This post contains affiliate links. I will be compensated for purchases made through those links at no additional cost to you. All views expressed are my own. Thank you for your support! I've been crocheting a lot since before Christmas. I latch onto a project and make a million of that item for everyone and then I find something else to make and the pattern continues. I guess I am channeling my mom who did knitting and crocheting throughout her life. My most recent addiction has been to crochet diagonal double thick pot holders. I made them for all of my girls for Valentine's Day in different. They are so simple to make, made in a inexpensive cotton yarn, they are simply single crochet that you do in the round around the original chain. Here is a great pattern to follow. As I was making these beauties, I started using two yarns to make stripes and designs and also to use up small bits of yarn, creating new designs. I had a little bit of variegated black and white yarn that I wanted to use up. My girl, Charly, has a lot of marble in her kitchen and I wondered if I could create something that would coordinate with her pallet. She liked it! I had to buy more yarn to try to recreate the look. The yarn wasn't the same as I had used for hers, but I think it still looks good with the marble. I tried to start and stop randomly after a few rows of white, adding the black variegated yarn as I went along. I wanted the affect that marble has with thinner then a few thick places of the veins of dark color. Or, just a simple striped pattern would work fine I think. Just choose a main body color and then add stripes of a thinner accent. Of course, I couldn't stop there. While shopping for yarn, I saw the scrubby yarn in the same black and white pattern. I thought, "Wouldn't it be nice to make a matching set of kitchen item?" I had never worked with the scrubby yarn before, so fair warning, it is hard to see your stitches! Use really good lighting! Basic Instructions for Round Scrubby: For this scrubby, you need to crochet 2 sides of the circle. One side will be with the scrubby yarn and one will be with coordinating cotton yarn. The pattern will be the same for each. Chain 3 then connect the ends together with a slip stitch, forming a circle. Chain 3 and then Double crochet 9 times into the circle. Join to the top of the chain 3 with a slip stitch. Chain 3 then double crochet twice in each stitch around. Join with a slip stitch into the chain 3 again. Chain 3 then double crochet in the stitch right next to the chain 3. In the next stitch, * double crochet twice, in the next stitch double crochet once. Continue alternating from the * back to the chain 3. Join with a slip stitch and you are finished! After you have two circles completed, put them wrong sides together and join them either with a single crochet around using the scrubby yarn, or stitch with a needle and the cotton yarn, your choice. There you have it! A cute pot scrubby! *NOTE- You can make your circle a little bigger if you would like a larger scrubby. The nice thing is that these are machine washable. Well I couldn't stop there! I had to make a dishcloth as well! This is simply single crochet like the pot holder. I chained 36 and then crocheted in the back loop only to get the ridge effect. I added the dark yarn in 2 rows after a wider band of white. A wonderful thing about these projects is that they make up so quickly! I love to work on them while watching TV in the evening. I can get an entire set finished in 2 evenings! So many people are getting marble or Quartz countertops today that I thought that this set would make a great little gift for a bridal shower, house warming gift or just because. You could even make a dish towel if you would like, or trim one with a bit of crochet. Let me know if you give any of these patterns a try! Other Needlework Patterns:
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What do you do when you are waiting for a new baby to make her appearance? The showers are over, the due date is past, everything needed to welcome your baby is in place, but she still isn't coming? Well, what I do is crochet!
When Alicia had her first baby, she was early, but I still spent a lot of time waiting while her son was being born. So, I crocheted little booties (not very successfully) and little hats (more successful) for him. So, this time, while waiting for Sofia to make her appearance, I decided to make her some little hats and headbands. I may attempt booties again, we shall see.
I found a cute pattern on Kelley's Yarns that was so simple, and mostly double crochet. The pattern is called Lickity Split Crocheted Newborn Hats. Alicia and I picked out a nice pink variegated yarn and a big flower to decorate it with. (We used Lion's Brand, it is so nice.) This little cap worked up in about half and hour or less and was super easy. I had plenty of yarn in one skein to make some headbands with crochet flowers (a latter post) and another hat for Lindsey's baby. So, we decided to make a little video that shows the simple double crochet that creates this hat! You can check out our YouTube channel (3 Winks Design) here and subscribe and watch all of our videos whenever you want to do that! (Our famous Hot Cocoa Bomb video is on there, and this is a great time of year to start making those as holiday gifts.)
What did you think? Let us know.
Update!!! She is here! Watch for Pictures on the next post!
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Helen Reynolds: Mother of six children , grandmother to eleven! I love to cook, craft and create things and I especially love doing that with my family, So, when my lawyer daughter, Lindsey, my artist daughter, Madalynn, and I came up with the idea of Hot Cocoa Bombs, this blog was born. Then, one more daughter, with her technical and science skills, plus creativity has joined in to round us out! Read more about us here! Archives
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