#Best Crochet Patterns

[a-model-of-propriety]

"The mixture, which was at first of a reddish hue... changed to a dark purple, which faded again more slowly to a watery green." —The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

[journeyman-tier-fibercraft]

Cast on the most boring shawl project I've ever willingly put on the needles twice. The first one turned out so pretty I couldn't resist a larger version. (Ravelry Pattern)

The Original was knit pre this tumblr blog with two different flavours of the 150gram Lion Brand Mandala yarn, the lighter colour being a pastel rainbow and the darker colour was a saturated rainbow. This time I have two of the 300gram Mandala yarns, the lighter is Giant and the darker is Chimera.

I had to gut the Giant to get the colour order mostly similar, but other than that I'm not going to mess with it, if they get wildly off track of eachother I'll just live with it. Hoping since this is mostly mindless knitting (with the regular annoyance that is chevrons) I'll actually like. work on it.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

Genuinely the funniest image caption I've ever seen, gonna be honest

The layers, the drama, the implied threat of sponge-on-spinge violence, the inherent eroticism of a freshly scrubbed sink.... you want it? Well folks, we got it!

[whispering-kavka]

guys check out the thing i made

[hishoi]

Hello people!!

A couple days ago i got inspired to crochet a manatee, so i did! And, i have a pattern for you guys too, if you want to make one yourself. I am still working on the skykid pattern, but i'm a bit out of yarn right now so there will still be a while until i can post it.

Anyways, here's the pattern!

Sky: cotl manatee crochet pattern

Yarn colors: white and yellow. You can use any size hook you want, but i used a small 2.5 hook

Body (white)

Start every new row with a chain 1, - indicates new row. The entire project is worked in single crochet.

-Crochet 6 sc into magic circle, tighten the circle

-Inc in every stitch around

-inc in every other stitch around

-do 3 regular sc rows

-5 sc, 1 inc, 2 sc, 2 inc, 2 sc, 1 inc, 5 sc

-do 3 regular sc rows

-6 sc, 1 inc, 1 sc, 1 inc, 1 sc, 2 inc, 1 sc, 1 inc, 1 sc, 1 inc, 6sc

-now you do 12 regular single crochet rows. At this point you can start stuffing

-6 sc, 1 dec, 1 sc, 1 dec, 1 sc, 2 dec, 1 sc, 1 dec, 1 sc, 1 dec, 6 sc

-3 regular single crochet rows

-5 sc, 1 dec, 2 sc, 2 dec, 2 sc, 1 dec, 5 sc

-3 regular single crochet rows

-5 sc, (1 dec, 1 sc) x2, 1 dec, 5 sc

-3 regular single crochet rows

-Decrease in every other stitch around

-Sew the end of the body shut by doing one single crochet through 2 stitches across from eachother, and then chain one, and do one single crochet on top of the securing stitch. Chain one, and break off yarn.

Fins (white)

You will do two of these.

-ch 3, start in the second st from the hook, and do an inc in both stitches (4)

-Ch 1, 4 sc

-Ch 1, 4 sc

-Ch 1, 2 sc, 1 dec

-Ch 1, 1 dec, 1 sc

-Ch 1, 1 dec

Ch 1, break off yarn.

Attatch the fins around the ninth row of the body, one on each side of the head, with the side with decreases facing back. (Hope that makes sense)

Tail piece (yellow)

-Ch 2, and do 4 sc in the first stitch

-Ch 1, 4 sc

-Ch 1, 4 sc

-Ch 1, 2 dec

-Ch 1, 1 dec, ch 1, break off yarn

Attatch to the end of the body (not exactly sure how i did it myself you'll just have to wing it a bit)

Head pattern piece (yellow)

-Ch 2, and do 3 sc in the first stitch

-Ch 1, 1 inc, 1 st, 1 inc

-Ch 1, 1 inc, 3 sc, 1 inc

-Ch 1, 1 inc, 5 sc, 1 inc

-Ch 1, 9 sc

-Ch 1, 1 dec, 5 sc, 1 dec

-Ch 1, 1 dec, 3 sc, 1 dec

-Ch 1, 1 dec, 1 sc, 1 dec

-Ch 1, dec through all 3 stitches left, so that you end up with only one stitch. Ch 1, break off yarn

Head pattern piece (white)

-Ch 2, and do 2 sc in the first stitch

-Ch 1, 2 inc

-Ch 1, 2 dec

-Ch 1, 1 dec, ch 1, break off yarn

Sew the white piece onto the yellow piece, and attatch that to the body. After that you should be done!

This didn't take too long to make, maybe an hour at most. If you're looking for something fun to do for a little while, you can make this! If you make it, please let me know, rb this post with the results or tag me, either way i would love to see how you made it!

[gayestcowboy]

my wonderful baby son boy named brother dubious

[sweaterkittensahoy]

working on a pattern from Interweave Crochet 2017, and there are at least 2 undefined stitch abbreviations and the chart is wrong for a specialty stitch.

I'm the first to remind people that editors are only human, but these are some long-hanging fruit that should have been caught.

[lunar-lavenderr]

a platypus?

