Brrrr, baby, it’s cold outside! This is “snuggle under a blanket” weather! While curling up under one is always nice, crafting a new afghan, blanket, or quilt to cuddle under is an even better way to warm up on a wintry day.
Here are 7 So Crafty lenses to inspire you to pull out the needles or hooks, along with some colorful fabric or nice, soft yarn, and get started on a craft that will warm you as it grows. Then, once your fingers are nice and warm, you can make a lens to share it with the rest of us.
Have you made one already? Share the link in a comment below!
Crazy quilts are gorgeous, complex, and enamored by many! I first encountered crazy quilting on Pinterest. My first thought was ‘Amazing! ‘ If you take a moment to seriously look at the stitches, the embellishments, the colors, you can only imagine the cre…
2. Make a Crochet Edged Fleece Blanket
Over the past year, I’ve noticed more crochet edged crafts becoming popular. And why not? Sometimes you don’t want to do an entire project in crochet, but a lacy edge is fun. Here’s your chance to craft one especially useful item with little effort. Croche…
3. Free Simple Afghan Pattern for Beginning Knitters (Corrected)
This pattern will produce a very plain, simple afghan. This makes it a great free simple afghan pattern for beginning knitters. The weight of the afghan will, of course, depend on the size and weight of the yarn chosen. This afghan was done in garter stitc…
4. Free Crochet Afghan Patterns
Everyone can explore the fun of making crochet afghan patterns! You can make baby blankets, throws, lapghans or full size afghans – whatever your heart desires and your imagination can dream up. Surveys show that crocheters make more afghans than any other…
5. 5 Modern Baby Blanket Patterns to Knit or Crochet
It seems like all of my friends are having babies recently. As an avid knitter, I wanted to create a handmade blanket for the expecting mothers, but as I browsed through patterns online or in stores, all I could find were frumpy blankets knit with pastel p…
Lots of yarn leftover and not sure how to crochet an afghan out of it? This lens is about tips, suggestions and ideas for creating scrap afghans. Scrap afghans can be as organized or spontaneous as on desires. Have some fun with it.
I learned to knit when I was 8 and to crochet when I was 10 (thanks, Mum! ). For me, it was an on- again, off- again hobby that would come and go in fits and spurts. If I had a need to produce something, I would quickly crank out the object desired, then s…
