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FREE Easy Crochet Basket Pattern

  Crochet baskets will always be my one true love and I am so excited to share this pattern! This basket has given an old tofu container new life as a planter! Other containers I like to use are yoghurt and sour cream tubs. Just be sure to poke some holes at the bottom for drainage - your plants will thank you! Baskets are just so handy to have around the house and can keep everything tidy (or at least hidden from sight)! You may recognize this yarn from my  One Evening, One Skein Infinity Scarf  pattern. I had just enough leftover to make this 19 cm (7.5 in) wide basket. With the handles, it measures 16 cm (6.5 in) tall. Caron Lovely Layers Swirl Cakes is a roving style yarn and not usually a good idea for baskets because it's very loosely spun and does not create the sturdy structure a basket needs. However! I love how the subtle colour gradients and am so happy I have found a workaround.  It looks like this yarn may be discontinued but you can use any other roving yarn. You coul
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Beginner Friendly Men's Scarf - FREE Crochet Pattern

  I am a big fan of the herringbone half double crochet and it is the only stitch used in this entire project! Unlike the last scarf I made  with a HHDC, this one is worked length wise.  It can definitely be made in one evening and it is already in the post sent to an old friend of the family's. He never wants or needs much and seems to appreciate the hand written card more so than the actual gift. A homemade scarf seemed perfect for him and living in Canada, we all need scarves. I am a sucker for the texture and feel of yarn and had wanted to make something with Caron x Pantone yarn because it is so squishy and soft.  I Googled it extensively before committing to it because it seems to be quite a polarized yarn. Many on the internet really cannot come to terms with the quantity for the price. They are also wound in individual balls looped together to look like a hank. Each colour will need to be wound with a yarn winder.  My personal opinion is for a small project like a scarf, I

One Evening, One Skein Infinity Scarf - FREE Crochet Pattern

Hello world!  I am thrilled to share my first free crochet pattern! I made this infinity scarf for my coworker's birthday and learned that if it wraps around only once, it's called a cowl. If it wraps around more than once, it's an infinity scarf.  The pattern is super straightforward - there's only one stitch! I finished it in one evening and loved how it turned out. While trying to pick the yarn for this, I spent a looooong time at Michael's looking at their Caron Cakes yarn but as much as I love the idea of self-striping yarn, I didn't like the idea of sudden colour changes in the yarn.  There are a lot of crocheters out there who break up a skein of self-striping yarn into smaller bobbins to better control the colour changes but that defeats the purpose of it to me.  Next to the shelf of Caron Cakes were Caron Swirl Cakes which when wound, looked like solid colours separated by candy cane striped yarn. Turns out the candy cane stripes creates an ombre effect