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Just when you thought the #2022GnomeProject was over, I am hitting you with even MORE fun and festive gnome designs! These are the bonus holiday gnomes that can be alternatives to Santa or you can join me in crocheting a completely separate Holiday Gnome Blanket! It won’t be as big as our year-long Gnome CAL. I am planning on choosing 6-9 of these Christmas Characters to make a smaller (and more manageable blanket).

I REALLY wanted to post these one by one over the past week but time wasn’t on my side. If you’ve been following along recently, you may have noticed that I have been very busy finishing up our big gnome blanket, plus I have my Tuna the Cat & Bones the Dog CAL with Yarnspirations, AND I’m participating in Marly & Friends 24 Days of Quickies with THIS Gingerbread Gift Card Holder. Since I only have two hands and limited time, I decided I wanted to get you these pixel graphs as soon as possible and then as I finish crocheting them, I will update this post with more pictures and tutorials.

Let’s start with the Gingerbread Gnome! I am actually almost done crocheting her!
Get the Written Gingerbread Gnome Pattern HERE
Get the Boy Gingerbread Graph HERE
Get the Girl Gingerbread Graph HERE

If you celebrate Hanukkah, you are going to love this Hanukkah Gnome with an adorable Dreidel design!
Get the Written Hanukkah Gnome Pattern HERE
Get the Boy Hanukkah Graph HERE
Get the Girl Hanukkah Graph HERE

The Snowman gnome would be a perfect project to crochet anytime during the winter season.
Get the Written Snowman Gnome Pattern HERE
Get the Boy Snowman Graph HERE
Get the Girl Snowman Graph HERE

Rudolph is leading Santa’s sleigh! And we have two different Reindeer versions for you to choose from.
Rudolph the Reindeer Gnome Written Pattern HERE
Rudolph Cartoon Eyes Boy Graph HERE
Rudolph Cartoon Eyes Girl Graph HERE
Rudolph Boy Graph HERE
Rudolph Girl Graph HERE

Santa needs his Elf!
Get the Elf Written Pattern HERE
Get the Boy Elf Graph HERE
Get the Girl Elf Graph HERE

Christmas Tree Gnome
Get the Christmas Tree Written Pattern HERE
Get the Boy Tree Gnome Graph HERE
Get the Girl Tree Gnome Graph HERE

Holly Berry Gnome
Get the Holly Gnome Written Pattern HERE
Get the Boy Holly Gnome Graph HERE
Get the Girl Holly Gnome Graph HERE

And last but not least, a Candy Cane Gnome!
Get the Candy Cane Written Pattern HERE
Get the Boy Candy Cane Gnome Graph HERE
Get the Girl Candy Cane Gnome Graph HERE

BIG thanks to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!)  for writing up the written C2C patterns and helping out with these graphs! She has been doing this all for free and in her spare time throughout this entire year. Please check out her Etsy shop and consider purchasing a crochet pattern or something from her online shop this holiday season so we can help her business grow! I love Jenny’s GNOME PILLOW PALS! SEE THEM HERE.

Don’t forget Santa! He was my featured Gnome for the month of December and you can find the pattern, graph, and more HERE.

The GNOME LANDING PAGE is your spot for all the gnome details.
You can check out the finished Gnome Blanket HERE

Here it is in all it’s glory! The 2022 Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet Blanket!! It has been such a fun year! Each month I released one gnome C2C panel that was holiday or season themed which also matched a polymer crochet hook by Jen at Day by Day Clay and Crochet. Now we finally get to see all the gnome pieces stitched together to become a beautiful blanket!

If you haven’t started the project or are just learning about it, no worries! The patterns for the gnomes will always be available right here on RepeatCrafterMe.com for free! You can find all the links to the individual gnomes HERE on the Gnome Landing Page. I will be compiling an ad-free PDF at some point for those that would like an easy document to navigate and/or print out.

Zoe and I had a heck of time trying to photograph this blanket! It’s BIG! and heavy!
Finished Size = approximately 57 x 61 inches without the border. The border adds another 3 inches on each side.

Here are some important links for this gnome blanket project:

Gnome Landing Page
How to Join the Gnome panels
How to make a Border on your Gnome blanket
Adding Gnome Pom-Poms to the 4 corners!

GET THE JANUARY WINTER GNOME HERE
GET THE FEBRUARY VALENTINE GNOME HERE
GET THE MARCH LEPRECHAUN GNOME HERE
GET THE APRIL BUNNY GNOME HERE
GET THE MAY TULIP FLOWER GNOME HERE
GET THE JUNE STRAWBERRY GNOME HERE
GET THE JULY PATRIOTIC GNOME HERE
GET THE AUGUST SUMMER GNOME HERE
GET THE SEPTEMBER FALL GNOME HERE
GET THE OCTOBER HALLOWEEN GNOME HERE
GET THE NOVEMBER TURKEY GNOME HERE
GET THE DECEMBER SANTA GNOME HERE

BONUS HOLIDAY GNOMES

Plus, be sure to check out each individual months page for lots of other design options.

Will there be another year-long crochet along in 2023? Maybe! I haven’t decided. Right now I am enjoying a lot of Christmas crocheting and finishing up some other patterns.

If you are craving a CAL, please be sure to check out my Tuna the Cat & Bones the Dog Crochet-Along that I am hosting over at Yarnspirations.com! It’s never too late to SIGN UP and get the weekly LESSONS. One pattern = Two cute stuffed animals!

Can’t wait to see all of your finished blankets. Remember, there is no rush. Whether you finish tomorrow or 5 years from now, please be sure to tag me on social media and use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject.

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Let’s make a border on our Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet Blanket! This technique will work on any C2C blanket and you can make the border as skinny or thick as you’d like. I took the background color from all 12 gnome panels and made a round on the border with each color.

I have a video tutorial for this border on my Repeat Crafter Me Youtube Page as well:

You can find all the patterns for the #2022GnomeProject HERE on the Gnome Landing Page

If you haven’t joined your gnome panels yet, I have a tutorial for that RIGHT HERE

The first thing you will need to do to create your border is to take white (or whatever color you joined your panels with and create starting border around the entire blanket. This will be a single crochet between each pixel block + chain 2 + SC between the next pixel block.

When you get to the corners make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.

Round 2 of your border you will make 2 SC in each chain 2 space from the previous round. Again making a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.

Round 3 and beyond of your border is simple SC stitches in any color of your choices for as many rounds of you like. Be sure to make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.

I have one more thing I want to add to this blanket before the big reveal! Stay tuned for more this coming week!

Christmas has come early! I’m posting our 12th and final gnome of the #2022gnomeproject a few days before the 1st of December. Isn’t our Santa so cute and festive with his fuzzy brimmed hat?! I used Bernat Pipsqueak yarn for the furry parts and it really is easy to work with when you are using the C2C crochet stitches. We still have a lot of ground to cover with this project: Joining the panels, Adding a border, AND I want to post a few other holiday themed gnome options as well. So expect all of that in the coming week or so.

It really is going to be a crazy start to December because I also have a Crochet-Along starting December 1st in collaboration with Yarnspirations. I will show you how to make Tuna the Cat and Bones the Dog Stuffies! They are so cute and a great beginner amigurumi project. Two animals made from the exact same pattern! Sign up for the Crochet-Along HERE

Now back to our Santa Gnome! In this post you will find the graphs for Santa and Mrs. Santa Claus but stay tuned because I will post several other graphs in a follow-up blog post. I love Christmas crochet so I really went over the top this month and have enough designs to make a holiday gnome blanket!

If this is the first time you are hearing about this gnome project, don’t worry, it is NEVER too late to join in! Let me explain what it is all about: In January 2022, Jennifer from Day by Day Clay and Crochet and I teamed up for a HUGE year-long project! Each month Jen creates a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet panel. We focused on holiday and seasonal gnome designs. The pixel graph and how-to for the crochet portion of the collab will be right here on Repeat Crafter Me and you can purchase the coordinating clay hook from Jen on her Facebook page “Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group!”

To learn more about these polymer clay crochet hooks, you should think about joining the Day By Day Clay and Crochet PATREON! See the membership levels HERE.

Day by Day Clay and Crochet shares process videos, tutorials, pictures, and depending on the level of support also sends free gifts and offers $.50 shipping on orders of her hooks. Additionally, the patrons in the top two tiers, VIP and Gold Levels, are invited to join a smaller, select Facebook group where more of the behind the scenes activities are shared with an amazing community of supportive crafters.

Here is a sneak peak of this months gnome clay crochet hook! Her December hook will go on sale soon: —> DAY BY DAY CLAY AND CROCHET GROUP

The 12 months of Gnomes will be stitched together (very soon) to make a big blanket! You don’t necessarily need to add a border to each gnome piece but can if you want. I did not at this time. And of course you can use your gnomes for many other projects. Pillows, wall hangings, and more!

You can find all the monthly Gnome designs in one spot! Check out The Gnome Landing Page and be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in all your social media posts!

If you are new to the Corner-to-Corner Crochet technique, let me explain a little bit about it as well. C2C lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. 
Below is a Corner-to-Corner Video Tutorial using a part of my May Gnome graph.

For our December Gnome C2C Panel, you will need the following materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors White for the beard, Cherry Red for the body/hat and Blue for the background. Feel free to choose any shade of blue OR a different christmassy color for the background. I chose blue instead of green or gold because I used those colors for the Halloween and Turkey gnome. Buff Beige or whatever skin color suits you for the nose.
– Bernat Pipsqueak for the Santa hat brim and pom-pom. You can buy this fur yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Boy December Santa Gnome Graph HERE
– Girl Mrs Claus December Gnome Graph HERE
– Both Santa Gnomes WRITTEN PATTERN HERE

You will see that the beard is gray in the graph. This is so you can follow along with the color changes for the brim and beard. In the written pattern the white is written as “beard” and the girl as “hair” so you don’t get confused if you are using the pipsqueak yarn.

GET THE SANTA GNOME BOY AND GIRL WRITTEN PATTERN HERE

Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) has been writing out the C2C written pattern for each month. She has been providing all the gnome graphs in written form! Thanks Jenny! She also has some really incredible C2C designs in her Etsy shop that you should check out! 

I also love Jenny’s GNOME PILLOW PALS! SEE THEM HERE.

Stay tuned for more Christmas and Holiday themed Gnome Designs!

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject so I can see and share your gnomes!
GNOME LANDING PAGE = ALL THE GNOMES IN ONE SPOT

Diane of Stitch Therapy is making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! I love the way her gnomes are turning out and you can also find her Popcorn Stitch written patterns within each individual gnome post. She is very busy with her day job as a teacher and hasn’t been able to write up the past few months but she might be able to eventually get to them. I appreciate her doing this in her spare time!

Still not comfortable with the idea of Corner-to-Corner Crochet? Don’t worry, you can use single crochet stitches and crochet each gnome as a graphgan.
SpurView Goods has been uploading the single crochet written patterns HERE

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

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How is it already November?! The months are flying by and we now have 11 out of 12 gnomes in our 2022 Gnome Project! Our Thanksgiving gnome is wearing his Turkey hat and is ready for family gatherings and feasting. If you don’t celebrate US Thanksgiving, feel free to choose from some of our other options for this month! We have a sunflower, pumpkin, or poppy and you can use these same yarn colors or any colors of your choice.

Not sure what this gnome project is all about? Let me explain! Jennifer from Day by Day Clay and Crochet and I have teamed up for a HUGE year-long project! Each month Jen creates a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet panel. We are focusing on holiday and seasonal gnome designs. The pixel graph and how-to for the crochet portion of the collab will be right here on Repeat Crafter Me and you can purchase the coordinating clay hook from Jen on her Facebook page “Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group!

The 12 months of Gnomes will be stitched together at the end to make a big blanket! You don’t necessarily need to add a border to each gnome piece but can if you want. I did not at this time. And of course you can use your gnomes for many other projects. Pillows, wall hangings, and more!

You can find all the monthly Gnome designs in one spot! Check out the Gnome Landing Page and be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in all your social media posts!

Here is a sneak peak of this months gnome clay crochet hook! She nailed it with the matching turkey hat and we coordinate colors perfectly! Her November hook will go on sale soon: —> DAY BY DAY CLAY AND CROCHET GROUP

If you are new to the Corner-to-Corner Crochet technique, let me explain a little bit about it as well. C2C lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. 
Below is a Corner-to-Corner Video Tutorial using a part of my May Gnome graph.

