Nuts about Flowers and Baby Stuff

Okay, another day of running around, shipping packages, getting ready for a refi, and planning my next crochet project!! The main subject of this goofy photo is a baby headband I hope to have the pattern written for by tonight, flower and all. But I might have to make an even bigger and floppier flower as an alternate, there's something so irresistable about a baby with a big flower on its head. Wow, sounds very strange in print, but make-your-tummy-flop happy about it in real life.

We'll see how it all turns out, and I also need to put a few free patterns on my site. Best wishes to all, send me a note about what I should make in crochet. I'm thinking birds, goblins, lizards, and tons of flowers. Ooooh, roses, and lots more daffodils and narcissus.

I'd like to invite you to look at my patterns and odds and ends on <a href=http://susanlinnstudio.etsy.com>etsy </a>and also at the <a href=http://susankennedy.com/Instruction> Instruction Page of my website. </a>I'm also a watercolor and oil painter, and you could take a peek at my more snooty stuff at <a href=http://susankennedy.com>susankennedy.com</a>. Thanks for looking!

Why is a cotton flower so cozy?

Another cool little crochet doodle, a daffodil! I hope to convince people that crochet is actually a construction medium or artistic medium which is SO VERY versatile! You can stiffen it and make a box, crocheted jewelry, crocheted Christmas ornament...or if it's soft and cottony and nubby it makes slippers, baby items, sweaters and scarves that can't be rivaled by anything in a store. I can't put my finger on why those bumps of cotton yarn make me so happy, but they do. Maybe it's like a textile version of comfort food. Always there, always positive, just start with some chains and see what kind of doodle you can make.

Love it. Take care and share your thoughts...
Here are my etsy crochet items and lots of crochet patterns in pdf format: etsy items...and on my website a page that has instructional video for watercolor, crochet pattern ebooklets, all kinds of instruction and inspiration, hopefully expanding as fast as humanly possible!

And a Lovely Peony! All nubby and crocheted, humble but so Happy!!!

I had to post a little portrait of my peony design which makes me so happy. Catch the crochet bug, it's good medicine for the crabby-snippy-I'm-in-a-snitty soul. Love love love it, I sit on my 47-year old bum and crochet while we watch pbs at night, it's a homey happy way to end the day.

You can see all of my ever-expanding collection of patterns at my online crochet store or at my etsy store.

I LOVE MY DAISY!!!!!

Here's why I love crochet: in just a few minutes, maybe half an hour, you can have a delightful, bright, cheerful, so-cute-you-want-to-bite-it DAISY or peony, or rose, or whatever adorable object you want to make. Invest a little time in learning to crochet, and you begin to realize that it is a construction method whose versatility rivals that of any other craft you can imagine. You can make everything from a huge rug that fills a room, like my mom did, to doll-house furniture so tiny you have to squint, like I did. From tiny threads and crochet hooks, to honking big hooks and super-thick yarn or rag, you name it, they sell it.

Go nuts about crochet, it will grab you and won't let go! You can see all of my patterns at my online store or on my etsy site.

By the way, this to-die-for daisy is included in my "Hippie Flower Collection #1" available at the online store mentioned and linked to above. Wooooo hooooooooooooo

Thread Crochet Crosses - Christmas Ornaments for your Tree

These are a pair of fairly simple crosses, done in thread crochet cotton. Thread crochet ornaments are a specialty of mine, and these two are a little crochet pattern I've been needing to revise, but haven't yet (they need step-by-step photos.)

I love designing crochet, but producing it, not so much....so if you want to make and sell these designs on etsy or elsewhere, feel free! Just please respect my copyright and don't distribute my pattern! http://susankennedy.com/CrochetCrossDuo.pdf

Have a wonderful day of crochet!

Christmas Crochet Designs, Beautiful and EASY Thread Crochet Snowflakes

These are a very simple collection of Christmas Snowflakes. Thread crochet snowflakes are something I've been making for decades (I'm not too too old, but old enough!) and I finally put together a pdf e-booklet of these easy ones. They're great as gift tie-ons for Christmas gifts (you stiffen them with fabric stiffener) and window decor, too. There are many many more designs in my head, so come back to see them. You can see all of my fun and wacky crochet patterns at my website and also at my etsy store.

I love designing crochet, but producing it, not so much....so if you want to make and sell these designs on etsy or elsewhere, feel free! Just please respect my copyright and don't distribute my pattern!

Have a wonderful day of crochet!

Super Cool Black Gothic Lace Artsy Crocheted Jewelry

My baby, this is the stuff I love. My fingers fly while I make these things, especially the little byzantine cross thread crochet pendants. They are a delight, and a high-contrast, artistic piece to wear. I love love love designing this stuff, it's what I'm crazy about. Selling actual crocheted pieces, not so much. SOOOOooo, if you want to use my patterns to create things to sell on etsy and elsewhere, feel free! Just don't share or publish my patterns, they are my own copyrighted work.

Here's a link to my patterns on my website, and to my crochet patterns and other instructional materials on good old etsy. Pass along your ideas, and if you have any questions, let me know. Convo me on etsy, too, if you'd like to commission a pattern or the occasional crocheted or painted original.

Woooooo hoooooooooooooooo the day's too short!!!!