Crocheting Through Life

I wanted to create something autumnal, kind of halloweeny, but something that could be easily made to order, and I settled on pumpkins, because really... is there any more perfectly embodiment of autumn and halloween? I wasn't sure exactly how the pumpkins were going to turn out, but I have some lovely thick orange yarn that I'm slowly reclaiming from an unfinished and abandoned project, so I decided that would be perfect to use. Combined with a large scrap of brown sock yarn that is big enough to keep but not big enough to use by itself, and I had everything I needed. I chose headbands, because they're nice and quick to make in-between my current larger projects, and also because it's getting colder at this time of year, but it's not necessarily cold enough for a full on hat. I don't know about you, but my ears really suffer in cold winds and a headband is often just what I need to cover my ears just enough to stop me from getting earache. Originally I...

Here's a pattern for some dinky Christmas lights, made in the round with cotton yarn :) If you want the backstory, do continue to read this next bit, but if not feel free to skip on directly to the pattern further down; I shan't hold it against you! Be sure to check back in a few months for instructions on joining them all together! Backstory (aka, I talk a lot, even when I'm typing...) One of the things I've done this year which is totally new for me is subscribed to a yarn club (actually, I subscribed to two!). If you're unfamiliar with a yarn club, it's literally a subscription box which shows up on your doorstep once a month (or bi-monthly, or quarterly) filled with yummy yarn (and sometimes other goodies too). As I said, I subscribed to two: a little monthly one and a bigger quarterly one. The little one is a cotton paper chain club from Three Violet Buttons, and will, over the year, build up to make a long paper (cotton) chain to decorate th...