When I heard that Lorna was dying yarn once again I about freaked my freak – she is the MASTER at creating amazing color combinations that look great in both knit AND crochet and I LOVE that as she resurrected her art of dying yarn she called it “Zombie Yarns”! Details on how you…
Danai ©2017 Drew Emborsky, aka The Crochet Dude® Worked from the top down this easy to memorize crochet lace pattern is a fun project that works up fast. Skill Level Easy Finished Measurements – Sizes 67″ wide x 42″ long at center point One size fits most Materials Yarn Zombie Yarns – Roamer (75% washable…
I met Lianka few years ago and she told me all about this stitch technique that she called the Crocodile Stitch. And since I’m insane in the membrane for texture I couldn’t believe my eyes. I was so happy that she was bringing this technique to the mainstream, and as you know, the…
I really love the way Tunisian crochet looks. Maybe you’ve heard it called “afghan crochet” but they are essentially the same – they use a long crochet hook and you pick up many stitches in one direction, then work them off the hook on your way back. These Tunisian crochet patterns that I’ve found…
Designing this shawl which I call Sonder was such a treat for me – I love it when I have the opportunity to crochet with truly LUXURY yarn like this. It’s so much fun and the results are always amazing. Enter to win enough yarn to make a Sonder of your own –…
Here a few of my FAVE St. Patrick’s Day crochet patterns from around the web. Just click on their names to get the pattern (login in may be required on some of them). PS: all these were free patterns at the time this roundup was compiled. Please forgive me if a designer has decided…
This amazing sock-weight yarn was hand-dyed by Ray of Knitivity fame! I have it sitting on my desk right now and I LOVE this colorway!! Ray is here in the Houston area and I’ve had the pleasure to meet him more than once. His dye work is consistently some of the nicest I’ve ever…
When I was designing this shawl and crocheting it, I remember hoping that it would be pretty when it was finished – when you crochet lace sometimes it’s a leap of faith because before it’s blocked it can look pretty messy! Then I pinned the wet shawl out and when I came back…
It’s really as if crochet were invented for stripes! The graphic nature of crochet stitches just lend themselves so beautifully to creating striped projects. Here a few of my FAVE striped crochet patterns from around the web. Just click on their names to get the pattern (login in may be required on some of…
Sonder ©2017 Drew Emborsky, aka The Crochet Dude® Skill Level Easy Finished Measurements 55″ wide x 27.5″ tall Materials Be So Sporty Yarn from Kristin Omdahl (100% bamboo sportweight – 325 yds – 297 m – 4 oz – 113 g) • 1 ball Sun Kissed Yellow • 1 ball Parisian Bordeaux More info on…
