Love these Crochet Rings, Free Pattern

Check out these great Crocheted Ring Patterns I found over at
 
CLICK HERE to go to the Free Pattern

Free Crochet Tutorial for Invisible Joins and Ends

Invisible Beginning and Joining RoundsWhen rounds are begun with ch 3 and finished with sl st in top of ch 3, the beginning and ending are visible. Can you see the difference between these two circles? One has visible joinings, and the other does not.

Here's a nice technique tutorial I found at Crochet magazine's website. It shows how to create invisible beginnings and endings for rounds. Click here for Tutorial

Keeping my fingers crossed.

I am so waiting for a email. One of the women in my fiber club is looking to give away an old Union Custom Loom and I so want this. I have been looking for a loom for years and hopefully fingers crossed this one will be mine. My husband is all ready groaning ☻

I so have to make this rug

When I first saw this rug on Meet Me At Mikes Blog I just had to check it out. Can you imagine crocheting this by hand and without a hook. It was designed and made by Jean Lee. Her website, Ladies and Gentlemen states "Jean's obsession with vintage doilies grew to epic proportions when she created these full size area rugs using cotton rope. PURCHASE HERE The Mega Doily rug will be featured in Meg Mateo Illasco's upcoming book, "Crafting a Meaningful Home" (STC Craft/Melanie Falick Books, Fall 2010)"
Something tells me I'm not going to be able to wait for the book to be published. My brain's already ticking away with how I should start this project. I wonder if Cotton Piping Cord
would work? Is it obsessive when you start thinking things like - that rope looks about as thick as her third toe, if I measure my toe I could get almost the exact thickness of rope that she used for her rug? I better end this post, I think I need to take a Prozac. Well I'll take it after I get a quick look at all my old doily patterns. I defiantly will need an oval pattern for a rug under my dining room table ☻

Wedding Roses all crocheted and ARMY Afghan reposted on my website

Well with all this rain (24 days of rain out of the last 30) I haven't been able to get the garden finished planting yet, but I did get all those Damn Wedding Roses crocheted for my nephew's wedding. Which is this Saturday, but boy did I cut that one close, they went in the mail today. I don't know what I was thinking when I designed that pattern.
I did get My ARMY Afghan pattern re-posted to my website. It's kind of an abbreviated pattern, enough to crochet the afghan, but I still have to re-post a more detailed pattern this fall when I get more time. Right now, if this rain ever stops, I have to much to around here on the homestead and in the garden. Add all that with a sick grandchild, my Master Gardner class on Wednesday, my granddaughter graduating kindergarten on Thursday and a family reunion on Saturday and I think I have mush brain syndrome.

Birthday's, What's Up and a Tutorial for Mod Podge Lanterns

Well my husband earned the first quarter of the year for spotting the first lightening bug. Things have been really hectic around here, Yesterday was the Grand Daughters 6th birthday and today is our Son's birthday. I've been sewing like crazy for my DGD's summer wardrobe for her Birthday present. Will post pictures soon. Tonight it's out to dinner to celebrate the birthdays. Last night was my first Master Gardner Class and boy do I feel out of my league, but that's another post. My Nephew is getting married next month and I'm crocheting my Birdseed Wedding Roses like a mad women.

I did want to post the links for this fantastic tutorial that I found over at Gingerbread Snowflakes. With some Outdoor Mod Podge, Food Coloring and some old bottles she'll show you how to make some beautiful hanging outdoor lanterns.

Click here for the How To

and here for her Tutorial for hanging your Mod Podge Lanterns

I Can Only Imagine Crocheting Things This Great

British artist Shauna Richardson crochets life-size models of rabbits, deer, foxes, bears, lions and primates, then, borrowing heavily from taxidermy, expertly stuffs and outfits them with claws, jaws and glass eyes. She has named her technique CROCHETDERMY™. Her animals are life-like appearance and she states in an article for DazedDigital that “In an attempt to remove the pieces from the realms of soft and cuddly, I use coarse wool such as mohair mixes, reproduction claws, jaws and glass eyes. My crochet technique is freestyle, one colour, one stitch – the direction of the stitches highlighting anatomical features. All of the animals I make are life-size."

