First of all, welcome to my blog! Today, to start off my new adventure, I'd like to share with you my very first original crochet pattern!
I started crocheting when my sister, Chrissy, found out she was expecting. I mean, to be fair, I'd done it a bit as a kid but all I could do was chain...so I guess I was 'getting back into it'...in any case, my great friend Marisa taught me how to read patterns and since then, I've been a crochet maniac! I even opened my own shop on Etsy:
www.etsy.com/shop/shehadmeinstitches
^ The shop name is dedicated to my niece, Peep; she really knows how to make me laugh!
Anyway, so here it is, my very first pattern!
(Feel free to sell from this pattern, if you'd like! Just please link back to my blog to give me a little credit! Thanks!)
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Johan's Baby Necktie*
For this, I used dark green, worsted weight acrylic yarn and a size J hook.
It uses:
chain (Ch)
double crochet (DC)
double crochet decrease (DC2tog)
and a blunt yarn needle for sewing!
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Note: Each Ch3 of a row counts as 1DC.
Ch 3, DC into third ch from hook. Turn. (2)
Row 1: Ch 3, 2DC. Turn. (4)
Row 2: Ch 3, 3DC in each DC across. (6)
Row 3: Ch 3, DC in each DC across. (6)
Row 4: Ch 3, DC in each DC across. (6)
Row 5: Ch 3, DC in first stitch, DC2tog for next two stitches, DC in last space, turn.
Row 6: Ch 3, DC in each of first stitch, DC2tog for next two stitches, DC in last space, turn. (4)
Rows 7-30, Ch 3, DC in each DC across, turn. (4)
Finish off, leaving a long tail!
Now, I finished mine by creating a knot at the top, sewing it together with the tail and then using the tail to attach the tie to the item of my choice, in this case a wine bottle.
This can be used as a photo prop for your little handsome baby boy - or to dress up any number of bottles as gifts for the holidays or even for a manly birthday!
Enjoy!
