I wanted to make a small “flat style” stuffed elephant. I saw one and thought it was so cute and different, and the natural squishyness of it seemed like a quality babies would really enjoy snuggling with. I searched everywhere, but the best sort-of pattern I could find was a video tutorial on YouTube. It…
Category: Patterns
For her birthday, my sister asked for a cell phone cozy like the one I made for my parents, but she wanted hers to have a shoulder strap like a very small purse. So I modified my cell phone cozy pattern to have a more secure flap/button closure, with reinforced top sides and bottom to…
My parents recently got a new cell phone (finally!), and they asked me to make a case just like the one I made for their Kindle last year. I had followed a really cute pattern for the Kindle, but when I tried to translate it to cell-phone proportions, it just didn’t look as good to me….
This is a hat pattern I made up myself based on one of the first hats I ever made without a pattern, about 2 years ago when I learned to crochet. It’s super simple and works up really quickly. It’s also very easy to modify to fit specific heads. **New Years 2020 Update! I’ve added…
My co-worker recently had a new baby. I wanted to make her a hat that would last through the winter, but my favorite baby hat pattern was for newborn-sized hats. I also wanted to do something a little more festive since she was born right around the holidays. So I made up this pattern to…
A few months ago, I had a special and unique order for “F-bombs.” They are super cute, soft crochet stuffed “bombs” with a letter F on them. I wasn’t able to find a pattern that matched closely enough to what was desired, so I made up a new one myself. F-bombs Terms/Abbreviations: MC: Main Color…
I recently had an order for a gift set for a new baby (thank you, Barbara!). The customer wanted an octopus and two washcloths. I wanted to make the washcloths out of 100% cotton yarn, but I wasn’t able to find any that would be soft enough for a baby. I finally found a cotton…
Yesterday I had fun modifying a pattern for an adult barefoot sandal into a child version to fit Naomi’s size 1 foot. I had posted a link to a group of patterns on our Facebook page the day before, and she had seen the article and asked me to make her a pair. The pattern called for…
Today I finished making a pink bear lovey for my friend’s daughter. I tried three different patterns before I finally ended up loosely basing the design on one, but modifying it heavily, so I’m going to post the pattern I came up with here. Every pattern I tried yielded a cute animal head that could…
Earlier this month my daughter Naomi’s school had Teacher Appreciation Week. I volunteer weekly in Naomi’s art class, and I also help out her classroom teacher once a week with things like decorating her classroom, photocopying worksheets, and other small tasks to help things run smoothly. She really needed a better pencil sharpener, and she…