Silky Flower Craft

Make these beautiful embellishments for any item you like.
So easy and fun to make.
Watch this video to learn how.

Wow!

Specialty Booties

If you're looking for some variety in baby footwear check out these 6 stylish and fun patterns.
The Caramel:

Lovely  Side button closure on a cute designer look, crocheted booties. Make them in these caramel colors, or in any colors, such as the traditional pink or blue, or in stylish sage green, ivory, or camel!

You can use them in their basic form, or embellish with with a back tab and contrasting trim around the sole! 

This pattern is available from Hectanooga Patterns it's Number 37 Caramel Booties.

Mary Janes

Create a fashion statement with these turquoise Mary Jane's,  Simple strap and button closure make these simple to put on, and stay on!   Pattern available here.

Moccasins

Darling, simple and fun to make.  These will keep your little one's tooties warm.  Pattern available from Ashton11.

Sneaker Bootie High Tops

Another quick and easy pattern brought to you by www.Hectanooga.etsy.com. It uses two strands of knitting worsted yarn, so it goes very quickly. 

These work up into a cute depiction of sneaker boots, but with as few stitches as possible! 
Instructions to make sizes from newborn up to age 6!  Find the pattern here.

Mukluks

Simply adorable!  Make these in traditional colors.  Pattern available here.

French Vanilla Mary Janes

Cute little peek-a-boo motif in the toe.  Strap and button closure.  Easy to make and fun to wear.  Pattern available here.

Top 5: Baby Booties Patterns

Baby booties are always in demand. People just seem to keep having babies, and who looks cuter in a bootie than a baby?   Customers are very satisfied with the results they get from our patterns and often comment on how quick and easily our booties work up. Here are the top 5 booties patterns:

#5:  Cross Strapped Shoes 

These booties use worsted weight yarn of your choice and either a 5mm or 6mm hook.  If you can chain, single and double crochet, you can make these adorable booties.  Once you've made the first pair, you can make a pair in about 20 minutes!
addictive....  The pattern is available here.   and here
Use the pattern to make sizes newborn to 6 months.








#4 Babies First Shoes

These classic single strap shoes are good for boys or girls.  The pattern  comes with instructions for sizes newborn, 3 months and 6 months.  It works with worsted weight yarn in your choice of colors.

Customers always comment on how the lovely photographs in the pattern help keep them on track as they learn this simple pattern.

As always, our patterns are written in full english without abbreviations  Get this pattern here.







#3 Sweet Caroline

Emi designed these booties with beginners in mind.


Her patterns are designed to be as simple as possible, and this one is no exception!


These little booties have no complicated decreases, or increases in stitching. The two rows of increase at the toe end of the bootie, are so simple to do! After that, it just plain single crochet!!

The pattern is available at Hectanooga Patterns.

#2 Crocs Made Simple

 Summer is around the corner!  These cute crocs are great for stylish little ones.   

This pattern takes the mystery out of making crocs!  If you have gotten frazzled over croc patterns before, (and I am sure some of you have), then this is the answer for you. Straight forward pattern and works up fast.
Make a pair in about 1/2 hour! Lots of photos.

These are stay on crocs, the straps are not able to be flipped to the front. But they are oh so cute!!!

To make these crocs you will need knitting worsted yarn, and different size crochet hook for the 3 sizes:
4.5mm (US 7) for newborn,
5mm (USH8) for 3 month size, and
5.5mm (US I-9) for 6 months size.  Get your pattern at Ashton11's pattern shop.

#1 Grecian Cross Over Sandal Booties

The title of these booties says it all!

Cute little open toe sandals for the hot summer months. 

These are just too darling, and very easy to make, with step by step photos of the process!!

These should be easy enough for beginners, as there is a detailed explanation along with the photo illustrations.

Pattern availalble here.

There are even more bootie patterns available in our shops.

Check Ashton11's booties selection here.

And Hectanooga's by clicking here.

Which is your favorite?

Learn to Crochet

Have you visited Emi's youtube channel?  She's been very busy posting new projects and how to videos in all areas of crafting.  What a creative woman!!  Stop by and learn how to make beautiful hand crafted items out of materials that you can easily find around your house.  Flowers, hats, jewelry, papercraft, and of course you can learn how to crochet beginning with the basic stitches.

Link to her channel here:  Hectanooga1

Sweet Owl for Spring

One of our fans stitched up our sweet owl pattern and sent along a photo.  Isn't he just adorable?
Make your own owl by following this super easy pattern, available at ashton11.etsy.com

Paper Ball Ornament

We had great fun making this paper ornament.  I saw a photo of it on the internet and really wanted to make my own. It was fun to make and turned out great.  

Since I'm a visual learner I decided to make a video of the process of making these.  For me, it's much easier to follow a video than it is to follow a description.  So, if you're interested in seeing how these are made, take a look at the video I've posted on YouTube.

Ashton Neckwarmer

This is like a piece of art worn around your neck!  And it will keep you warm and cosy too!  It works up with variegated yarn in no time and is easier than it looks.  I love it in the rose tones, but it looks great in many colors.  The pattern includes instructions for making the flowers too.  The pattern is written out in full English wording without abbreviations and is available for instant download here.

Sewing with Kids

Have you seen this cute little blog called DIY Pocketpals.  It's a blog about adventures sewing cute little pals out of polar fleece.  It's written by their designer who also makes and markets patterns for recreating these adorable little critters  And the designer is...wait for it....a young boy!  His patterns are available for instant download here.

Aren't they adorable?

Read his blog here:
DIYpocketpals

4 in 1 Neckwarmer

This is such a versatile neckwarmer pattern.  If you go to market, this is just about the only pattern you'll need!  You can crochet it in many colors.  And with 4 variations provided in the pattern -- you'll fill your stand in no time!  And did I mention how quickly it works up?  You can purchase this pattern as an instant download here.

Winter Projects

Winter is the perfect time to kick back and work on cosy crochet projects.  I always enjoy the return of television programs that took a break during December and want to have something to do while I watch.  I like feeling productive and can't help but multi-task!

Slippers and scarves always come to mind this time of year.
Here's a great selection of booties and slipper patterns from Ashton11.