My First Knit From The Middle Blanket Learn how to Knit Your First Bernat Blanket-EZ Blanket that starts from the middle and knits outward like a typical crochet solid granny square. Understanding how to turn a corner was my obstacle but was quickly solved as I had knitted the Round Blanket-EZ Pillow. I understood how...
Crochet Tutorials
If you're eager to learn how to crochet, watching tutorial videos is a great way to start. Explore a variety of crochet patterns accompanied by matching tutorials to guide you through the process. These instructional videos provide a visual and step-by-step approach, making it easier for beginners to grasp the art of crocheting and create beautiful projects.
Crochet Key Card Holder Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet Key Card Holder A project that takes about 10 minutes is a Crochet Key Card Holder that can attach to a lanyard or whatever. For cruise ships, the key card is your most important identification. For personal and crochet cruises I attend, I wear lanyard so I can keep an eye on my key...
Crochet Breeze Chevron Blanket Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet Breeze Chevron Blanket This Crochet Breeze Chevron Blanket is using the Bernat Blanket Breezy yarn. This yarn is self-striping and is a medium #4 weight yarn. It's plush and easy to work with. The yarn is fabulously coloured and is exclusive to JOANN Fabric & Craft stores. Follow the free pattern to make your...
Crochet Cable for Any Size Projects + Tutorial
Crochet Cables Crochet cables are easier to manage than you might assume. The visual look of the braiding going in and out and around each other is an illusion that is easy to accomplish. This stitch can be accomplished with any size hook and/or yarn choice. You just have to ensure the yarn compliments the...
Crochet Strawberry Dishcloth Pattern + Tutorial
Strawberry Dishcloth Learn how to crochet a simple strawberry dishcloth. Cute and easy to do. This will wipe up fast. It can be used as a washable dishcloth or a decoration for your kitchen. But makes sure you use 100%Cotton as cotton is fantastic for dishcloths! Get this free pattern, it's called Granny Strawberry Dishcloth....
Crochet Midnight Magic Blanket Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet Midnight Magic Blanket The Crochet Midnight Magic Blanket was made with Bernat Mosaic yarn. It's slowly transitioning of colours makes this an all-time favourite. In 2019, at the time of writing this article, it was discontinued back in 2013. However, this remains a popular project as people still have this yarn leftover. Today, this...
Crochet Easy Peasy Blanket Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet the Easy Peasy Blanket Learn how to crochet the Easy Peasy Blanket using Bernat Blanket Yarn. It's a very quick afghan project and easy enough for beginners to try. The concept is so easy it's just a V-Stitch of Double Crochet + Ch 1 + Double Crochet. As you will see in the video...
Wayuu Crochet Key Card Holder Pattern + Tutorial
Wayuu Crochet Key Card Holder The Wayuu Crochet Key Card Holder is an entry-level project for trying this technique most commonly found in Mochilas. Marion Verloop is an expert level in this technique designer and tutorial host. She is my mentor for this concept. Full discloser, I'm not an expert crocheter in this technique. It...
Crochet Boho Ocean Waves Afghan Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet Boho Ocean Waves Afghan The Crochet Ocean Waves Afghan is pretty straight forward once you get the pattern in your mind. It’s a repeating of just 2 rows over and over once you get started and established. The key thing to watch for is the extended rows. Both sides of the project are not...
How To Crochet Easy Baby Hat Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet Easy Baby Hat This adorable Crochet Easy Baby Hat is part of a set where there is a matching Crochet Baby Jacket. I would classify both the jacket and baby hat for experienced beginners. They are really not hard at all and easy to crochet. The baby hat has a matching pair of ears....
Crochet School Spirit Throw Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet School Spirit Throw is designed for beginners and easy to experienced level crocheters can blaze through this probably fairly quickly. Once you get started, you repeat row 2 until you are satisfied. There is a colouring pattern to maintain. It's basically 6 rows of each colour. It's been coloured to match possible school...
Crochet Spiral Hat + Tutorial
October 2021 rings in the kick-off with hat month here at The Crochet Crowd. Crochet hats are charity builders. We did the 30 days of hats back in 2014 and thought it was great exposure for hats that slide under the radar. Not all of our choices will have matching tutorials but I know many...
How To Crochet Llama Stitch Along + Tutorial
The Llama-No-Drama is an excellent crochet artistry amigurumi example from Yarnspirations. Designed by Nancy Anderson for Red Heart. This stitch along is complete and the entire pattern is in video tutorial and written pattern format. This a HUGE pattern and the best way to attack a great pattern, such as this, is to go step...
