Tag: scheepjes Metropolis
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Barely-a-Pattern Super Scrappy Knit Hat (Free Pattern)
This is a pattern for a really basic 1×1 ribbed knit hat with an optional pompom. This is designed to use leftover metropolis yarn from a Festival of Lights CAL Metropolis color pack. I am using the yarn held two strands together and I did a Russian join to make this work with a lot…
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Crocheting Flowers
I like to crochet flowers. They are fun a quick, can be used for lots of things and are great for using up scraps. The flowers featured here are actually an example of trying to do a little too much and running out of time. They are using leftover yarn from a metropolis or Organicon…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 8, Border Motifs
For the last official and 8th week the Festival of Lights CAL I will show you how to make the border. Don’t worry, even though this is the last official week of the CAL that just means it is the last pattern release day. The patterns, blogs posts, video tutorials will remain available and free…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 7, Joining Motifs
For the Festival of Lights CAL for Week 7 I am finally going to talk about Joining (and Blocking). On here and in the video tutorial and this week I go into a lot of detail about how I like to block the motifs and the joining method, including some tips for troubleshooting if/when you…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 6, Extended Diamond Motifs
Happy CAL day! This is the last week of motifs and there are only 8 of them to make. We will finish up the motifs by making the Extended Diamonds. This motif may look familiar to you because they are the Popcorn diamond motif with an extra few rows added to them. These extra-large diamonds…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 5, Diamond Motifs
This week we are making all the Diamonds. This motif is a much plainer diamond that provides some breathing space or a harmonious pause to all the texture of the square and popcorn diamond. So once again we will be focusing on shape this week and using the same techniques to get those nice sharp…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 4, Popcorn Diamond Motifs
It’s CAL day again! This week we are making all the Popcorn Diamonds. This motif is about the texture and the shape. We will be using a lot of the same tricks to get nice pointy corners that were used in weeks 1&2 with the triangles, and it is also full of back post stitches…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 3, Square Motifs
It’s CAL day again! This week we are making all the squares. The triangle motif was all about the shape, the square motif is all about the texture. It is full of back post stitches and popcorn stitches. Take a moment to read the tips on gauge this week as we now need to make…
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Main Information Page: Scheepjes Festival Of Lights CAL
Welcome to my main page for the Scheepjes CAL 2024: Festival of Lights! Here you will find lots of important information and helpful tips and tricks. Don’t worry if this is a lot of information at once, I will also be posting helpful tips and progress pictures for each part of the CAL along with…
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Scheepjes Festival of Lights CAL: Week 1 & 2, Triangles Motifs
Hooray! It’s CAL Day!!! Welcome to the official start of the Scheepjes Festival of lights CAL. For the first part of the CAL we will be working on the triangle motifs. There are a lot of them, so this section is going to span over two weeks. The written PDF of the pattern can be…