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Valentine’s Cozy Roundup – Day 6

It’s the final day of my Valentine’s cozy roundup.  Tomorrow is the big day:  Valentine’s Day!

The pattern for this cozy was shared with me by my friend Liz over at A Little Crochet by Liz.  The cozy pattern is available at Dakotah Knits.  The heart pattern is  modified from Repeat Crafter Me.  Because the heart pattern as written was too large for my cozy, I chained 9 (instead of 11) to start and removed two single crochets from Rows 1 through 6 and  one single crochet from remaining rows.  I also removed rows 5 and 13.

Enjoy!

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Valentine’s Cozy Roundup – Day 3

I love this cozy because instead of hearts, it has lips.  The lip pattern can be found here.

I decided to have some fun, so instead of using a plain cozy pattern, I made up one with a little extra texture.


Stitches Used:

Cozy Pattern:

Chain 30 and sl st in first chain being careful not to twist.

R1:  Ch 2, hdc in each chain around, sl st to first hdc (30 hdc)

R2:  Ch 2, hdc in third loop around, sl st to first hdc (30 hdc)

R3:  Repeat R2

R4:  Repeat R1

R5:  Repeat R2

R6:  Repeat R1

R7:  Repeat R2

R8:  Repeat R2

R9:  Repeat R1

R10:  Repeat R2

R11:  Repeat R1

R12:  Repeat R2

R12:  Repeat R2

R13:  Repeat R1

Break yarn.  Sew on applique, and weave in ends.

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Valentine’s Cozy Roundup – Day 2

Day 2’s cozy is a puff stitch cozy from the Roving Nomad.  I love how the v-shaped puff stitches resemble hearts!  The only edits I made were to use a H-hook and start with a chain of 30 instead of 24.


 

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Sweetheart Hat Pattern

I wrote a guest blog this week over at Her Exchange about self-care through creativity, especially knitting and crocheting.  If you read the article, you’ll read about how after having kids, I really lost the joy in knitting in crocheting due to real or self-imposed deadlines and closed down my Etsy shop.  I have decided to change the focus of my shop and reopen!  Instead of selling finished products, I’m going to try to start selling my patterns.  And if I’m being truthful, I really enjoy the design aspect of coming up with a new pattern more than I enjoy making that pattern over and over for clients.

Without further ado, here is my first pattern:  the Sweetheart Hat.  I designed this hat for my daughter as a Valentine’s seasonal hat, but hearts are really always in season, so she doesn’t have to put it away after the holiday.  The pattern features my favorite heart cable that I’ve been putting on everything since college.  The hat can be worked in sizes baby through adult, but the cable size does not change so the cable will be more prominent on the baby sizes and less prominent on the adult sizes.

Buy the pattern on Etsy here or on Ravelry here.

Materials:

Go to this link to buy a kit with everything you need to make this hat on Amazon.

  • Worsted weight yarn
  • 2 Size US 8 needles for cable
  • 5 Size US 6 double pointed needles for remainder of hat
  • Cable needle
  • Tapestry needle


Stitches Used:

Please comment below with any questions!

 

 

 

 

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Mandala Madness Nursery Rug

While I was pregnant with Zoe I found a pattern on Pinterest called Mandala Madness.  It looked like so much fun!  The pattern created a giant, whimsical circle of crazy crochet techniques and looked like a blast.  But what does one do with a giant whimsical circle?  I decided to make it and use it as a rug in the nursery.

This project was FUN.  It is probably the most fun I have every had crocheting a project.  Every row was a different color or texture.  I finished all but the last two rows on it before having Zoe.  Since her brother moved to a big boy bed last night and she now has a crib in her room, I decided I had better finish the rug so we can finish the nursery.  (I’m not finished with her crib blanket, either.)  So, eight months later, the rug is finished!  I actually didn’t finish the 18 part pattern, I stopped when I got to the rug dimensions that I wanted.  I can always add more rows onto it later if I decide to reuse it as a larger circular blanket.  Right now it is about 4.5 feet in diameter, which is a great rug but a small blanket.


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Deep V Hoodie

I asked for Vogue Knitting for Christmas and loved a pattern that showed up in the very first issue I received.  I like to make complicated things, but I tend to wear simple garments in mostly solid colors.  I like it when they are a little different from what you see everyday.  While not something I would love making, this hoodie was definitely something I would love wearing.  It knit up pretty quickly on No 8 needles.  I love the end product.  This is probably going to be my new favorite garment this fall.

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Difficulty:  Easy

Time Required:  Many Movies

Overall Experience:  Good

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Lacey Summer Baby Cap

As mentioned in my previous post, I have a lot of friends who have had babies lately.  Next up:  the Halas.  The Halas have an awesome adoption story that I would not do justice.  Check out the story on their blog.  I simply made a hat for their beautiful baby girl, Evie.

I recently purchased a new book, Luxury Yarn One-Skein Wonders, and wanted to make something out of it.  I combined Alpaca and Silk Baby Cap with the flower from Angora Baby Bunny Cap.  I also added some pearl details to the flower.  It turned out so precious!

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Difficulty:  Moderate

Time Required:  One movie

Overall Experience:  Excellent