Tag: Scheepjes Organicon
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Festival of Light Combined PDF & Catona Color Way
I am so pleased to finally be able to share with you the combined PDF file for the Festival of lights pattern. This took me much longer than planned to get out partly because I was rather indecisive about the final layout. The combined PDF is not just the existing PDF’s stuck together, I have…
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Hoya Bag
I have a new pattern for you! The Hoya Bag is an overlay crochet pattern named after a houseplant I have, that was grown from a cutting of my grandmother’s plant. The overlay crochet provides a beautiful texture for a bag, and the gentle flow of the design reminds me of leaves or ripples under…
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Island Top
The name of this top is more sentimental than literal— I finished my sample just before a special anniversary trip and planned to photograph it on a tropical island, so in my mind, it’s always been “the island top.” I designed this piece as a lightweight layer that I would like to wear over sleeveless…
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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 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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Chasing Starlight Wrap
May I introduce you to my newest pattern, “Chasing a Starlight”, this pattern is a motif-based crochet pattern with a unique construction technique involving a join-as-you-go method. Once you have learned the technique, I think that it is a simple yet satisfying pattern to make. The pattern is for a wrap, but the motifs could…
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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…