In this post we cover several different adjustments for the raglan granny block sweaters. Testing and Adjustments In the last months of 2025 we started the granny block sweater series. In this series we were set to work on 2 different garments with the Granny Block Stitch. The first one, our granny crew sweater is … Continue reading Adjustments for the Raglan Granny Block Sweater
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Chasing autumn, a yarn experiment, or how substituting yarns changes the characteristics of your garment. Yep, substituting yarn can be a big change. Inspiration Your cheer and excitement for the chasing rabbits top pushed me to make a third top. Yes, you read that right, a third one. If you’ve been here a while it … Continue reading Chasing Autumn / A chasing rabbits top experiment
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I love the structure of a sleeve right at the shoulder, here are my tips for inserting a crochet sleeve. I want to improve my sewing just to perfect sleeve making. In the meantime let me share with you my tips for inserting a crochet sleeve. Perhaps you wouldn’t know it from my designs, but … Continue reading Tips for inserting a crochet sleeve.
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As we tune in to our preferences our crochet must haves can change, but these are our top crochet items. Join Mindnadmusecrafts and I on this tier list. Inspiration At the beginning of the year I did a poll asking for video content ideas. Several of you asked for my favorite crochet tools. While I've … Continue reading Crochet Must Haves
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Can I substitute yarn, is a question we all ask ourselves. And I wanted to offer some insight via a new crochet project. Story Time You may have realized it by now, but one of my greatest crochet joys is making garments. I absolutely love creating my wardrobe, and sometimes my husbands, stitch by stitch. … Continue reading Can I substitute yarn?
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Let’s go over the changes I made to the hot water bottle cozy from the Romantic Crochet Book. The Book: Two posts back I posted my first book review in well over a year. Of course, it had to be on the Romantic Crochet Book by Emma Escott. Not only have I crocheted 3 patterns … Continue reading Hot water bottle Cozy / Romantic Crochet
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Yarn matters, and yes the pun is intended. A post about how the yarn you choose affects a given pattern. Do I have to use the yarn a pattern calls for? This is a bit of a loaded question. Like many of you, I buy or design a pattern and think, what yarn do I … Continue reading Yarn Matters
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This post, understanding crochet socks is meant to guide you through your crochet sock making journey. Crochet socks are really fun to make, don't be intimidated! Up until 3 years ago I was not aware that you could hand make socks. They were just an item of clothing that you purchased to use with sneakers … Continue reading Understanding crochet socks
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Vintage Waves Socks remade. Read about the changes that you may have to do when changing the yarn for a sock project. I hope your crafting week has been prolific and relaxing, mine has been very busy, I've been fighting off start-itis (the need to cast on all the projects that have caught your fancy). … Continue reading Socks Remade
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To everybody who is still following this blog after the long wait and to all the new readers that have started following my blog, hello and welcome to my corner of the internet. It's hard to believe that we are already approaching the end of January 2020. As is tradition, with the beginning of the … Continue reading Why do you Crochet?
