Aloe Vera Succulent Using Lily Sugar'n Cream Yarn, you can also make your own artificial house plants like this Crochet Aloe Vera Succulent. The soil is the 4" size and the plant is one piece until that is folded strategically and lightly stuffed to stand up straight. Pattern Suggestion Crochet Happy Holidays Afghan Pattern Crochet...
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Crochet Social Distancing Bunting Pattern
Crochet Social Distancing Bunting The Crochet Social Distancing Bunting has bunting is made up of 7 flag-like triangles. Spaced apart for 6 feet in between. For those using Metric of 2 metres, the pattern also has the Number 2 as an option as well. In many stores and businesses, we are being reminded to stay...
Crochet Cookie Bag Tag Identifiers
Crochet Cookie Bag Tag I prefer my crochet bag and even my carry on luggage when I travel to have a tag that is added to it to identify who I am. Yes, I do put on an official tag with my name and address but I add a secondary crochet bag tag to my...
Crochet Simple Baby Blanket Pattern
Crochet Simple Baby Blanket Using Bernat Baby Coordinates Yarn, you can make this easy Crochet Simple Baby Blanket. If you are looking for something easy to do in front of the TV, this is a solid granny square that is only using 2 balls. You can get 30" x 30" square baby blanket out of...
Crochet Frog Backpack Pattern
Crochet Frog Backpack Crochet this super cute Crochet Frog Backpack. Using Lily Sugar'n Cream, you too can crochet this awesome backpack. This bag is designed to be a conversational piece but also a project where kids can feel extra special. The project is combined with a red zipper to feed the frog the essentials that...
How to Use Tassel Maker + Tutorial
How to Use A Tassel Maker What can I say... I like my toys! Just ask the Cruisers on the Crochet Cruises. Whenever we giveaway toys, like this, on the cruise, they are the hot ticket items! While yes, you can use cardboard or potentially your hand to make tassels, I enjoy having the tools...
Crochet Home Decor Trending Back In Style
Crochet Home Decor Industry experts were telling me in spring of last year that home decor crochet trending is returning and will soon be on the horizon. At the time, I couldn't see that happening. The experts are based on forecasting and shift of behavioural attitude. This year, my head is shaking. Regular projects I...
Online Colour Generator Program: Canva
Online Colour Generator Program Are you like me and struggle with colour matching? Introducing Canva. Canva is a colour generator program that allows you to insert your colours and the program does it's magic to show you colours that go with the colour you have selected. As a person that matches the colour, sometimes I...
Pop Out Birds for Bird Houses
Pop-Out Birds for Bird Houses Introducing the Pop-Out Birds Craft Project. We've seen those decorative birdhouses in craft stores and dollar stores. To me, they look awesome but they look vacant. I wondered, can I make a bird appear to live there with making the bird look like it's looking at you? I had the...
Crochet Roseanne's Iconic Afghan Pattern
Roseanne's Back and So Is Her Iconic Afghan Whether you love Roseanne Barr or not, she's back on TV. Roseanne hit the airwaves when I was a kid as I went into high school. I've had plenty of laughs as a kid but also life lessons through her show. It was also this show that...
Crochet Hot Air Balloon Pattern
Crochet Hot Air Balloon Create this Crochet Hot Air Balloon that is intended for cute whimsical decor. This balloon was designed for my own Yarn Studio. It was a design never intended for me to share with the audience. However, there was something I needed to do, I had to create 6 identical panels and...
Crochet Old Records Coaster Pattern
Put Those Old Records on the Shelf Coasters Inspired by my new friend, Michelle, from the Loosey Goosey Stitchers of Nova Scotia. She was looking for quick and easy ideas for craft table displays to sell. We were discussing the old records. We wondered if the coaster needs some overlay to give the illusion of...
Blocking Your Crochet Project + Tutorial
How to Block Your Crochet Project Some crochet projects after your complete them need to be blocked, meaning forced to take their proper shape with the help of water or steam. Manufacturers apply steam to the yarn as the final process to get it to puff up before balling it. It provides the thickness and...
How to Make Your Own Custom Graphghans
How to Get Graphs for Graphghans With Graphghans being the rage for crocheters. Crocheters are constantly looking for ways to create their own graphs. There are different resources out there such as websites that will allow you to make your own graphs to websites that do it for you. The price ranges of the websites...