For our November Gnome C2C Panel, you will need the following materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Saffron or Gold for the background and beak, Frosty Green for the body, Cafe Latte Brown, a bit of red and black for the face, and Buff Beige or whatever skin color suits you for the nose and white for the beard or braids.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Boy November Gnome Graph HERE
– Girl November Gnome Graph HERE

GET THE TURKEY GNOMES WRITTEN PATTERN HERE

Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) has been writing out the C2C written pattern for each month. She provided all the versions you see above in written form and she provided the Poppy Graph for this month too. Thanks Jenny! She also has some really incredible C2C designs in her Etsy shop that you should check out! I also love Jenny’s gnome pillow pals! SEE THEM HERE.

GET THE TURKEY GNOMES WRITTEN PATTERN HERE

HERE ARE THE SUNFLOWER GNOME GRAPHS/PATTERN

HERE IS THE PUMPKIN GNOME GRAPH if you prefer to use the same idea from Septembers Apple Gnome.

AND HERE IS THE POPPY GNOME (Boy and Girl) PATTERN

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject so I can see and share your gnomes!
GNOME LANDING PAGE = ALL THE GNOMES IN ONE SPOT

Diane of Stitch Therapy is making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! I love the way her gnomes are turning out and you can also find her Popcorn Stitch written patterns within each individual gnome post. She is very busy with her day job as a teacher and hasn’t been able to write up the past few months but she might be able to eventually get to them. I appreciate her doing this in her spare time!

Still not comfortable with the idea of Corner-to-Corner Crochet? Don’t worry, you can use single crochet stitches and crochet each gnome as a graphgan.
SpurView Goods has been uploading the single crochet written patterns HERE

Happy Thanksgiving and have a very Sweet November!

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It’s officially spooky season! I love October and all the Halloween festivities that come along with it so of course our gnome for this month is outfitted in a jack-o-lantern hat and adorned in the perfect combination of Halloween colors. If you don’t celebrate Halloween, don’t worry! You can use the apple from last month and turn it into a pumpkin!

 This is our 10th gnome of the blanket. Only 2 more gnomes to go in our #2022gnomeproject!

Not sure what this gnome project is all about? Let me explain! Jennifer from Day by Day Clay and Crochet and I have teamed up for a HUGE year-long project! Each month Jen creates a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet panel. We are focusing on holiday and seasonal gnome designs. The pixel graph and how-to for the crochet portion of the collab will be right here on Repeat Crafter Me and you can purchase the coordinating clay hook from Jen on her Facebook page “Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group!

The 12 months of Gnomes will be stitched together at the end to make a big blanket! You don’t necessarily need to add a border to each gnome piece but can if you want. I did not at this time. And of course you can use your gnomes for many other projects. Pillows, wall hangings, and more!

You can find all the monthly Gnome designs in one spot! Check out the Gnome Landing Page and be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in all your social media posts!

Here is a sneak peak of this months gnome clay crochet hook! I LOVE the glow in the dark polymer clay she used! Her October hook will go on sale soon: —> DAY BY DAY CLAY AND CROCHET GROUP

f you are new to the Corner-to-Corner Crochet technique, let me explain a little bit about it as well. C2C lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. 
Below is a Corner-to-Corner Video Tutorial using a part of my May Gnome graph.

For our October Gnome C2C Panel, you will need the following materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Pumpkin, Spring Green, Orchid, Black, Lemon Yellow, and Buff Beige or whatever skin color suits you for the nose and white for the beard or braids.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Girl Jack-O-Lantern Hat Graph (choose any color for her braids)
– Boy Jack-O-Lantern Hat Graph (choose any color for his beard)

HERE IS THE PUMPKIN GNOME GRAPH if you prefer to use the same idea from Septembers Apple Gnome.

Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) has been writing out the C2C written pattern for each month. She provided all the versions you see above in written form. Thanks Jenny! She also has some really incredible C2C designs in her Etsy shop that you should check out! 

GET THE WRITTEN C2C PATTERN FOR BOTH BOY AND GIRL OPTIONS HERE
And Jenny converted the Leprechaun Gnome to Witch Hat colors!
GET THOSE WRITTEN PATTERNS HERE

I love Jenny’s gnome pillow pals! SEE THEM HERE.

Diane of Stitch Therapy is making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! I love the way her gnomes are turning out and you can also find her Popcorn Stitch written patterns within each individual gnome post. She will have September and October written up as soon as she can. She is a librarian and teacher at an elementary school and has a lot going on. She is doing this for us for free in her spare time 🙂

Still not comfortable with the idea of Corner-to-Corner Crochet? Don’t worry, you can use single crochet stitches and crochet each gnome as a graphgan.
SpurView Goods has been uploading the single crochet written patterns HERE

When you are weaving in your ends, you will want to connect some of the blocks that aren’t touching in the jack-o-lantern mouth. Just like we did for the snowflake on our January gnome.

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject so I can see and share your gnomes!
GNOME LANDING PAGE = ALL THE GNOMES IN ONE SPOT

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Hello Fall! We have a variety of designs for the September Gnome! Maybe you are celebrating back-to-school, or enjoy apple picking season, or maybe you want your gnome to be decked out in autumn beauty sunflowers… whatever your preference, I have the graphs for you! I chose to make the boy gnome with the apple on his hat for my blanket (because I have done several girl gnomes in a row) BUT I do love the girl gnome with the pencil hat and apple on her tummy. And of course I LOVE the sunflower gnome. I don’t want to give too much away but the sunflower gnome would be a good design for November as well. So grab the graph and decide how you want to use it!

 This is our 9th gnome of the blanket. 3 more gnomes to go in our #2022gnomeproject!

Not sure what this gnome project is all about? Let me explain! Jennifer from Day by Day Clay and Crochet and I have teamed up for a HUGE year-long project! Each month Jen creates a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet panel. We are focusing on holiday and seasonal gnome designs. The pixel graph and how-to for the crochet portion of the collab will be right here on Repeat Crafter Me and you can purchase the coordinating clay hook from Jen on her Facebook page “Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group!

The 12 months of Gnomes will be stitched together at the end to make a big blanket! You don’t necessarily need to add a border to each gnome piece but can if you want. I did not at this time. And of course you can use your gnomes for many other projects. Pillows, wall hangings, and more!

You can find all the monthly Gnome designs in one spot! Check out the Gnome Landing Page and be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in all your social media posts!

Here is a sneak peak of this months gnome clay crochet hook! Her September hook will go on sale soon: —> DAY BY DAY CLAY AND CROCHET GROUP

If you are new to the Corner-to-Corner Crochet technique, let me explain a little bit about it as well. C2C lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. 
Below is a Corner-to-Corner Video Tutorial using a part of my May Gnome graph.

For our September Fall Gnome C2C Panel, you will need the following materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Turqua, Lemon Yellow, Cherry Red, Aran (background), a bit of Cafe Latte for the stem and Spring Green for the leaf, and Buff Beige or whatever skin color suits you for the nose and white for the beard or braids.
– Size H Crochet Hook (and a size F hook for the stars)
– Tapestry Needle
– Girl September Gnome Pixel Graph (pencil hat and apple on body)
– Boy September Gnome Pixel Graph (just apple on hat)
– Sunflower Girl
– Sunflower Boy

Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) has been writing out the C2C written pattern for each month. She provided all the versions you see above in written form. Thanks Jenny! She also has some really incredible C2C designs in her Etsy shop that you should check out! 

Apple Gnomes Written Pattern

Pencil Gnomes Written Pattern

Sunflower Gnomes

Diane of Stitch Therapy is making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! I love the way her gnomes are turning out and you can also find her Popcorn Stitch written patterns within each individual gnome post. She will have this months Apple Boy Gnome posted soon!

Still not comfortable with the idea of Corner-to-Corner Crochet? Don’t worry, you can use single crochet stitches and crochet each gnome as a graphgan.
SpurView Goods has been uploading the single crochet written patterns HERE

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject so I can see and share your gnomes!

I love how all the gnome are coming together and you can see bits of colors repeating throughout.

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If you missed my LIVE Lunch & Learn over at the Yarnspirations Facebook page, don’t worry you can watch the replay HERE! I demonstrated a portion of the Caron Crochet Corner-to-Corner Bookcase Blanket which is a new pattern that you can download for free on Yarnspirations.com. Perfect for book lovers and also a fun back-to-school project! I took the succulent cactus portion and made it into a small 11 x 11 pixel graph as an easy example of how to approach a corner-to-corner crochet project. I think this cute area of the blanket would make a fun mini pillow so I am posting this little graph below but be sure to head over to Yarnspirations.com to download the full blanket pattern!

Caron Bookcase Blanket Pattern and Graph

In my example, I am using Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Soft White, Light Sage, and Carrot! Such a pretty combo! The pattern suggest using Caron Colorama O’Go which is a great choice for the bigger blanket because you can get 5 colors all in one O’Go and they are very easy to separate.

Head over to the Yarnspirations Facebook Page to see my 30 minute Lunch & Learn demonstration!

Thanks to Yarnspirations for having me as a Lunch & Learn guest today!

We are soaking up that last bit of summer with our August Gnome! They are beach ready in their bikini, board shorts, and sunglasses! A few extra bonus designs as well that are too cute to leave out so be sure to scroll down! This is our 8th gnome and completes the second row of the blanket. 4 more gnomes to go in our #2022gnomeproject!

Not sure what this gnome project is all about? Let me explain! Jennifer from Day by Day Clay and Crochet and I have teamed up for a HUGE year-long project! Each month Jen creates a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet panel. We are focusing on holiday and seasonal gnome designs. The pixel graph and how-to for the crochet portion of the collab will be right here on Repeat Crafter Me and you can purchase the coordinating clay hook from Jen on her Facebook page “Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group!

The 12 months of Gnomes will be stitched together at the end to make a big blanket! You don’t necessarily need to add a border to each gnome piece but can if you want. I did not at this time. And of course you can use your gnomes for many other projects. Pillows, wall hangings, and more!

You can find all the monthly Gnome designs in one spot! Check out the Gnome Landing Page and be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in all your social media posts!

Here is a sneak peak of this months gnome clay crochet hook! Her August hook will go on sale soon: —> DAY BY DAY CLAY AND CROCHET GROUP

For our August Summer Gnome C2C Panel, you will need the following materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Turqua (background), Papaya (bikini), Baby Pink (hat), Cafe Latte (hair), Charcoal (sunglasses), Dusty Gray (reflection), and Buff Beige or whatever skin color suits you! Please note that Papaya is from the Red Heart with Love line of yarn but you could easily substitute for Coral or Flamingo. ALSO, please feel free to choose any color for the bikini or board shorts!
– Size H Crochet Hook (and a size F hook for the stars)
– Tapestry Needle
– Girl August Gnome Pixel Graph
– Boy August Gnome Pixel Graph

GET THE WRITTEN PATTERN FOR THE AUGUST GNOMES HERE

If you are new to the Corner-to-Corner Crochet technique, let me explain a little bit about it as well. C2C lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. 
Below is a Corner-to-Corner Video Tutorial using a part of my May Gnome graph.

If you are working on the C2C version, I recommend making a 6 SC circle for the belly button and adding it after! Otherwise the belly button will look like a square.

Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) has been writing out the C2C written pattern for each month. She also has some really incredible C2C designs in her Etsy shop that you should check out! She created a few BONUS GRAPHS for this month! I LOVE the Flamingo Float Girl and Scuba Steve! AND you can always change the color of the bikini or the boy bathing suit 🙂

FLOATIES! GET THE GRAPH AND WRITTEN PATTERN HERE

SCUBA DIVERS! GET THE GRAPH AND WRITTEN PATTERN HERE

I love Jennifers canvas gnomes!! These should give you some really great ideas for color combos as well.

Who is working on the popcorn stitch gnomes?! Diane of Stitch Therapy is making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! I love the way her gnomes are turning out and you can also find her Popcorn Stitch written patterns within each individual gnome post.

She wrote up the Girl Bikini Gnome version already and you can find it HERE. Thank you Diane!!! So grateful for your help!
(Picture below is of last months watermelon gnome.. August popcorn stitch gnome picture coming soon!)

Still not comfortable with the idea of Corner-to-Corner Crochet? Don’t worry, you can use single crochet stitches and crochet each gnome as a graphgan.
SpurView Goods has been uploading the single crochet written patterns HERE

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject so I can see and share your gnomes!

