Golden Seasons Medallion

This is a beautiful but simple medallion. You can use it to make a shawl, you can use it to make a nice cardi as follows: Take your favorite cardigan or sweater, place it on top of a sheet of brown paper, trace all around it. With a measuring tape, measure length, width, sleeve length, waist, hip (if the garment is that long) depth of neckline, shoulder width, and all necessary measurments. Write them all down with a permanent marker on your template of paper. Now, begin to make these motifs. Fasten off and clip them with pins at intervals all over your brown paper template. You can make your cardi really lacy by spacing them widely and then just making chain 5, slip st, ch 5 to the next medallion and from that medallion back to the one you started from until you have filled the space in between them with a lacy chain ground. Or you can put them rather close to one another and make short chains in between them, once you have filled the shape of your garment, just sc all around the neckline and hte bottom. You can shape the sleeves pretty much the same way and sc around to form a nice cuff. You can use this medallion (working in cotton thread) for a beautiful tablecloth or a very lovely bedspread.
Here are the instructions you need:
With Worsted weight Gold-colored yarn and size H crochet hook, ch 5. Sl st to join ring.
Rnd 1-Ch 2, make 14 hdc in ring. Sl st to join ring. Rnd 2- Ch 5, yo to make a trin same spot, start tr and leave the last loop undone, rep twice more in same spot, yo to make another tr,l eave unfinished, yo and pull loop through all loops on hook, *ch 5, skip 1 hdc, yo to make 1 tr in next hdc, leave tr unfinished, yo to make another tr, leave unfinished, yo to make another tr, leave unfinished, yo too make last tr of cluster, leave unfinished, then yo and pull loop through all loops on hook (cluster made), rep from * all around. To end rnd, ch 5 and slip st in beginning ch. (7 clusters made). Rnd 3- sl st to reach top of first cluster. Ch 3, make 6 dc in same spot, *ch 1, skip to top of next cluster 7 dc in top of that cluster, ch 1, skip to top of next cluster, 7 dc in topo of that cluster, rep from * around. Fasten off.

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In Bloom Medallion

This is another beautiful medallion I've designed. It is easy and pretty and could be used for a numberless amount of things. If you want to have a collection of motifs to use, this is a good addition to it!
Materials:
Worsted weght yarn color of your choice
H size crochet hook
Ch 6. Sl st to form ring. Rnd 1- Ch 3, 2 dc in in ring, ch 2, 2 dc, *3 dc ch 2, 3 dc, rep from * around. Sl st in beg ch 3 to end rnd. Rnd 2- Sl st till you reach first ch-2 space, ch 3, 1 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in that space, *ch 2, slip next dc, 1 sc in next dc, ch 2, 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc in next ch-2 space, rep from * around. Sl st to end rnd. Rnd 3- Ch 3, 1 dc in next dc, 3 dc in ch-2 space, 1 dc in each of next 2 dc, ch 4, *1 dc in each of next 2 dc, 3 dc in next ch-2 space, 1 dc in each of next 2 dc, ch 4, rep from * around. Sl st to end rnd. Rnd 4- 1 sc in first dc, 1 hdc in next dc, 1 dc in next dc, 2 tr in next dc, 1 dc in next dc, 1 hdc in next dc, 1 sc in next dc, ch 4, 1 sc in ch-4 chain, ch 4, *1 sc in next dc, 1 hdc in next dc, 1 dc in next dc, 2 tr in next dc, 1 dc in next dc, 1 hdc in next dc, 1 sc in next dc, ch 4, 1 sc in ch-4 space, ch 4, rep from * around. End rnd with ch 4 and slip st in first sc.
Fasten off.

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Bonus Pattern! FREE Chullo Hat Pattern

This is my take on a chullo or earflap hat and I called it Contemporary Chullo Hat.

You can find it here:

Contemporary Chullo Hat by Craftybegonia

Spiky Little Neck Warmer

This is another convertible piece for your cool Season wear. This contemporary neckwarmer is textured and nice and it works up really fast! It is really fun and I decided to show it in all the ways that you can wear it. It converts from a neck warmer into a neckie and back. Make it in your favorite color and let me know how you liked it.

