My crafting, crocheting fest this year continued with another great pattern I found, but this time on the Lion Brand Yarn website.
My Mom told me about this website, and they have tons and tons and tons of free patterns for both crocheting and knitting. And the patterns are for all skill levels.
The pattern that I used for quite a few homemade gifts was called Family of Beanies. It allows you to make many sizes from one easy pattern. The yarn that I used for this beanie pattern was a soft, thick yarn, Hometown USA. A great, soft yarn.
I made beanies for the Montana family, beanies for my son and his girlfriend, beanies for my son-in-law and grandson. beanies, beanies, beanies
Then Travel Man said, “Where’s my beanie? You know sometimes my travel takes me to the cold weather.” So I’m off to the store tomorrow to get some gray yarn. Travel Man’s favorite color. I guess you know what I’ll be doing for New Year’s.
Evans beanie turned out so cute I made him a scarf to go with it.
Such a ham for the camera. He’s was pretending he was cold and freezing, totally set up this pose himself. His ensemble was blue and orange for the Chicago Bears, of course .
Then the football rivals in the house got scarves in the Green Bay Packers colors. This was some great yarn, variegated with the team colors. No switching colors required. The surprise here was my daughter had no idea I had been working on this gift. You see I did most of the work in the car while Travel Man was driving us around doing our errands.
All in all I got everything finished that I set out to make before Christmas Day arrived. It’s always fun finding projects to work on that will be given as gifts. And I’m discovering it’s great to find a pattern that is universal that can be given as a gift to the girls or the boys. Maybe next year I’ll make everyone some socks or mittens. Stay tuned for Christmas Crafts 2013.