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Grab that Red, White, and Blue yarn because our July Gnome is looking very patriotic in all those Stars and Stripes! Don’t worry, if you aren’t in the USA, we have a watermelon design that you may like as well as a Canadian flag gnome to celebrate Canada Day! Lots of options and wherever you are in the world, I hope you can find a fun way to customize the July gnome to your liking!

Not sure what this gnome project is all about? Let me explain! Jennifer from Day by Day Clay and Crochet and I have teamed up for a HUGE year-long project! Each month Jen creates a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet panel. We are focusing on holiday and seasonal gnome designs. The pixel graph and how-to for the crochet portion of the collab will be right here on Repeat Crafter Me and you can purchase the coordinating clay hook from Jen on her Facebook page “Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group!

The 12 months of Gnomes will be stitched together at the end to make a big blanket! You don’t necessarily need to add a border to each gnome piece but can if you want. I did not at this time.

You can find all the monthly Gnome designs in one spot! Check out the Gnome Landing Page and be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in all your social media posts!

Here is a sneak peak of this months gnome clay crochet hook! Her July hook will go on sale on July 4th HERE: —> DAY BY DAY CLAY AND CROCHET GROUP

For our 4th of July Gnome C2C Panel, you will need the following materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Cherry Red, White, and Blue. Feel free to use any color for the nose!
– Size H Crochet Hook (and a size F hook for the stars)
– Tapestry Needle
– Girl July Gnome Pixel Graph
– Boy July Gnome Pixel Graph
– Teeny Tiny Crochet Stars Tutorial

GET THE WRITTEN PATTERN FOR THE 4TH OF JULY GNOMES HERE

If you are crocheting the Watermelon Gnome, I suggest these colors:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Shocking Pink, Perfect Pink, Spring Green, and Paddy Green (plus nose, hair, and background color)

If you are new to the Corner-to-Corner Crochet technique, let me explain a little bit about it as well. C2C lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. 
Below is a Corner-to-Corner Video Tutorial using a part of my May Gnome graph.

Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) has been writing out the C2C written pattern for each month. She REALLY helped me this month by creating all of the watermelon designs and the Canada Day design! Jennifer also has some really incredible C2C designs in her Etsy shop that you should check out!

I also love how her gnomes look on plastic canvas!!

GET THE WRITTEN PATTERN FOR THE GIRL/BOY WATERMELON GNOMES (VERSION 1) HERE

GET THE WRITTEN PATTERN FOR THE GIRL/BOY WATERMELON GNOMES (VERSION 2) HERE

GET THE WRITTEN PATTERNS FOR THE CANADA DAY GNOMES HERE

Diane of Stitch Therapy is making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! I love the way her gnomes are turning out and you can also find her Popcorn Stitch written patterns within each individual gnome post. She is working on the watermelon version and I will have it posted soon!

UPDATE!! The popcorn stitch watermelon girl gnome is now available! GET IT HERE.
Thanks Diane!

Still not comfortable with the idea of Corner-to-Corner Crochet? Don’t worry, you can use single crochet stitches and crochet each gnome as a graphgan.
SpurView Goods has been uploading the single crochet written patterns HERE

OK back to the 4th of July Gnome!

A tip that I want to share before you get started, is that the stripes portion of the hat is not that complicated. Just make sure you wind small balls of red and white (one for each stripe) and then you will pull up the yarn strand from the previous row as you crochet. This makes it super clean and easy to manage.

After you have made your corner-to-corner crochet panel, you will want to create teeny tiny crochet stars with white yarn to add to the blue portion of the gnome hat. This will give you the stars and stripes! You can find the Teeny Tiny Crochet Star Tutorial HERE

If you want your stars on the other side, just flip the gnome over! It’s reversible and a mirror image!

Have a fun and safe 4th of July to those who are celebrating!

Get all of the Gnome Patterns HERE. We have 7 posted so far plus a bonus birthday gnome!

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Hey! It’s my Birthday!!! I’ve designed a bonus birthday gnome to celebrate! You can use this gnome as replacement for your birthday month or a family/friends birthday in the blanket or just use this gnome on it’s own. As always, I am including a boy and girl option with either the cute cupcake on the tummy or up on the hat. Please feel free to choose your own colors and mix and match the designs. The striped hat has a lot of color changes so you might want to stick with a solid color. I used brown hair for my girl to match my own brown hair so you can customize your gnome to fit the birthday person!

I am making little french knots for the sprinkles on the cupcake and it works perfectly! I have a very short YouTube Tutorial below on how to make a french knot.

If you aren’t familiar with the gnome project, head over to the THIS Gnome Landing Page Post! It gives all the details of what this fun year-long project is all about and will answer your questions about Corner-to-Corner Crochet!

Birthday Gnome Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in colors Lemon, Cafe Latte, Light Raspberry, Orchid, White, Aruba Sea and Blushing Peach for the Red Heart with Love line.
Shop all colors at Yarnspirations.com
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Get the Girl Birthday Gnome Graph HERE
– Get the Boy Birthday Gnome Graph HERE

THANK YOU to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) for writing out the C2C written patterns for both the girl and boy birthday gnomes!

Here is the WRITTEN PATTERN GIRL Pattern

Jennifer made this adorable boy gnome version as well as the super cute canvas gnomes below!! Feel free to contact her on her FB page for more details about her incredible canvas designs!
She also has an ETSY shop with lots of corner-to-corner designs!

Here is the WRITTEN PATTERN BOY Pattern

The popcorn stitch birthday gnome will be coming soon from Diane of Stitch Therapy!

And a very happy birthday to everyone else who is celebrating a birthday in the month of June!

Happy June! Since it’s strawberry season, we thought strawberries would be the perfect theme for this months gnome! The hat is designed as an upside down strawberry with the leafy green brim. There are several ways you can make the seeds. I am providing a few different graphs and will talk all about them below. This is the 6th gnome in our 2022 Gnome Project which means we are halfway through the year! If you are new to the gnomes, Jen from Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group and I have team up for a very fun YEAR-LONG collaboration! Each month Jen will create a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I will create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet block. Our designs will be holiday and seasonal themed so for the month of January we made a Winter Gnome, February we created a sweet Valentine Gal Gnome, March we have a Leprechaun, April is an Easter Bunny, May sports a sweet spring Tulip Flower, and June is Strawberries!

At the end of the 12 months I will be stitching the gnomes together to make a large blanket! The blanket panels will sit 4 across so this June panel will sit under our valentine gnome.

Get the January Gnome HERE

Get the February Gnome HERE

Get the March Gnome HERE

Get the April Gnome HERE

Get the May Gnome HERE

Be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in your social media posts so we can all follow along and see your finished gnomes!

Below is a sneak peek picture of Jen’s June Gnome polymer clay tulip cane! Jen makes the hooks (and posts them for sale in Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group) and I make the crochet patterns (which are posted for free here each month)! I love hooks with polymer clay handles because not only are the designs fun, festive, and cute, but they create an ergonomic handle which helps to ease pain and tension caused by the motions of crochet. Read more about these crochet hooks HERE.

I’m using colors from our previous designs so hopefully you have many of these yarns on hand. You will need these colors from the Red Heart Super Saver line: Cherry Red, Lemon Yellow, Spring Green, and Orchid (or whatever color you used for the Bunny Gnome hat). Of course feel free to get creative and use whatever yarn colors you like!

Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Cherry Red, Lemon Yellow, Spring Green, Orchid, White
– You probably won’t need more than one skein of taupe brown for the gnome nose. Use the same skein for all 12 or change it up and use any color of your choice for the nose! Feel free to choose your own hair color as well. Change it up or use white for the beard/braids.
– Size H Crochet Hook
-Tapestry needle
– Pixel Graphs

I have a few options for you! You can crochet the seeds right into the C2C but beware that they will be square. The graph with the yellow seed squares will probably look best if you are using the popcorn stitch instead of corner to corner crochet. I suggest using the graph with the solid red hat and then stitching on the seeds afterwards. I am also providing a graph with a small strawberry if you prefer. You will also need to stitch on the seeds at the end. And of course I am also giving you boy and girl gnome options!

June Boy Gnome with SEEDS
Boy Gnome without SEEDS
June Girl Gnome
Boy Gnome with Strawberry

Finished Size of the Gnome Crochet Rectangle: 20 inches tall x 14 inches wide

Corner-to-Corner Crochet lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. You can use either! The DC is more common but keep in mind that your gnome rectangle will end up slightly bigger if using Double Crochet.

If C2C is confusing to you, don’t worry, my friends at The Crochet Crowd have the perfect beginner tutorial! And the best part is that they chose to use a few of my projects as the examples so you can’t go wrong! Get The Crochet Crowd Corner-to-Corner Crochet using HDC (half double crochet) HERE.

I have also created a C2C YouTube Tutorial using the tulip flower from our May Gnome:

Big THANK YOU to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) for writing out the C2C written pattern for the January, February, March, April, May, and June Gnomes (and the bonus gnome patterns below as well)! This is very helpful since many of you like to use the written rows to crochet instead of following the graph. She also added a ton of fun detail to her June gnome and I had to include it in this post so you could get some ideas on how to customize this cutie!

June Gnome WRITTEN PATTERN Boy with seeds hat

WRITTEN PATTERN Girl no seeds

WRITTEN PATTERN Boy and Girl with just the strawberry on hats

WRITTEN PATTERN Boy no seeds hat

Diane of Stitch Therapy is making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! I love the way the strawberry seeds look using the popcorn stitch. Thank you Diane for writing up the popcorn stitch patterns for all the months!

GET THE POPCORN STITCH STRAWBERRY GNOME HERE

To stitch on the seeds, take your tapestry needle and weave a strand of yellow yarn 3 times around the same spot. Fasten off and weave in ends. Or you could stitch on crocheted seeds!

I also made a cute little crochet strawberry! Get that pattern HERE

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April showers bring May flowers! The 5th gnome in our 2022 Gnome Project is all about pretty teal colors and sweet tulip flowers! If you missed the big announcement, Jen from Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group and I have team up for a very fun YEAR-LONG collaboration! Each month Jen will create a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I will create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet block. Our designs will be holiday and seasonal themed so for the month of January we made a Winter Gnome, February we created a sweet Valentine Gal Gnome, March we have a Leprechaun, April is an Easter Bunny, and May sports a sweet spring Tulip Flower! I have two pixel graphs for you to choose from: a bearded boy gnome with the flower on the hat and a piggy-tailed girl gnome with a tulip flower on her body!

Grab your Red Heart Super Saver yarn and let’s get make this adorable May flower gnome!

At the end of the 12 months I will be stitching the gnomes together to make a large blanket! The blanket panels will sit 4 across so this May block will be the start of our second row in our blanket and sit under the January winter gnome. I will be sure to include a tutorial at the end of the year that shows how to stitch the gnomes together. I know that C2C is a new technique for many of you so I am going to try and work on some very specific C2C video tutorials to help you through the process of crocheting these gnomes.

Be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in your social media posts so we can all follow along and see your finished gnomes!

Below is a sneak peek picture of Jen’s May Gnome polymer clay tulip cane! Jen makes the hooks (and posts them for sale in Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group) and I make the crochet patterns (which are posted for free here each month)! I love hooks with polymer clay handles because not only are the designs fun, festive, and cute, but they create an ergonomic handle which helps to ease pain and tension caused by the motions of crochet. Read more about these crochet hooks HERE.

She will be taking orders for the May Gnome hook soon! There is only a limited amount available!

May Gnome Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver in Minty (hat), Jade (body), Coral (tulip flower), Spring Green (tulip stem), and Red Heart With Love in Blushing Peach for the background

NOTE ABOUT COLORS: I went with a lighter peach background because I new this block would be sitting under the blue January gnome. Feel free to go with whatever background color and colors for the gnome that you feel suits your project best!

– You probably won’t need more than one skein of taupe brown for the gnome nose. Use the same skein for all 12 or change it up and use any color of your choice for the nose! Feel free to choose your own hair color as well. Change it up or use white for the beard/braids.
– Size H Crochet Hook
-Tapestry needle
– May Gnome Pixel Graph (Girl)
– May Gnome Pixel Graph (Boy)

Finished Size of the Gnome Crochet Rectangle: 20 inches tall x 14 inches wide

Now let’s make the Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet Rectangle!