Crochet Double Strand Chevron Pattern
Crochet Double Strand Afghan Hey, it's me... Yeppers, Laura Jean. I was charmed by Jeanne's story and her Sweet Memories Blanket, in which she uses double strands to create a beautiful chevron blanket. Using random colours, and double stranding throughout you can really change the look by how you choose colours. Choosing colours is fairly...
Crochet Diamond Granny Afghan Pattern
Crochet Diamond Granny Afghan Don't you just love those blue tones for the Crochet Diamond Granny Afghan! The colour jumps off the afghan with a modern look. I love it, a lot! The pattern includes a full granny square, ½ granny square and ¼ granny square. Those are all needed to ensure the afghan stays...
Tunisian Simple Stitch
Tunisian Simple Stitch The Tunisian Simple Stitch is the basic stitch for crocheters to get started to use. Using this stitch allows you to identify the unique look of Tunisian and how to reverse it back to the start. You can use this stitch easily for dishcloths and etc. Pattern Suggestions Baby Sneaker Booties Crochet...
Tunisian Honeycomb Scarf Pattern
Tunisian Honeycomb Scarf The Tunisian Honeycomb Stitch is just two easy stitches and makes up a great scarf! Adapted from the Tunisian Honeycomb Blanket, this scarf is sure to please! I used Caron Tea Cakes a bulky yarn to create this sharp-looking scarf. This stitch actually does look like a bees honeycomb nest. Due to the...
Insect Hotel
Mikey's Insect Hotel For summer 2020, I'm building things for the yard to pull me out of the house to get some fresh air, move my body and to have personal creativity. Daniel has a personal interest in gardening and landscaping. In watching him build the grounds up with trees, scrubs and a variety of...
Birdhouse Condo
Birdhouse Condo For Summer 2020, I am trying to get out more with a sense of purpose to enjoy the fresh Nova Scotian air. This project was spawn from the Insect Hotel. While finding branches and logs on the property, we stumbled across a fallen and dried out tree. We have been collecting birdhouses from...
Chickadee Towers
Chickadee Towers For summer 2020, I'm trying to get out more. We have created the insect hotel and then the birdhouse condo, I wanted to have more birdhouses but with COVID-19 and isolation, the only way I can collect them quicker is learning how to make a bird house. Truth be told, I have never...
Crochet Minnie Mouse Ears Pattern
Crochet Minnie Mouse Ears The Crochet Crowd visited Walt Disney World for our Once Upon A Stitch 3 Day Event. It happened at Magic Kingdom, Epcot and Animal Kingdom. Along with JOANN Fabrics & Crafts, and the remarkable designer, Sarah of Repeat Crafter Me, we had a great time. We had two projects, both designed...
Crochet Fantasia Hat Ears Pattern
Crochet Fantasia Hat Ears For those who attended our event at Walt Disney World in Oct 2017, Sarah of Repeat Crafter Me was our designer of choice to design two sets of ear hand bands. With the help of JOANN Fabrics & Crafts for supplies, this was the Crochet Fantasia Ears Head Band. Sarah used...
Embroider French Knot + Tutorial
Learn to Embroider French Knot Learn to embroider the French Knot onto your crochet and knit projects. I was originally intimidated by the thought of doing this on the project but didn't realize how easy it was. After a couple of tries, I was quite impressed by how easy it really was. During my trials,...
Sportacular Afghans for Him by Karen Barnes
Truly An Incredible Book for Man Caves It's rare I see a crochet pattern book that makes me smile with a stupid grin on my face with awe at the creativity within. Karen Barnes, designer of the Sportacular Afghans published by Leisure Arts is responsible for this sheepish grin of mine today! Gone are the...
Fringe & Pompom Bunting Pattern
Fringe & Pompom Bunting Fringe and Pom Poms oh my! This cute Crochet Fringe and Pom Pom Bunting make for reusable decor ideas. Whether it's for a baby shower, birthday party or just to decorate something with a bit of colour. These would make a great family night project for you in the kids. Pattern...
Crochet Double Cable Headband Pattern
Crochet Double Cable Headband I was inspired by this Patons Slouchy Crochet Cardigan Design on Yarnspirations. The pattern for the Patons Slouchy Crochet Cardigan has this gorgeous crochet panel of Double Cables! It is exactly what I was looking for in a pattern for a headband! The headband met all my criteria! Crocheters are inspired...
