It's funny how, in the world of crochet, you can learn a new stitch and work things with it for years and years and then find that ther...

Brick Stitch To practice this stitch, chain 40 Row 1: Work 3 double crochet in the 3rd chain from the hook, * skip 3 chains, 1 single...

And the winner of my 100th afghan is ..... Nadine!!!   Please leave a comment here, or email me at   craftingfriends4you@yahoo.com with the...

Blue & Yellow X Stitch Afghan Pattern  This pattern has been updated and can be found on this blog by clicking this link ...

Now that we have some basic stitches down, lets learn a few stitch patterns.  This first one is the X stitch.  Very simple!  Here are a few ...

A friend of mine puts together a box with a blanket, clothes for a hospital here in Utah. When premature babies pass away, the nurses dres...

How To: Double Crochet Stitch This is my favorite stitch.  It adds good height, so when making an afghan, if this stitch is used the most,...

How To: Single Crochet Stitch Ok, so now that you have your chain, use 1 ch space as the edge to build up the side.  In the 2nd ch space, ...

To start, make a slip knot at the start of your yarn.  YO (yarn over) - now, this is the funny part...I have been told that I do this back...

For those of you who already know how to crochet, please bear with me for a short time while I try and zoom through the individual stitches ...