Crochet World

Spring is upon us in all its glory and so is color. After a drab and dreary winter it is about time. I wanted to bring all the colors of spring into your home, as well as give you the opportunity to maybe try out some styles of crochet that you haven

I don’t think a week goes by that someone doesn’t say to me, “I love to crochet, but I can’t read the patterns.” I usually politely ask them, when they are playing on the internet, if they know what the abbreviations LOL (“laughing out loud”) and BRB

BEGINNER 18 inches wide × 60 inches long • Premier Butterfly light (DK) weight acrylic yarn (7 oz/546 yds/200g per cake): 2 cakes #1198-01 meadow • Size G/6/4mm crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge • Tapestry needle 15 sts = 4 inches Take time

EASY Bunny: 12 inches tall Large Carrot: 10 inches tall, excluding Leaves Small Carrot: 5 inches tall, excluding Leaves • Bernat Super Value medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn (7 oz/ 440 yds/197g per ball): 1 ball each #300615 carrot, #300608 brigh

EASY 5½ inches wide × 6 inches long • Medium (worsted) weight acrylic yarn: 20 yds pink, light green or aqua (MC) 12 yds purple, dark qreen or lilac (CC1) 10 yds white, yellow or cream (CC2) • Size E/4/3.5mm crochet hook or size needed to obtain gaug

How often do you find yourself fiddling with paper patterns when you could be crocheting? I know I’m constantly picking patterns up to read my next step, then putting them back down and picking them back up in a seemingly endless cycle. And nice days

EASY 12 inches wide × 17 inches long, excluding tassels and dowel • Premier Yarns Bamboo Fair light (DK) weight bamboo/cotton yarn (3½ oz/273 yds/100g per skein): 1 skein each #1077-19 bellini, #1077-31 stone, #1077-41 mineral and #1077-25 spa 5 yds

I like to read the credits of television shows and movies. I don’t know why, perhaps it harkens back to my days when I was a crew member on school shows and college TV programs; the visual enjoyment of the show isn’t complete without seeing the names

EASY 15 inches wide × 16½ inches tall • Premier Home Cotton medium (worsted) weight recycled cotton/ polyester yarn (solids: 2½ oz/ 131 yds/75g per skein; multis: 2 oz/96 yds/55g per skein): 4 skeins #38-02 cream (MC) 1 skein each #38-21 lime green (

EASY 45 inches wide × 56 inches long • Premier Puzzle Cotton medium (worsted) weight acrylic/cotton yarn (7 oz/349 yds/200g per ball): 5 balls #2021-06 snapdragon • Size l/9/5.5mm crochet hook or size needed to obtain gauge • Tapestry needle Motif: 2

INTERMEDIATE Instructions given fit woman’s size small; changes for medium, large, X-large, 2X-large and 3X-large are in []. Where only 1 number is given, it applies to all sizes. Bust: 42½ [45¼, 48, 50¾, 56¼, 59] inches Length: 31¼ [32½, 333/4, 35,

BEGINNER Projects for first-time crocheters using basic stitches, with little or no shaping. CONFIDENT BEGINNER Projects for new crocheters who are comfortable with the beginner basic stitches and are ready to combine them into short pattern sequence

Need help? ▶ StitchGuide.com • ILLUSTRATED GUIDES • HOW-TO VIDEOS Single crochet decrease (sc dec): (Insert hook, yo, draw Ip through) in each of the sts indicated, yo, draw through all Ips on hook. Half double crochet decrease (hdc dec): (Yo, insert