Category: Freeform Crochet
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Freeform Fingerless Gloves Tutorial by Higgle
Higgle has made her first ever written pattern and photo tutorial! She decided to share it for free here on the Snovej blog as a way to give thanks for the support and cheers she has received, or in her words; “a little gift to the wonderful friends and online crochet community, that inspire, teach,…
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Clothing Bathing Belle
Photo by Emma Warley Yesterday the Bathing Belle statue in Scarborough, England, got a new look! A local crochet artist calling herself Higgle decided Belle needed a fun make-over.
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Dada Neon CAL Part 3 Bobble Fringe
Bobble Fringe Pattern I like pillows with some kind of an edge around them. For this Dada Neon CAL pillow I wanted to make a crocheted fringe of sorts. I had a few ideas to choose from, and finally I decided to make crocheted pom poms with the Bobble Stitch!
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Hump Stitch in Freeform Crochet
Recently I visited a friend in Maine and crocheted a seat cover for her chair. A photo of the cover went viral after I posted it on social media, and demands, well, more like “pretty, please” requests, poured in …
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Dada Neon CAL Part 2
My Dada Neon CAL project is finally almost done! It took me much longer than I had thought due to a very busy summer working for our condiment business.
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Freeform Crochet: Single Crochet Spiral
In my post Freeform Crochet Basics Part 4 I mention the single crochet spiral. It is so easy to make, it didn’t even occur to me to talk about it until a reader asked about it …
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Freeform CAL by Dada Neon
I have a day off! I can do anything I want. Wow! My husband went to Estonia and I’m home alone! It’s the last day of the long Midsummer weekend here in Finland. (Yes, I’m in Finland again. For the summer.) After taking a quick glance at my various projects, writings, photo editings and…
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Freeform Crochet Spiral Scrumble
For Thanksgiving last year I posted a photo of a scrumble I had been working on. Having thoughts of gratitude, harvest, and other related things, I realized my scrumble looked like a funky turkey head! The scrumble is made using my two color spiral pattern, a “wing” pattern, and ridges made with reverse single crochet,…
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Crochet Ornaments
Free the bauble! After making a dozen of the sweet, traditional, crocheted Christmas balls, my mind refused to follow the patterns. My plan was to create a pattern for a big ball in the traditional style. It just didn’t happen. I freeformed it instead.
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Giving Thanks
Thank you!
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Freeform Crochet Basics Part 4b: Bigger Spirals
I am overwhelmed by the huge response to my humble spiral tutorials! Thank you all from the bottom of my heart! One request from many of you is to learn how to make the spiral bigger. It’s done the same way as making a normal round shape bigger, by adding one more stitch…
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Freeform Crochet Basics, Part 5, The Nautilus Shell
The nautilus shell is a popular motif in freeform crochet. It’s made in the same way as the spiral, or two-colored spiral, except the height of the stitches progressively gets higher, creating a widening of the spiral towards the end. The pattern is based on the actual living sea creature commonly called nautilus shell,…