The Dreamy Baby afghan can be made in any size to suit your needs. It featured stripes of Tunisian crochet with a border in regular crochet. The Red Heart Dreamy yarn is fuzzy and soft making for a cozy blanket. Tunisian Top Stitch does not roll, so there is no need to block the finished blanket.
I have fun and exciting news for you today: My Hexagon Fade Throw is available as a Craftsy Kit!! It’s a super cool throw made with and acrylic/wool blend. You can find it on Craftsy HERE. You get to choose your background color. Enjoy!
Did you know that the CGOA is hosting a CAL throughout the spring? It’s 8 parts, and each part runs for 2 weeks. They just started the second part, but I’m still on the first. No worries about jumping in late, it doesn’t really take 2 weeks for each part, I’ve just been super busy. You can read
I’ve been seeing more and more gradient and ombre patterns popping up lately, and I love it! I’m quite fond of the way they can subtly move from one color into the next, so that you often can’t even notice where the changes happened! There are many ways to achieve this look, from a yarn that does it for you, to pacts of yarns made to work together as a gradient, to picking out the yarn colors on your own. I have searched around and found several examples of these fun color changes for this week’s round up!
Here are the names and links of each pattern, along with a little something that each designer has to say about them.
A while back I was approached by Red Heart to make a throw with snowflake squares. Well, I thought that could be fun, and it turns out I wasn’t the only one. The Snowflake Throw is the January Featured Throw, and it is quite popular!
Isn’t that nifty? To add to the niftyness, guess who the Featured Designer is this month?
Small squares are great for so many reasons. They can be used to make small blankets, cute little bags, appliques and so much more. They can be mixed with other sizes to make a mix and match blanket as well. So many uses, and so many squares. Here are just a few.
Here are the names and links of each pattern, along with a little something that each designer has to say about them.
Tamara’s Kismet Square uses the traditional Jacob’s Ladder stitch in the center, and is bordered by the Jacob’s ladder stitch flipped on its side. This creates a lot of fun texture and a really nifty~looking square, if I do say so myself. 😉 The idea for turning the Jacob’s ladder stitch on its side came from this awesome pattern. The square can be used in blankets, pillow covers, as wall art, or in some other way you can imagine. You can even make a quick baby blanket with 6 of these squares and a border, it works for boys or girls. Just have fun with it!
This 12” crochet square free crochet pattern uses the Jacob’s Ladder stitch in 2 directions. Kismet is gender neutral, making it great for a baby blanket!
This free crochet pattern for a 6” square utilizes the Jacob’s Ladder stitch to add texture and interest and it’s gender neutral, perfect for baby blankets!
By popular demand, I have put together videos to help you create the In Love With Color Throw that I designed for Red Heart! So without further ado, here they are!! Click on the little square on the bottom corner of each video to see them full screen. Octagon Motif: To find the full pattern, click here. Square Motif: To find the full pattern, click here. Triangle Motif: To find the full pattern, click here. Corner Motif (3/4 Square): To find the … Read more