How To Crochet 6 Christmas Tree Patterns + Tutorials
The art of gift-giving is being lost with commercialism, while crocheters have the ability to make gifts that have meaning and thought. What comes to my mind the most are the people who have everything they want but something handmade is more thoughtful and unique. For myself, I appreciate handmade a lot. I understand the...
How To Crochet Mandala Stitch Along + Tutorial
We are kicking off 2020 just a week early on Boxing Day, Dec 26, 2019, with the Red Heart Mandala Throw Pattern. Technically speaking, the pattern is already out in the public domain through Yarnspirations.com. So crocheters can start at any time but the video tutorials will be timed to match the crochet along schedule....
Crochet Reversible Cowl Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet Reversible Cowl, designed by me, is a one-ball-quick plane trip type of project to complete. It uses Red Heart Gemstone yarn, which is marled on its own to create a unique-looking project. There is a lot of yarn inside the Gemstone I made an adult hat to ensure I wasn't wasting any yarn....
Crochet Cabin in the Woods Afghan Pattern + Tutorial
Introducing the Cabin in the Woods Crochet Afghan. This majestic wave, chevron or ripple afghan is really neat and full of interesting texture and stitchwork. This was called the same pattern a few years ago but the designers at Yarnspirations have re-coloured the afghan to match today's colour trends. It's a classic design. Each multiple...
Crochet Table Pumpkin Patch Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet Table Pumpkin Patch Pattern is a hand-size crochet pumpkin designed by Mikey from The Crochet Crowd. The pumpkin is 5" in diameter by 4.5" tall without the stem. It's designed as a 5 sided object for easy repeating. Doing the sides as an odd number allows the pumpkin to appear more ordinary and...
Crochet Valentines Heart Dishcloth + Tutorial
With a swish of the hook and a quick colour change, introducing the Be My Valentine Dishcloth. I have to say, though, that giving a dishcloth for Valentine's may not be equivalent to flowers or a big box of chocolates. So, if you are going to gift a dishcloth, be sure there are no dishes...
Crochet Shamrock Dishcloth Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet Shamrock Dishcloth is made of 4 pieces sewn together to form the shamrock. Wishing you the luck of the Irish. A free tutorial is included below for this cute, more decorative, dishcloth. It consists of tree triangle motifs and one ring. The leaf motifs are pretty straight forward of 4 rounds. The first...
Crochet Easy Dishcloth Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet Dishcloth This easy to crochet dishcloth is using the moss stitch which makes it very quick and easy to crochet. What is the moss stitch? It's very simple, it consists of 1 single crochet, chain 1. You crochet within chain one spaces. Though it appears like a solid unit, it's actually like a granny...
Crochet Mosaic Stitch Blanket Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet Mosaic Stitch Blanket Pattern is a very popular stitching concept that is slightly different than what we have done before. I find this pattern much easier to do and follow. This particular pattern is part of a 4 pattern series that is using this same stitch concept. The mosaic pattern is the exact...
Love of Caron Cakes
I enjoy long slow walks down the yarn aisle. I love to touch Caron Cakes, dream and bring home these fantasy fibres and play all night long. Caron Cakes and their extension lines like the ones you see are exclusive to Michaels North America, made by our friends at Yarnspirations. Spring 2021, the bakers have...
Crochet Flower Power Afghan Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet Flower Power Afghan squares were designed by me, Mikey, of The Crochet Crowd. The colourway and change of the border were done by Nancy Elliott. This afghan appears to be like Lite Bright back from the '70s. It's visually amazing. Nancy and I worked together in putting her changes into words so that...
Crochet Mitered Dishcloth + Tutorial
Are you looking for a dishcloth that is unique in the way it's done? This Crochet Mitered Dishcloth isn't what I thought it would be. I thought I would have to change colour every other row, and to me was a deal breaker. I thought, okay, film this and say don't change the colour. But...
Crochet Heart Coasters Pattern + Tutorial
If you love crochet hearts, you will like each to follow a crochet heart pattern. The pattern includes a tutorial that is embedded below to help you further. . . The heart is crocheted together like a square at first, and then the two tops of the hearts are formed. It's finished with Crab Stitching,...
Crochet Cotton Sun Hat + Tutorial
The Crochet Cotton Sun Hat uses the latest Bernat Softee Cotton yarn. Sized for an average adult female. Double-stranded for sturdiness. Challenged by the social team of Yarnspirations to develop a summer based hat, I pulled inspiration from the Crochet Bucket Hat by Yarnspirations for stitch count tolerance. I didn't want just straight double crochets...
