The Dallas Flea

If you live in Dallas or will be lucky enough to be visiting this weekend, come on  down to Southside on Lamar on Saturday and shop at The Dallas Flea. I’ll be there with my critter creations, so come on by and say hi. Hope to see you there.

Crocheted Ornaments

Tis the season and I am so behind the times. I’m just now thinking about crocheting some ornaments. Then low and behold, into my email floated the latest Lion Brand Yarn newsletter and what should I find there but a cool ornament to crochet. I don’t have the sparkly yarn, but I’m sure I’ll find something cool to crochet with in my stash. I might add a bid of beading to this ornament instead of sparkly yarn. Or perhaps some vintage sequins…

Click on the pic to be whisked to the Lion Brand Yarn pattern, but remember, you have to sign up on the site in order to view and/or download the pattern. It only takes a minute and it is so worth it, they have tons of free patterns there. Happy crocheting.

Little Brown Pup

My latest crocheted critter. He’s ready for winter. Are you? I’m not.

The weather has been absolutely gorgeous here in Dallas. Too nice to work. Unfortunately, I’ve been working. How about you?

Pepe & Crochet Pepe

My latest custom critter creation meets his match. Photo courtesy of Pepe’s mom. Aren’t they adorable? Pepe’s mom tells me that she bought a collar for Crochet Pepe that matches real Pepe’s. How fun. I love creating custom critters.

Percy

Allow me to introduce you to the newest pup in my Etsy shop, Percy. Crocheted from jewel tone purple acrylic chenille and soft grey rayon chenille. He’s looking for a permanent home filled with hugs and squeezes. Interested? Click on his picture and be whisked away to Critter Central to find out more about Percy.

Spooky Crochet

I love the latest Halloween projects from Lily Sugar n’ Cream yarn. These washcloths are just fabulous. In the kitchen, bath, everywhere.

Or you could crochet a bunch of these and then attach them to a crochet chain and make garlands to hang on the walls or across a window.

My favorite is the bat. Which is yours? Clicking on the picture will take you to the PDF file on the Lily site.

Black & White & Grey Stripe

These cuties are my latest custom critter creations. A very nice man commissioned me to crochet each of his adult daughters a version of their own cat.

I love custom critter creating. It is such a challenge to translate the photographic cat into yarn and stuffing cat. He was pleased. I was pleased. How about you, do you like these kitties?

Here’s the photographic cats:

FREE

Recently Lion Brand Yarn announced on their facebook page

Enjoy some inspiration! All Lion Brand patterns are now free! Please note that we do still have a few paid patterns from outside designers.

They have a vast quantity of really fun and cool patterns for crochet, knitting and crafts. I’ve had my eye on a couple of patterns I hadn’t had sprung for yet, now I don’t have to worry about feeling like I’m spending money frivolously – cause they’re FREE.

But I don’t think I’ll be crocheting this one anytime soon…

Dragonflies

I love living by a creek. The dragonflies are plenty and pretty. Shimmery wings and enormous eyes are quite the spectacle in flight. Occasionally I can get one to pose for me, but its been a while.

I thought I would crochet a dragonfly just for fun and went looking for patterns on the wide world web of crochet patterns. I found a delightful specimen, but haven’t made one of my own yet.

The site where I found the pattern, MYpicot, has lots of interesting and wonderful patterns and tutorials. Rather than keep it to myself until I crocheted my dragonfly, I’m sharing it with you now. If you crochet a dragonfly from this pattern, please share it with me, I’d love to see it. Enjoy.

Portraits in Yarn

A couple of crochet artists have caught my eye recently, and I know you want to see why. They both create portraits by crocheting. Fascinating.

Jo Hamilton’s portraits are more abstract in color and details, but recognizable as faces none the less. Quite striking, I think. A bit impressionistic as well.

Todd Paschall crochets portraits that are digitized, pixel looking, lots of detail and almost, from a distance, photographic. Based on a grey-scale conversion, the finished crochet portraits are like duo-tone photos, not full color portraiture.  A total different look and feel from Jo Hamilton’s work. Todd offers free patterns and will digitize your photo for you to crochet. What a concept.

While on the subject of crochet artistry,  Xenobia Bailey, artist extraordinaire, has an Etsy shop with fabulous crown-like hats and a blog. Be sure to visit both. Enjoy.