Welcome to this round-up of free crochet patterns featuring beautiful tops for the up coming spring and summer seasons! There’s lots of fun designs here for you to make or just to inspire you. I love looking at what other crochet designers create and sometimes I get ideas to kick start my own creative design ideas. I recently produced my…
Wanting to try out some new stitches, I discovered the bullion stitch. I thought it would look great in a hat so I started to experiment. A friend saw carrots in what I made and so the design evolved into this carrot stitch beanie which we thought would be perfect for Easter! This is the practice hat I made while…
Are you excited for spring? While I’ve been busy working on some new designs for spring, (watch this space – they’re coming soon!) I’ve also been looking around at other designs out there. There’s so many pretty patterns to choose from but since I’m looking forward to spring I decided to focus on butterflies for this round-up. I love how…
Last week I did a round-up post of with the many different sweater patterns I’d found. I’d actually found all these cardigans too but since there was so many, I had to split them up into two different posts. So, here they are. A selection of the many gorgeous cardigan patterns I found. All are free patterns. This week, I’ve…
Are you excited for Fall? I am! This week I’ve been busy admiring crochet sweater patterns and I found all these wonderful designs! In addition to it being pretty much Fall, my personal reason for looking at sweaters is that I’ve been wanting to design and make my own for a while, and, since I’ve never made a sweater I…
Inspired by the success of the interlocking hearts design and because it’s springtime, I decided to create this beautiful linked butterfly design. This pattern is written so that it can easily be extended to make longer panels which can be joined together, perhaps with plain panels in between to make blankets of varying sizes. For this project I used Red…
I love working in spirals and learned how to start a crochet spiral a while ago. I’ve made quite a few different styles of spiral hats and now I’ve figured out how to make the spiral into an egg shape for Easter. This crochet spiral egg makes a cute kid-friendly Easter decoration. The kids can also play catch with them…
Here is my pattern for a cute bunny hat. The hat can be made in any size. Start by making a hat from my pattern HERE or watch the video tutorial below and crochet along. After you have completed the hat, follow the instructions below to make the ears. Use a contrasting colour to make the inner ears. I decided to…