This week, we’re talking beginner blanket borders. How to finish off your blanket when you’re at the size you want, or almost there. Adding a border can be the perfect option to hide a slightly wonky edge, or when bringing your yarn up the side changing colours, and even just giving it a pretty edge. […]
How to Crochet Easy Blanket Borders: Part 1 Read More »
Alpine Stitch is a fun, thick and warm texture for your crochet projects! It’s beginner friendly, too. I mean if you tried the waffle stitch and were able to do the front post double crochet, then you’ve got this! Look at the texture in that photo! (Insert heart emoji here) Now, I love this pattern
How to Crochet with Alpine Stitch! Add Some Texture to your Projects! Read More »
I LOVE the versatility of crochet. It is so exciting to me that you can take a simple stitch, like this one, and it can become a million different patterns, all using the same technique, and by doing specific things, like strategic changing of colours, offsetting a chevron, or something simple, like using all your
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I am so excited to share this tutorial with you!! I love these African flowers so much and they’re so much fun to create and I was in love with these super cute animals made from them that I found one day on Pinterest! While I didn’t actually make one of those animals, I still
How to Crochet: African Flower Hexagon Granny Squares! Read More »
Hey! Today, we’re going to add some cute ear flaps to our granny stripe hat we worked on in the previous post. Ear flaps can be a bit daunting if you’re just learning how to crochet, but they don’t have to be. In this post, I’ll go over how where to place them, and then
How to Add Ear Flaps and Braided Strings to your Crochet Hat Read More »
Today, we’re learning how to use our simple Granny stripe, in the round, for a simple and easy, beginner friendly crochet hat! If you haven’t, scroll down to the bottom of the page and get our beginner hat pattern and tutorial! It includes a bunch of different styles of hat bodies, like we’re doing today.
How to: Granny Stripe, in the round, for a Hat! Read More »
In a previous post, we talked about how to make crochet ribbing from front post and back post double crochet which was great for top-down hats, or the body of a hat, as we talked about in that post, but today, we’re going to start a bottom-up hat technique using chains and slip stitches to
How to Create Slip Stitch Ribbing (Stretchy) Read More »
So, how adorable is this hat with this cute ribbed brim? We use front post and back post double crochets to create it. I am super in love with it! I especially love the thick and thin stripes too. What’s your favourite part? So this is a hat I made for my youngest daughter as
How to: Crochet Ribbing with Front Post & Back Post Double Crochet! Read More »
So, I thought we haven’t had a granny square tutorial lately and I’ve been looking at this one for awhile and so here it is! So far we’ve made: African Flower, Circle, Daisy, Camel stitch, Celtic Weave, and the original granny. And we learned 3 ways to join them together. Pretty soon, we’re going to
New Granny Square! Braided Puff Stitch! Read More »
So, today is December 30th, 2020! It’s simply mind-blowing how a year that was so utterly nuts and felt like it moved so slowly, went by so fast. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad its over, but wow! There were definitely times when I felt like it was going by so slowly. If you’re joining
How to Crochet: Waffle Stitch (Easy) Read More »
