3 Ways Freeform Crochet Boosted My Crochet Confidence

I first learned about freeform crochet back in the mid-2000s. I must have stumbled on it during an internet search because the exact details of how I discovered it elude me. Freeform crochet combines a variety of colors, stitch patterns, and yarns to create a piece of fabric art. Except for a few guidelines, you are free to improvise and experiment as

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Monochromatic Freeform Crochet Purse – Part 2: The Purse

In Part 1 of this blog post, I described the Bernat Sesame yarn I received as a gift from a good friend and how I had to prepare it (i.e., hank, wash, dry, and skein the yarn) before I could actually begin crocheting. I learned a big lesson in that I really need to take the time to thoroughly wash

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Monochromatic Freeform Crochet Purse: Part 1 – The Yarn

Yarn for My Monochromatic Freeform Crochet Purse The grandmother of a good friend of mine passed away a while back, and this friend generously offered to give me the yarn that remained in her grandmother’s stash.  You can well imagine how my eyes lit up just thinking about getting my hands on FREE yarn, but then common sense took hold.

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Lion Brand “Outside-the-Lines” Freeform Crochet Purse

Lion Brand “Outside-the-Lines” Freeform Crochet Purse I’ve  commented in previous posts that I designed this purse for Lion Brand back in 2006 and didn’t see a published pattern until some time in 2010. Yes, I know, freeform crochet is supposed to be a “patternless pursuit,” but Lion Brand wanted me to create an easy project that crocheters who are new

My Freeform Crochet Purse Is Taking Me to Las Vegas!

I’ve already blabbed about this on Facebook, so I lot of you already know, but I thought I should say something here. 7th Annual Hawaii Woman Expo My daughter, Adrienne, and I attended the 7th Annual Hawaii Woman Expo this past weekend at the Blaisdell Arena in downtown Honolulu.  We had so much fun that we attended both Saturday and

Lion Brand Publishes My Freeform Crochet Purse Pattern

I was floored and amazed to find out a couple of weeks ago that a freeform purse I’d designed for Lion Brand back in 2006 has been published.   Floored and amazed because, after I’d submitted the pattern, I searched and searched for it in LB’s free pattern catalog, but never found it.  So I just kinda forgot about it until

Four Seasons – 2009 Freeform Crochet Challenge Book

  Hot of that press, it’s finally here – the International Freeform Fiberarts Guild’s latest challenge in book form, called Four Seasons. Fifty-two freeform artists, including yours truly, participated in this challenge to use freeform fiberart to interpret the 4 seasons.  Myra Wood did an excellent job in putting the book together.  All the proceeds from the sale of the

How I Made the “Rainy Season” Freeform Crochet Purse

This post contains affiliate links. Read my Disclosure Policy for more information. Thanks for your support! As promised, I’m going to describe how I made the “rainy season” purse which appears in the 2009 International Freeform Fiberarts online exhibit. Yarn Selection Of course, you can’t do freeform without the right yarn, and I knew I wanted a variety of yarns

2009 International Freeform Crochet Guild Online Exhibit

This post contains affiliate links. Read my Disclosure Policy for more information. Thanks for your support! Yes, I’m still crocheting but not writing much about it these days (those YouTube videos sure are handy when you’re in a writing slump). New Freeform Crochet Online Exhibit But I had to come out of writer hibernation to let you know that the

Prudence Mapstone’s “A Scrumble A Week” Blog

For you freeform fiber arts enthusiasts, I just learned of a new blog by Master Freeformer, Prudence Mapstone of Australia.  She has decided to create a scrumble for each week of 2009.  They are absolutely beautiful and inspiring.  She includes information about how she is making them, so the site is instructional as well.  Please click the LINK to see

Prudence Maptsonte’s Pink Project

I wanted to tell everyone about a wonderful project that is being spearheaded by Prudence Mapstone, Australian freeform fiber artist extraordinaire.  It’s called The Pink Project.  The inspiration came to Prudence as a result of having participated in the International Freeform Crochet Guild’s Coat of Many Scrumbles in which members from around the world sent freeform “scrumbles” to Prudence who

Still Crocheting Despite Bad Back and Celebrating!

A Bad Back Won’t Keep Me From My Hooks and Needles I finally made it back to posting after about 3 weeks spent convalescing from a back injury.  No it wasn’t that bad — a rotated vertabra that pulled on a rib according to my chiropractor — but sitting for long stretches at the computer was next to impossible.  So

Purple and Yellow Freeform Crochet Purse

Here’s a freeform project that I started a month or so ago.  There’s some interesting history to this project. Designing a Freeform Crochet Purse for Lion Brand I was contacted by a Lion Brand  representative to create a freeform purse for use in their online, free pattern catalog.  This was back in 2006, I think.  The contact had seen my

“Through Our Eyes” – New International Freeform Fiber Guild Project

“Through Our Eyes” – A New Freeform Crochet Online Exhibit I can FINALLY post about my participation in the International Freeform Crochet Guild’s latest project, “Through Our Eyes:  35 Freeform Artists Express Their View of Life Through Yarn.” I missed out on participating in two previous projects all of which you can see at the website.  But I was able

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