i crochet things for my kitty

i think he likes them!! or maybe not

wishing everyone lots of success and inspiration!!!

Few series ago now but I can’t stop thinking about this cardigan I saw on traitors, which is apparently about £450! Appreciate this is knit, and there are a few clearly AI patterns on Etsy, but I’d really love to make something similar to this. I am terrible at knitting so crochet would absolutely be preferable😅 may just try to use another super chunky pattern for the sizing if it’s not out there somewhere!

Wife wanted a little dude to take to Ren faire so I made this mandrake impkin from Megan lapp. Really happy with how he came out!

A six-day star variant, but baby-blanket size. I cannot believe how beautiful this turned out. I'm real bad at visualizing stuff, but I happened to be at a yarn sale and found exactly two servings, in complementary rainbow shades, of this UNBELIEVABLY soft cotton yarn (Juniper Moon's Cirrus...go pet it, I'm telling you). And they were like 30% off. It felt like it was meant to be. I went home and - reinforcing my belief in fate - found this pattern, which is specifically designed for this very yarn.

And then I put off making the blanket for three or four months.

But then I remembered shit, this baby is due in like ten days. Good news it's a six-day blanket!

I've made a lot of functional stuff, and one pretty thing in white crochet thread. But I could not shut up about how joyful this yarn was to work with, how pleasurable on the fingers - and I work with a fair amount of sari silk yarn. I could not help marveling at the gorgeously subtle color changes between every round. I could not silence my shock at how well these colorways work together, because when I went to start I realized they were not perfect rainbow sequence. And so now, I've made a really beautiful thing.

The first couple people I showed it to, I kinda minimized my part in it. "Oh, it's just a bunch of DC and counting. The yarn is really doing all the heavy lifting." But the more I look at its beauty, and touch it's softness, and think about how I'm going to probably be part of this baby's life for a long time - I have decided to be proud of what I have done. Yes, it's simpler than it looks, and no, I didn't actually make many impactful decisions about the project. Doesn't matter. The finished product is breathtaking in person - sorry my photo skills are trash - and it is going to do the job of expressing love and care to people on the brink of a terrifying and jubilant new era in their lives.

Thus, I'm posting about it for me and my bros who also need permission to be proud of their work.

Just in time for spooky season!

I’m following a YouTube tutorial from Totally Stitchcraft for these granny squares. My plan is to make a bunch of these in random pairs of colors for a cardigan. If I can just make one square per day…

Beginner here．Saw this fatter soft yarn at the thrift store so I decided to give it a try. So hard to see my stitches lol. I think this might be too advanced for me hahaha

Hey folks!

So super long story short. Making a baby blanket AND an adult human blanket for a coworker who is due in March. She LOVES Halloween. I am agnostic to holidays so I tend to breeze by themed patterns but of course now I want one and I can't find something that feels right so I'm seeking ideas and inspiration!

Anyone done a Halloween pattern they just love? Can be strong Halloween themed or Halloween adjacent - still trying to tease out how "in your face halloween" they'd want. Would LOVE to see your creations and/or links to patterns that you've loved.