Does anyone know where to find a pattern to this? I love it!

http://www.trailingyarn.com/archives/3090

I haven't posted here in a long time... but this is why:



6x6 (ish) free-form blanket all done in single crochet. I am incredibly pleased with the results but I'm not sure if it is actually done. It doesn't have a pattern, and I didn't have a plan, so it really could have gone on forever. What do you all think? I think that I am at the stage where I still love it, and therefore NEED TO BE DONE.

EDIT: Thank you for the wonderful comments!

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Two things I want to cover in this post:

1) I have abnormally dry skin. I always have. Crocheting/handling yarn frequently makes it even dryer. Do any of you have this problem, and how do you remedy it? I've tried wearing gloves but they get in the way a bit, so I tried wearing fingerless gloves but my fingers still got dried out from the yarn. I use lotion all. the. time. I have to apply it probably ten times an hour when I'm crocheting, no exaggeration. Because of this, I'm going to start making my own lotion to save money, but I'm wondering if any of you have this problem and how you remedy it?

2) My boss directed me to this awesome website. She offered to pay me to make her one of those scarves and I said I'd be happy to. She chose the longcat scarf. It's cute, but, it's not crocheted. Does anyone have any idea how I can make a scarf like that with yarn?

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Weave in ends as you go...

I'm trying to finish up a scarf for my boyfriend by the time he gets off work today. It's 10 granny squares, most with 2 colors. that's a minimum of 4 ends to weave in for each of those squares, and then there's all the ends from when i cut too soon or had to cut out a knot. and THEN there's the ends from when i slip-stitched them all together.

I've gotten 2 squares done so far and they make me want to cry.

i've been working on some original amis (i'm pretty exciting since i haven't had any help with these at all, so they're completely original...)  but i have to keep taking extended breaks from crocheted.  my nails keep splitting and breaking from crocheting for too long.  and it's really hard to crochet without nails...  so i have to keep waiting for them to grow back again before i can go back to working on my crocheting.  anyone else have this problem?  is there any way around it?

I want to make a baby blanket out of a bunch of granny squares, but I also want to know what's the best way to stitch all the squares together? I thought about whip-stitching all the squares together but I want to know if there's a better way to stitch all the squares together and it still look really nice.

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Thank you everyone for your input! I don't mind hearing more suggestions but as mentioned, I think I'll just slip stitch them all together. :3

any one out there have any good guinea pig or ferret stuffie patterns?

I am attempting to make a shell stitch scarf. I do not know what I am doing wrong, but rather than a flat piece of 'fabric' it is a spiral. It's very pretty, but I don't know how I got there and it's *not* what I was going for. Help?

I may have shown this stuff already, but I don't remember, so you get to see it again maybe.

Right before I left my former job, my boss discovered that her grandson had (foolishly at age 16) made her into a great grandma. (well future as the baby wasn't born yet) So I decided to make them a baby blanket. My second ever baby blanket, and my first ever granny square blanket. I made it with Bernat Baby Jacquards in cherry berry and berries and cream. You can see from the sample how nice they work together. well I made my blanket and it didn't really take very long at all. I had to hurry too, because I was getting close to my last day of work, the start date for my new job was June 22, and I took these pictures of the last bits of things finished on June 17.



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I just ran across this free pattern on Ravelry, and I thought I'd share it. It's for a water bottle cover, but I thought that it would make an excellent learner's project, because it's done in a sampler style so a beginner could learn a lot of stitches. The instructions have to be the most detailed I have ever seen, it's pretty impressive. And it's kind of nice looking water bottle cover, too.

The pattern is on Ravelry, or here if you're not a member.

I'm making a baby blanket for my cousin's baby and it's just a pretty simple granny square blanket, all one piece. I would like to monogram it, though, and add ruffles to the edges. Since you can't really monogram granny squares, the way I figure I'll do this is once the blanket is just about the size I like, I'll add a couple inches of sc rows, thick enough to stitch initials into, and then 4 or 5 dc in each st around. This is pure improvising and I don't see a real reason it won't work but I wanted to know if any of you thought this seemed like a good idea, or if it's not, what's a better way to add both an area to monogram, and ruffles?

Thanks in advance! I'm new to this community and feel like I've been posting requesting help a lot and people have been REALLY nice and helpful about everything. Thank you!

Does anyone have a good pattern for throw pillows or something similar? I keep finding patterns for pillow covers, but I don't want a cover, I have stuffing and yarn, I just want to stuff the crochet piece and sew it up.

 Hello, everyone! I'm pretty beginner at crochet, but I thought I'd share this scarf I just finished today. It was made for a real math lover!

My cousin is due to have a baby soon and, since my cousin adores zebra patterns, I thought it would be nice to make the baby a zebra plushie. Unfortunately, all I can find are horse plushies, but none that seem too appealing to me, and none that seem they could be easily turned into a zebra (I'm afraid I'll mess up the stripes!)

I hope I don't appear too helpless here but if anyone could offer me some advice I'd really appreciate it. I found this pattern that I absolutely love but even if I had a card to buy it with, which I don't, it's not available.

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=18906695

I'd personally omit the red, though, I'd just keep those parts black, but the rest is adorable, you know?

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P.S., I'm looking for different sources for new patterns. I'm considering subscribing to a magazine. Have any of you ever subscribed to a crochet magazine? Which one(s) did you enjoy and what kind of patterns to the different ones have? Are there even more than one? I have no idea.

Thanks in advance. I really appreciate it!