Archive for 2011

How to Crochet: Angel Wings Necklace Part 2

Posted in Free Crochet Patterns, Tutorials and Help on April 5th, 2011 by Claire Ortega-Reyes – 5 Comments
Here’s the continuation to the first part of the Angel Wings Necklace tutorial.

The first part of the tutorial shows how to crochet the first two rows of the pattern. This post shows how to crochet the third, and final, row. As with all the crochet tutorials here, mousing over the images shows images for the left-handed tutorial.

What are you waiting for? Grab that G (4.00 mm) crochet hook, and your half-finished Angel Wings Necklace.
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Crochet Pattern: Animal Baby Booties

Posted in Best Crochet Patterns on April 3rd, 2011 by Rachel Choi – 8 Comments

New in the Crochet Spot Store, this pattern set includes 3 different baby bootie sizes and 5 different animals to crochet! Each animal pattern has 3 sizes to correspond to the 3 different bootie sizes. The 5 animals include the teddy bear, bunny rabbit, cat, dog, and mouse. Feel free to crochet the whole set of animal baby booties for your baby! The pattern also includes an optional tie that can be placed on the booties so they won’t fall off of your baby’s wiggling feet. The ability to embroider the animal faces is required.

Please visit the Animal Baby Booties page for more information on this pattern! If you need any help while crocheting your baby booties, just let me know and I’ll help you out!

Click here to see pattern details!

All purchases help to support Crochet Spot and are greatly appreciated! Please login or create a new account at the Crochet Spot Store to purchase this pattern. Premium Pattern Members may log into the store and download the pattern for free.

How to Crochet: Angel Wings Necklace Part 1

Posted in Free Crochet Patterns, Tutorials and Help on April 1st, 2011 by Claire Ortega-Reyes – 9 Comments
Here’s a photo tutorial on the Angel Wings Necklace pattern, as requested by a Crochet Spot reader.

The first part of the tutorial shows how to crochet the first two rows of the pattern. Watch out for the second part, for detailed instructions on how to crochet the third, and final, row. As with all the crochet tutorials here, mousing over the images shows images for the left-handed tutorial.

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Crochet Pattern: Super Simple Baby Socks

Posted in Free Crochet Patterns on March 31st, 2011 by Erin Burger – 30 Comments

This simple baby tube-sock pattern is perfect for beginners because of the easy-toe and easy construction. It’s also a great way to introduce a beginner to fingering weight (sock weight) yarn, which may seem like a daunting material at first. Sock yarn is great for Spring projects because of it’s light weight and is available at most stores in a variety of different fibers. This sock could fit a newborn up to six month old baby, depending on how stretchy your yarn is, maybe even older!
Different sizes can easily be created by chaining more or less for the length of the sock and making more rows to increase the width of the sock.

Skill Level: crochet skill level intermediate

Finished Size: Uncuffed, socks measure 6″ (15.24 cm) in length and are 3″ (7.62 cm) wide at top

Materials:
100 yards Fingering Weight Yarn
Crochet Hook E (3.50 mm)
yarn needle

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How To Crochet: Broomstick Lace

Posted in Tutorials and Help on March 30th, 2011 by Robin Beers – 43 Comments
The broomstick lace stitch is a very pretty stitch that is made using both a crochet hook and a knitting needle. The concept is to loop your crocheted stitches onto a larger knitting needle, and then to gather them up in groups for a lacy effect.

You can use a very large knitting needle for bigger loops and you can create different rows with different size stitches. The only stitch that you need to know is single crochet, can you believe it? For this tutorial, I used my favorite crochet thread in size 3 with a size C crochet hook and a size 17 knitting needle. The usual grouping of stitches is 4 to 6.  Your initial chain will vary in length depending on how many groups of stitches you want to make. In this example, I am going to make 4 groups of 5 stitches so I will chain 20. 
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Random Ball of Wool

Posted in Fun Ramblings on March 29th, 2011 by Veronica Smith – 14 Comments

I have a random ball of wool. Let me tell you about her, I am not sure if it is a girl but let’s go with that.

She is actually not just wool but 50% virgin wool and 50% nylon if you want to get technical. She is soft – so very soft. She is a funny pinkish, beige, mocha color, not sure exactly and I am not sure if I even really like it. She has funny fuzzy nobbly things every couple of inches and she says she wants a 10mm hook (apparently that’s a Susan Bates / Annie’s Attic ‘N’). The dear little thing has a sale sticker on her proclaiming she is $2. She is alone. She is covered in dust bunnies.
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Crochet Pattern: Spring’s Here Lace Scarf

Posted in Best Crochet Patterns on March 28th, 2011 by Erin Burger – 9 Comments
New in the Crochet Spot Store, this pattern is for a lightweight and classy spring scarf. With an open work pattern this scarf would be a great addition to your spring wardrobe! The scarf is long enough to wear in a tied fashion around your neck and wide enough to drape over your shoulders. It looks great tied like an ascot with a light jacket and a t-shirt!

Skill Level: crochet skill level intermediate

Finished Size: Scarf is 40″ (101.5 cm) long and 9″ (23 cm) wide

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How to Crochet: Foundation Double Crochet (fdc)

Posted in Tutorials and Help on March 27th, 2011 by Claire Ortega-Reyes – 61 Comments
Who doesn’t love chainless foundations? I, for one, hate crocheting hundreds of chains at the beginning of projects. I love crocheting, and doing math, but for some reason I hate counting those chains (anyone with me here?).

Enter: the foundation single crochet (fsc). But what if the base is made up of double crochet (dc)?

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How To Crochet: Loop Stitch

Posted in Tutorials and Help on March 26th, 2011 by Robin Beers – 11 Comments
The loop stitch also called the fur stitch or the boucle stitch is a really fun stitch once you get the hang of it. You can make loops of any size on just one side of your work or both sides if you wish. Use it to make loopy pillows, scarves, hats or rugs. The possibilities are endless!

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Crochet Spot Store Makeover

Posted in News on March 24th, 2011 by Rachel Choi – 6 Comments

Great news! The Crochet Spot Store now has a new face. It’s the same store, same patterns, just a new and better look!

I just got done making over the old Crochet Spot Store. You know, the store that had all those patterns crammed on one page. The store where you had to look at tiny pictures and scroll through the whole page to find a pattern. I have to admit that that store was designed back in the day when I only had 10 patterns, so it was definitely time for a store makeover!

The new Crochet Spot Store is easier to navigate with a category list on the side of the page. It provides a larger photo on each pattern’s page along with a more detailed description of the pattern. Plus, if you still want to look at all the patterns on one page, you can still do that!

Enough reading about the new store, go check it out! Here’s the link: //www.crochetspot.com/store/

I’m always working on something to improve the store, so feel free to leave me feedback in the comments below or via email!