How To Crochet Easy Baby Jacket & Hat Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet a beautiful set for an easy baby jacket and a teddy bear hat. Great for new crocheters who want to expand their skills. With the tutorials provided, I can show you how to do this. Crochet this pattern for charity and also for the new family members in your life... introducing the newborn to...
Crochet Bear Character Sweater Pattern + Tutorials
Crochet from the top down to the waist is the Crochet Bear & Kitty Character Sweater with a simplistic design and sleeves crocheted on after the main body is complete. These make for pretty straightforward baby sweaters. The sweater is soft with Bernat Softee Baby Yarn, and with the modern colour pallet used, it's sure...
4 Sizes: Baby Pullover Crochet Sweater + Tutorial
Learn how to make this incredible baby sweater called Take it from the Top Pull Over Sweater. I don't film many baby sweaters, but I was attracted to the interesting stitchwork, and looking at the colour palette, I knew boys or girls could wear this design if the colours were selected for each gender. The...
3 Ocean Waves Throw Patterns + Tutorials
Calm yourself down with a look of water. For many of us, seeing open water can give a sense of inner peace and connectivity. Waves can be daunting for new crocheters, as how the wave grows can be confusing. In the peaks, we add more stitches and in the bottoms of the valleys, we subtract...
Crochet Bobble Textures Pillow Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet Bobble and Textures Pillow goes with the Bobble Textures Blanket created for the JOANN Stitch Along for fall 2020. The bobbles make an easy diamond-shaped formation on the pillow face. The back of the pillow has two panels that overlap so you can remove the pillow form if you need to wash or...
Mosaic Crochet: Anchored Double Crochet Technique + Tutorial
Susan Lowman, The Crochet Architect has been enjoying textured stitches for years. I met Susan back in 2014 at one of the last professional conferences that I have attended. I'm not a celebrity or designer follower, so who's who in the yarn industry was unknown to me. Susan approached me on the floor to introduce...
Crochet Suspension Stitch Square + Tutorial
DOWNLOAD PDF FREE PATTERN The Crochet Suspension Stitch Blanket was my concept created for the Study of Ombre Afghan. I was motivated by the wires that hang a suspension bridge, I was just playing. It would come to be that a stitch similar to this is in a book, but my execution is still unique. ...
Crochet Doily Pillow Motif Pattern + Tutorial
Adding motifs to existing pillows is pretty easy. Using Bernat Handicrafter Thread yarn or even Red Heart Fashion 3 yarn is a great way to accessorize ordinary pillows. You may not realize that this tutorial was created as a testing trial to see if I could transform Yarnspirations patterns into tutorial format. This, along with...
Crochet Pin Point Granny Afghan Pattern + Tutorial
Crochet PinPoint Granny Afghan The Crochet PinPoint Granny Afghan is a simplistic idea with focusing on gray as the base with a hint of colour through the center circles of the granny squares. A traditional granny square with a circle center that transitions to a square for the classic look of granny. For me, if...
3 Crochet Emoji Pillow Patterns + Tutorial
Social media runs directly into crochet with Social Media Emoji like the Crochet Emoji Pillows. I was thinking about how amazing it is that in today's era, a happy face with sunglasses has significance and means something important. As a business person, it's stated, I should never use social media emoji's in correspondence but I...
Crochet Bobble Textures Blanket Stitch Along + Tutorial
The Crochet Bobble Texture Blanket and Pillow is intended to give you the encouragement of new skill-building of creating your blanket. 5 distinct sections include the following: The blanket is 46" x 57.5". The pillow is 14" x 24". The stitch sampler-based blanket is considered an intermediate level and the pillow is an easy level....
Crochet Shifting Chevrons Bag Pattern + Tutorial
The Crochet Shifting Chevrons Bag is a really amazing unique textured bag. The texture thickened up the bag to be heavier and really amazing to touch. The texture reminds me of feathers. Easy to do once you get the swing of the stitch. It's one of those patterns that takes a bit of time but...
How to Crochet A Cowl for Beginners + Tutorial
Learn to crochet this Crochet Basic Cowl. This is an absolute beginner Crochet Tutorial and learns to hold the yarn and hook before beginning this project. This is a Dance Version learning tutorial. Meaning that I have put in dance music to give breaks to allow the students to learn the steps without my voice...