Men's Chunky Hat - Free Crochet Pattern: Written instructions + Chart + Video Tutorial

This hat made with front post double crochet stitches is very warm and stretchy! The man and boy(s) in your life will surely love it!

Crochet Christmas Ornaments - with links to the free crochet patterns used

These small ornaments were part of the Christmas gifts I have made ​​for my son's kindergarten best friends. I wanted to make something small and cute that they can hang in the Christmas tree or even on their backpack.

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Christmas Challenge Winners

Dear challengers, I want to thank you all for participating  in this Christmas Crochet Challenge!

It was such a joy to see so many wonderful creations! At the same time you made me have a hard time deciding which projects I like the most, because I really love them all.

For this reason I wanted to make you all a surprise posting all the projects in the challenge with a link to the FB Business Page of each challenger. See all the submitted projects with their FB Page link in this BLOG POST. 

But now let's see our Top 3 favourites! There are 2 tops, one with my favourites, one with our FB follower favourites!

Congratulations to all of you! 

Top 3 of my Favourites:

1)First place goes to "Martha" Vitez.

Martha is a special needs cat with Cerebellar Hypoplasia, and her human 'mum' crochets to help Fundraisers, mostly Fundraisers for animals with special needs. They live in Belgrade (Serbia), Martha's human mum is civil (construction) engineer who loves crocheting and has great interest in patterns.

To see all her wonderful projects, visit her FB Page 

MARTHA'S WORLD OF CROCHETED CRITTERS.

2) Second place goes to Alicia Lucy, a stay at home mom of 3, who loves to crochet. She also sells some of her crochet projects so that she can stay home and homeschool her girls. You can find her beautiful creations on her FB Page LUCY'S LOOPS.

3) Third place goes to Nannete Cornish, a mom and  a US Navy wife, currently stationed in Japan. Busy being a mom and crocheting things for her girls, also crocheting for donation to the Navy Marine Corps Relief Society as well as hat’s for new babies of the Naval Hospital!

To see other beautiful projects, visit her FB Page YARNLV.

Here is the Top 3 Follower Favourites! I took in count all the likes and shares for each project on my FB Page.

1) Follower's most favourite is the beautiful hat handmade by Rebekah Greaves. I love what she made with my pattern! You can see more of her pretty projects in her BEK'S CROCHET & KNIT.

2) Second place goes to Oana Nicula who crocheted the wonderful Dahlia Pillow. To see other lovely projects, visit her FB Page CROCHET BY OANA.

3) Third place goes to Kristi Kallaste for the lovely christmassy slippers. 
Kristi's FB Page is KIKU'S HANDARBETE- KIKU KÄSITÖÖD.

Congratulations once again and thank you all for taking part in this challenge!
Happy Holidays!
Kinga

Crochet Projects submitted for the Christmas Challenge 2013, My Hobby is Crochet

Here are the projects submitted by our crocheters to the Christmas Challenge 2013 on MY HOBBY IS CROCHET, presented in a random order. Check out the links to free patterns used below!

 Click on the pictures below to open the page with the free pattern used for each project! 

After the pictures are presented the challengers with a link to their Facebook Pages.

by Oana Nicula	by Vanessa Lynn G.-Sarmiento	by Alicia Lucy
by Barbara A. Harper	by Diana Craddocks	by Faye Broughton
by Gloria Vitos	by Kathleen Colegrove	by Kristi Kallaste
by Leslie Isaac	by San	by Martha Vitez
by Nanette Cornish	by Barbara A. Harper	by Ramona Saintandres
by Raquel Silvas	by Rebekah Greaves	by Rebekah Greeves
by Alicia Lucy	by Andrea Gail

All these projects were made using my Free patterns found in this PATTERN GALLERY ON RAVELRY.

The Challengers and their FB Pages:

1) Oana Nicula from the FB page Crochet by Oana

2)Vanessa Lynn Gomez-Sarmiento from the FB page Bella's Yarn Creations

3) Alicia Lucy from the FB page Lucy's Loops

4) Barbara A. Harper from the FB page Knead to Crochet

5) Diana Craddocks from the FB page Mystitchescount

6) Faye Broughton from the FB page Fayes'sCrochet

7) Gloria Vitos

8) Kathleen Colegrove from the FB page Chain Reaction Crochet

9) Kristi Kallaste from the FB page Kiku'shandarbete- Kiku käsitööd

10) Leslie Isaac from the FB page Tickle Trunk Crochet

11) San from the FB page Loopsan

12) Martha Vitez from the FB page Martha's World of Crocheted Critters

13) Nanette Cornish from the FB page Yarnlv

14) Ramona Saintandres

15) Raquel Silvas from the FB page Raqueli

16) Rebekah Greaves from the FB page Bek's Crochet & Knit

17) Andrea Gail from the FB Group Living, Loving, Laughing...a group of like-minded people

Thank you very much dear challengers!  I really love all the projects, they are all so pretty! Good luck to you all!

Want to know who won the challenge? Check out in this BLOG POST.

Doris Infinity Scarf - Free Crochet Pattern - Written Instructions and Chart

Featuring a beautiful stitch pattern, the Doris Infinity Scarf it's very easy and fast to crochet!
To make this scarf, you will only need to know basic crochet stitches, such as chain, single crochet, half double crochet and double crochet stitches! This makes it perfect for beginner crocheters also!