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You already know about how crochet can enhance your life—the satisfaction of making something with your own hands, the joy of giving away handmade gifts , the serenity of sitting in a comfy chair, crocheting your stress away. But, let's say your best buddy across the country has not been empowered...
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With the holidays so quickly approaching, I know I should have spent the entire weekend finishing up—or even in some cases beginning—all of my last minute gifts. I had the best intentions of whipping out at least three quick gifts this last Saturday. I settled myself on the couch with a good...
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Toni Rexroat
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Dec 16, 2010
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Filed under: Crochet Gifts, Crochet Stitches, Crochet Techniques, Crochet Accessories, Easy Crochet Patterns, Baby Crochet Patterns, Crochet Patterns, Amigurumi, Crochet Blankets, Crochet
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When I started shaping my own holiday traditions as a young adult, we had a big fat Scotch pine with empty boughs. So, at our first holiday party I began a new tradition. I took a Polaroid shot of each guest and hung it on the tree. By the end of the evening, our tree was bursting with friendly faces...
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It's Thanksgiving Day already! If that felt like a bucket of ice water rushing over you, join the club. There are still all those holiday crochet gifts to be made. While hoards of shoppers storm the gates of stores across the country this weekend, I'll be stitching as fast as I can to finish...
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5 Free Crochet Patterns for Beautiful Handmade Gifts Who doesn't love a handmade gift? This collection of crocheted gifts has something for everyone on your list. The simple crochet patterns in this eBook, 5 Free Crochet Patterns for Beautiful Handmade Gifts, is a terrific resource for quick gift...
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Some of you have wisely been crocheting gifts all year long, so right about now, you're sewing buttons on the sweater that is your final present. For the rest of us, time is clicking away on holiday crochet. I've rounded up some speedy gifts that you can whip up before Thanksgiving. There's...
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I want to thank you. It's easy to encourage someone else to take a little time and crochet a project as a gift for themselves, but I can attest that it's a little more difficult to actually spoil yourself. Even as I stitch my brain is thinking about all of the people to whom I could gift this...
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Like many of you I am a multi-crafter. I crochet, sew, knit, spin, and even find a little time for scrapbooking, sculpting, and DIY upcycling (recycling an old item into something new and different). And some of my favorite craft projects are quick and easy little gifts. Under my bed you will find a...
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For the next two days, Interweave has buckets of books on sale, making this a fine time to fill your shelf with crochet pattern books and design reference books. I cruised through the list of sale books and highlighted half a dozen books I love and have on my shelf. This was not an easy task—if...
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Kim Werker's book Crocheted Gifts: Irresistible Projects to Make & Give won the 2009 Flamie for best Crochet Pattern Book. It is brim-full of great, innovative designs by top designers such as Doris Chan, Kathy Merrick, Robyn Chachula, Annie Modesitt, Kristin Omdahl, and many other friends and...
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In my mother's drawer of cherished Mother's Day presents are several tissue-paper-and-pipe-cleaner roses and too many sets of napkin holders cunningly crafted from spent toilet-tissue rolls. Also in there are little crocheted doodads, flower pins and little hearts. Moms love things their kids...
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Yes! For the second year in a row, all you crocheters out there voted for Interweave Crochet as the Best Crochet Magazine. The Flamies are awarded by the Crochet Liberation Front for extraordinary work in crochet—sort of like the Oscars do for work in film. Crochet-lovers vote on their favorite...
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Last Friday afternoon, my daughter came home and said, “My teacher is having a baby. Can you make her a present I can bring in Monday?” Sure, why not? While I was stitching away though, I thought, “How swell would it be to have a stash of hand-crafted gifts?” Mags Kandis'...
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It's that time of year when holiday projects monopolize all of our time. Grandiose, carefully handmade crochet gift ideas fill our thoughts and every spare minute because if you are like me there is never enough time to finish all of the projects you would like to gift. Recently I was reminded of...
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A few enewsletters ago, I gave tips for finding small bonus projects in the Fall issue of Interweave Crochet . One of the projects was doing the first few rounds of the Leaf Peeper Hats and turning them into coasters. Well, the time has come to give away these crocheted gifts for friends and I'm...