PERRY THE PLATYPUS??????

made it for my brother's graduation gift. my father immediately demanded one for himself

[asterdeer]

this is the best thing i’ve ever made

[image description: a piece of tapestry crochet, with an off white background and a simple plump cat in purple. the cat is sitting on its bottom with its back legs in the air and looks bewildered. end description]

[whatareyoudoingwithamaserati]

hello lifesteal tumblr. look at my Little Guys. rambles underneath the cut for those interested

pattern created from scratch in an improv session <3 alas I don’t have any pipe cleaners to make their heads not floppy but I think it adds to the charm. I have no clue why spoke ended up taller than the others, but I think it was yarn weight related. there is also a bandana for mapicc but it is not visible because I stitched over the front part to very skin-accurate (it makes him look like he has a bowl cut but it was funny enough to me that I kept it). he also has a hood hidden behind his head because he had the drawstrings on his skin and I wanted to work that in. no space buns, alas. spoke’s took the longest due to colourwork issues, and I accidentally twisted his bandana when stitching it together so its very poorly seamed on the side where I had to cut it apart. zam was the one I made the pattern for, and when I say made the pattern that translates into I completely made it up as I went. his crown is somewhat skin accurate but due to the number of stitches it is not perfect, and also I had only learned to picot like three days before I decided to attempt it on his crown spikes. the fact it worked out was a miracle. one last fun fact: spoke was the only one I wrote a proper plan for, and it took up an entire page of my notebook because I was not going into all that colourwork unprepared.

if you made it this far, have some extra pictures!

^^ his usual resting place is by my laptop for maximum autism

^^ feeling severe despair

^^ both of these pictures were sent to my partner with nothing but the caption Scuffed

^^ this has been unanimously titled spoke experiences a forcible exorcism while zam and mapicc watch

^^ and for the love of god, learn from me and do NOT do your colourwork like this. it helps absolutely nobody, unless you enjoy playing yarn untangling simulator

[fibrespace]

Today on "I nearly pissed myself laughing" my mom emailed me the pattern for an amigurumi orgamimi turtle.

[psychic-pigeons]

Hi, sorry to bother - I'm following the Chilchuck pattern and it's all been good but now with the blouse I'm having a bit of a problem. Following the instructions from r3-7 I end up with 48 stitches in a round (if i understood them well, it would be the increase aka 2sc tog + 10sc 4 times = 12 x 4 = 48sc right?), problem is, my increases don't align with the instructions for the sleeve holes. I'm starting on an increase, when I do the part of 11sc after the first hole (which ends like 5ch + 5sc), my next increase is more than 10 stitches away. If I ignore that and just skip 5 and then sc 5 more, the design ends up more or less symmetrical like a shirt would be, but since the rows are not marked with the final number of stitches I don't know if those meassurements are correct or if I'll just mess up the entire shirt working this way. LONG STORY SHORT IS, how many stitches are in the arm hole for the shirt, and how many stitches are there between each arm hole? Given that the cuffs are 20 stitches throughout, do I have to chain 5 and skip 15 stitches for the hole, or something else entirely?

I added a picture (It goes to the right since I'm left handed) just in case I didn't make any sense lol Sorry for the nuisance...! The starting sc is the one where my hook is in the second sc of the last increase, green is sc, blue is the blo sc, red is ch, and the orange v the increases themselves

Yeah that part of the pattern is very confusing, i just had to reread it 5 times to understand what i even did lol.

The blue is the 5 from the ch5, the yellow 11 (typo oops) is whats between the first stitch of the first increase and the first stitch of the next inc. The green are sc i worked into the visible front loops from the BLO stitches in r8 and r9. If ur not doing the BLO stuff i think you can just put increases on both sides of the corners. Idk how that will look though.

So where you are in the pattern right now you have the correct amount of stitches, and you should continue with the ch5 from the 1st stitch of the increase and join in the 1st stitch of the second increase. The 4 extra stitches will be added in the sleeve portion from either working in the front loop of the blo stitches / or by doing an increase on both sides of the sleeve corners.

Hope this answers your question! If not feel free to let me know :) Ill be editing the og pattern post to link to this ask because Yeah its pretty confusing.

[fishthegenderwitch]

The light covers in our townhouse are boring ASF. Like, look at this nonsense.

They all look like this. All the same, sad round light covers.

That being said, I can't do much about them barring making another, snazzier light cover, so I've been searching for a good crochet lampshade pattern. (I'm looking at covering the one in my own bedroom right now.)

The main problem is that the best ones I'm finding are being shown in a 2 minute YouTube video that's like "CROCHET LAMPSHADE PATTERN!" and you find out they saved bad super pixel-corrupted jpegs to show as a slideshow and no actual pattern. -seethes-

Anyway, I've found a few patterns that I'm going to power my way through til I want to set them on fire (I hope it doesn't get to that point).

Just as an example, THESE are what I'm talking about, because I can't seem to find anything super pretty in a written pattern.

And this next image, like this is awesome, but finding the pattern? Lolno.

If I can find a sweet enough cuff or lacy border pattern, I can sew them together to make a longer piece to hang down from the light cover itself.

LIKE THIS! I know it's a skirt, but it looks awesome! Also unfortunately it's in a language I don't know. Two, actually.

One of those is "image crochet pattern". I do not know this language. Where do you start?? What's the code here?? I have the crochet legend for these, I just need to get into the nitty gritty of where to start, what direction to follow.

I think I'm going to try the first one, and also poke at cobbling together a round doily pattern with other shapes of decorative crochet. Stay tuned, but not too hard; I'm slow at stuff.

[a-dash-in-the-middle]

granny squares 1 me 0

[itrvahn]

Was looking through a historical book of fillet crochet patterns yesterday and they had an absolutely gorgeous pattern for le jour and la nuit. I can't stop thinking about making matching color work blankets....

[h-f-k]

me who hasn't dated someone EVER and hasn't even had a fling with someone: oh yes, 4 to 6 years is an ideal time to spend with someone before getting married