GOOD NEWS! The jury of The Crochet

GOOD NEWS! The jury of The Crochet

This is a super cute Christmas bauble that can be knit and felted in under half an hour! I couldn’t find a felted Christmas bauble in super bulky yarn, so I designed my own. There’s two sizes: big and small, and each can be knit in one solid color, or with one or two contrast colors. The big bauble has just 16 rows, and the small bauble only 9!...

Design Your Own Advent Calendar Mittens with these instructions and charts! Included are simple instructions for designing and knitting your mittens, and two sets of 24 charts: plain and with numbers.

I was inspired by the Robert Frost Mittens to create my own poetry mittens! Poetry mittens were popular for a short time around the turn of the 19th century in New England among young women who used this form to show their skill at crafts and literacy. As my language is German, I chose a German poem by Theodor Fontane. I love the Selbu mitten t...

I designed this earflap hat for the coming winter season which is forecast to be cold and long in our region. The yarn (DROPS Andes) is super soft and cozy, and the faux cables add extra thickness to the hat. I love how the earflaps turned out, they feel so nice and warm on my ears, no more pulling down hats that don’t want to cover my ears pro...

This little light of mine…

This wine bottle spill stop also serves as a gift tag holder and so makes for a perfect accompaniment with a wine present. It can be made up in half an hour for a last-minute gift!

This is a great pattern for a cute little toy that knits up real quick and will be appreciated by almost anyone. Why not make this for a newborn baby, or for your friend as a key-chain, or for someone staying at the hospital, or simply for your boy or girl to play with?

This is the women’s version of my “Modified Army Gloves” pattern, which is a modification of the “Gloves for Service Men” pattern by the American Red Cross.

This is a modified version of the “Gloves for Service Men” published by the American Red Cross. I knitted those gloves, and while I liked the pattern, I realised a lot of knitters were having problems with the instructions, usually resulting in very large or misshaped gloves. So I clarified and modified the instructions to give a pleasing resul...