Corner-to-Corner Crochet lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. You can use either! The DC is more common but keep in mind that your gnome rectangle will end up slightly bigger if using Double Crochet.

If C2C is confusing to you, don’t worry, my friends at The Crochet Crowd have the perfect beginner tutorial! And the best part is that they chose to use a few of my projects as the examples so you can’t go wrong! Get The Crochet Crowd Corner-to-Corner Crochet using HDC (half double crochet) HERE.

I love how this tulip turned out!

Big THANK YOU to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) for writing out the C2C written pattern for the January, February, March, April, and May Gnomes (and the bonus gnome patterns below as well)! This is very helpful since many of you like to use the written rows to crochet instead of following the graph. 

HERE is a downloadable PDF of the May Girl Gnome WRITTEN PATTERN

Or follow along right here from the written pattern below:

May Gnome – Girl

Row 1: Peach x 1 (1 block)

Row 2: Peach x 2 (2 blocks)

Row 3: Peach x 3 (3 blocks)

Row 4: Peach x 4 (4 blocks)

Row 5: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 3, Peach x 1 (5 blocks)

Row 6: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 4, Peach x 1 (6 blocks)

Row 7: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 2, White x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1 (7 blocks)

Row 8: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 2, White x 2, Dark Teal x 2, Peach x 1 (8 blocks)

Row 9: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 3, White x 2, Dark Teal x 2, Peach x 1 (9 blocks)

Row 10: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 3, White x 1, Light Teal x 1, White x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1 (10 blocks)

Row 11: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 1, White x 3, Dark Teal x 5, Peach x 1 (11 blocks)

Row 12: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 5, White x 4, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1 (12 blocks)

Row 13: Peach x 1, Light Teal x 1, White x 4, Dark Teal x 6, Peach x 1 (13 blocks)

Row 14: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 3, Green x 3, White x 5, Light Teal x 1, Peach x 1 (14 blocks)

Row 15: Peach x 1, Light Teal x 2, White x 4, Dark Teal x 1, Green x 3, Dark Teal x 3, Peach x 1 (15 blocks)

Row 16: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 3, Green x 2, Dark Teal x 3, White x 4, Light Teal x 1, Peach x 2 (16 blocks)

Row 17: Peach x 2, Light Teal x 2, White x 3, Dark Teal x 3, Green x 2, Dark Teal x 4, Peach x 1 (17 blocks)

Row 18: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 4, Green x 1, Dark Teal x 1, Green x 1, Red x 2, Dark Teal x 1, White x 3, Light Teal x 2, Peach x 2 (18 blocks)

Row 19: Peach x 2, Light Teal x 2, White x 3, Dark Teal x 1, Red x 3, Dark Teal x 1, Green x 1, Dark Teal x 2, White x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1 (19 blocks)

Row 20: Peach x 2, Dark Teal x 1, White x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Green x 1, Dark Teal x 1, Red x 4, Dark Teal x 1, White x 2, Light Teal x 3, Peach x 2 (20 blocks)

Row 21: Peach x 3, Light Teal x 2, White x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Red x 4, Dark Teal x 4, White x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 2 (21 blocks)

Corner

Row 22: Peach x 2, Dark Teal x 1, White x 1, Light Teal x 1, White x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Red x 3, Dark Teal x 3, White x 1, Light Teal x 3, Peach x 3 (21 blocks)

Row 23: Peach x 3, Light Teal x 4, Nose x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Red x 3, Dark Teal x 1, White x 3, Dark Teal x 3, Peach x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 24: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 2, White x 4, Dark Teal x 1, Red x 1, Dark Teal x 2, Nose x 3, Light Teal x 3, Peach x 4 (21 blocks)

Row 25: Peach x 2, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1, Light Teal x 4, Nose x 3, Dark Teal x 1, Red x 1, Dark Teal x 1, White x 4, Dark Teal x 2, Peach x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 26: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 1, White x 5, Dark Teal x 2, Nose x 4, Light Teal x 3, Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 2, Peach x 2 (21 blocks)

Row 27: Peach x 3, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1, Light Teal x 4, Nose x 4, Dark Teal x 1, White x 5, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 28: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 1, White x 5, Dark Teal x 1, Nose x 3, Light Teal x 4, Peach x 2, Light Teal x 1, Peach x 3 (21 blocks)

Row 29: Peach x 3, Light Teal x 2, Peach x 1, Light Teal x 5, Nose x 3, White x 5, Dark Teal x 1, Peach x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 30: Peach x 1, Dark Teal x 1, White x 5, Nose x 2, Light Teal x 6, Peach x 1, Light Teal x 1, Peach x 4 (21 blocks)

Corner

Row 31: Peach x 3, Light Teal x 11, White x 2, Light Teal x 3, Peach x 1 (20 blocks)

Row 32: Peach x 1, Light Teal x 15, Peach x 3 (19 blocks)

Row 33: Peach x 2, Light Teal x 15, Peach x 1 (18 blocks)

Row 34: Peach x 2, Light Teal x 13, Peach x 2 (17 blocks)

Row 35: Peach x 2, Light Teal x 12, Peach x 2 (16 blocks)

Row 36: Peach x 2, Light Teal x 12, Peach x 1 (15 blocks)

Row 37: Peach x 1, Light Teal x 10, Peach x 3 (14 blocks)

Row 38: Peach x 4, Light Teal x 8, Peach x 1 (13 blocks)

Row 39: Peach x 1, Light Teal x 6, Peach x 5 (12 blocks)

Row 40: Peach x 6, Light Teal x 4, Peach x 1 (11 blocks)

Row 41: Peach x 10 (10 blocks)

Row 42: Peach x 9 (9 blocks)

Row 43: Peach x 8 (8 blocks)

Row 44: Peach x 7 (7 blocks)

Row 45: Peach x 6 (6 blocks)

Row 46: Peach x 5 (5 blocks)

Row 47: Peach x 4 (4 blocks)

Row 48: Peach x 3 (3 blocks)

Row 49: Peach x 2 (2 blocks)

Row 50: Peach x 1 (1 block)

HERE is a downloadable PDF of the May Boy Gnome WRITTEN PATTERN

And a BONUS GIRL GNOME PATTERN

Huge thanks to Diane of Stitch Therapy who is completely rockin it with this project and making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! She has very graciously written out the directions for the May Girl Gnome HERE. She is volunteering her time to do this between being working full time as an elementary school librarian. Thank you Diane for all your help! Please pop over to her Facebook page or IG (@StitchTherapyCrochet) and give her a big virtual hug and THANK YOU!If you missed the previous months, click the highlighted links below to go back to where it all begins!

GET THE MAY GNOME POPCORN STITCH PATTERN HERE

If you missed the previous months, click the highlighted links below to go back to where it all begins!

Get the January Gnome HERE

Get the February Gnome HERE

Get the March Gnome HERE

Get the April Gnome HERE

Not the best picture, but this shows that we are now on the second row of our blanket!

Below is a picture of the backside of the gnome! Corner-to-corner crochet is reversible! It’s a mirror image!

There are many ways you can use these pixel graphs!

SpurView Goods is creating Single Crochet Versions of the Gnomes! Find her HERE on Facebook.

Sylvia Johnson is making plastic canvas versions!

And speaking of plastic canvas, Jennifer Freeman also used plastic canvas to make a tissue box cover! How cool and clever!

Badass Knitting is making Knitted Gnomes!

Yvonne Winters is making Perler Bead versions!

My Magical Corner is also creating really cool gnomes out of perler beads!

Please share all your gnomes with me on social media using #2022gnomeproject and by tagging @repeatcrafterme

Is corner-to-corner crochet too confusing? Try my quick and easy Gnome Granny Squares!

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Happy April! I have another gnome to add to our 2022 Gnome Project! If you missed the big announcement, Jen from Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group and I have team up for a very fun YEAR-LONG collaboration! Each month Jen will create a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I will create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet rectangle. Our designs will be holiday and seasonal themed so for the month of January we made a Winter Gnome, February we created a sweet Valentine Gal Gnome, March we have a Leprechaun, and April is an Easter Bunny! I have two pixel graphs for you to choose from: a bearded boy bunny and a piggy-tailed girl bunny!

Grab your Red Heart Super Saver yarn and let’s get make this adorable Easter Bunny Gnome!

At the end of the 12 months I will be stitching the gnomes together to make a large blanket! I will be sure to include a tutorial at the end of the year that shows how to stitch the gnomes together. I know that C2C is a new technique for many of you so I am going to try and work on some very specific C2C video tutorials to help you through the process of crocheting these gnomes.

Be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in your social media posts so we can all follow along and see your finished gnomes!

Below is a picture of Jen’s April Gnome polymer clay canes! I love the bunny and the carrot! The way she makes these is truly fascinating. Jen makes the hooks (and posts them for sale in Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group) and I make the crochet patterns (which are posted for free here each month)! I love hooks with polymer clay handles because not only are the designs fun, festive, and cute, but they create an ergonomic handle which helps to ease pain and tension caused by the motions of crochet. Read more about these crochet hooks HERE.

She will be taking orders for the April Gnome hook soon! There is only a limited amount available!

April Bunny Gnome Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver in Lemon, Baby Pink, Orchid, Aruba Sea and White,
– You probably won’t need more than one skein of taupe brown for the gnome nose. Use the same skein for all 12 or change it up and use any color of your choice for the nose!
– Size H Crochet Hook
-Tapestry needle
– April Bunny Gnome Pixel Graph

Finished Size of the Gnome Crochet Rectangle: 20 inches tall x 14 inches wide

Now let’s make the Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet Rectangle!

Corner-to-Corner Crochet lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. You can use either! The DC is more common but keep in mind that your gnome rectangle will end up slightly bigger if using Double Crochet.

If C2C is confusing to you, don’t worry, my friends at The Crochet Crowd have the perfect beginner tutorial! And the best part is that they chose to use a few of my projects as the examples so you can’t go wrong! Get The Crochet Crowd Corner-to-Corner Crochet using HDC (half double crochet) HERE.

Download the free pixel graph HERE

Big THANK YOU to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) for writing out the C2C written pattern for the January, February, March, and April Gnomes (and the bonus gnome patterns below as well)! This is very helpful since many of you like to use the written rows to crochet instead of following the graph. 

HERE is a downloadable PDF of the April Boy Bunny Gnome

Or follow along right here from the written pattern below:

Repeat Crafter Me – April Gnome

Row 1: Background x 1 (1 square)

Row 2: Background x 2 (2 squares)

Row 3: Background x 3 (3 squares)

Row 4: Background x 4 (4 squares)

Row 5: Background x 1, Turquoise x 3, Background x 1 (5 squares)

Row 6: Background x 1, Turquoise x 4, Background x 1 (6 squares)

Row 7: Background x 1, Turquoise x 5, Background x 1 (7 squares)

Row 8: Background x 1, Turquoise x 6, Background x 1 (8 squares)

Row 9: Background x 1, Turquoise x 7, Background x 1 (9 squares)

Row 10: Background x 1, Turquoise x 8, Background x 1 (10 squares)

Row 11: Background x 1, Turquoise x 3, White x 3, Turquoise x 3, Background x 1 (11 squares)

Row 12: Background x 1, Turquoise x 1, White x 8, Turquoise x 1, Background x 1 (12 squares)

Row 13: Background x 1, Purple x 1, White x 9, Turquoise x 1, Background x 1 (13 squares)

Row 14: Background x 1, Turquoise x 1, White x 10, Purple x 1, Background x 1 (14 squares)

Row 15: Background x 1, Purple x 2, White x 9, Turquoise x 2, Background x 1 (15 squares)

Row 16: Background x 1, Turquoise x 2, White x 10, Purple x 1, Background x 2 (16 squares)

Row 17: Background x 2, Purple x 1, White x 10, Turquoise x 3, Background x 1 (17 squares)

Row 18: Background x 1, Turquoise x 3, White x 10, Purple x 2, Background x 2 (18 squares)

Row 19: Background x 2, Purple x 2, White x 11, Turquoise x 3, Background x 1 (19 squares)

Row 20: Background x 2, Turquoise x 3, White x 10, Purple x 3, Background x 2 (20 squares)

Row 21: Background x 3, Purple x 2, White x 11, Turquoise x 3, Background x 2 (21 squares)

Corner

Row 22: Background x 2, Turquoise x 3, White x 10, Purple x 3, Background x 3 (21 squares)

