5 Crochet Stitches You Have to Try Today

Camel Stitch - Free Hat Crochet Pattern, looks like knit.

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Larksfoot Stitch How To
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Beautiful Mesh Stitch - Free Scarf Pattern

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Tight Weave Tweed Stitch. Great in lots of Colors!

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Wiggle Stitch - Great Texture, Free How To

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These Are a Few of My Favorite Pins

 I'm starting a new weekly series called A Few of My Favorite Pins. It's going to be a list of the best crochet pins/links from Pinterest out there, curated by me. 

Here's why:

  I love pinterest. Especially for crochet.  In fact, I have so many crochet boards that I took them off of my personal account and gave them their own to connect to this blog.

  The thing about pinterest though is that all too often, we pin and pin and pin, and nothing ever comes of it. We have so many pins, it's just overwhelming!

  So I'm here to pare it down for you.  Each week, I'll pick a topic or theme and give you my 5 favorite pins that fit the theme.  They could be incredible patterns, great tricks of the trade,  or designs that I think are just stunning and everyone needs to see.

  These 5  pins will also be posted to a new board I created on Pinterest called The Best Crochet Pins. If this idea sounds as cool to you as I think it is, get ready for some fun.

  This week's theme is Tricks of the Trade.

Foundation Single Crochet - without a chain. Includes multiple video tutorials.

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Wind your own yarn cake (center pull ball)with just a paper towel roll (or toilet paper roll). Here's How!!

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Change yarn with this join that's completely invisible!

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Finish off your Crochet Project with this invisible professional look.

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Make a Granny Blanket that's Rectangle (not square). Here's how to start.

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Need more to read?  Check out this post about my latest Pinterest inspired project.
Adventures in Knitting

Quick Update

Not a lot to post, but I've been working on a bunch of things for the blog. Get excited!

If you haven't noticed, I've updated the blog a bit. To the left, I added a few social media buttons if you want to find me elsewhere on the internet. These buttons include one for Pinterest, which is super cool, because I spent several hours moving all my crochet pins onto their own separate Pinterest page. So, if you follow all "iloveicraft" boards on Pinterest, you can get lots of awesome crochet pins and none of my personal ones. Yay!

I've also been working on the three FREE patterns I have yet to post. They're all planned out and include a dishcloth, my favorite scarf, and something amigurumi! The amigurumi pattern is a surprise, but I love making critters and plan on writing plenty of amigurumi patterns to sell later on, so I'm going to do one for free to give you a taste.