Reading Time: 7 minutes Your blanket is done, or it’s close enough to done that you’ve been calling it done for four days while it sits on the arm of your couch collecting pet hair and side-eyeing you every time…
Reading Time: 7 minutes Congrats! You actually finished all your granny squares. You sat down with some yarn and a hook and approximately forty-seven open browser tabs (two of which have music playing that you aren’t sure how to mute)…
Reading Time: 5 minutes So you’ve been crocheting for a minute now, maybe finished a few projects, and someone mentioned adding a “crab stitch border” to clean up those edges. And you thought, “What the hell is a crab stitch,…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Magic rings show up in every pattern that works in the round, and if you don’t already know how to make one, you’re just stuck there at step one while the pattern assumes this is something…
Reading Time: 7 minutes So you finished your project. Congrats! You crocheted the whole thing, wove in the ends, and held it up to admire your work. And then you noticed the edges. Maybe they’re a little wavy. Maybe they…
Reading Time: 5 minutesLet’s get real for a second: changing colors in crochet seems like it should be straightforward. You run out of one color, you start using another. Easy, right? Except your first attempt probably looked like a toddler…
Reading Time: 3 minutes When I first started crocheting and a pattern told me to “count your stitches,” I had no idea what that meant. Count them how? They all look the same. Where does one stitch end and another…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to Rookies Learn to Crochet! Today we’re going to be learning about some tools of the trade. Come join me and learn about the yarn I recommend for beginners, the best tools to keep with you,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWelcome to the next installment of “Rookies Learn to Crochet”. Today we’ll be learning how to add a border to your project! (If you need to catch up, check out all the lessons here:) Each week I…
