Cute Projects

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Crochet Mini-Book Pattern for Beginners – FREE & Easy Project

Crochet Mini Book Pattern for Beginners This Crochet Mini Book Pattern is perfect for Beginners and Experienced crocheters who are looking for a quick and cute gift for book lovers! This project uses only single crochet and slip stitch and a small amount of yarn from your stash. Plus, if you are a beginner and do best with a video tutorial, then you can watch the step-by-step demonstration on my YouTube Channel here! To see more of my FREE crochet patterns, please[Read more]

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Crochet Smart Cookie

Crochet Smart Cookie The Crochet Smart Cookie is an adorable and quick project that makes for a great graduation gift complete with its own mini-graduation cap and diploma! 😁 Of course, you can make this cookie project without those details and gift it to someone who you are proud of. I love using velvet yarn to create little stuffed crochet projects with cutesie eyes and other fun embellishments. The velvet yarn makes the finished project very soft and adds great[Read more]

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Crochet Sheep Headband

Crochet Sheep Headband The Crochet Sheep Headband is a fun and cute accessory that can be worn as a headband, ear warmer, an eye mask or a costume for any age! This project uses a super soft yarn by Yarn Bee called, “Fur the Moment”. This yarn has some very realistic looking colorways which makes it a great yarn to use for various animal stuffies and projects. To see some of my other FREE crochet patterns using this yarn, click[Read more]

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Crochet Shamrock

Crochet Shamrock This Crochet Shamrock is quick and easy to make with a small amount of velvet yarn! I love the color green and couldn’t resist picking up the Emerald color of Premier Yarn’s “Just Chenille” yarn – it’s so pretty! In the fall I created a similar project using velvet yarn and safety eyes, the “Easy Crochet Leaf” and thought it would be fun to have a shamrock with eyes and a smile, too! (This post includes affiliate links.[Read more]

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Crochet Candy Ornament

Crochet Candy Ornament The Crochet Candy Ornament is so cute! I was thinking about other decorations to make with my clear flat round ornament balls when my daughter said the round shape is just like M&M’s and I should turn them into these fun little guys you see here! I love M&M’s and love how these turned out. They use a very small amount of Size 3 (DK weight) cotton yarn so you could make one today with whatever is[Read more]

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Christmas Crochet Cookie

Christmas Crochet Cookie Christmas Crochet Cookie This Christmas Crochet Cookie is easy to make and almost looks good enough to eat! 🙂 This project uses a small amount of medium weight acrylic yarn and a few other craft supplies. I love to decorate cookies at Christmas time but sometimes find it sad that everything gets eaten and our beautiful creations disappear. With this pretty project you can have a Christmas cookie that lasts for years to come and makes a[Read more]

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Easy Crochet Leaf

Easy Crochet Leaf The Easy Crochet Leaf is fun and quick to make! This project uses basic crochet stitches and a small amount of velvet yarn. I love the colors of fall and thought this pretty orange yarn was perfect for this leaf. Plus, once you add some safety eyes and a little mouth, the leaf becomes even cuter! (This post includes affiliate links. To read our full disclosure policy, click here) Fall Decorations or a Quick Gift I decided[Read more]

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Easy Crochet Mushroom

Easy Crochet Mushroom This Easy Crochet Mushroom took me less than 15 minutes to crochet and looks great in my home with our fall decorations. I made it with a small amount of supplies from Hobby Lobby and basic crochet stitches. I love that mushrooms are popular right now – I’ve always thought of them as very interesting and the little red ones with white spots are so cute! (This post includes affiliate links. To read our full disclosure policy,[Read more]

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Crochet Acorn

Crochet Acorn This adorable crochet acorn softie is quick and easy to make with a small amount of fur and medium weight yarn. I love fall and I love the design of acorns. I also love adding eyes to inanimate objects – it definitely adds more smiles into the world! And I think everyone would agree that we could always use more smiles. 🙂 Stitches Used to Create this Crochet Acorn For this crochet acorn I used mainly the single[Read more]

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Crochet Snail

Crochet Snail Isn’t this crochet snail so cute? I love his big eyes and colorful shell. I decided to create this project because I wanted an eye-catching character that I could put on my car window when I pull in to my daughter’s school at pick-up time. She says that there are so many gray minivans that it is hard to find ours. So, after I have driven to the school and while I am waiting in line, I open[Read more]

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Crochet Granny Square Softie