Row 23: Background x 3, Purple x 4, Peach x 2, White x 8, Turquoise x 3, Background x 1 (21 squares)

Row 24: Background x 1, Turquoise x 3, White x 7, Peach x 3, Purple x 3, Background x 4 (21 squares)

Row 25: Background x 2, Turquoise x 1, Background x 1, Purple x 4, Peach x 3, White x 6, Turquoise x 3, Background x 1 (21 squares)

Row 26: Background x 1, Turquoise x 2, White x 6, Peach x 4, Purple x 3, Background x 1, Turquoise x 2, Background x 2 (21 squares)

Row 27: Background x 3, Turquoise x 1, Background x 1, Purple x 4, Peach x 4, White x 5, Turquoise x 2, Background x 1 (21 squares)

Row 28: Background x 1, Turquoise x 1, White x 6, Peach x 3, Purple x 2, White x 4, Purple x 1, Background x 3 (21 squares)

Row 29: Background x 3, White x 6, Purple x 2, Peach x 3, White x 5, Turquoise x 1, Background x 1 (21 squares)

Row 30: Background x 1, Turquoise x 1, White x 5, Peach x 2, Purple x 3, White x 1, Pink x 4, White x 1, Background x 3 (21 squares)

Corner

Row 31: Background x 2, White x 1, Pink x 4, White x 1, Purple x 6, White x 2, Purple x 3, Background x 1 (20 squares)

Row 32: Background x 1, Purple x 11, White x 2, Pink x 3, White x 1, Background x 1 (19 squares)

Row 33: Background x 1, White x 5, Purple x 3, White x 1, Purple x 7, Background x 1 (18 squares)

Row 34: Background x 2, Purple x 5, White x 2, Purple x 4, White x 3, Background x 1 (17 squares)

Row 35: Background x 2, Purple x 5, White x 2, Purple x 5, Background x 2 (16 squares)

Row 36: Background x 2, Purple x 4, White x 1, Pink x 1, White x 1, Purple x 4, Background x 2 (15 squares)

Row 37: Background x 1, Purple x 4, White x 1, Pink x 1, White x 1, Purple x 3, Background x 3 (14 squares)

Row 38: Background x 4, Purple x 1, White x 1, Pink x 1, White x 1, Purple x 4, Background x 1 (13 squares)

Row 39: Background x 1, Purple x 3, White x 1, Pink x 1, White x 1, Background x 5 (12 squares)

Row 40: Background x 4, White x 1, Pink x 2, White x 1, Purple x 2, Background x 1 (11 squares)

Row 41: Background x 3, White x 1, Pink x 1, White x 1, Background x 4 (10 squares)

Row 42: Background x 3, White x 1, Pink x 2, White x 1, Background x 2 (9 squares)

Row 43: Background x 2, White x 1, Pink x 1, White x 1, Background x 3 (8 squares)

Row 44: Background x 3, White x 1, Pink x 1, White x 1, Background x 1 (7 squares)

Row 45: Background x 1, White x 2, Background x 3 (6 squares)

Row 46: Background x 3, White x 1, Background x 1 (5 squares)

Row 47: Background x 4 (4 squares)

Row 48: Background x 3 (3 squares)

Row 49: Background x 2 (2 squares)

Row 50: Background x 1 (1 square)

HERE is a downloadable PDF of the April Girl Bunny Gnome

Get the GIRL BUNNY Pixel Graph HERE

Huge thanks to Diane of Stitch Therapy who is completely rockin it with this project and making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! She has very graciously written out the directions for the April Boy Gnome HERE. She is volunteering her time to do this between being working full time as an elementary school librarian. Thank you Diane for all your help! Please pop over to her Facebook page or IG (@StitchTherapyCrochet) and give her a big virtual hug and THANK YOU!

GET THE APRIL GNOME POPCORN STITCH PATTERN HERE

If you missed the previous months, click the highlighted links below to go back to where it all begins!

Get the January Gnome HERE

Get the February Gnome HERE

Get the March Gnome HERE

It’s the first day of March which means we have a new Gnome to add to our collection! This little leprechaun gnome is ready for some St Patrick’s Day celebrations! Grab your green yarn and let’s get started crocheting this cutie!

If you missed the big announcement, Jen from Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group and I have team up for a very fun YEAR-LONG collaboration! Each month Jen will create a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I will create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet rectangle. Our designs will be holiday and seasonal themed so for the month of January, we made a Winter Gnome, February we created a sweet Valentine Gal Gnome, and for March, we have our Leprechaun. I have a few pixel graph options for you, including a Shamrock design and both girl and boy gnomes. I know many of you are making more than one set of gnomes so have fun creating multiple C2C gnomes for each month!

At the end of the 12 months I will be stitching the gnomes together to make a large blanket! I will be sure to include a tutorial at the end of the year that shows how to stitch the gnomes together. I know that C2C is a new technique for many of you so I am going to try and work on some very specific C2C video tutorials to help you through the process of crocheting these gnomes.

Be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in your social media posts so we can all follow along and see your finished gnomes!

We have had such an overwhelming response to this project! Jen and I are VERY grateful! Jen is still working on finishing her March gnome designs but you can see her progress on her FB page: Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group.

Above is a picture of Jen’s polymer clay canes! Remember, she makes the hooks (and posts them for sale in Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group) and I make the crochet patterns (which are posted for free here each month)! I love hooks with polymer clay handles because not only are the designs fun, festive, and cute, but they create an ergonomic handle which helps to ease pain and tension caused by the motions of crochet. Read more about these crochet hooks HERE.

She will be taking orders for the March Gnome hook soon! There is only a limited amount available!

Leprechaun Gnome Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver in Frosty Green, Paddy Green, Spring Green, Carrot Orange, Saffron and Black 
Shop all the colors HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– You probably won’t need more than one skein of taupe brown for the gnome nose. Use the same skein for all 12 or change it up and use any color of your choice for the nose!
– Size H Crochet Hook
-Tapestry needle
– March Leprechaun Gnome Pixel Graph

Finished Size of the Gnome Crochet Rectangle: 20 inches tall x 14 inches wide

Now let’s make the Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet Rectangle!

Corner-to-Corner Crochet lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. You can use either! The DC is more common but keep in mind that your gnome rectangle will end up slightly bigger if using Double Crochet.

If C2C is confusing to you, don’t worry, my friends at The Crochet Crowd have the perfect beginner tutorial! And the best part is that they chose to use a few of my projects as the examples so you can’t go wrong! Get The Crochet Crowd Corner-to-Corner Crochet using HDC (half double crochet) HERE.

Download the free pixel graph HERE

Big THANK YOU to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) for writing out the C2C written pattern for the January, February, and March Gnomes (and the bonus gnome patterns below as well)! This is very helpful since many of you like to use the written rows to crochet instead of following the graph. 

HERE is a downloadable PDF of the Leprechaun Gnome (buckle hat) written pattern 

Or follow along right here from the written pattern below:

RCM – March Gnome #1
Buckle on Hat, Orange Beard

Row 1: Background x 1 (1 block)

Row 2: Background x 2 (2 blocks)

Row 3: Background x 3 (3 blocks)

Row 4: Background x 4 (4 blocks)

Row 5: Background x 1, Dark Green x 3, Background x 1 (5 blocks)

Row 6: Background x 1, Dark Green x 4, Background x 1 (6 blocks)

Row 7: Background x 1, Dark Green x 5, Background x 1 (7 blocks)

Row 8: Background x 1, Dark Green x 6, Background x 1 (8 blocks)

Row 9: Background x 1, Dark Green x 7, Background x 1 (9 blocks)

Row 10: Background x 1, Dark Green x 8, Background x 1 (10 blocks)

Row 11: Background x 1, Dark Green x 3, Orange x 3, Dark Green x 3, Background x 1 (11 blocks)

Row 12: Background x 1, Dark Green x 1, Orange x 8, Dark Green x 1, Background x 1 (12 blocks)

Row 13: Background x 1, Light Green x 1, Orange x 9, Dark Green x 1, Background x 1 (13 blocks)

Row 14: Background x 1, Dark Green x 1, Orange x 10, Light Green x 1, Background x 1 (14 blocks)

Row 15: Background x 1, Light Green x 2, Orange x 9, Dark Green x 2, Background x 1 (15 blocks)

Row 16: Background x 1, Dark Green x 2, Orange x 10, Light Green x 1, Background x 2 (16 blocks)

Row 17: Background x 2, Light Green x 2, Orange x 9, Dark Green x 3, Background x 1 (17 blocks)

Row 18: Background x 1, Dark Green x 3, Orange x 10, Light Green x 2, Background x 2 (18 blocks)

Row 19: Background x 2, Light Green x 2, Orange x 11, Dark Green x 3, Background x 1 (19 blocks)

Row 20: Background x 2, Dark Green x 3, Orange x 10, Light Green x 2, Black x 1, Background x 2 (20 blocks)

Row 21: Background x 3, Black x 1, Light Green x 1, Orange x 11, Dark Green x 3, Background x 2 (21 blocks)

Corner

Row 22: Background x 2, Dark Green x 3, Orange x 10, Light Green x 2, Black x 1, Background x 3 (21 blocks)

Row 23: Background x 3, Black x 2, Light Green x 2, Peach x 2, Orange x 8, Dark Green x 3, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 24: Background x 1, Dark Green x 3, Orange x 7, Peach x 3, Light Green x 1, Black x 2, Background x 4 (21 blocks)

Row 25: Background x 2, Dark Green x 1, Background x 1, Black x 2, Light Green x 2, Peach x 3, Orange x 6, Dark Green x 3, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 26: Background x 1, Dark Green x 2, Orange x 6, Peach x 4, Light Green x 1, Black x 2, Background x 1, Dark Green x 2, Background x 2 (21 blocks)

Row 27: Background x 3, Dark Green x 1, Background x 1, Light Green x 1, Black x 2, Light Green x 1, Peach x 4, Orange x 5, Dark Green x 2, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 28: Background x 1, Dark Green x 1, Orange x 6, Peach x 3, Light Green x 1, Yellow x 1, Black x 2, Background x 2, Light Green x 1, Background x 3 (21 blocks)

Row 29: Background x 3, Light Green x 2, Background x 1, Light Green x 1, Black x 1, Yellow x 2, Light Green x 1, Peach x 3, Orange x 5, Dark Green x 1, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 30: Background x 1, Dark Green x 1, Orange x 5, Peach x 2, Light Green x 1, Yellow x 1, Black x 1, Yellow x 1, Light Green x 2, Background x 1, Light Green x 1, Background x 4 (21 blocks)

Corner

Row 31: Background x 3, Light Green x 4, Yellow x 1, Black x 2, Yellow x 1, Light Green x 3, Orange x 2, Light Green x 3, Background x 1 (20 blocks)

Row 32: Background x 1, Light Green x 7, Yellow x 1, Black x 2, Yellow x 1, Light Green x 4, Background x 3 (19 blocks)

Row 33: Background x 2, Light Green x 5, Yellow x 1, Black x 1, Yellow x 1, Black x 1, Light Green x 6, Background x 1 (18 blocks)

Row 34: Background x 2, Light Green x 3, Black x 3, Yellow x 2, Light Green x 5, Background x 2 (17 blocks)

Row 35: Background x 2, Light Green x 5, Yellow x 1, Black x 5, Light Green x 1, Background x 2 (16 blocks)

Row 36: Background x 2, Black x 5, Light Green x 7, Background x 1 (15 blocks)

Row 37: Background x 1, Light Green x 8, Black x 2, Background x 3 (14 blocks)

Row 38: Background x 4, Light Green x 8, Background x 1 (13 blocks)

Row 39: Background x 1, Light Green x 6, Background x 5 (12 blocks)

Row 40: Background x 6, Light Green x 4, Background x 1 (11 blocks)

Row 41: Background x 10 (10 blocks)

Row 42: Background x 9 (9 blocks)

Row 43: Background x 8 (8 blocks)

Row 44: Background x 7 (7 blocks)

Row 45: Background x 6 (6 blocks)

Row 46: Background x 5 (5 blocks)

Row 47: Background x 4 (4 blocks)

Row 48: Background x 3 (3 blocks)

Row 49: Background x 2 (2 blocks)

Row 50: Background x 1 (1 block)

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NEW UPDATE!! Huge thanks to Diane of Stitch Therapy who is completely rockin it with this project and making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! She has very graciously written out the directions for the March Gnome HERE and is working on the first two for me as well. She is volunteering her time to do this between being working full time as an elementary school librarian and mama to little ones! Thank you Diane for all your help! Please pop over to her Facebook page or IG (@StitchTherapyCrochet) and give her a big virtual hug and THANK YOU!

