Thanksgiving Crochet

Cute Tea Time Pumpkin Coasters pattern by Ira Rott, can be found free on Ravelry.

Easy crochet Pumpkin Jar Cozy made with this cute free pattern by Briana Olson. Works up quickly for a great gift or decoration for yourself.

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Crochet doily for Thanksgiving decoration.

Pattern now available right here on my blog.

Chocolate Candy Corn Doily

Happy Holidays!

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Baby praying mantises on a cattail in our pond. How cute is he!?!?

I found some really cute Thanksgiving snack ideas and food turkey ideas on Pinterest and made a super easy turkey snack for the kiddos.

Happy Turkey Day!

 Round Crochet Rug

           

             

My crochet rug, with many variations through the years. The Lacy Shell Doily Rug is available in my Etsy shop.

For a great rug pattern, especially a first rug, Sara Rivka Dahan has this wonderful free pattern on Ravelry

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Crochet Yoshi Hat

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    Crochet Yoshi Hat

        & Costume 

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All of my children really like Yoshi, so when my youngest daughter came to me 2 days before Halloween, yes, 2 days before Halloween, and she asked me to make her a Yoshi costume, I thought, sure, why not.

There really was not much available for sale at the time and sewing did not sound like much fun. But, crocheting DID sound fun. So I set out to crochet a Yoshi costume.

While there were some really cute handmade costumes, nothing was striking a cord and I wasn't having luck finding anything with a pattern, so I improvised. 

For our Yoshi hat I used this hat pattern for the Simple Earflap Cap.  

Various Amagurumi ideas for constructing the eyes, nose, etc. Circles, Ovals, etc. all too fit and make shapes needed for the face.

The really cute turtle shell pattern can be found here Play Dress Up (Part Deux).  

A sewn and stuffed tail, which was trial and error until I finally managed to figure it out.  The costume works with or without the tail. The tail is basically 3 triangles sewn together, then a triangle joining all 3 of these at the end, stuffed very full. With a belt sewn on.

           

White felt on the belly, cut in an oval and slip stitched around the edge, onto a plain T shirt.  

The skirt is sewn with fabric leftovers.  A basic short circle skirt.

Luckily my daughter wanted to be Pink Yoshi, since we used what we had on hand, which turned out, was a lot of pink. 

 I worked through the next day and through the night.

The morning of my daughters school Halloween Parade, she got up and it was all ready for her. 😊  She was so happy to get to be Yoshi that Halloween. ♡  

This was a fun and awesome project.

We still pull it out and wear it sometimes, even when it is not Halloween.

                                               

                 

   My Yoshi & Mario team headed out trick or treating!

Mario's costume was made with bias tape as make shift suspenders. The 'buttons' are yellow cardboard cut in circles with 4 smaller holes and yarn laced through. Mustache, 'M' cap, jeans, and boots.

    Happy Halloween!!!

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Pink Yoshi, thanks you.

Yoshi costume was created October 31, 2016

Here is one cute Yoshi pattern found on Ravelry, Yoshi Character Beanie by Niki Wyre.

      Crochet Halloween Spider Web

This awesome spider web pattern is fun and easy to make. Follow pattern found here by Creative Compendium Halloween Project #1.

lol!..... Just had to share.

            Happy Holidays!

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Sugar Skulls & Halloween Bunting

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 & Halloween Party Banner

       Bunting pattern by Red Heart can be found free, here at Halloween Party Banner,  and on Ravelry. I used the skull pattern found there and embellished them as sugar skulls. Sugar skulls are just so pretty and nice to have around during the fall season. This was a quick and adorable teachers gift for Halloween.

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May you find joy and inspiration!

Best wishes, and Happy crocheting!!

Halloween Coasters

Crochet 

Halloween Coasters

Assortment of crochet Halloween coaster designs. So hard to pick just one! 

 

One that I can share the pattern with you, is the cute Tea Time Pumpkin Coaster pattern by Ira Rot, found free on Ravelry. (pictured below)

Other coasters can be found for sell, made for you, in Doily Designs Etsy shop under Halloween Coasters. Mix and match or choose several in one design. (This item is no longer available, but you may make special request, for either made for you item or for patterns, in Doily Designs Etsy shop.)

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Crochet Pumpkins

                 Pumpkin Jar Cover

 This cute and functional Halloween and Thanksgiving decoration is sure to get your Holiday crochet mojo going. Fun and easy crochet Pumpkin Jar Cozy pattern by Briana Olson, can be found free on Ravelry. 

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Best wishes and Happy crocheting!

Giant Doily Rug

Giant Doily Rug

There was a really fun project I did for a wedding prop back in October, 2014.  We were pretty  pleased with the results.

At the time, I was fairly new at selling my rugs and blankets on Etsy and it was an intimidating project. The costumer asked me to make my blanket, but as a rug and very large.

There were pleasantly only a few snafu's and do-over's. Happily it turned out better than I imagined.  It was some years ago and I do not remember the hook I used, but it was a large hook, like an N hook or bigger.

Sadly, I only got a few pictures before shipping it to Australia (pictured below).  It was 7ft across.

It is such a lovely idea to have this for a wedding prop! There are so many cool things you could do with it!  Jeez, now I want to make another one! :)

Back to crocheting.

Crochet Rocks

  Crochet Rocks

                           

More crochet rocks!  

Finally, I've gotten around to crocheting around these nice river rocks that I'd acquired on our journeys. I've always been a bit of a rock collector, so when I saw this great idea, it brought me such joy! With rocks and crochet combined together, you have such an interesting piece. Crochet rocks can also be so very handy when used as door stops, basket fillers, in the garden, etc. Just such an extremely lovely decoration.

                                                

This beautiful Basalt Snowflake covered rock pattern by Deborah Atkinson, can be found free on Ravelry. (pictured below)

                       

                You can never have too many crochet rocks! :) 

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August 2015

There are so many really pretty lamp shade covers. I couldn't decide which I liked best but I had an idea of what I wanted so I started these and finished them for our bedroom. Using whatever jewels I had on hand just to get them done with embellishments.  You could add whatever suits your fancy or leave them as is. 

The little one makes a nice place to hang my crochet earrings and dress it up a little.

Mandala Stool Cover

August 2015

 Itching to crochet, so I made a stool cover for this really ugly stool that I am very attached to. It is my favorite drum stool so it HAS to go in the living room! Now at least it looks better. :)

                 

Find your favorite Mandala pattern and crochet it to size. No increase on stools side, measure as you go. Decrease stitches for closing, but not too much so that it can slide on and off.  It was really very easy and I had mandala's already made that were suppose to be pillow covers. The other may still end up being a pillow. Hey, it will match my stool! :)