Free Crochet Pattern Quick Mini Mitten Garland

December 12, 2014 By admin 2 Comments

This free crochet pattern Quick Mini Mitten Garland is a great quick project for any crocheter! Using less than 100 yds of yarn in any color used in the project this project is not only quick but cheap to make! Fun way to make simple garland for your home and hearth.

There is even a YouTube video taught by Marly with a few tips an tricks to help you make the perfect garland!

Gentle reminder: It has just come to my attention that many people are unaware that free patterns still have copyrights and it is not legal to distribute. I ask that if you like the pattern and want to tell your friends that you share the link to the pattern (found here: https://marlybird.com/free-crochet-pattern-quick-mini-mitten-garland ).By doing so you are allowing me to make a little money via advertising which in turn makes it possible for me to keep designing fun and free patterns.

Thanks so much!

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Quick Mini Mitten Garland

PATTERN DETAILS

Measurements

Sample Approx: 3 1/2″ tall x 1 3/4″ wide

Gauge

5 sts = 1 3/4″ in half double crochet (gauge not vital for this project)

Yarn

Any yarn smooth yarn will work for these but here are some of my favorites:

Brown Sheep, ” Nature Spun Worsted” (100% wool, 245 yds/100g). (Use this link for 25% discount!)

Cascade, “220 Superwash Sport” (100% superwash merino wool, 136.7 yds/50g). (Use this link for 30% discount!)

Cascade, “Ultra Pina” (100% pima cotton, 220 yds/100g). (Use this link for 25% discount!) This is a cotton yarn that I can endorse! The shimmer of this cotton will make the mittens look lovely!

Lion Brand, “Wool-Ease” (80% acrylic, 20% wool, 197 yds/85g) (Use this link for 30% discount!)

Lion Brand, “Amazing Yarn” (53% wool, 47% acrylic, 147 yds/50g). (Use this link for 35% discount!) This yarn will give the garland and completely unique look as the yarn has wonderful long color changes so your mittens will look Amazing!

Hook

Use a hook that will get you the size mitten you want. For the sample I used an H/8 (5m) (Marly uses Addi Crochet Hooks)

Notions

Removable Stitch Markers (Marly uses these)
Tapestry Needle

Stitches Used (and YouTube Video links to help you learn)

PATTERN

Make as many mini mitten motifs as you want in as many colors as you want.

Ch 7, hdc in 3rd ch from hook, and in each hdc to end, turn–5 hdc.

The turning chain dos NOT count as a stitch.

Row 1: Ch 2, hdc in each hdc to end, turn.

Rows 2; Ch 2, 2 hdc in first hdc, hdc in each hdc to end, turn–6 hdc.

Row 3: Ch 2, hdc in each hdc to last hdc, 2 hdc in last hdc, turn–7 hdc.

Row 4: Ch 3, 3 dc in first hdc, hdc in each hdc to end, turn–3 dc, 6 hdc.

Row 5: Ch 2 hdc in each hdc to end, turn leaving the dc’s unworked–6 hdc.

Row 6: Ch 2, hdc 2 tog, 2 hdc, hdc 2 tog, turn–4 hdc.

Row 7: Ch 2, hdc 2tog, hdc 2 tog, turn–2 hdc.

Row 8: Ch 2, hdc 2 tog.

Finish off.

TIP: Take the time to weave in the tails at this point of the project.

Connecting the mini mittens

Begin by chaining several chains, this will be the distance you want between each mitten, when you are ready to add a mitten work a sl st join into the last stitch of the mitten and then carry on chaining stitches.

That’s it! Super easy isn’t it? Now you know how to make this free crochet pattern Quick Mini Mitten Garland and it will help you home, work, school or where ever be more festive. These would also be fun to add as decoration to a gift or to hang on the tree as an ornament.

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Please do not reprint or repost this pattern, but please do link to this page to share this pattern with others.

If you wish to make items for sale from this pattern that is permitted.

MK Crochet Megan Kreiner

December 11, 2014 By admin 21 Comments

MK Crochet, Megan Kreiner joined us on Yarn Thing Podcast with Marly Bird.

MKCrochetlogo Megan said she began like a lot of us when young, taught by family — her grandmother, her mother, her aunts, but didn’t feel patient enough to keep on doing scarves and things at that time, not really getting into it until she was older. She knit and crocheted from them and as a teenager she did smaller projects like baby clothes and toys.

She graduated from University of Massachusetts with BFA in computer animation & graphic design. She moved after that to Los Angeles and kept up with her skills while working as a production assistant at Sony Pictures Imagework until she could work as Layout Artist at DreamWorks and currently in Annimation.

