new upcoming pattern release!

September 15, 2015 by 6 Comments

I’ve designed a crochet pattern inspired by a hat made by the women’s clothing store Anthropologie, and it will be released soon in a PDF!  Here’s the hat the pattern makes:

Anthropologie Inspired Hat

The pattern should be moderately easy to follow.  If you’re interested, here’s a photo of the first page of the pattern so you can see the requirements, measurements, etc:

Anthropologie Inspired Hat

The pattern includes full written instructions for the hat as well as the flower and directions on assembling everything together.  Here’s a photo of the hat on my lovely coworker Keya:

Anthropologie Inspired Hat

As of now there’s only the one size but if you’ve got a basic knowledge of crochet hat construction you can modify this to fit a larger or much smaller head.

This will be available within the next week or so, so stay tuned, and thanks for stopping by!

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coming up rose hat: ta-da!

June 20, 2015 by 20 Comments

After a bit of trial and error, my Coming Up Roses Hat is complete!

coming up roses hat

I love working with the KnitPicks’ Comfy Worsted cotton yarn, but the pattern was a little off (or perhaps it was just me…).  I had to up the hook size and I finished about an inch before the pattern recommended to tie off (and it fits my head fine this way). The cross stitch was also done by holding 2 strands of the yarn instead of just 1 for a fuller effect:

coming up roses hat closeup

 

…I’m not very good at cross stitch…

Well there’s lots of yarn left and I plan on making a few things with it, but that can wait until another day.  Thanks so much for stopping by, see you soon!

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hat pincushion appearance in Simply Crochet!

June 14, 2015 by 6 Comments

The magazine Simply Crochet has recently released a special edition, the Amigurumi Collection!

Simply Crochet Amigurumi Collection

There are so many cute patterns that it’s more like a book than a magazine, and I definitely want to make a few of the items inside!

I’m honored that my hat pincushion pattern that Simply Crochet published back in Spring of 2014 made it into this new publication:

amigurumi hat pincushion

 

Thanks, Simply Crochet!

**Edit: click here to be taken to the Revelry pattern page.**

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coming up roses hat: begin!

June 13, 2015 by 4 Comments

My yarn arrived a few days ago!  I’m excited about the Comfy Worsted and the Chroma Worsted:

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I’ve started the Coming Up Roses Hat with the Comfy Worsted.  The blue yarn ran out so the border is grey, but I like it.

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After 10 odd years of crocheting, this is the first time I’ve used the backwards single crochet stitch (I think it’s also called the crab stitch?), and it wasn’t as hard as I thought it would be.  I like the  border it made and I think I’d like to use this stitch as a sturdy blanket border sometime.

Well, that’s all the yarny stuff.  I’m happy to say that we finally got in touch with the landlord and they’re putting a new metal roof on the house and redoing the entire ceiling in the back room that had all the leaks.  That’s all scheduled to start today so I hope they actually come… the unpleasant smell of the drywall/attic is permeating the house… blech.

Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!

 

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bought lots of yarn…

June 6, 2015 by 11 Comments

KnitPicks had (and may still have) a promo code that gave you a free ball of Chroma with a $25 purchase, so I took advantage of that (I’ve never tried Chroma, have you?).  I bought yarn to crochet the Coming Up Roses Hat, and whatever’s left I’ll use to knit a Totoro Hat.  Dunno what I’ll do with the Chroma yet; depends on how soft it is, etc.  Here are the colors of Comfy Worsted and Comfy Worsted Heather Special Reserve that I purchased:

imageimageI got more than I needed but I wanted to play with the colors in person before choosing the pinks in particular.  This is the Chroma colorway I got for free (called Sugar Cookie):

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That’s all I’ve got for today.  I haven’t done much for the past few days (as far as yarncrafts go) but I’ve got an idea for a future crochet blanket that I already have yarn for and a few other things, as well!  I’m gonna have so many WIPs…  How many do you usually have?

Thanks for stopping by, see you soon!

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