GET THE MARCH GNOME POPCORN STITCH PATTERN HERE

We have lots of options this month! I really wanted a shamrock version of the hat but it turns out that when you convert a shamrock into pixel art, it loses a lot of detail when it’s this small of a graph. So feel free to mix and match any of these graphs.

HERE is a downloadable PDF of the Shamrock Gnome (shamrock hat) written pattern 

HERE is the Shamrock Gnome Pixel Graph

HERE is a downloadable PDF of the Girl Gnome (blank hat) written pattern 

HERE is the Girl Gnome Pixel Graph

If you crochet a blank hat (either girl or boy gnome), you can stitch on a Shamrock Applique to the hat when you are finished!

You can find my Shamrock Applique Pattern HERE

Not to overwhelm you with options but here are two more designs that you could potentially use for your March Gnome. In the pixel graph below the Shamrock looks like a “blob.” But if you surface slip stitch a border and stem on it when you are done, it will look like a pretty shamrock!

Download the Shamrock “Blob” Pixel Graph HERE.
I don’t have a written pattern for this one.

Lastly, Jennifer Freeman has combined a few elements and written up a pattern for this cute girl gnome with a buckle hat! Get the written pattern for the Girl Buckle Hat HERE

Ok that was a lot! I don’t expect so many versions for the following months. But feel free to tweak the designs and make your own combinations of gnomes with different hats/colors/beards/braids.

Get the January Gnome HERE

Get the February Gnome HERE

Doesn’t it feels like January was such a long month?! Especially since I know you were all anxious for the February Crochet Gnome C2C and polymer clay hook designs! If you missed the big announcement last month, Jen from Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group and I have team up for a very fun YEAR-LONG collaboration! Each month Jen will create a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I will create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet rectangle. Our designs will be holiday and seasonal themed so for the month of February we have created a sweet Valentine Gal! She has adorable pigtail braids, a striped hat, and a heart in the middle. I hope you love her as much as we do!

At the end of the 12 months I will be stitching the gnomes together to make a large blanket! I will be sure to include a tutorial at the end of the year that shows how to stitch the gnomes together. I know that C2C is a new technique for many of you so I am going to try and work on some very specific C2C video tutorials to help you through the process of crocheting these gnomes.

We have had such an overwhelming response to this project! Jen and I are VERY grateful! Jen recently decided to take her polymer clay hook designs into a full time business and I am so excited to support her and her creativity. I’ve always been a huge fan of her hooks and I was in the same position as her not so long ago when I took a leap of faith and started Repeat Crafter Me. We are both one-woman-shows. Meaning I am the only person crocheting and designing my projects and she is the only person designing and creating her clay hooks. So bear with us while we work out some kinks of how/when to post our coordinating projects. She is also limited to how many crochet hooks she can physically make. If you miss out on a crochet hook sale, don’t worry, she plans to make more at the end of the year.

Be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject in your social media posts so we can all follow along and see your finished gnomes!

Above is a picture of Jen’s polymer clay canes and finished hook! Remember, she makes the hooks (and posts them for sale in Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group) and I make the crochet patterns (which are posted for free here each month)! I love hooks with polymer clay handles because not only are the designs fun, festive, and cute, but they create an ergonomic handle which helps to ease pain and tension caused by the motions of crochet. Read more about these crochet hooks HERE.

Valentine Gnome Materials:
–Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Baby Pink, Lemon, Cherry Red, and Bubblegum
>>> GET RED HEART WITH LOVE IN BUBBLEGUM HERE <<<
NOTE: Bubblegum is actually from the Red Heart with Love line of yarn and I am obsessed with this specific color! You should go ahead and buy a few skeins even though you need less than 1 of each color to finish your Gnome
Shop all the colors HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– You probably won’t need more than one skein of taupe brown for the gnome nose. Use the same skein for all 12 or change it up and use any color of your choice for the nose!
– Size H Crochet Hook
-Tapestry needle
– February Valentine Gnome Pixel Graph

Finished Size of the Gnome Crochet Rectangle: 20 inches tall x 14 inches wide

If you missed the January Gnome, you can find him HERE

Now let’s make the Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet Rectangle!

Corner-to-Corner Crochet lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. You can use either! The DC is more common but keep in mind that your gnome rectangle will end up slightly bigger if using Double Crochet.

If C2C is confusing to you, don’t worry, my friends at The Crochet Crowd have the perfect beginner tutorial! And the best part is that they chose to use a few of my projects as the examples so you can’t go wrong! Get The Crochet Crowd Corner-to-Corner Crochet using HDC (half double crochet) HERE.

Big THANK YOU to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) for writing out the C2C written pattern for the February Gnome (and the bonus gnome patterns below)! This is very helpful since many of you like to use this to crochet instead of following the graph. HERE is a downloadable PDF of the written pattern or just follow along below:

Row 1: Background x 1 (1 block)

Row 2: Background x 2 (2 blocks)

Row 3: Background x 3 (3 blocks)

Row 4: Background x 4 (4 blocks)

Row 5: Background x 1, Pink x 3, Background x 1 (5 blocks)

Row 6: Background x 1, Pink x 4, Background x 1 (6 blocks)

Row 7: Background x 1, Pink x 2, Yellow x 2, Pink x 1, Background x 1 (7 blocks)

Row 8: Background x 1, Pink x 2, Yellow x 2, Pink x 2, Background x 1 (8 blocks)

Row 9: Background x 1, Pink x 3, Yellow x 2, Pink x 2, Background x 1 (9 blocks)

Row 10: Background x 1, Pink x 3, Yellow x 1, Red x 1, Yellow x 2, Pink x 1, Background x 1 (10 blocks)

Row 11: Background x 1, Pink x 1, Yellow x 3, Pink x 5, Background x 1 (11 blocks)

Row 12: Background x 1, Pink x 5, Yellow x 4, Pink x 1, Background x 1 (12 blocks)

Row 13: Background x 1, Red x 1, Yellow x 4, Pink x 6, Background x 1 (13 blocks)

Row 14: Background x 1, Pink x 6, Yellow x 5, Red x 1, Background x 1 (14 blocks)

Row 15: Background x 1, Red x 2, Yellow x 4, Pink x 7, Background x 1 (15 blocks)

Row 16: Background x 1, Pink x 8, Yellow x 4, Red x 1, Background x 2 (16 blocks)

Row 17: Background x 2, Red x 2, Yellow x 3, Red x 4, Pink x 5, Background x 1 (17 blocks)

Row 18: Background x 1, Pink x 6, Red x 4, Yellow x 3, Red x 2, Background x 2 (18 blocks)

Row 19: Background x 2, Pink x 1, Red x 1, Yellow x 3, Pink x 1, Red x 4, Pink x 3, Yellow x 2, Pink x 1, Background x 1 (19 blocks)

Row 20: Background x 2, Pink x 1, Yellow x 2, Pink x 3, Red x 4, Pink x 1, Yellow x 2, Red x 2, Pink x 1, Background x 2 (20 blocks)

Row 21: Background x 3, Pink x 1, Red x 1, Yellow x 2, Pink x 2, Red x 4, Pink x 3, Yellow x 2, Pink x 1, Background x 2 (21 blocks)

Corner

Row 22: Background x 2, Pink x 1, Yellow x 1, Red x 1, Yellow x 2, Pink x 1, Red x 2, Pink x 4, Yellow x 1, Red x 2, Pink x 1, Background x 3 (21 blocks)

Row 23: Background x 3, Red x 1, Pink x 1, Red x 2, Peach x 2, Pink x 2, Red x 3, Yellow x 3, Pink x 3, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 24: Background x 1, Pink x 2, Yellow x 4, Red x 2, Pink x 2, Peach x 3, Red x 1, Pink x 2, Background x 4 (21 blocks)

Row 25: Background x 2, Pink x 1, Background x 1, Red x 1, Pink x 1, Red x 2, Peach x 3, Pink x 3, Yellow x 4, Pink x 2, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 26: Background x 1, Pink x 1, Yellow x 5, Pink x 2, Peach x 4, Red x 1, Pink x 1, Red x 1, Background x 1, Pink x 2, Background x 2 (21 blocks)

Row 27: Background x 3, Pink x 1, Background x 1, Red x 1, Pink x 2, Red x 1, Peach x 4, Pink x 1, Yellow x 5, Pink x 1, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 28: Background x 1, Pink x 1, Yellow x 5, Pink x 1, Peach x 3, Red x 2, Pink x 1, Red x 1, Background x 2, Red x 1, Background x 3 (21 blocks)

Row 29: Background x 3, Red x 2, Background x 1, Red x 1, Pink x 2, Red x 2, Peach x 3, Yellow x 5, Pink x 1, Background x 1 (21 blocks)

Row 30: Background x 1, Pink x 1, Yellow x 5, Peach x 2, Red x 2, Pink x 2, Red x 1, Pink x 1, Background x 1, Red x 1, Background x 4 (21 blocks)

Corner

Row 31: Background x 3, Red x 2, Pink x 1, Red x 2, Pink x 2, Red x 4, Yellow x 2, Red x 3, Background x 1 (20 blocks)

Row 32: Background x 1, Red x 8, Pink x 2, Red x 2, Pink x 1, Red x 2, Background x 3 (19 blocks)

Row 33: Background x 2, Red x 2, Pink x 1, Red x 3, Pink x 3, Red x 6, Background x 1 (18 blocks)

Row 34: Background x 2, Red x 3, Pink x 4, Red x 3, Pink x 1, Red x 2, Background x 2 (17 blocks)

Row 35: Background x 2, Red x 2, Pink x 1, Red x 3, Pink x 6, Background x 2 (16 blocks)

Row 36: Background x 2, Pink x 4, Red x 4, Pink x 2, Red x 2, Background x 1 (15 blocks)

Row 37: Background x 1, Red x 2, Pink x 2, Red x 6, Background x 3 (14 blocks)

Row 38: Background x 4, Red x 2, Pink x 4, Red x 2, Background x 1 (13 blocks)

Row 39: Background x 1, Red x 3, Pink x 3, Background x 5 (12 blocks)

Row 40: Background x 6, Red x 4, Background x 1 (11 blocks)

Row 41: Background x 10 (10 blocks)

Row 42: Background x 9 (9 blocks)

Row 43: Background x 8 (8 blocks)

Row 44: Background x 7 (7 blocks)

Row 45: Background x 6 (6 blocks)

Row 46: Background x 5 (5 blocks)

Row 47: Background x 4 (4 blocks)

Row 48: Background x 3 (3 blocks)

Row 49: Background x 2 (2 blocks)

Row 50: Background x 1 (1 block)

UPDATE: Just added! Huge thanks to Diane of Stitch Therapy who is completely rockin it with this project and making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH!
Get the PDF FEBRUARY GNOME POPCORN STITCH Pattern HERE

Frequently Asked Questions:

Where do I find the monthly crochet gnome patterns?
All of the gnome corner-to-corner crochet graphs and patterns will be posted right here on RepeatCrafterMe.com! I will do my best to post these for you towards the beginning of each month.

Where do I find and purchase the monthly gnome hooks?
All of the gnome crochet hooks are handmade by Jen and will be posted for sale in the Facebook group Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group.

Can I use another stitch besides C2C (corner-to-corner crochet)?
Yes! You can absolutely use other stitches! I have already seen many Gnomes crocheted using SC, box stitch, bobble stitch, and more! Search the hashtag #2022gnomeproject for ideas and photos!

Can I use a different yarn?
Yes! You can absolutely use other yarns! I will be telling you the color each month that I am using from the Red Heart Super Saver line of yarn but you can use any other worsted weight yarn or even something a bit bulkier or thinner. The thicker the yarn, the larger the finished product.

Are you making a border on your finished gnome crochet pieces?
I am not making a border on my gnome pieces. My plan is to crochet them together using one color at the very end. But feel free to make a nice border on yours! Completely up to you!

What will you do with the crochet gnomes at the end of the year?
I will be connecting all 12 gnomes together for a large blanket! You can follow along with me or use your gnome crocheted pieces as pillows or other individual projects. Have fun and be creative!