Crochet Cruises Free Pattern Book
Crochet Cruises Free Pattern Book The Crochet Cruises had a free pattern book that was designed by our very own Diva Dan. Pattern collaboration with Yarnspirations, Jeanne Steinhilber and myself, Michael Sellick. The free pattern book for crochet cruisers was printed by JOANN Fabrics and Crafts. The concept of the pattern book was to give...
Crochet Fleece & Fabric Quilts Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet and Fleece Mix Back at the beginning of last fall, a friend introduced me to mixing crochet with fleece. I have seen it before but I hadn't given it much thought prior to talking with my friend. I was heavily inspired by the concept and realized it's a great way to line crochet afghans...
Crochet Celebration C2C Blanket Pattern
Crochet Birthday and Celebration Blanket Sarah from Repeat Crafter Me is known for her C2C (Corner to Corner) designs. In fact, she has a book out as well. Some of her C2C Designs are free, like this one. This is the Crochet Birthday and Celebration Blanket design. The blanket is made up of 9 unique...
Pom-Pom Trends + Tutorial
Just Add A Pom-pom For 2017 and 2018 here in North America, Pompoms are all the rage. I know what you are thinking? Pompoms Really? In the fashion world, usually, Europe is ahead of us by a year or two. While in Europe last December, there were pompoms everywhere. On hats, ends of scarves end...
Crochet Wildlife Guide by Ha & Wiehler
The Crochet Wildlife Guide To my delight, I got a copy of The Crochet Wildlife Guide by Phillip Ha and Jeff Wiehler. From time to time, unprompted, I get a copy of a book to review. Whether it be from the publisher or author directly. In this case, the boys sent me a copy to...
Sundial Crochet Placemat Pattern
Sundial Crochet Placemat Before you get all judgy on the black and white Crochet Sundial Placemat, I have some words to share with you about this pattern. For me, it doesn't suit my fancy. I did a crochet sample and in the wise words of Jeanne, "It's Meh" *with a shoulder shrug*. However, I liked...
Let's Make a Difference Crochet Patterns
Let's Make a Difference Yarnspirations has done it again, another fabulous Charity Focused Lookbook. If you remember, their last Charity Lookbook was about winter wear called Stitch It Forward. I also did a number of the projects inside that Lookbook in tutorial format. This is the Let's Make a Difference Pattern eBook. More Lookbooks to...
Crochet Granny Square Colour Pattern Generator
Crochet Granny Square Colour Pattern Generator A fun finds online is the Crochet Granny Square Colour Pattern Generator by Melissa Avery-Weir. It is so easy and interesting to watch it generate the next newest pattern you may have kicking around in your head. You will tell the generator how many squares you want in the width...
Calculator: Granny Square Ball Colour Counts
How to Calculate Balls for Each Colour in a Granny Afghan? Many people love granny squares but would like to switch colours used in a granny square. The complication with this concept is that the further away from the center point of the granny square, the more yarn is needed from the yarn ball. For...
Lookbook Review: Snowed In
Lookbook Review: Snowed In A fabulous array of projects to make those wintery months feel so much cozier. Ranging from home decor and comfy afghans to curl up underneath. An array of projects for crocheters and knitters to enjoy. My favourite projects in this book are the Mighty Miter Afghan, Wave Ridge Blanket and what...
Lookbook: Mindful Making Crochet Patterns
Mindful Making Lookbook The newest lookbook in the Yarnspirations Family is called Mindful Making. I think if you are looking for something that is a step above ordinary, this lookbook is up your alley. As always, each pattern inside the lookbooks is free. You just need to click onto the pattern picture and it will...
Modern Nursery Lookbook
Modern Nursery Lookbook The latest lookbook by Yarnspirations is called Modern Nursery. A modern look at today's nursery trending ideas for crocheters and knitters alike. I really think this new lookbook is a treasure trove of ideas for crocheters. From wearables to practical blankets and cutesy ideas. In fact, I loved this book so much...
Crochet Book Reviews Project Gallery
Crochet Book Reviews Project Gallery Sometimes we want to make something, our crochet hook is just itching to be used but no ideas as to what it is we want to make. Try checking out some books for some inspiration. Or if you are like me collecting patterns is part of the crochet addiction. It...