by ChiWei | Jan 14, 2016 | All Designs, Crochet, Free Patterns, Kids & Toys, Winter
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,...
by ChiWei | Jan 5, 2016 | Crochet, Tutorials
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...
by ChiWei | Nov 14, 2015 | All Designs, Crochet, Free Patterns, Kids & Toys, Winter
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...
by ChiWei | Oct 20, 2015 | Blog
I’ve used Shaybock’s Foodie WordPress theme for a while now, and have been putting off the free upgrade to her new Foodie Pro* theme for the. longest. time. I wanted to use the Recipe Index feature to catalog my post archives and categories because it...
by ChiWei | Oct 18, 2015 | All Designs, Crochet, Free Patterns, Kids & Toys
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,...
by ChiWei | Oct 12, 2015 | All Designs, Crochet, Free Patterns, Kids & Toys
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...
by ChiWei | Oct 5, 2015 | All Designs, Crochet, Free Patterns, Kids & Toys
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...
by ChiWei | Sep 28, 2015 | All Designs, Crochet, Free Patterns, Home, Kids & Toys
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...
