Leap year giveaway! Get 3 free patterns of your choice from Sweet Crocheterie.

Today is a special day, February 29th. I decided to celebrate it by thanking my dear friends and customers by giving away my patterns for free. Thank you for all your support and love!! You can choose from crochet flower patterns, crochet necklace & bracelet patterns, that you can find in my etsy shop Sweet Crocheterie. The giveaway ends March 25th, 2012 at midnight, Pacific time.

There will be 3 winners:

1st prize - 3 free patterns of your choice from Sweet Crocheterie.

2nd prize - 2 free patterns of your choice from Sweet Crocheterie.

3rd prize - 1 free patterns of your choice from Sweet Crocheterie.

The rules are very simple:

Select the three patterns (starting from the most favorite one) from the shop that you would love to receive if you win, and write them in a comment box.

Easy, right?

I will greatly appreciate if you "like" my facebook page or follow this blog, however no additional entries will be given for doing this.

I will choose the lucky winners using random.org. (Write a comment using your google account, that has your email address, or let me know how I can contact you in your comment).

Good Luck!!

New Crochet Necklace - Rose Garden

To be honest it took me a while to create this crochet necklace pattern. It all started with making a tiny delicate rose flower, so delicate, that right away I've decided to incorporate into a necklace. Added some simple leaves, and that's what I have now:

Magic Circle Tutorial

Magic circle is one way of starting to crochet in round.
Its advantage is in smaller hole in the middle of your crochet item. Here's a quick tutorial:

Crochet Hair Clip "Hat" and Flower FREE Tutorial.

(WARNING! There are many pictures in this post, proceed with caution.)

Have any of you tried to make a hair clip with a crochet motif or a little flower? I've made them many times. It is easy to make a little flower. It is also easy to find snap clips. But for me personally it wasn't always easy to connect the two in a neat and pretty way, and at the same time to keep the hair clip from falling apart.

To tell you the truth, I've never searched internet to get ideas, I used to sew a piece of fabric to a snap clip, and then sew a flower onto that fabric. I've also tried to grue the flower onto the clip, but it always comes apart very soon. I came up with an idea of making tiny snap clip "hats". Only now that I'm writing this, I am wondering if someone somewhere invented something similar already.. Hm... Oh well... Maybe I've re-invented a bicycle, but at least I've taken a thousand of step-by-step pictures :) So here it goes:

New flowers

Four new flower patterns are in my pattern shop now! Ready for your fun spring projects.

3D Dahlia Flower

3D Mini Roses

3D Three-tier flower
Hibiscus Flowers

Make some flowers.

We both know you want to make them :) I've made quite a few lately, and I just wanted to share a pretty pile of flowers with you. (4 new flower patterns are now available within the next few days!)