This experience worked out really well when it came to designing and writing crochet patterns in that she creates a character with a narrative or shows it’s personality. Plus she can make suggestions so the individual creators of her designs can modify to make their own unique character. It sounds like Megan designs in both knit and crochet. She finds that some techniques work better than others for what she wants to create and she spends time admiring what others have created, imagining how they achieved their shapes.

Her book Bathtime Buddies she hope an scientist in marine biology doesn’t take offense but at same time hopes a little person can identify with their toys also, she says. Because of her work at Dreamworks she does feel inspired to create characters, too. She has has receibed permision to do some crochet designs of Disney Characters, and has two books coming out. (This is outside of her work with Dreamworks. Her story about that clarifies a lot of things that people wonder about when creating licensed characters. So, I hope you will take time to hear what she shares…) This is all in tandem with another book coming soon of farm animals.

You’ll want to follow her so you can see these publications when they are released. There is an MK Crochet website, links to her blog. She admits she’s more active on Facebook, but you can find her designs listed in Ravelry and she has a fan group there

Patty Lyons, Knitwear Designer and Teacher

December 9, 2014 By admin 27 Comments

Patty Lyons, Knitwear designer and teacher joined us live from under a blanket, watching the nor’easter storm outside the window, to chat with Marly Bird on the Yarn Thing Podcast today.

Patty has been a guest on Yarn Thing before and we love having her back every time. Taught by Grandma when she was a kid, dropped it till she was a Broadway Stage Manager and took it up again with various actors and crew during slow stuff. She didn’t realize she was a designer for a long time after she was just ‘making stuff up’. Also she spent a long time working in a yarn store and for a yarn company, where she gained an incredible skill of interpreting what EVERY different knitter’s EVERY different technique so that she could help them when they have issues or get into trouble!

Currently she spends time teaching, working with Interweave on webinars (Secrets of Yarn Substitution and Blocking Techniques in Knitting) as well as three brand new video classes coming soon, Craftsy classes (Improve your Knitting and Explorations in Cables) and with Annie’s Classes.

There are some episodes of Knitting Daily TV coming up early in 2015 that she has filmed so check local listings for when those air, they begin January 15th.

Patty has a wonderful website where you can subscribe to her newsletter. You’ll also find information about UPCOMING CLASSES such as VKLive and Stitches Expos (she was just at Camp STITCHES in New Mexico), there’s information about the Caribbean Cruise with Melissa Leapman and Laura Nelkin, December 2015, which is very reasonably priced.

Check out her designs listed in Ravelry including a few that are available for purchase.

She will also have an advice column in Creative Knitting called Patty’s Pearls of Wisdom. No links available for that at this time, and I’m hoping it’s spelled PURLS….

Free Pattern Crochet Spike Stitch Coffee Cozy

December 4, 2014 By admin 1 Comment

This free pattern crochet Spike Stitch Coffee Cozy is a great quick project for any crocheter! Using less than 100 yds of yarn in any color used in the project this project is not only quick but cheap to make! And it’s a quick gift for a teacher, doctor, boss, in-law, or bunko groupie 🙂

There is even a YouTube video taught by Marly with a few tips an tricks to help you master the Spike Stitch!

The name of the pattern is Spike Stitch because that is the basis of the popsicle spike stitch that is used in the pattern. By changing up the number of spikes used and where they are located in the row you get a super sexy single crochet stitch that is a version of the original Spike Stitch but different 😉

When I told my husband the name of this pattern he asked me, “Does that mean the hot chocolate or coffee in the cup is spiked?” I thought that was FUNNY! So, now you have a perfect gift don’t you?

A simple mug
A Spiked Stitch Coffee Cozy to go around the mug
A bag of your favorite coffee
A bottle of Bailey’s Irish Cream

I think that is the perfect gift for anybody in your life (except maybe your pastor 🙂

Gentle reminder that it is illegal to photocopy or copy and paste the instructions and distribute to the public. You certainly can copy for your own use and I encourage you do so!

It has just come to my attention that many people are unaware that free patterns still have copyrights and it is not legal to distribute. I ask that if you like the pattern and want to tell your friends that you share the link to the pattern (found here: https://marlybird.com/free-pattern-crochet-spike-stitch-coffee-cozy ). By doing so you are allowing me to make a little money via advertising which in turn makes it possible for me to keep designing fun and free patterns.

Thanks so much!

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Spike Stitch Coffee Cozy