What comes first, the gnome hook or the gnome C2C?
Hehe 😉 Jen and I work really well together and both have similar “cutesy” styles. She approached me about this collaboration and when we worked on the January designs she said to make a winter gnome with a snowflake. I created the graph and then when she showed me her sketches, I adjusted the colors. For February she requested blond braids and a striped hat. So I worked on the graph and then she knocked it out of the park with the clay hook design! I made some minor adjusts to the graph after I saw her polymer clay canes.

What is on the backside of the C2C?
Corner-to-Corner crochet pieces are reversible! The back is a mirror image of the front. If you are finding the back is looking messy, you might be carrying your yarn too far over. Clip it off and re-attach. You will need to weave in some extra ends but it will be worth it!

Do you use bobbins? How do you organize your yarn?
No I don’t currently use bobbins. But it is great if you do! I wind up smaller balls of yarn from each skein so I have multiple balls of the same color. I carry up the yarn from the previous row when I can, when I can’t, I fasten off and re-attach the yarn in the new spot. When my yarn gets all tangled (and it usually does about once in the middle of the project), I clip off all the ends or as many as I need in order to get the strands sorted out again and continue on my way.

Do you have a list of all the yarn and amounts for each of the 12 gnomes?
Unfortunately I do not have a master list of yarn and amounts. We are working on this project month by month. But I can tell you that you need less than one skein of each color for each gnome (and sometimes much less) so feel free to re-use some of your yarn or use what you have on hand.

BONUS FEBRUARY GNOME GRAPH!
This design is a bit simpler so I wanted to include it in this post. I know color changes can be hard so I tried to minimized that with this version.

Download the free February Gnome (option #2) graph HERE

Download the free PDF Written Pattern of option 2 HERE

ANOTHER BONUS FEBRUARY GNOME GRAPH!

Don’t stop crocheting because I am including A THIRD valentine gnome option! Many of your are crocheting more than one gnome each month to make multiple blankets or matching pillows, etc. So here is just one more fun design that I had to share with you!

Download the free February Gnome Graph (option #3) HERE

Download the free PDF Written Pattern of option 3 HERE

Look at how cute January and February look together!

Get the January Winter Gnome C2C HERE

Be sure to post her finished gnomes and pictures of your hooks on social media using hashtag #2022gnomeproject

Are you ready for a BIG collaboration?! I am thrilled to announce that Jennifer from Day by Day Clay and Crochet and I have teamed up for a HUGE year-long project! Each month Jen will create a Gnome Polymer Clay Crochet Hook and I will create a matching Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet square (it’s actually more of a rectangle). We are focusing on holiday and seasonal gnome designs so for the month of January we are presenting you with a Winter Gnome! The pixel graph and how-to for the crochet portion of the collab will be right here on Repeat Crafter Me and you can purchase the coordinating clay hook from Jen on her Facebook page “Day by Day Clay and Crochet Group!”

The 12 months of Gnomes will be stitched together at the end to make a big blanket! You don’t necessarily need to add a border to each gnome piece but can if you want. I did not at this time.

Be sure to share your gnome projects on social media using the hashtag #2022gnomeproject

Jen creates the most adorable and fabulous clay designs that bake directly onto crochet hook handles, making them not only cute, but more comfortable and smooth to crochet with. I have been purchasing her hooks for years and I am sure you have seen them in many of my project photos and videos. No machines are used in her artwork, each hook is handmade! I love supporting my fellow makers! If you aren’t familiar with the process of how a polymer clay hooks are made, they start with large canes of 100% polymer clay. Then they are reduced. Here are a couple photos of her process:

You can see more of Jens work HERE: —> DAY BY DAY CLAY AND CROCHET GROUP

Now let’s make the Gnome Corner-to-Corner Crochet Rectangle!

Corner-to-Corner Crochet lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph into a crocheted piece! The Corner-to-Corner technique basically means the you start in one corner (the lower right hand is most common place to start) and crochet diagonally in rows until you get to the other corner. You follow the pixel graph to create the color changes that make up the picture of the gnome. One pixel square = a chain 2 + 3 HDC stitches. Please note that I am using HDC stitches for the C2C instead of DC. You can use either! The DC is more common but keep in mind that your gnome rectangle will end up slightly bigger if using Double Crochet.

If C2C is confusing to you, don’t worry, my friends at The Crochet Crowd have the perfect beginner tutorial! And the best part is that they chose to use a few of my projects as the examples as they are crocheting so you can’t go wrong! Get The Crochet Crowd Corner-to-Corner Crochet using HDC (half double crochet) HERE.

Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Light Blue, Royal Blue, Light Periwinkle, White, and Aran for the nose. Shop these colors at Yarnspirations.com!
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– January Winter Gnome Pixel Graph

Finished Size of the Gnome Crochet Rectangle: 20 inches tall x 14 inches wide

Big THANK YOU to Jennifer Freeman of “My Beautiful Disasters” (Find her HERE on FB!) for writing out the C2C written pattern for the January Gnome! Very helpful since many of you like to use this to crochet instead of following the graph. HERE is a downloadable PDF of the written pattern or just follow along below:

Repeat Crafter Me  – January Gnome C2C Written Pattern

Row 1: Background x1 (1 square)

Row 2: Background x2 *2 Blocks*

Row 3: Background x3 *3 Blocks*

Row 4: Background x4 *4 Blocks*

Row 5: Background x1, Dark Blue x3, Background x1 *5 Blocks*

Row 6: Background x1, Dark Blue x4, Background x1 *6 Blocks*

Row 7: Background x1, Dark Blue x5, Background x1 *7 Blocks*

Row 8: Background x1, Dark Blue x6, Background x1 *8 Blocks*

Row 9: Background x1, Dark Blue x7, Background x1 *9 Blocks*

Row 10: Background x1, Dark Blue x8, Background x1 *10 Blocks*

Row 11: Background x1, Dark Blue x3, White x3, Dark Blue x3, Background x1 *11 Blocks*

Row 12: Background x1, Dark Blue x1, White x8, Dark Blue x1, Background x1 *12 Blocks*

Row 13: Background x1, Light Blue x1, White x9, Dark Blue x1, Background x1 *13 Blocks*

Row 14: Background x1, Dark Blue x1, White x10, Light Blue x1, Background x1 *14 Blocks*

Row 15: Background x1, Light Blue x2, White x9, Dark Blue x2, Background x1 *15 Blocks*

Row 16: Background x1, Dark Blue x2, White x10, Light Blue x1, Background x2 *16 Blocks*

Row 17: Background x2, Light Blue x2, White x9, Dark Blue x3, Background x1 *17 Blocks*

Row 18: Background x1, Dark Blue x3, White x10, Light Blue x2, Background x2 *18 Blocks*

Row 19: Background x2, Light Blue x2, White x11, Dark Blue x3, Background x1 *19 Blocks*

Row 20: Background x2, Dark Blue x3, White x10, Light Blue x3, Background x2 *20 Blocks*

Row 21: Background x3, Light Blue x2, White x11, Dark Blue x3, Background x2 *21 Blocks*

Corner

Row 22: Background x2, Dark Blue x3, White x10, Light Blue x3, Background x3 *21 Blocks*

Row 23: Background x3, Light Blue x4, Peach x2, White x8, Dark Blue x3, Background x1 *21 Blocks*

Row 24: Background x1, Dark Blue x3, White x7, Peach x3, Light Blue x3, Background x4 *21 Blocks*

Row 25: Background x2, White x1, Background x1, Light Blue x4, Peach x3, White x6, Dark Blue x3, Background x1 *21 Blocks*

Row 26: Background x1, Dark Blue x2, White x6, Peach x4, Light Blue x3, Background x1, White x2, Background x2 *21 Blocks*

Row 27: Background x3, White x1, Background x1, Light Blue x4, Peach x4, White x5, Dark Blue x2, Background x1 *21 Blocks*

Row 28: Background x1, Dark Blue x1, White x6, Peach x3, Light Blue x4, Background x2, Light Blue x1, Background x3 *21 Blocks*

Row 29: Background x3, Light Blue x2, Background x1, Light Blue x5, Peach x3, White x5, Dark Blue x1, Background x1 *21 Blocks*

Row 30: Background x1, Dark Blue x1, White x5, Peach x2, Light Blue x2, White x2, Light Blue x2, Background x1, Light Blue x1, Background x4 *21 Blocks*

Corner

Row 31: Background x3, Light Blue x11, White x2, Light Blue x3, Background x1 *20 Blocks*

Row 32: Background x1, Light Blue x8, White x4, Light Blue x3, Background x3 *19 Blocks*

Row 33: Background x2, Light Blue x5, White x1, Light Blue x9, Background x1 *18 Blocks*

Row 34: Background x2, Light Blue x6, White x4, Light Blue x3, Background x2 *17 Blocks*

Row 35: Background x2, Light Blue x12, Background x2 *16 Blocks*

Row 36: Background x2, Light Blue x6, White x2, Light Blue x4, Background x1 *15 Blocks*

Row 37: Background x1, Light Blue x10, Background x3 *14 Blocks*

Row 38: Background x4, Light Blue x8, Background x1 *13 Blocks*

Row 39: Background x1, Light Blue x6, Background x5 *12 Blocks*

Row 40: Background x6, Light Blue x4, Background x1 *11 Blocks*

Row 41: Background x10 *10 Blocks*

Row 42: Background x9 *9 Blocks*

Row 43: Background x8 *8 Blocks*

Row 44: Background x7 *7 Blocks*

Row 45: Background x6 *6 Blocks*

Row 46: Background x5 *5 Blocks*

Row 47: Background x4 *4 Blocks*

Row 48: Background x3 *3 Blocks*

Row 49: Background x2 *2 Blocks*

Row 50: Background x1 (1 square)

NEW! January Girl Gnome! Thanks Jennifer Freeman for the pattern addition!
Get the PDF Written Pattern File HERE

You can also create the gnomes using Single Crochet stitches! You will work in rows starting from the bottom. I love this comparison of Single Crochet vs Corner-to-Corner Crochet by AJ Creations (Find her HERE on FB). For every pixel block in the grid, it is 2 SC wide and 2 SC rows tall. Begin with a starting chain of 43 and then SC in each stitch across for a count of 42. Then you follow the graph for the color changes! So the next row would be 6 SC white (I used light blue), 30 dark blue, 6 SC white (light blue) then repeat that row one more time until moving onto the next row of color changes in your pixel graph.

NEW UPDATE!! Huge thanks to Diane of Stitch Therapy who is completely rockin it with this project and making the gnomes using the POPCORN STITCH! She has very graciously written out the directions for the January Gnome HERE and is working on the first two for me as well. Thank you Diane for all your help! Please pop over to her Facebook page or IG (@StitchTherapyCrochet) and give her a big virtual hug and THANK YOU!

GET THE January GNOME POPCORN STITCH PATTERN HERE

Once you have completed your Corner-to-Corner piece, you will want to use the loose ends to your advantage. Especially on the snowflake. If there is spot that needs more blue to separate the white parts of the snowflakes, weave the loose end in-between. And if there’s a place where the white squares need to be connected, weave the white ends to connect them.

Every month from January 2022 – December 2022 we will have a new Gnome hook and C2C design for you! Can you guess what the February gnome will look like?! I hope you are as excited as we are! When I finish the last gnome corner-to-corner crochet rectangle, I will show you how to join them together for a big blanket! But feel free to use your crochet gnome as a pillow or smaller project. I can’t wait to see what you create!

Be sure to use the hashtag #2022gnomeproject and/or tag me @RepeatCrafterMe and Jen @DaybyDayClayandCrochetGroup on Facebook and other social media sites!

So much cuteness in one blanket! Corner-to-Corner Crochet lets you turn almost any image into a pixel graph and then from a pixel graph, into a crocheted piece! I mainly use StitchFiddle.com to convert images into graphs. In this Puppy C2C Blanket, I started with a 28×28 pixel square graph and used Corner-to-corner crochet with HDC stitches for a finished crochet piece of 18×18 inches. Then using a modified block stitch, I made a large border to bring the blanket to about 35×35 inches. The best part is you can continue to crocheting to make this blanket as big as you’d like! This is a baby gift so I wanted to keep it small.

I have a tutorial on how to create pixel graphs HERE.

