Now you have all these strips of solid color yarn and all of your brightly colored granny squares and you are convinced that I am a lunatic! Take heart, here’s where I show you how to assemble them all and make them look like something other than a scrap heap.
Begin with your first base color [...]

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Are your hands tired yet?? Chances are that you’ve created about one hundred granny squares and so far they just look like squares sitting in your tote bag! Take heart. Now we are going to look at how to join them together.  You will remember me telling you how much I dislike working with items [...]

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Now that you have all of your scrap yarn in one place and you have decided on your border color we can get started.  Making a granny square is very simple to do.  So let’s get started.
Chain 6 and loop together
Turn - Chain 3 (this counts as first double crochet)
Two Double Crochet
Chain one
Create four (4) [...]

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If you’ve been working on a variety of projects, chances are that you have accumulated a lot of leftover yarn.  Most of the time these scraps are not sufficient to make a single item. You can use all of your scrap yarn and make a great looking afghan that is suitable for gift giving.  Stop [...]

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I don’t how many readers of this blog are sports fan, but I for one am!  I love football especially - but what I really don’t like is when the sun starts dropping in the horizon I get cold.  With this cold and miserable winter, I was trying to figure out what I could make [...]

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I recently bought a batch of yarn on eBay and it turned out to be a chenille yarn which I had neve worked with before. But, there are some really simple to make and easy projects that come out great with this yarn!  Since I’d never worked with it before it felt a little odd, [...]

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I mentioned in another post that i made a little ‘pouch’ to hold my yarn and hook and keep my dog away from it while I worked. You might be wondering what in the world I was thinking! But, it was really pretty simple!
So here’s the drill:
I typically work with 5 - 6 oz skeins [...]

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OK this is about the quickest and easiest pattern you’ll ever see!
This one doesn’t matter how big or small you want it, it only depends on what you want to fill it with.  Whether it’s a bell or catnip, make it appropriate for your four legged friend!
I used a Size F crochet hook and I [...]

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So, I decided to crochet a couple of scarfs for gifts for Christmas. I found these great Red Heart(T) yarns, one of them called “Candy Print” which is a nice blend of pink/red/white (obviously for a ’she’ scarf) and the other called ‘Fall” (also a Red Heart).  Well I have to tell you - I [...]

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So, I decided for Christmas to work on some slipcovers for a friends sofa. This particular sofa is really a love seat (I’ll get to the sofa later).  If you saw our website you saw the pattern for these (it’s here). Now, here’s the thing: I started this to write up this project originally to [...]

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