Lighted Snowman Ornament

Here is a pattern that will be great for the holidays or make up several for the fall craft shows coming up or even for gift giving or a package tie on!! It is for a lighted snowman ornament. The ornament pieces are crocheted in halves and stiffened around Styrofoam balls. The halves when dry and removed from the forms are glued together with permanent fabric glue and the pieces hot glued together. The hat is stiffened over a drink bottle cap. The patterns have instructions for the body to leave a hole for a Christmas tree light bulb to be inserted in or you can make it without the hole and just have a regular ornament. They are cute just standing alone as well and would be a great winter decoration. They look pretty neat with the light shining thru them. They are 4” tall and about 2” wide and are made from size 10 crochet thread. They work up pretty quickly and it's easy to make several at a time. You can get the pattern at:

https://www.etsy.com/shop/JoyceGeisler

or

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/lighted-snowman-ornament-2

They are pretty darned cute!!  

Christmas Ball Wreath

Just released in time for the holidays is this pattern for a lighted Christmas wreath. The wreath consists of 2 1/2" crocheted balls that are hot glued to a 12" wire wreath form with an easy to make bow out of yarn. The balls are worked in size 10 crochet thread, worked in halves then stiffened over Styrofoam balls. When the halves are dry they are then are glued together and then glued to the wreath form. The bow can be added at the top or the bottom and a battery wire light string can be woven thru the wreath to light it if desired. A very easy project to make in time for the holidays this year!! 🎄

The pattern is available at etsy.com/shop/JoyceGeisler

or

https://www.ravelry.com/patte…/library/christmas-ball-wreath

Lacy Trees

The third pattern in A Very Crochet Christmas is a new pattern.  It is for 3 lacy crochet stiffened trees.  

They range in size from 13 1/2" tall x 4 " across the bottom,  10 1/4" tall x 4" wide across the bottom and 7  1/4" tall x 3" across the bottom.  They make a nice grouping or addition to a holiday display!!  They are basically the same pattern, just more rows added to make them taller and they are shaped over easy to find Styrofoam cones. They are so beautiful in the white with the gold garland on them that the magazine chose for them!! The star is different on the larger tree but you can add whichever star you prefer!! 

 I am also going to share my original ones just to give you an idea of other looks for the pattern...

On the Antique White trees I used the Forest Green for the chain and added Burgundy berries

On the Forest Green trees I added some different color "ornaments".  They are made by working 12 single crochets in a magic loop.  Very easy!!  

They look great with my Frosty Friend Snowman, too!!

The pattern is in A Very Crochet Christmas and if you can't find it local you can order it at this link...

https://www.anniescatalog.com/detail.html?prod_id=150811&cat_id=468

I hope you will give this easy pattern a try!!

Snowman Snowflake Towel Edging

The second pattern in the new Christmas issue is the Snowman Snowflake Filet towel edging

It makes a great addition to any holiday theme tea towel and also makes a great gift!!  The edging is very quick and easy to make and sew onto the towel.  With the right towel it can be used for all winter long!!

You can get your copy of the issue at: 

https://www.anniescatalog.com/detail.html?prod_id=150811&cat_id=468

or check in your local craft store!!  Hope you will give this easy pattern a try!!  

Santa Claus is Coming To Town !!!

There's a new crochet magazine out for this fall and it's called A Very Crochet Christmas!!  

I'm very happy to have 3 of my designs included in it!! 

Two are ones that have previously been published, the third is a new one.  

I am going to focus on them in separate blog posts.....

Here is a picture of the pattern in the magazine....

and here is a much better picture from the professional photographer for the magazine!!

This Filet Crochet runner is worked in size 30 crochet thread with a size 10/1.15mm crochet hook.

It takes a little while to do !!!  Tiny stitches!! But will make a great heirloom for many holidays to come!!

I hope you will give it a try and also check out the new issue which should be available at your local craft store or news stand or you can get it at the following link....

https://www.anniescatalog.com/detail.html?prod_id=150811&cat_id=468

CGOA Design Competition

The Crochet Guild of America had their 25th anniversary convention in July.  As I  have for the past several years I sent in a few items for the design competition.  I made this 16" pillow out of motifs ( it's the same on both sides) and found a coordinating fabric to cover the pillow so the color showing thru would match the colors in the pillow.  

I was very shocked to see the video of the winners and see my pillow took first place in the Home Decor and Afghan section of the competition!!!  

I really like how this pillow turned out and love the Aunt  Lydia's size 10 crochet thread colors of Olive, Wood Violet and Antique white together.  

 I also entered this purse worked in the star stitch pattern. 

It didn't win a prize but after seeing the winners in the Accessories category I'm not surprised!!! Such amazing talent in the competition

!!!

I had made another project using these 20 hole buttons and thought they might be a unique way to attach the straps to the bag instead of crocheting the straps on or using a ring. I love these buttons they add so much to a project!!  They are from Katrinkles.com.  Check out their website they have so many neat things!!  

This was worked in Knit Picks size 10 crochet thread. I had some of this fabric on hand and loved how it looked with the Wedgewood blue of the bag so I used that for the lining.  So fun how the decoration of the buttons looks completely different on the opposite side, too!!  

It was time consuming making all those star stitches and I'd never done anything in that stitch before.  It was hard to count rows and stitches in rows but I ended up just measuring it to make sure it was the right size.  Pretty happy with this both of these projects!!