Couch Craft: Crochet Temperature Afghan (with Reference Card!)

Download the Temperature Afghan Reference Card and create a year-long blanket one row per day.

Are you looking for a year-long crochet project with a set start and definitive end? Do you enjoy working on a blanket or afghan a little at a time every night on your couch in front of the TV? Do you appreciate a contemporary look with a seemingly random pattern? Have I got a project for you! A Temperature Afghan!

Crochet Pattern: Chunky Doll Blanket

Quickly hook up a cozy doll blanket with this simple, contemporary crochet pattern.

After completing the Chunky Library-Book Lapghan, I had a large sample swatch plus a few skeins of yarn left over...the beginning and finishing of a doll-sized version of the same blanket. So I made one up for The Peanut. Then I remembered my mama-to-all-dolls niece was about to turn two, so I pulled the softest yarn off the store shelf and made another one just for her. You can, too.

Crochet Pattern: Chunky Library-Book Lapghan

Quickly hook up a cozy lapghan throw blanket with this simple, contemporary crochet pattern.

After working in long rows of color-changing, tight single-crochet for over a year (what? some of us take longer to finish a year-long temperature afghan than others), I was ready for something quick and rhythmic in a monochromatic neutral. How about you?

Crochet Dishcloth Christmas Tag!

Oh dear. You started the Crochet Along Afghan and only got a few squares done. Now what do you do with them?! Make them into Christmas-gift Dishcloths -- that IS what you meant to do all along, right?

Crochet Pattern: Mary Poppins Hat

A crochet pattern for Mary Poppins' Hat. There's still time to eke this one out before Halloween, and thanks to a few requests, here it is!

PICTRIAL: Summer Sherbet Crochet Planter

When I set out to create summer inspired crochet planters, two things popped in my head: ridges and bright colors. It wasn't until after I purchased the yarn and plopped it in my basket that I was reminded of rainbow sherbet. Then, after I set the finished planter down and stepped back, I realized the horizontal ridges are reminiscent of that classic childhood craft, yarn wrapped cans. I love these! What a joyful combination of memories these bring back! I'm so happy they greet me every time I walk up to my kitchen sink. Bring some joy to your plants with a Summer Sherbet Crochet Planter Cover of your own!

PICTORIAL: Spring Bunny Crochet Planter Cover

I'm having a lot of fun creating seasonal planter covers for my two, couldn't-kill-them-if-I-tried, 4"-potted plants. So far I've donned them in sweaters and decked them in Santa's red & white. But now the days are finally longer, the air is warming, and Spring is around the corner. I've hooked up a few Spring Bunnies just in time for Easter. And you can, too!

Couch Craft: Holiday Crochet Planter Cover (with Pattern!)

Take an inexpensive house-plant and make it special with the Holiday Crochet Planter Cover pattern!

It's almost time to deck the halls with red and green! (I know last week I was all "Halloween, YAY!," and now I'm all "Christmas, WooHoo!," and you're all "I'm getting whiplash over here and what about Thanksgiving anyway?" Welcome to my brain.) The end of November means it's time to change out the crochet planter covers in my kitchen. This month while watch-listening to TV I crocheted up a few Santa-inspired sleeves so my plants can spread the Christmas cheer, and I've written it down so you can, too.

Couch Craft: Spiral Crochet Planter Cover (with Pattern!)

Bring some fall-like texture and color into your home! Crochet cozy sweaters for your plants with this quick Spiral Crochet Planter Cover.

I'm not the best when it comes to keeping plants. I certainly don't have a green thumb. But I have two hardy little guys that sit on my kitchen windowsill. And they have sat there in their original, basic brown plastic containers for over three years now. As the plants have grown and kept me happy company, those straight-from-the-store, bland containers have irked me. It was time to do something about it. But I'm fearful of re-potting. And the windowsill is too narrow for an outer decorative pot. Inspired by this adorable image on Pinterest, I sat down one afternoon to figure out a crochet cover for my plants. I wrote it out to share here with you.

The two kitchen plants are not as photogenic as this plastic Ikea plant from the window-less guest bedroom. But even plastic plants can don sweaters!

Couch Craft: Broad-Stripe Baby Blanket (with Pattern!)

As part of a group of on-line crafters from across the country (a small segment of a much larger, amazing group of close friends), I get the fun of participating in various crafting gift exchanges. For our current "Spring Free for All" exchange, I'm crafting for a mommy-to-be. I'm sewing up a couple of things just for her, but I wanted to make a little something for the baby-to-be, too. I was feeling the urge to tackle another blanket, so I took to my couch to crochet this bold-stripe blankie, great for a boy or girl. I made it up as I went, but it's quick and simple and something I would crochet again, so I wrote it down. Then I realized I could share it here, too.