Crochet Fun – Hats

I wasn’t kidding about hitting the hooks and yarn, you know.

Azalea Hat by Melissa Mall

Sorry it’s so big, but don’t you just love that picture?! When I finished my hat, I was trying to think of the best place to photograph it. I couldn’t think of a backdrop that would do justice to the blues and purples of the yarn until I looked off of my back porch and saw this orange-covered tree waaaaaay down at the bottom of the hill. I think the pictures were worth the hike down (and back up)!

I think I’m getting faster about writing up my patterns. It’s taken me long enough. (I actually surpassed 100 designs a long time ago, and I’m well on my way to 200.) At any rate, you can buy the pattern for the hat – which I named Azalea – at my website.

Since Azalea is my fifth crochet hat pattern I’m publishing for sale, I decided to bundle them together. You can buy all five hat patterns together for 20% less than buying them separately.

Handmade Hats to Crochet

Go check it out!

1,092 MORE Handmade Gift Ideas

1,092 MORE Handmade Gift IdeasOriginal photo via Flickr

Ahh, November. There’s not really much time left before Christmas, you know. And if I want to make a bunch of my gifts (which I do) I need to get cracking. To get things started, I’ve put together another gift idea roundup, focusing this time on gifts that are handmade.

These are all new links, although I did laugh to myself a little over the idea of including last year’s 885 Gift Ideas in the list, which would have pushed it up to 1,977 gift ideas. Well. Have a look! There ought to be something here that sparks an idea!

25 Handmade Gifts under $5

25 Handmade Gifts (Part 2)

25 Handmade Gifts under $5 (Part 3)

32 Crafts to Make as Christmas Gifts

30 Sweet and Tasty Food Gifts

80 Gifts to Sew for Christmas

10 Gifts to Crochet for Children

10 Gifts to Knit or Crochet at the Last Minute

10 Gifts to Knit or Crochet for Babies

62 Handmade Baby Presents

10 Gifts to Make for Moms (scroll down)

23 Handmade Gifts for Friends

46 Gifts (and Printables) to make for Teachers

30 Gifts to Make for Kids

30 Gifts to Make in 30 Minutes

30 Simple Handmade Baby Gifts

43 DIY Gifts for HIM

186 Neighbor Gift Ideas

16 Handmade Gifts

16 Handmade Gifts for Crafters

10 Budget DIY Stocking Stuffers

10 Budget DIY Stocking Stuffers (Part 2)

30 DIY Stocking Stuffers for Babies, Boys, and Girls

101 Simple Handmade Gift Tutorials

101 Handmade Gifts for Men

101 Handmade Gifts for Her

101 DIY Handmade Gifts for Kids

Crochetvolution, Once Again

It’s time for Crochetvolution again! As I was putting together the issue this week, I noticed something peculiar. I was editing pattern…after pattern…after pattern, but – none of them were from me. For once, I was able to completely fill an issue without having to pitch in even one pattern to make weight. WOW! That is a far cry from the first issue, which boasted six patterns…five of them mine. I was really hoping that this was going to be our biggest issue ever, but we missed it by one and tied with Summer 2012 as the biggest issue.

There is a lot of fun content in this issue (which you should totally check out), but if you want to see something from me you should read An Afghan for Daisy, an article about an experience I had this summer.

An Afghan for Daisy

Since I didn’t have to do any last-minute designing this week, I’m really in the mood to crochet something! My yarn had better look out!