Felis Silvestris Crochet and Craft Blog

 New Pattern Coming Soon Bertie the Bunny Pattern will be available soon! It's currently being tested by a handful of lovely crocheters so there will be updates soon when I get feedback and photos from them. So if you want to make this little cutie, watch this space.  This is my second ever plushie pattern, and it took a little bit of experimenting to get it right, but I was able to incorporate some of the feedback and lessons learned from the Barry the Bat pattern and apply it to this one. I've designed it so that the ears can be placed in either upright or lop position and it will still look cute.  I've got a few other ideas in mind I'd like to work on so there will be more patterns coming soon. I'm also planning to write up and share my daffodil pattern fairly soon, this one will be available for free, and will come with lots of photos and video guides. 

Welcome to Part 3 of my Crochet for Beginners Today we're going to cover changing colours in straight crochet and how to follow a basic pattern. For now, we'll stick with text-based patterns as they are the most common ones crocheters use. There are diagram based patterns as well but they are a bit more challenging for beginners to use, so we'll cover them at a later date. Changing Colours Changing colours is quite straightforward when crocheting on a straight line. Once you reach the end of the row before the colour change, before you make the chains to start the next row, cut off the yarn you've been using, leaving around a 10cm (4") tail. Then use the new colour to make your chains to start the next row, again leaving a 10cm tail on the new yarn. I find it helps to hold the two tails while making the chain and first stitches to ensure you don't accidentally unravel your work. Once you've done the first couple of stitches, you should be good to ke

  Crochet Basics Part 2 Hi, welcome back. This is part 2 of my crochet basics series introducing crochet and teaching you how to get started. In the first part we went over the basics of beginning a piece of crochet, the slipknot, the chain stitch, double crochet (single crochet in the US) and how to fasten off at the end. Today we're going to cover a couple of new stitches you can use for different textures. The half-treble and treble crochet stitches are fairly easy to work. These stitches are taller than the double crochet. You'll see what I mean.  Half-Treble Crochet (htr) Half-treble is between double and treble crochet in height. It is worked very similarly to a double crochet, the difference is you wrap the yarn around your hook before pushing it into the next stitch, then you pull the yarn through, pulling up another loop. This leaves three loops on your hook instead of two. You wrap the yarn around the hook again and pull it through all three loops together. That's