okay so beach cover ups So you wanna make a crochet beach cover up and honestly it’s way easier than you’d think? I made my first one back in spring 2022 when I was basically living at my friend Sarah’s beach house for like three weeks and kept borrowing her cover ups which got awkward. […]
okay so mandala patterns Right so you start with a magic ring which honestly I didn’t even know what that was until like 2022 when I made my first real mandala during that weird spring when everything was melting early and I was watching too much Succession. The magic ring is basically just this adjustable […]
Finding the Weird Stuff Online So the thing about unusual crochet patterns is they’re actually everywhere once you start looking but like, not where you’d think. Ravelry obviously has tons but you gotta search specific terms because typing “unusual” doesn’t really help. I usually search things like “anatomical crochet” or “realistic food crochet” or even […]
Getting Started with T-Shirt Yarn So basically t-shirt yarn is exactly what it sounds like – you cut up old t-shirts into continuous strips and then crochet with them. I made my first basket back in spring 2022 when I was cleaning out my closet and had like fifteen old shirts I never wore anymore. […]
Making Those Little Scandinavian Gnome Guys okay so nisse gnomes are actually way easier than they look but nobody tells you the annoying parts until you’re already halfway through one. I made my first one back in spring 2022 when I was binge-watching that chef show on Netflix, the one with all the yelling, and […]
Getting Started with Chunky Yarn So you wanna work with thick yarn, okay here’s what I learned after making like a dozen projects with the chunky stuff. First time I really got into it was spring 2022 when I made this giant blanket because my apartment was freezing and I was too cheap to turn […]
Right so the single crochet in UK terms which is actually double crochet Okay so first thing you gotta know is that what Americans call single crochet is what we call double crochet in the UK and this confused the hell out of me for like two years because I kept looking at patterns online […]
Finding Free Patterns That Actually Work So the first thing you gotta know is that not all free patterns are created equal. I learned this the hard way back in spring 2022 when I decided to make a basic beanie for my sister and ended up with something that looked like a deflated balloon. The […]
Finding Patterns That Actually Work So I made this really slouchy cardigan back in spring 2022 and honestly the pattern situation was kind of a mess at first. You’re gonna want to look on Ravelry obviously because that’s where like 90% of the good free patterns live, but also don’t sleep on random blogs because […]
Okay so the XO blanket thing – I made one in spring 2022 when my sister was having her baby and honestly it turned out way better than I expected but also there were moments where I wanted to throw the whole project across the room. The pattern is basically alternating X’s and O’s, right? […]