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21:17Making A Top Down Hat Without A Pattern
Have you ever wanted to make a hat without using a pattern? Maybe you want to use some yarn from your stash and you are having trouble finding a pattern to go along with it. Or perhaps you just want to be able to stitch away without following someone else’s directions. Whatever the reason, this…
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8:56Working Evenly Into Your Row Ends
One of the great features of crochet, is the ability to easily switch directions, and start working across the row ends. Sometimes our pattern directions will tell us to “work evenly into the row-ends” or sometimes we just want to create a border around a piece that we crocheted, in order to make the edges…
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29:53Sewing A Zipper into Your Crochet Project
Zippers are a scary topic for many crocheters! In this video, Brenda shares many techniques for working with zippers, from shortening them, to pinning them, to stitching them in place. First, Brenda demonstrates how to make a separating zipper into a non-separating zipper. She begins by showing us how to fit the zipper into a…
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6:30Special Tools for Your Crochet Projects
What do a pen cap, a balloon and a shower cap have to do with crochet? Brenda K. B. Anderson shares some of the more unusual tools that she uses for her crochet projects. Do you have trouble keeping pet hair out of your working yarn? You can use a shower cap and a large…
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6:09Basic Crochet Stitches Used to Make Simple Hats
Single Crochet is one of the most basic crochet stitches, and is often used to create simple hats. If you would like to create your own hat pattern, you can find out how many stitches you will need around your hat by first making a gauge swatch. In this video Nathalie O’Shea shows us how…
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44:38Crochet Lavender Sachet
In this video lesson Nathalie O’Shea demonstrates how to make a lovely crochet sachet. This can be filled with lavender or it can be used as a small gift bag. This project uses a CYCA #2 yarn (a fine gauge yarn) and a 2.5 mm hook, however this bag can be made larger by using…
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21:17
Making A Top Down Hat Without A Pattern
Have you ever wanted to make a hat without using a pattern? Maybe you want to use some yarn from your stash and you are having trouble finding a pattern to go along with it. Or perhaps you just want to be able to stitch away without following someone else’s directions. Whatever the reason, this…
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6:30
Special Tools for Your Crochet Projects
What do a pen cap, a balloon and a shower cap have to do with crochet? Brenda K. B. Anderson shares some of the more unusual tools that she uses for her crochet projects. Do you have trouble keeping pet hair out of your working yarn? You can use a shower cap and a large…
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6:09
Basic Crochet Stitches Used to Make Simple Hats
Single Crochet is one of the most basic crochet stitches, and is often used to create simple hats. If you would like to create your own hat pattern, you can find out how many stitches you will need around your hat by first making a gauge swatch. In this video Nathalie O’Shea shows us how…
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25:39Crochet a Puff Stitch Cowl
In this video, Brenda K. B. Anderson walks us through how to crochet the Puff Love Cowl project. This pattern is a free download! This cowl uses a bulky weight yarn (CYCA #5). Brenda notes that this pattern needs to be worked over an odd number of stitches in order for the Puff Stitch pattern…
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44:38
Crochet Lavender Sachet
In this video lesson Nathalie O’Shea demonstrates how to make a lovely crochet sachet. This can be filled with lavender or it can be used as a small gift bag. This project uses a CYCA #2 yarn (a fine gauge yarn) and a 2.5 mm hook, however this bag can be made larger by using…
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19:51Front Post Double Crochet Colorwork
There are many different ways that colorwork can be created in crochet. Different stitches provide a different look to the fabric. Join crochet expert Brenda K.B. Anderson as she works a colorwork chart using front post double crochet stitches. She’ll show you how to read a colorwork chart, work the front post double crochet stitch,…
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8:56
Working Evenly Into Your Row Ends
One of the great features of crochet, is the ability to easily switch directions, and start working across the row ends. Sometimes our pattern directions will tell us to “work evenly into the row-ends” or sometimes we just want to create a border around a piece that we crocheted, in order to make the edges…
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29:53
Sewing A Zipper into Your Crochet Project
Zippers are a scary topic for many crocheters! In this video, Brenda shares many techniques for working with zippers, from shortening them, to pinning them, to stitching them in place. First, Brenda demonstrates how to make a separating zipper into a non-separating zipper. She begins by showing us how to fit the zipper into a…
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19:18Creating Neat Seams for Your Crochet Project
There are so many different ways to seam your crochet projects! In this video Brenda shows us her top 5 favorite methods for seaming her work. First, Brenda shows us how to crochet an edging of single crochet along her row ends. This makes the seaming process a bit clearer, resulting in a tidy seam.…
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