love how quickly it worked up. The pattern will definitely need some (okay, a lot of) tweaking, but I can definitely put it out next spring. So now, the moment you’ve read more
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Red hats… or something.
I haven’t the slightest idea what made me start thinking about the “Red Hat Society”. Is that still a thing? I bet it is. I always thought it was so odd. There seems to be a theme based on Jenny Joseph’s poem. Which, as I understood it, was about how great it was going to be read more
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