Materials:

Worsted weight blue yarn

Crochet hook size H

4 shirt-size buttons mathing yarn (which would go easily thorugh dc sts)

blunt needle

scissors

Ch 49 with Blue and H hook.
Row 1- 1 dc in 4th chain from hook and in each ch across. (47 dc).
Row 2- 1 dc in each of next 3 dc, 1 hdc in next dc, 1 tr in next dc, 1 sc in next dc, *1 tr in next dc, 1 sc in next dc, rep from * across, stopping this stitch 6 sts from end of row. Now, proceed as follows: 1 hdc, 1 dc in next dc and in each dc to end of row. Ch 3, turn. Row 3-1 dc in each st across. Row 4- Rep row 2. Row 5- Rep row 3.

Continue alternating these two rows until you have completed 9 rows, ending with a dc row. Fasten off, weave in tails.

Make a shell trim for buttonholes as follows: Join yarn to the narrow edge of the neck warmer, ch 3, make 2 dc in same spot as ch 3, skip a little space, make 1 sc, skip a little space, make shell of 4 dc in next space, *skip a little space across and make 1 sc, skip a little bit, eyeballing it and make a shell of 4 dc, rep from * across. Fasten off and weave in tail. Sew 4 buttons on the opposite narrow edge of the neck warmer which will use these shells as buttonholes (you could do 5 if you wanted, because you are going to wind up with 5 shells, but I left the middle one without a button and it wourld out really well, choose a size of button that pushes easily in between dc stitches but stays secure and doesn't open up afterwards.)

That's it!

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Thank you Toqua's Crafts for Posting Spiky Little Neck Warmer on your site! I went and took a peek and it looks very pretty on you!

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Sea Foam Sonnet Lacy Block

If you like to make shawls, this block will make a really fast one! It can also be used for a lot of different projects. If you want something dainty and airy and yet fast and easy to make, use this block for it!

7 1/2" x 7 1/2" lace square
With worsted weight yarn of your choice (I used Sea Foam)and crochet size H hook, ch 10. Sl st to join ring.Rnd 1- Ch 8, wrap yarn 4 times around hook, push the working yarn behind the hook and insert the hook in the ring, yo, and begin to create a treble, yo and pull through the loops until you have completed all loops, Ch 3. Repeat 11 times (12 DTrs, counting the starting chain). Rnd 2- Ch 4, wrap yarn in hook 3 times, insert in first ring of ch-3 space, yo, pull though loop, yo, pull through loop,yo, but leave last loop on hook, repeat with next 2 chs of ch-3 space and repeat in top of next DTr post, yo and pull though all loops on hook, ch 5 (petal cluster made). Repeat twice more.Ch 8 (corner), repeat 3 more cluster petals, ch 8 (another corner), repeat 3 more cluster petals, ch 8, (another corner made), repeat twice more. In the last cluster petal, insert the hook for hte last treble inat the base of beginning chain, complete your cluster petal, ch 8, slip st at beginning chain to end round. Rnd 3- Ch 3, 1 dc in top of of next petal cluster, ch 3, skip 2 ch and make 1 dc in next chain (the chain right before hte next petal cluster), *1 dc in top of petal cluster, ch 3, skip next 2 chains and make 1 dc in nextchain and 1 dc in top of next cluster petal, ch 3, skip 3 chain of corner ch-8, make 2 dc in next chain, ch 3, 2 dc in next chain, ch 3, skip until you reach the chain that is just before the next petal cluster, make1 dc in that chain and 1 dc in top of petal cluster, ch 3, rep from * all around until end of rnd.Rnd 4- Ch 3, 1 dc in next dc, 3 dc in ch-3 space, 1 dc in each of next 2 dc, *3 dc in ch-3 space, 1 dc in each of next 2 dc, 3 dc in ch-3 space, 1 dc in each of first 2 dc of corner shell, 2 dc, ch 3, 3 dc in center of cornershell, 1 dc in each of last 2 dc of corner shell, 3 dc in next ch-3 space, 2 dc in next 2 dc, 3 dc in next ch-3 space, 1 dc in eac of next 2 dc, rep from * around.

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