Month: February 2018
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Crochet Pattern Basics – Reading and Understanding Crochet Patterns
Crochet patterns can be written out or make use of symbols or grafts. Crochet patterns may seem a bit confusing and intimidating unless you know the basics of how to read and understand them. Most designers use a standardized set of symbols, abbreviations, and terms when writing their patterns. In this post, we’ll learn these…
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Top 10 Crochet Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Let’s face it, we all make mistakes. No matter how long we’ve been crocheting mistakes happen. Sometimes we ignore our mistakes and just call them “personalization”. Other times the mistake is obvious, and we have no choice but to frog (rip out) the mistake and begin again. Today I thought it would be a good…
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Crochet Guild of America Chain Link Conference Coming Up
If you love crochet you won’t want to miss the up coming Crochet Guild of America’s (CGOA) upcoming Chain Link Conference in Portland, OR. The conference runs from July 25th to July 29th. Registration opens in mid-April. You can read more about the conference and up coming news about it at the CGOA website.…
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Introduction to Crochet
I have an addiction. I love to Crochet. Ever since I was a small girl at my mother and grama’s knee I have loved to watch them take a simple hook and yarn and create wonderful projects. My grama’s hands would fly using tiny needle-like hooks and cotton threads as she created intricate borders for…
