Crocheted gifts are always popular during the holidays! They are typically inexpensive to make and there are tons for crochet patterns to work with and choose from. Did you give or get a crocheted gift this year? If you gave a crocheted gift, what was it and how did your recipient react to it? If you got a crocheted gift, what did you get and how do you like it?

Often times, crocheted gifts are either appreciated and loved or dreaded. Maybe it’s the hideous crochet Christmas sweater that most folks dread to get. But now a days, crocheting is more fun and modern!

Feel free to share your experience with giving and getting crocheted gifts!

Here’s a quirky potholder for you: a potholder using the popcorn stitch, shaped like a tub of yummy popcorn! The textured popcorn stitches prevent pots and pans from slipping away from your grip. Skill Level: Materials: Medium Weight Yarn in Red, White, Yellow and Black Crochet Hook H (5.00 mm) Gauge: 8 hdc stitches x 5 hdc rows = 2 inches Notes: Ch 2 and ch 3 at beginning of rows counts as stitch. Color changes are made by carrying yarn from the very start of the work–doing this makes the potholder thicker and sturdier.

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I think it’s a fact that some stitches just scream for multi-color! This series gives instructions for stitches like these, includes photos to see what the end result look like, and suggests color sequences to best display the stitch.

Multi-Colored Ridged Ripples Stitch

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The reverse single crochet stitch, also known as the crab stitch, is made by doing single crochet stitches. With one major difference: the stitches are done in the opposite direction. So right-handed people work the reverse sc from left to right, and left-handed people from right to left.

This stitch is pretty distinctive; it looks ridged and makes a nice finishing option for crochet items. I personally love using this stitch for bag handles and baby things–it makes items sturdier. And it looks like a hand-sewn edging, too. It looks great when worked as an edging using a contrasting or coordinating color.

Here’s a step-by-step tutorial for the crab stitch, or reverse sc. Mousing over the images will show the photos for the left-handed tutorial.
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Stay warm this winter with a hooded cowl. This hooded cowl is an easy way to add a hood to your outfit. The cowl is adjustable using the buttons to make it as tight or loose as you want around your neck. This pattern includes 3 different sizes to crochet so that everyone in the family can have one! Sewing is only needed for attaching the buttons. Skill Level: Finished Sizes: Toddler: 22” (56 cm) at widest point, 11 1/2” (29 cm) long Child: 24” (61 cm) at widest point, 13” (33 cm) long Adult: 26” (66 cm) at widest point, 14 1/2” (37 cm) long

Sizes may be adjusted and customized using the instructions within the pattern to create any width or length desired regardless of sizes mentioned above.
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This snowflake pattern is a personal favorite and a versatile Christmas decoration or applique. Sew this snowflake onto the bottom of a scarf, chain many multi-colored snowflakes together for an interesting garland or use one as an ornament on the tree!
The pattern and photos are for a snowflake made with DK weight yarn and an H hook, but also works great with a G hook and fingering weight yarn!

For the longest time, crocheters have envied knitters’ cabled creations. Guess what? Crocheters can make them, too! The cables are made by using front post stitches and back post stitches. Different looks are achieved by crocheting around the stitches directly below the current row, or by making crossed stitches by skipping a few stitches first. The swatch on the right shows three different cables: the rightmost is the basic cable, the middle is the crossed cable, and the leftmost is made with a combination of the two.

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Don’t like wearing hats? Still need protection from the frigid temperatures? Try an earwarmer headband! This one is simple with some increases over the ear. Simple patterns like this just scream for some added fun, like a blank canvas. Feel free to peruse Crochet Spot’s patterns for fun appliques to add to this pattern.

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What better way to show your holiday cheer than to wear a Christmas tree hat? My version is a cone hat made mostly in hdc, topped with a happy Twinkle Star on top and decorated with a few sparkly “garlands.” The ribbed band of the hat is made by alternating front post double crochet stitches (fpdc) and back post double crochet stitches (bpdc). Because of the stitches used and the hook size used, the hat will pretty much stay in shape on your head, unlike most cone hats or stocking hats. For the garlands, I used two kinds of yarn: one is a worsted gold yarn, and the other is a fingering weight yarn–size 8 thread wound with metallic thread. Feel free to decorate your own Christmas tree hat as you wish, after all that’s what Christmas trees are all about: unique decorations!

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I think it’s a fact that some stitches just scream for multi-color! This series gives instructions for stitches like these, includes photos to see what the end result with look like and suggests color sequences to best display the stitch.

Little Gems Stitch

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