Make Your Own Checkerboard Buttons

I get a newsletter from knitting daily.com. Even though I don't knit I find lots of usefull things to use with my crochet. I think this tutorial for homemade Checkerboard Buttons that was in todays newsletter is just darling.

Cut four 1 1/2" (3.8-cm) and six 1⁄2" (1.3-cm) circles out of cardboard. Cut a 6-yard (5.5-m) length of yarn and thread it on a tapestry needle. Beginning at center of wrong side of form, wrap yarn around cardboard circle from top to bottom two times, then again from side to side two times (Step 1).

Turn form over and rotate it 45 degrees so that previous wraps form an X. Working from top to bottom, wrap yarn around form from side to side 10 times for large buttons (Step 2) and 8 times for small buttons, covering the cardboard between diagonal lines of X.

Working right to left, wrap yarn 10 times for large buttons and 8 times for small buttons around form from top to bottom, using needle to weave yarn over upper half of horizontal threads and under remaining threads a total of 5 times for large buttons and 4 times for small buttons, then under top group of threads and over bottom group an equal number of times (Step 3).

A Mailbox for the Garden

Last year I read in a gardening magazine about installing a mailbox in your garden for tool storage. It sounded like a great idea, I have a 10 gallon bucket that I've sewed a pocket apron for and I keep all my garden tools in it. But I can't count how many times last year that I would walk into the garden for say a green pepper and find a dozen things to do that I could of used a hand trowel for but didn't want to walk back into the house to get. OK, so now you know I'm the queen of Lazy :) But having my gloves, nippers, a spade or two, stored in a mailbox right in my garden, now that's my idea of lazy heaven. Well I found a mailbox with the pole at a thrift shop for $5.00. Add some craft paint and my Granddaughter and it's all ready for the garden.

Plastic Bag Crochet Project

One of the projects kare4kenya worked on during their stay in kawangware in the month of August 2007. The idea was to 1) Clean up the slum area of kawangware 2) Re Use the plastic bags so that from the plastic bags the locals could create beach bags 3) Give a part time job to these parents who have no work...

Hop on the Bus, Gus Free Crochet Pattern

I'm finding so many great free patterns at Crochetme, I guess i'll just have to start my Christmas crocheting now. This school bus scarf will be too cute on my grandson.
Click here for the free pattern this is a new link to this pattern the old link stopped working.

Crocheted Swirling Bag Video

Crocheted Swirling Bag

As soon as I saw this crocheted bag from pattern from PBS' Knitting Daily TV I knew it was a gotta crochet pattern'
Click here for the Free Pattern

Startled Hubby and Those Swedish Hats

OK, so I'm not the only women who startled her husband during the Olympics by blurting out "those hats are crocheted☻ I have to have the pattern!" Did a quick search on the Internet and found some really intense investigations into those hats. Alas the feats a crocheter will go to solve a crochet mystery, Kim Werker at Crochet Me even emailed the Swedish Olympic Committee and received an email from Eva Christensson (The designer)herself. Seems the publicists at the Swedish Olympic Committee passed my email inquiry on to her, and she was kind enough to reply in English directly to her.

Read all about her escapades in her two posts here.

OK I know, I can't read Swedish either. But vixypix was kind enough to translate the pattern into English and posted the PDF file here.

Free Crochet Patterns for Snuggling

I've been looking at these free Patterns from Red Heart

And can see my next Christmas crocheting projects.

Everyone Can Snuggle - Link to PDF Free Pattern Click Here

Crochet Snuggle Up Throw, Adult and Child Patterns - Link to PDF Free Pattern Click Here

Tiles Granny Afghan - Link to PDF Free Pattern Click Here

Recycled Crochet Hook Holders

I found this great HOW TO at She states "Living Green and Recycling can be fun and creative. Customize your favorite hooks for comfort and be environmentally conscious at the same time."

Examples using empty pens, highlighters and permanent markers.

She has a great PDF file of the tutorial that you can download

Click here to go to the Recycled Crochet Hook Holders Tutorial by LadyWillow Designs©