I've been enjoying seeing everyone's work for some time now and thought I'd post a project. It's simple but I'm pretty pleased with it.


( Another, larger, photo )

Caron Simply Soft, Pink (9912) and Soft Green (9903); approx 3 x 5 ft

I joined this community a while back.
And I'm totally shocked that I've never actually looked around.

I adore crocheting.
I'm still a beginner, I guess but I know a few things.
I can make scarfs, beanies, and easy blankets.
I've made a few scarfs and a ton of beanies but I'm still working on a blanket (it's not made out of squares.)
I've learned how to do all this by trial and error and I'm actually looking for tutorials (perferbly videos) to learn more. Pictures work but I learn better by actually seeing how it's done. But I don't actually know any one who can show me.

ANYWAYS.

I would love to learn more and I find many of the projects on here inspiring.

I mean really, it seems like you can't go two minutes without seeing one.

Anyhoodle, it's been a while since I've posted anything so here's a bunch of pictures of some things I've been working on.


Thanks for looking, you guys, and I apologize to those of you with dial-up for all the pics.

x-posted to crochetcrochet

Hello everyone. I have really enjoyed seeing the amigurumi that everyone has been making. I am just getting started myself but I am wanting to make some based off the Fruits Basket anime. If anyone has any patterns or knows where I can find them I would be most appreciative. I am especially looking for Momoji (rabbit), Kyo (cat), rice ball, Tohru, or Yuki (rat). I hope to find patterns for them all eventually.

Thanks and have a Great Day!!



xposted to weloveamigurumi

Well thanks to you guys I joined ravelry and have been addicted to it now for 2 days.

Love love love love it!

My name is "chickintheband" if anyone wants to add me!

I'm wanting to make a blanket using the tunisian stitch and the original pattern called for cotton yarn, but cotton yarn is not practical for me since it's so expensive. So my question is: is there an acrylic yarn that is soft, user friendly and reasonably inexpensive? 

OK, so I know this isn't *exactly* about crocheting... but the majority of things I do are crochet, and everyone in this community is always so nice and helpful I thought I'd ask about it here rather than risk going to a strange community and getting flamed.

My boyfriend bought me a present of a loom knitting start up kit that comes with the loom, some yarn, and some not very good instructions. I tried to follow them and I got about halfway through the "first time looming" scarf pattern before I looked at it and realized it looked like I took a stray cat and dumped in a bag of loose yarn. :(

Does anyone have any tips on how to successfully use a loom, or know where I could find some reliable loom patterns? I really, really want to use the loom because

1) my boyfriend bought it for me and I thought that was totally sweet of him
and 2) I think I'd actually like doing it if I didn't feel so dumb and incompetent while trying to use it!!

My Yet is finally done! Yay! He took me awhile because I took many breaks...just glad to have this one in the FO pile now.

My daughter's preschool teacher has just had chemotherapy and lost all her hair. She always wears a bandana or baseball cap to cover her head and I was thinking I'd like to crochet (or knit, though I've never knitted a nice hat before) her a hat, something really nice or pretty. Does anyone have any pattern suggestions or even a photo of a neat hat that I might be able to copy/improvise without a pattern?

Also, what yarn would feel the best on a bald head? I don't want it to be itchy at all. I don't mind if it's a difficult pattern, I just want it to be a nice hat, and not just some beanie (which is what I usually make).

On another note, my husband just gave me a yarn winder for my birthday, and 2 nights ago, he sat with me and excitedly helped me rewind all my half-used collapsed skeins into fresh new balls. It was so cute. Plus, he shopped for the yarn winder himself when he was in Portland Oregon and said he visited a lot of different yarn stores. I love to imagine him doing that. He said he was the only guy in almost every store. Awwww!

So I was sitting here thinking about winter. (Yes. Really. Winter.)

And I was thinking about hats. What I'm really thinking about is thrumming.

Does anyone know if there's a way of incorporating this technique into crochet or is it pretty much a knitting-only practice?

My google-fu fails me at this hour.

Thanks for any help and ideas!

Anyone have a pattern for a beanie/hat with a skull. I've made beanies, and I've tried to think of the best and easiest way to create a pattern or follow a pattern for a hat, but I'm not sure how to incorporate a skull design. I've made a bag before and used a grid to incorporate my own design, but a hat isn't the same length all the way around, so I can't do the same. I'm still fairly new so I think an already made pattern would be easiest for me, so if any of you know where I could find one I would really appreciate it. Or unless you have any other suggestions on how I can incorporate the design, that would be great.

Thanks!

Good evening. I just found this lovely group and I cannot wait to be involved. I do have one question for everyone out there...does anyone have a good crochet fishnet stocking pattern or have an idea where I can find one. I so need *cough want cough* one and I cannot seem to find one online. Any help would greatly be appreciated.

Peas Out!
Anjala

I know there are how-to links and such but this is more specific.

Example:

SMALL FLOWER (Make 2)
With smaller hook, ch 4. Join with sl st to form a ring.
Rnd 1 Ch 5 (counts as first sc and ch 3), * sc in ring, ch 3; rep from * 5 times; join with sl st to 2nd ch of beg ch.
Rnd 2 * [Sc, hdc, 3 dc, hdc, sc] in next ch-3 sp, rep from * 6 times; join with sl st to beg sc. Fasten off.

So my question is, if you are only repeating 5 times for the first round how can you repeat 6 times for the second round. You only get 5 ch-3 spaces (because the ch-5 sp is 1 of the 5). Or how am I messing up, because I don't understand. Thank you.

Does anybody know where I can find a list of all the Interweave Crochet magazines (perhaps with photos of the covers) that have been published so far? I know it's a quarterly magazine now, but my searching has shown its first issue as alternately being in 2004, 2005, and 2006! I get the sense that there may be copies around from before it went quarterly. (Maybe?) I purchased as many back issues as my LYS had, bu