Aug 6th, 2015
In This Article * Dear Friends * New Mystery * Stitch-cation update * Creativ Festival Workshops * Crochet Cruises *Spinrite Tour and Tent Sale * E-Tent Sale this week * Snowflakes * Patterns * Videos * Facebook shares * Notes form the team
Dear Friends, Today’s Happy Hook’n moment is brought to you by Kristin’s son, a fellow Crochet Crowder. We followed the saga for a couple days after her son realized there was a hole in his favourite afghan.
Oh boy... did the waterworks fall. His favourite afghan was ruined by his standards and all hope is lost. But have no fear, his mummy Kristin, came to the rescue with a darning needle to patch it up. All of a sudden, his world is made right again. What struck me the most was Kristin’s statement that the hole wasn’t perfect and looks a bit weird. Judging by her son’s delight, that doesn’t matter one bit. In some ways, I wish I had her son’s attitude. As adults, we try to strive for excellence and see the faults easily. So easily that I think it sometimes tromps on our crazy desires for perfection. Perfection really doesn’t exist. Her son is conveying gratitude and appreciation. It’s a picture perfect moment! Happy Hookin’ Mikey
What could it be? Each week we will give a clue, the pattern and video to leave you wondering what in the word could this be! It’s fun and has been brought back by huge demand. We are super excited. Even for us, We had no idea what it was until we finally put it all together! This is our 3rd Mystery Amigurumi Crochet Along. See what the last Mike the Monster and Giraffes that we did. We don’t tell you the colour as that’s part of the mystery.
Let’s Play this Mystery Some of the Fun with the Mystery Amigurumi!
Summer Stitch-cation
We are half way through the summer and stitch-cation is still going strong! We are really impressed with every single one of these afghan coming into our flickr page! What amazing colour! If you haven’t done one, grab your basket, throw in all your over stock and give this a whirl. A great, lets do a summer clean up of left over yarn! It looks complicated, detailed and colourful but you will find this to be the no different then a simple granny square concept without the sewing. Relax and enjoy! Deadline for this Stitch-cation is not until September 7th, 2015.
Happy Stitch-cation!
Border Jubilee Challenge! We are looking for the best border for our Stitch-cation Afghan! Create the ultimate border to go with this challenge. We will have Laura Jean Bartholomew, our Facebook seeker to choose 10 of the best border of our Stitch-cation Afghans on September 8th from our gallery. A winner out of the 10 will be chosen through our three panel judges, Mikey, Diva Dan and Cathy.
Winner will receive a wonderful gift package on behalf of The Crochet Crowd. Be Creative Not A Copy Cat: We ask that you write down your pattern, please do not copyright any patterns, even those in the flickr gallery.
Once the winner has been chosen, we will contact you to send a close up picture of the border and ask that you tell us how you did it. We do not expect the pattern to be perfectly written. As we all know, many are not able to write patterns and we understand that. Winner will also be acknowledged as the designer for the border in our final concept.
Summer Stitch-cation Enjoy the latest Fabulous Summer Stitch-cations Jim Rich explore the pinkish and reddish If you have already finished your afghan tone in his stitch-cation. He even added and not done a border, you can go back a border to his. Love the centre piece and apply a new border to submit to us. idea Jim! If you have already done a border and we have a pic, you are already Blueberries and whipped cream is what this entered but if you want to reminds me of. Iris Fait did a super job replace your border with finishing her Stitch-cation! something more fancier, we will gladly accept a replacement entry. To Enter into our gallery and to check out what crocheters are doing with Stitch-cation. See the wonderful Kaleidoscope! It’s a Fractals of colour and an array of stunning prismatic displays! Be part of the fun and in the sun. Surprise yourself, it’s fast and a great way to explore your splashy creative side! Let’s turn our flickr page into a Psychedelic jazzy stitch-cation library! Donna Filori certainly went bold with her co- Just email to this address, *Please note this is a new address lours! So fantastic and eye popping! Well Done!
crochetchallenges@ thecrochetcrowd.com
Colleen Mass goes with the neutrals for this stunning version. Love it a lot!
Click for More Info Kimberley Ochsen went with nice shades of greens and yellows. Again, another interesting colour combo!
Flickr Gallery
Upcoming Events Creativ Festival Workshops The Crochet Crowd is doing 10 Workshops this Fall at Creativ Festival 2015. If you are going to be in Toronto October 15th - 17th, take part and have some fun. We have Mikey, Dela Wilkins (our Tunisian Expert), Kevin Price (our Amigurumi Guru) and Diva Dan (our MacramÊ Buff). A huge line up of courses, lots of yarn, gossip and sit back and enjoy! Quick Update: Mystery Afghan Class is Full Buddha’s Treasure Cowl is almost full Crochet Basics is almost Full.
Workshops at Creativ Festival
Crochet Cruises Update We have only
* 6 seats left in Western Caribbean * 7 seats left in the Eastern Caribbean Cruises. * 5 seats left for Alaska! Once sold out, the next cruises are scheduled for 2017. Thanks to Yarnspirations.com for being our official Workshop Sponsor.
Crochet Cruises, Here I Come!
Upcoming Events
Ever wondered how yarn was made and packaged. Take a personal tour with Mikey though the Listowel, Ontario Spinrite Factory, makers of Bernat, Patons, Caron and Lily yarns. Be sure to sign up soon! There are limited spaces. You get the chance to feel and appreciate how much hard work goes into making a ball of yarn. It’s a very fascinating process.
