Tag: 2016

FO Friday: Beach Ball Pillow

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This week’s featured finished project craves for the summer! Luckily, I live in Hawaii where it’s summer year round. Yay?

For this project, I used a mix of yarn brands (see below) and fluff. This makes a great beginner project or even a scrap buster!

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My daughter already claimed this one and the crafter in her wanted to add a face. I didn’t get a photo, but I used black buttons for the eyes and just sewn on a smiley mouth with yarn.

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The creation of this also sprouted a new category for the shop!

  • Yarn: Red Heart Super Saver in Aruba Sea, Red Heart With Love in Aran, and Loops and Threads Impeccable in Bright Sky Blue
  • Hook: 4.00 mm Odyssey crochet hook by Furls
  • Pattern: Beach Ball Pillow at Persia Lou
  • Other materials: polyester fiber filling, yarn needle
  • Order yours here.

FO Friday: Color Pooling!

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I may be a bit late posting about this, but I finally have this ready! Color pooling infinity scarf using moss stitch.

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Making this is way simpler than it looks! You’d think you need the perfect tension, hook size, yarn type, and so on and so on……but my favorite technique is just making sure the color you are currently stitching is the same color as the stitch diagonal from it. Another technique that works for me is for beginning your project. Make your slip knot right where the color changes, and try to end your chain at a color change.

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I used this tutorial by Moogly to learn how to do the Moss stitch.

What are your favorite projects for color pooling?

FO Friday: 150 Lemons for CYC

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This year, I pledged to make 50 lemons for the Craft Yarn Council Lemon Drive. You can read more about it and find out how you can contribute here. I ended up having so much fun making them that I made over 150 lemons! So many, they can’t even fit in the photo!

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I was lucky enough to receive free supplies from Yarnspirations and Fairfield. I also lucked out on a local resale page and scored free bags of filling! The most I spent was on shipping!

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This drive is being held in preparation for a Mega Lemon Drop in January. I initially came across this event because of National Stress Awareness month every April. The lemon pattern is written by Twinkie Chan for this event.

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I hope all these lemons have brightened your day!

FO Friday: Chained Wreath Ornament

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Here’s a quick FO. I’m also posting it earlier than originally planned because they are almost gone! It took longer to attach the ribbons and magnet than it was to make the actual wreath.

I used a 5.0 mm hook, but any size will do. There’s no gauge. Just keep making a chain until you get about 5 feet. Mine came out to about 3×3 inches.

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I made a bunch of these, so they are my shop’s “free gift with purchase” until December 20 or until they are gone! Just want the ornament? You can also order them!

FO Friday: Doctor Who Throw

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This time I tried my hand at C2C!

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I started this project November of last year! It took me nearly a year to make because of all the ends to weave in and all the color changes!

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The plan was originally to make 12 squares, or at least enough to cover one adult. But all the ends made it quite a task if you don’t work them in right away.

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This was definitely fun to work. But next time, I’ll need to do my best to not put the project down.

  • Hook: 4.5 mm Soft Touch crochet hook from Clover USA
  • Yarn: various worsted weight yarns by Red Heart Yarn and Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice
  • Pattern: Two Hearts Crochet
  • Order yours here.

FO Friday: Shoreline Afghan

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Here’s another gift! I love finding these cool blanket patterns, but I have more blankets than I could use in a lifetime.

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For this project, I decided to use yarn I already had in my stash. It’s a mix of brands, but they seem to have come together very nicely!

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This gift is not meant to be given until Christmas, but I thought I’d get a good start since my favorites I’ve made can take as long as 2-3 months. A day or two into the project, I realized I’m nearly halfway done! This is also when I found how to do a join-as-you-go technique for hexagons, and I just had to go into overdrive out of excitement!

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I used less yarn than I thought I would per hexie, so I think this would make a good scrap yarn project! But let’s save that for another time!

  • Hook: 5.5 mm Furls Odyssey crochet hook from Furls Crochet.
  • Known yarn used:
    • Red Heart Super Saver in Aran, Medium Thyme, Charcoal
    • Red Heart With Love in Black
    • Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice in Seaspray Mist, Beige
  • Personalize and order yours here.

FO Friday: Reusable Water Balloons

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This week’s FO are reusable water balloons from Left in Knots! I tried them first as is with a 9.0 mm hook but came out too big for a child, so I omitted a row and switched to an 8.0 mm hook. But after trying them in action, I decided to put that row back with the 8.00 hook. And they came out great!

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Once they’re made, all you really need for your fight is a bucket of water! They absorb about half a cup of water each, so you can cause the same amount of damage as traditional water balloons.

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The best thing about this is the clean up! They are machine washable and dryable, and leave no trash on the battlefield.

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  • Yarn: Bernat Blanket
  • Hook: 8.0 mm crochet hook from Clover USA
  • Pattern: Left in Knots
  • Order yours here

Finished Object Friday: Granny Square Sweater

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Last year’s Black Friday, I had a good haul of this Heartland yarn by Lion Brand. This has been my on-the-go project because it’s just a big ol’ granny square!

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I just made a granny square as wide as my arm span. Then slip stitched together the side into itself to form the sleeve. A single crochet edge around the openings. And there you have it!

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Really, that’s it.

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The top part is folded over to make it look like a collar.

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Warm and comfy. But in this Hawaii summer, this sweater will have to wait.

FO Friday: Wire Wrap

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Introducing “Finished Object” or “FO” Friday! Now I share recent projects I have completed! So here’s a quick one to start.

I’m always finding my cords all tangled up, so I made a solution!

A quick little thing to strap around cords!

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A rectangle/strip with a buttonhole, add a button, and done! I didn’t use any particular pattern, I just made some half double crochet rows and single crochet around.

Want one? Order here.