Tag: Valentine’s Day

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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 5

This pattern isn’t necessarily Valentine’s related, I just liked it!

Find the pattern here.


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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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Valentine’s Cozy Roundup – Day 1

I had surgery this week and am supposed to be doing nothing at home, so I whipped up six coffee cozies for my kids to give their teachers for Valentine’s Day.  I plan to share one cozy a day until the big event!

Day 1 – The Love Cozy

I saw a pattern I liked on Pinterest for a coffee mug cozy with the word “love” embroidered on it.  I wanted this to by a coffee cup cozy, not a mug cozy, so I followed this simple pattern by Dakotah Knits.

After I finished the cozy, I chain stitched the word “love” on the cozy.  Easy and cute!


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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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Okaasan Hug Monster

My husband bought me a book of crocheted monsters, Crochet Bakemono, last year.  I just got around to making one of them, Okaasan, for Valentine’s Day.  Okaasan just begs for a hug.

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I had a few issues with the pattern.  At first it wasn’t making sense at all, then I realized it was written in British terms rather than American.  It’s confusing because we use the same terms, but they mean different things.  There was very little instruction on how to cut out and apply the felt pieces.

Difficulty:  Easy

Time Required:  3 Movies

Overall Experience:  Fair