Get your Tickets The ever popular Listowel August Tent Sale is happening again! It’s time when the BIG tent pops in the parking lot and when the yarn has got to go! It starts August 10th through to the 22nd, closed Sunday. Be sure to empty your car and be prepared to load your desires with a bargain!
Details of the Tent Sale
Sock-tacular Savings... Patons Stretch Socks
August 4th to August 10th, 2015 Ends Monday Night at 11:59 (EST)
13 sock-tacular colours...ONLY $11.00 per bag of 6
Order online for amazing discounted or overstocked yarn through
Spinrite’s E-Tent Try out these patterns from Yarnspirations.com with your new order of Sock-tacular yarn!
Family Crochet Socks
Summer Slippers
Twisting Lace Socks
Summer SnowfLakes
Once again Diva Dan is getting ready for Fall 2015 Creativ Festival in Toronto, Ontario. As many of you know, we do a huge display with the help of our fans to encourage and to inspire the love of crochet, yarn and other related techniques at the show. Its a HUGE amount of prep work and we always appreciate the extra help.
This year’s theme is a Winter Wonderland! Diva Dan is looking for crochet snowflakes! Lots of them! His plan to build a full size igloo to dazzle the 10’s of thousands that attend the show! We need your help and would love it if you have some spare time.
Easy Snowflake Video
We have decided that you can use whatever snowflake you like to make. BUT if you are stuck for ideas, Diva Dan has a list of snowflakes we have found for you. Create your own if you wish for a personal challenge. We love free formed too.
Simple Snowflake Video
The colour must be white. Off White and cream is OK :) Sparkle yarn is OK too. No other colours please :) Use any yarn you wish and they can be any size. Here are some free patterns 1. Assorted Snowflakes 2. Crochet Snowflakes 3. Flurry of Snowflakes 4. List of Snowflakes Please send to this address no later then September 30th, 2015. The Crochet Crowd 10 Mullen Drive, P.O. Box 473 Walkerton, Ontario Canada N0G 2V0
Spoked Snowflake Video
* If shipping these across the border to Canada, please use regular postal services and plan ahead to allow for delivery time. We will acknowledge receipt of each contributor as they come in.
A HUGE THANK YOU! We are also thrilled that Swarovski Crystals have donated some crystals for us to incorporate into the igloo. Imagine the light shining through them. A northern light display incorporated with your snowflakes?
I Like to Help
This is a super book to get! Love this book! 100 Snowflakes to Crochet by Catlin Sainio
Ideas
Eight Shades Ripple
Bright Squares Blanket
Colourful Cogs Afghan
Crochet Scalloped Top
Light Layers Tank Top
Mesh Top
Posy Granny Baby Blanket
Baby’s First Cardigan
Sweetheart or Teddy Set
Mikey’s Videos and Tutorials
Floral Cami Women’s Top
Rich Texture Tote
Tunisian Cowl in the Shadows
Cool Breeze Baby Blanket
Garden Flowers Shawl
Chevron Chic Dress
If love the teaching, the patterns and the down to earth nature of Mikey, then take the time to subscribe to the Crochet Crowd’s YouTube Channel. You will get updated with all the latest videos that could spark your next project!
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Shares from our Community
Rebekah has taken 3 years to finish the beautiful blanket for her Mother
Melony loves how this is turning out from Mikey’s Star Video
Melody did all 3 bag from the Yarnspiration’s challenge. They look great!
Shannon just can’t get enough of the Floral Cami, Her sister in law loves it! Love Free-form pillows! This is super amazing by Stacey. So artistic!
This puts a smile on our face. :) Victoria made this mobile for her niece!
Tiffany finished her 4th of July Bag. Great job!
This is beyond amazing, Christina found this on Ravelry, called ‘Heart of Friendship’
Notes from our Team Michael and our team thank you for continuing to be a part of our community. Our goal and mandate is to provide a caring and positive crochet group devoted to learning, exploring new ideas and interesting projects and, of course, sharing our accomplishments. Whether that is coming from a beginner or someone who has been crocheting for many years, we welcome all. We strive to have a community that is built on loving all of our differences and being proud in creating our projects. Plus sharing it for the world to see with the confidence that we all deserve. We do live in a big world, they are many cultures, opinions, offensives and so on. But we are not here to point those out. We are here to be treated with respect, politeness and to have some fun with our favorite past time! Creativity is our biggest connector! All around the world, there are many wonderful teachers, great bloggers, awesome videos and inspiring leaders who are taking the time, working creatively to provide the internet the kind of personalized, compassionate and community-oriented environment that we all want. They are working hard to provide you with educational choices to give yourself a push creatively and most importantly to make you feel that you are a human being, knowing that you do have feelings that can be hurt but to transfer those feelings so it can be express with awesome joy. We want you to be thankful and understanding. Be kind to others always! Enjoy TheCrochetCrowd.com! - Diva Dan
This newsletter is produced by Michael Sellick and Daniel Zondervan, Creative Directors of The Crochet Crowd. While we try our best to provide a grammatical error free newsletter, a few errors most likely will slip between the stitches. We are a very small company with a creative thirsty crochet following. If we are to produce a newsletter that has no errors, we would never be able to send one out. Our team is also propelled by Cathy Cunningham - Executive Assistant, Colleen Barden - Crochet Samples and Show Support & Laura Jean Bartholomew - The Crochet Crowd Information Seeker.