Crochet Granny Square Softie This Crochet Granny Square Softie is sure to make you smile! Granny Squares are very popular right now with their nostalgic look and colorful symmetry. Granny square patterns and projects are popping up everywhere! Their design is genius and simple – the perfect project for taking on the go, working on while watching TV and using up yarn scraps from your stash. The iconic “Granny Square” is crochet ALL. THE. WAY. and at its best so[Read more]

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Crochet Carrot Softie

Crochet Carrot Softie – FREE pattern This Crochet Carrot Softie pattern is cute and quick to make! I thought making a plush carrot around Easter-time would be fun. This project is made with velvet yarn like last week’s, Easter Egg Softie. I love the color of this orange yarn – I found it on Amazon! (see the link to purchase below) I’ve been enjoying making these softies and adding eyes to an inanimate object/food – it’s unexpected and makes everyone[Read more]

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Crochet Easter Egg Softie

Crochet Easter Egg Softie Easter will be here soon and this crochet Easter egg softie is a great project to make as a gift or to be a part of your Easter decor! I think any child would love to get one of these softies in their Easter basket – they are so cute and will definitely make them smile. 🙂 Softies with Velvet Yarn I love crocheting softies with velvet yarn – the yarn feels great between your fingers[Read more]

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Christmas Crochet Garland

Christmas Crochet Garland When I think of Christmas decorations my mind often goes to crochet garlands – I love them! I think they bring a lot of interest and cheer to a space. This Christmas Crochet Garland combines frosted cookies, candy canes and star cookies all using simple crochet stitches and basic assembly techniques. In this blog post I share with you the FREE Christmas crochet garland pattern along with several photos so you can see the stitches and constructions[Read more]

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Crochet Snowman Scarf

Crochet Snowman Scarf with snowman faces on the pockets on ends of scarf

Crochet Snowman Scarf – FREE pattern I love to crochet holiday projects this time of year and am excited to share this fun Crochet Snowman Scarf with you! A crochet scarf makes for a great gift or a craft fair item. I love how they are one-size-fits-all and add interest to any coat or outfit. Details about the Crochet Snowman Scarf This is a simple scarf to crochet using a two-row repeat for the main stitch consisting of chains and[Read more]

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Crochet Pumpkin Pie Pattern

Crochet Pumpkin Pie Piece made with orange velvet yarn and has a cute face on it

Crochet Pumpkin Pie Pattern This Crochet Pumpkin Pie Pattern is perfect for decorating for Thanksgiving! I LOVE to decorate for fall and when it gets to November I enjoy adding Thanksgiving-themed pieces to my autumn decor so I decided to come up with this crochet pumpkin pie pattern. This cute little Crochet Pumpkin Pie is going front and center for sure! I think when you add eyes to any project, it makes you smile; plus, the cutsie eyes on this[Read more]

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Cute Crochet Animals

Small and cute crochet animal with a mushroom top made with red and white velvet yarn

Cute Crochet Animals Have you ever made any cute crochet animals? I highly recommend it! It is fun to create something that is quick, easy and super cute. It is also a lot of fun to give these types of projects as gifts – when you present them to someone, they always smile and claim that the cuteness brightens their day. 🙂 Here is an easy and FREE crochet pattern for you that I’m calling the “Mushroom Cuties”. Crochet Mushrooms[Read more]

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Crochet Pumpkin Bag

Pumpkin Treat Bag This cute crochet pumpkin bag can’t wait to go Trick or Treating with your little one! In this blog post I give you all the steps you need to make one of these pumpkin bags. You’ll find the detailed pattern, a list of special stitches and several close-up color photos to help you be successful. Plus, crochet projects with eyes, arms and legs are so much fun to create! 🙂 This crochet pumpkin bag base is made[Read more]

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Mini Crochet Backpack

Mini Crochet Backpack It’s back-to-school time and many students are packing their backpacks for classes and activities. Here is a fun little backpack-style bag that can be attached to your big backpack and filled with the essentials – money, credit cards, lip balm, hand sanitizer and/or keys. This entire project uses mainly one stitch – single crochet! Plus, I created 3 versions of this mini-backpack using Size 3 thread (blue), Size 3 yarn (pink) and Size 4 yarn (green) –[Read more]

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Crochet Tic-Tac-Toe

Crochet Game! Several years ago when I started teaching “Parent-Child” Crochet Workshops, I crocheted some games to have on hand during the workshops as a way for the new students to see all the different possibilities with crochet and give everyone a break from concentrating on learning to crochet. Recently I found this crocheted Tic-Tac-Toe game in my teaching supplies and thought it would be fun to share here on the blog. It works up really quickly and has a[Read more]