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I've spent a year crocheting blankets for Project Linus and managed to complete 29 of them while also living and doing what I usually do. Including a 4000 mile road trip in the summer. I brought...

I have a neice who learned to tat! How many of us can do that? Few of us own looms to make blankets. We don't spin our own yarn, or even grow the flax. With exceptions, we buy prepared foods, so we...

I have a neice who learned to tat! How many of us can do that? Few of us own looms to make blankets. We don't spin our own yarn, or even grow the flax. With exceptions, we buy prepared foods, so...

You can use multicolored yarn for everything. I love it too.
It works especially well if you find a single color matching yarn.
I make a lot of blankets and find multi colored yarns lovely for...

This is a great idea. Congratulations. Some day you can sell cd's with lots of patterns already on spreadsheets!

This is a cool stitch-- uses a lot of yarn-- but I think I can use it as an edging, or the first level of an edging followed by reverse single crochet or a bobble edge. Thank you!

A young man named Mike Coco taught me how to crochet. (I couldn't figure out where to stick the hook-- until he showed me). Don't know what ever became of him, but I hope he is still crocheting.

I learned to knit when I was about 16. I tried to crochet but was always confused about where to insert the hook-- I gave up for a few years. When I could finally insert the hook in the right...

Thank you! It is just a difficult stitch to identify: it is simple too: hdc, slip stitch. In next row, slip stitch in hdc, hdc in slip stitch. Cliffene recognized it. Try it-- it is gorgeous...

It is done thus: hdc, slip stitch. In the next row, do the hdc in the slip stitches, and the slip st in the hdc's. And you surely can't recognize the stitches by looking at the lovely results! I am...

I agree that no one teaches the younger generation how to crochet, and that it is often because their Moms don't know how. But it is also because they are busy with their electronic things, and...

Small world! One of my responses was from Canada. So I didn't really expect someone close by. It is possible to crochet really lovely things with simple stitches and patterns.
Peggy Just enjoy it!

Well! Cliffene solved it. I have always thought that patterns with hdc (half double crochet) stitches were the most sophisticated, and here is no exception. This is indeed a crunch stitch! It is...

Tank you so much Cliffene. I know it isn't the cable stitch-- I've done that-- (and have oodles of patterns and resources here, too) but I will look into the crunch stitch. You noted that there...

My grandson is much better, and as you can imagine, he has many blankets. His favorite is from the Linus Project: he likes to go to sleep with it.

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I have a lovely afghan, or throw that my mother made. I can usually look at something and identify the stitches, but this one I can't and unfortunately my Mom is blind now and doesn't remember...

Good Morning! Perhaps you mean that they don't seem very square when you are done? One way to make a blanket/afghan straight is to build it from a lot of small squares. But if you prefer the...

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New to this location, but a crocheter for many years. I broke my foot in December about the same time I discovered Project Linus. Since then I have crocheted 15 blankets for the...