I had been toying with the idea of a knit-look, but after thinking about it, I decided it was the ribbed look I was really going after. After creating the ribbing on my last hat, I figured why not make an entire hat using the same technique? And even better, why not...
Thank you to everyone on Facebook and Instagram who helped me think up a name for my new hat pattern! After much thought, I've decided to call it the Lolly-Poms Sweetheart Crochet Beanie, because the striping can look like little hearts! And of course, it's also named...
If you know how to make the Foundation Single Crochet, then the foundation half double crochet stitch will be easy peasy to learn, and it's a great one to add to your stitch repertoire. Let's get right to it! Follow along with the instructions and then the pics below....
Fact: I hate giving gift cards. Granted, I don't necessarily dislike receiving gift cards since it's still a gift, but giving a gift card tends to make me feel like a cop-out. Giving a gift card in a fun holder like this owl pouch or this snowman gift hard holder...
Have you ever heard of c2c? It's a fairly new phenomenon for me personally, but I love how I can make crochet squares with this beautiful texture, and have the entire graphical world open to me. There's been lots of ideas floating through my head, but as I...
Last year around this time, I shared my first baby shoe pattern - my Double Strapped Mary Janes. It was admittedly a slightly confusing pattern, both for myself and my readers. I've also gotten requests to make different sizes. With M's feet getting bigger every day,...
I crocheted a shoe. It was a very adorable little shoe, but it seemed a bit plain. I thought about flowers, but there's more to a little girl's life than flowers. I thought about buttons, but then someone would be worried about buttons being a choking hazard. I...
Sorry this has taken so long! Here's the striped fish that many of you saw when I shared the shell fish scrubbie pattern. I don't have a lot of in-progress photos in this post, but there's step by step photos in the Invisible Stripes post and photos for creating the...
Well, my friends, I haven't posted for a long time, but here I am. For those of you who have followed this blog and the occasional personal news, you may have known that my dad had cancer. He went to Heaven in August and I've been trying to find the will to get back...
You might have seen a glimpse of my two-toned granny squares in a recent post where I shared my granny square blocking station. Now I get to share what I made with all those squares – a granny square chevron afghan! This is a baby-blanket sized project made with 36...