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Just a wife and mother of two from Colorado who loves crochet, singing, photography, and drawing. If you feel so inclined, please feel free to visit my Links page. There you'll find my Cafepress store, plus various affiliate links. Visits and purchases help me pay my bills (and buy more yarn, haha), and are greatly appreciated.
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Free Crochet Pattern - Thick 'n Quick Fingerless Gloves
With winter approaching quickly, what better pattern for my first post but this! These quick and easy bulky fingerless gloves with optional thumbs and mitten tips provide the warmth of a mitten, while having the option to keep your fingers free when you need them! My husband loves them. This particular pattern is made for wrist size 8-9" around, but if worsted weight yarn is used instead they may fit smaller hands (untested; feel free to leave a comment how it turned out if you try it!). They use only variations of half-double and single crochet stitches, and I have provided a list of terminology used at the beginning of the pattern. Enjoy! Difficulty: Easy to intermediate Materials: Bulky (5) yarn Size J (6.0mm) hook, or hook to match gauge Stitch markers Yarn needle (2) 1" buttons Gauge: Approx. 9 sts/9 rows per 4" in hdc Finished Size: Fits wrist circumference of 8-9" Terminology: blhdc - back loop half-double crochet...
Website Review - The magic of StitchFiddle
Today's post combines two of my passions - music and crochet. I am a trained operatic soprano, and although I don't do it for a living, I do sing with my local chorale. I couldn't find a good treble clef crochet chart for a scarf I'm considering making, so I utilized my favorite chart-making site StitchFiddle.com and a free vector image of a treble clef found on Google Search to make my own! I love the versatility of StitchFiddle - you can not only make crochet charts but also knitting and needlepoint, with multiple different types of each (for example, corner-to-corner aka C2C or filet crochet). You can either start by uploading your own image - which StitchFiddle will use in conjunction with settings like number of colors, pixels/squares, and gauge to generate you a chart - or you can start with a blank canvas and hand-edit each pixel. I did the latter with my clef because I wanted to fit it into a space 35 pixels high and the uploaded image lost too much detail in ...