Reaching Out, One Stitch At a Time
I decided I wanted to design a floral afghan square for the April M.O.M. in our Baker’s Dozen group on Ravelry. I picked a rose, and added some leaves. It still wasn’t big enough, so I added some granny square rounds. Here is my free pattern. …
I love textured stitches, especially post stitches. It can add so much depth to your project. So, for this months square I decided to see what kind of design I could come up with using post stitches. This square went to the March M.O.M. for …
Two days ago I posted about finding a stitch combo that looked like the knit moss stitch. And, as promised, here is a free pattern for you to try it out. I made it as an afghan square, but you could easily use it as …
I love the basketweave stitch. It is so versatile and can be adjusted to be bigger or smaller weaves. I had to make a 12″ afghan square for my Baker’s Dozen group on Ravelry, so I decided to make one using the basket weave stitch. …
A while back I was part of the Baker’s Dozen group on Ravelry. Every month we would make a square to send to the M.O.M. (Member Of the Month). October’s MOM said she wanted a square that had meaning to the giver, color didn’t matter. This …
Update: Please note that I wrote this post long before I knew how to successfully convert UK stitches to US stitches. I am leaving the pattern up for those in a similar situation, that are just starting out and don’t have the US version or …
>For those that read my post last week (click here) about always running out of yarn…..well, it has happened again! For those that missed it, I’ll give you a quick recap. My goal for 2011 was to use up my yarn stash. I’m calling it …
***This may be Jan Eaton’s ‘Tricolor Square’ pattern from 200 Crochet Blocks. If you read below, I did state the pattern had major errors and I couldn’t read it. I wrote up my directions from a pic, and also adjusted it to the size I …
***This may be Jan Eaton’s ‘Tricolor Square’ pattern from 200 Crochet Blocks. If you read below, I did state I couldn’t read the UK pattern I had, so I wrote up my directions from a pic, and made it the size I needed. Please see …
I was in need of an afghan square design for my square swap group on Ravelry. The color was seafoam/tiffany blue with red. I found this great square and thought if I used the red for the center it would look like a beautiful sunset. …