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Free Crochet Pattern-ette | Little Flowers Stripe
After releasing my pattern booklet for the Christmas ornaments, I’m back to working on my daughter’s striped sampler blanket. Let’s hope I can get it done in time to give it to her for Christmas! Here’s what it looks like right now. I pretty much love the most recent pattern row. I’ve seen things like it that have lots of open space. Since this blanket is meant to be cozy, I was wanting a row… read more
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Tiny Snowflake: Free Crochet Pattern | Update – Pattern Booklet Now Published
Last year, when I worked out how to make tiny crochet ornaments for my brother’s little tree, I wrote up the pattern for the one of my favorite snowflakes, and uploaded it to ravelry as a free download. This year (as I may have mentioned earlier), I’m working on a booklet of 12 of these tiny ornaments. The new booklet is called “Tiny Stars and Snowflakes” and will be published no later than October 15th.… read more
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Creating an Adjustable Ring (aka Magic Circle) The Easy Way
If you’re looking for how to create an adjustable ring, you already know why you want it. The trouble is the how. If you’re like me, you’ve looked at several tutorials, and just ended up confused. Maybe you follow along once, and it works. But remembering how to do it later without the tutorial? Not so easy. Then one day, someone said “It’s just a slip knot”. I’m thinking “really? Can it be that simple?”… 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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Unlock Crochet Skills with this Sampler Afghan Pattern
Yes, I’ve written about this pattern before. What’s new? A price reduction! Because you know what I just found out? You can find a digital download of the Annie’s “Stitch Sampler Afghan” pattern on ravelry for $8.99. Check out my comparison of the digital downloads, and see what you think. read more
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Fantail Project Woes and Shout-Out to Crochet Crew
This post is, in large part, a nod to the facebook group Make and Do Crochet Crew. If I understand correctly, the group is owned by a small family group of crochet designers, and named after their brand. So a lot of the group posts are from people making the things the owners designed. It turns out to be a great group for all kinds of crochet-related questions and discussion, and to see ideas from… read more
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Chainless Foundation Friendly Crochet Fantail Variations
HOWTO: Crochet Fantail Over Established Stitches. While designing a sampler (squares) afghan, one of the features I wanted was to make it chainless foundation friendly. (Pattern info here.) I found a ton of videos and tutorials for fantails, but all of them worked directly into a chain. They universally call for skipping 3 chain stitches between the fan and the anchoring stitches between them. But skipping 3 single crochets doesn’t work. After many tries at… 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 kinds, I hope I can share some of what I’ve learned to make these stitches manageable. If you’ve wanted to… 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 all been waiting for… (What? You weren’t waiting with bated breath for me to finish the hat?) Anyway, we have… read more
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Do not wash.
So, I’m making a summer hat (Fun!) using some regular (well extra pretty, but other than that regular) ribbon-type raffia. Which of course I verified that it could be washed before buying. The hat is starting to take shape, and I love the ribbon I’ve been working with. But I decided I’d like to do some of the side rounds in a twisted (rope-ish) raffia. Anyway, only after I bought what I thought would be… read more
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