And can we talk about these colors?! Major Fall Vibes! I am using a combination of colors from the Bernat Super Value line to make this a Precious Autumn Puppy crochet piece 🙂

Here is the color list:
Bernat Super Value in Oatmeal, Forest Green, Aqua, Pumpkin, Gold, and Topaz
Shop all the colors RIGHT HERE on Yarnspirations.com

Let’s go over a few things that will help you immensely to replicate this blanket.

I am using the Corner-to-Corner technique for the puppy part of the blanket but instead of DC stitches, I am using HDC stitches for the C2C. If C2C or HDC C2C is confusing to you, don’t worry, my friends at The Crochet Crowd have the perfect beginner tutorial! And the best part is that they chose to use a few of my projects as the examples as they are crocheting so you can’t go wrong!

Get The Crochet Crowd Corner-to-Corner Crochet using HDC (half double crochet) HERE.

Next, you may want to quickly take a look at THIS tutorial that I recently posted on the modified Block Stitch. It makes a great border for a C2C piece but also can be used as a granny square or blanket on its own!

Get the Crochet Block Stitch Using HDC tutorial HERE.

Material List:
–PUPPY PIXEL GRAPH
-Size H Crochet Hook
-Bernat Super Value (one skein each except 2 in Aqua) in Oatmeal, Forest Green, Aqua, Pumpkin, Gold, and Topaz
-Tapestry Needle
-Tassel Maker (optional)

First Crochet the Puppy using Corner-to-Corner Crochet. I chose to eliminate the border around his face as in the graph below

Once you have finished your Corner-to-Corner Crochet Puppy, you can start on the easy, repetitive block stitch border!

First make a SC + chain 2 + SC along the edges, working between the pixel squares

Then join in your next color and make 2 HDC in each chain 2 space, and 2 HDC + chain 2 + 2 HDC in each corner.

Then go ahead and switch to your next color (oatmeal) and make a SC + chain 2 + SC + chain 2 + SC (repeating) along all the edges working between the 2 HDCs. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.

Repeat this sequence alternating between the rounds of 2 HDCs and the SC + chain 2

I have a full video tutorial on this on my YouTube Channel!

Add some tassels to the 4 corner to finish your blanket!

If you make this puppy blanket or use the modified block stitch please tag me using #RepeatCrafterMe and #yarnspo on social media!

Happy Fall!

I’m finally finished with my Sparrow Bird Blanket! I will admit that I had plans to make this much larger with many more bird squares and a birdhouse in the middle… but life is very hectic right now. We are in the middle of moving.. actually we are still prepping for our move to Arizona this summer and it has taken over our lives. We are excited and nervous and more than ready to get settled! In the meantime, I have decided that I need to focus on smaller crochet projects because larger ones are too much for me right now. So I used 4 of my finished Sparrow C2C Squares and joined them together with a beautiful Tulip Border that is perfect for the Spring season. Measuring about 32 x 32 inches, this sweet little blanket will be perfect for a little one or a cute couch throw. As always, you can make your blanket much bigger if you’d like by adding in more squares or continuing the border!

To make the Sparrow Corner-to-Corner Squares, please refer to THIS PATTERN POST

To make the Birdhouse Corner-to-Corner Square, please refer to THIS PATTERN POST

I used Red Heart Super Saver Yarn for this project! You can find the material list in the Sparrow and Birdhouse Square posts but in additional to those colors, I used Red Heart Super Saver in Spring Green and Pink for the edging. I didn’t use more than one skein for this blanket.

Shop all yarn colors of Red Heart Super Saver HERE on Yarnspirations.com!

Once you have your squares made, you can start adding some edging and then join them together.

I first went around each square with same blue yarn I used in the background of my bird squares to make an even edge. You will want to make a SC between each pixel square and then chain 2 in between. Make a SC + chain 2 + SC in each corner.

Then continue around again making 2 SC in each chain 2 spaces from the previous round. Make 2 SC + chain 2 + 2 SC in each corner.

Then I went ahead and made a round of HDC stitches in saffron yellow in each stitch around (HDC + chain 2 + HDC in each corner).

Then go ahead and join all your squares! I made it really simple and slip stitched the front loops together.

Now working along the border of the entire blanket…

with brown yarn,
SC in each stitch around (2 SC + chain 2 + 2 SC in corners)
Do this for a total of two rounds.
Then to make your tulips you will start with green yarn and make v-stitches all the way around.
V-stitch = DC + chain 1 + DC all in one stitch
Make a v-stitch in the first stitch, skip 2 stitches, v-stitch in next, repeat around making one v-stitch in each corner.

Then with pink yarn you will make a puff stitch in the center chain of each v-stitch. Refer to the video below for a clearer explanation of how to do this! You will make a puff stitch + chain 2 in each v-stitch space all the way around. Join to first puff stitch and fasten off pink yarn.

To finish off your border, add another two rounds of SC in brown. You will first SC (with brown) in the top of each puff stitch and then make 2 SC in between each puff stitch. 2 SC + Chain 2 + 2 SC in the corners. Then the next round is just a simple SC in each stitch around and repeat the same corner as before.

Lastly, you will make a final round of HDC stitches in saffron yellow! HDC + Chain 2 + HDC in the corners.

So pretty!

A sweet Spring blanket to add to your to-do list!

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I’m adding a cute little Birdhouse Corner-to-Corner Crochet Square to the Sparrow C2C Blanket! My plan is for this to be the center square so I do need to crochet a few more birds before I can start joining it all together. The birdhouse is completely customizable! I chose to add a heart on one side of the square and a circle on the either. You can’t go wrong either way! I am also including a graph (below) if you want to crochet a heart right into the C2C design.

You can find the Sparrow C2C Squares HERE.

Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver Yarn in Aqua (Turqua), Taupe, and Saffron.
Shop all colors HERE on Yarnspirations.com
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Bird House Pixel Graph

 I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Red Heart Super Saver. Each square takes less than a skein. I was able to make 4 squares with one skein of aqua!

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

Find the Heart Pattern HERE

Circle Pattern:
Magic Ring, chain 2 and make 12 DC in ring, join, chain 1
Round 2: 2 SC in each stitch around, join, fasten off leaving long tail.

Heart on one side!

Circle on the other!

As I’ve been crocheting this sweet bird blanket, my husband and I noticed a few sparrows hanging around the side of our house. We installed an outdoor TV along the wall of our house during Covid stay-at-home orders and just noticed that the cute little sparrows were building a nest in the back of it! We haven’t moved the TV or turned it on in awhile (and don’t plan to!) We can’t wait to see these 3 little birds hatch! We are going to name them Stitch, Stash, and Skein 🙂

Stay tuned for more updates! (on the blanket and the birdies)

A sweet little Sparrow C2C Square is just what we needed! The color possibilities are endless so feel free to turn your sparrow into a cardinal, blue jay, or more! I plan to make several more squares with different colors for each birdie then stitch them together with a floral border. The finished squares are 12 x12 inches.

Materials:
– Red Heart Super Saver yarn in colors Turquoise (background), Pumpkin Orange and Cherry Red (and any other color of your choosing for the main body), White, and Saffron for the Beak, and a bit of Black for the eye.
Shop all colors HERE on Yarnspirations.com
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Sparrow Pixel Graph

Create your own graph! Add your own unique pixel design by using the blank 17 x 17 square pixel graph! Or head over to StitchFiddle.com to design your own for free!

 I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Red Heart Super Saver. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for an entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

I will be sure to add more photos and details about the finished project as I stitch it up!

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Are Geese the next big trend?! Maybe! Move aside unicorns and owls because this Goose is giving us all the good vibes! I love how gender neutral this blanket is. I used pink for the background but you could switch it up to any color you’d like! It’s a simple 40×50 pixel graph that works up to be 35 inches wide by 45 inches tall.

I am using Bernat Velvet yarn and the colors are not only spot on perfect for this goose, but this yarn is super soft, smooth, and velvety. I love the weight of it and how cuddly and snuggly it is! You will have to weave in your ends extra well (video below) because the yarn is slick and you don’t want your blanket coming unraveled. I also recommend hand washing.

That all being said, feel free to use any type of yarn you are comfortable with for this project! Remember my Bunny Blankets? I used worsted weight yarn (super value) for the main part and then pipsqueak yarn for the fuzzy ears. That would be a stunning combo for this blanket as well! You could use worsted weight yarn for the background and white pipsqueak for the goose body! See the Bunny Blankets HERE.

If you aren’t familiar with corner-to-corner crochet, then this is a great project to practice a new skill on! Corner-to-corner (or C2C for short) is a technique where you crochet little blocks/tiles/squares (whatever you want to refer to them as) in a diagonal form. Starting from one corner (usually bottom right) and ending in the top corner of your pixel graph. Each one of the little pixel blocks is a chain 3 + 3 DC stitches. Very simple! If you can make a double crochet stitch then you can easily make a corner-to-corner blanket! If you need help starting a C2C project, you can follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.

Materials:
– Bernat Velvet Yarn in colors
Quiet Pink (3 skeins)
White (1 skein)
Misty Gray (1 skein)
Sunshine (1 skein)
SHOP ALL COLORS RIGHT HERE ON YARNSPIRATIONS.COM!
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Goose Graph. Download HERE.

How did I make the Goose Pixel Graph, you ask? It all started with a cartoon/clip art picture of a goose. Then I uploaded it to www.stitchfiddle.com and it created a pixel graph for me! I did clean up the graph a bit in photoshop.

Here is a video on how to make a C2C color change and how to weave in those pesky ends!

I chose not to add a border… at least that is how I feel at the moment… I may change my mind later! But the weight of the blanket feels perfect right now and the edges are straight and clean.

I hope you love this design as much as I do! Feel free to tag me in your social media posts by using @RepeatCrafterMe and #RepeatCrafterMe. And if you use Bernat yarn be sure to tag using #BernatYarn and #Yarnspirations as well!

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Here is the last square of the Celebration C2C Blanket! It’s a 3 tier cake with lots of flavor options for the frosting. I’m not going to leave you guys hanging. I will have a follow up post with how to join the squares and add a border. I am also working on a Happy Birthday Banner for the top and bottom of the blanket. Similar to what I did for my Christmas Character Afghan.

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

– Cake Pixel Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Clay, Lilac, Pink and Bright Yellow. Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of each square after it is crocheted is approximately16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

Did you miss the other squares?! Find them here:

Cupcake C2C Crochet Square

Present (Gift Box) Crochet Square

Balloon C2C Crochet Square

Music Note C2C Crochet Square

Ice Cream Cone C2C Crochet Square

Party Popper Crochet Square

Birthday Candles C2C Crochet Square

Piñata C2C Crochet Square

I’m bringing a Piñata to the party! I guess this one is filled with fiber instead of candy 🙂 This is the 8th square in the Celebration C2C Blanket! Only one more square to go after this and then I will show you how to stitch them together and add a border. I might have something extra to add to the blanket as well… maybe a Happy Birthday banner? We will see!

Just a reminder that Cinco De Mayo is coming up and this piñata square could make a really fun and festive pillow or wall hanging for your at home celebrations!

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

– Piñata Pixel Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Rouge, Hot Blue, Pink and Bright Yellow and slightest bit of Clay for the eye. Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of each square after it is crocheted is approximately16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like! You can also turn any of these squares into individual pillows. Lots of ways to use them!

Did you miss the other squares?! Find them here:

Cupcake C2C Crochet Square

Present (Gift Box) Crochet Square

Balloon C2C Crochet Square

Music Note C2C Crochet Square

Ice Cream Cone C2C Crochet Square

Party Popper Crochet Square

Birthday Candles C2C Crochet Square

Make a wish and blow out your candles! Actually, these crochet candles always stay lit! This is the 7th square in the Celebration C2C Blanket and it is a very simple one to crochet. The party popper square was a doozy so I think we all needed something easy!

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

– Candle Pixel Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Rouge, Soft Fern, Hot Blue, Lilac, and Bright Yellow. Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of each square after it is crocheted is approximately16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like! You can also turn any of these squares into individual pillows. Lots of ways to use them!

Did you miss the other squares?! Find them here:

Cupcake C2C Crochet Square

Present (Gift Box) Crochet Square

Balloon C2C Crochet Square

Music Note C2C Crochet Square

Ice Cream Cone C2C Crochet Square

Party Popper Crochet Square

It’s a party popper! The Celebration C2C Blanket needed a little pop of confetti so I took the popular party popper emoji and made it into a pixelated C2C square. I’m not going to lie, this is going to be the most difficult square to crochet. Lots of color changes and ends to weave in. I won’t be offended if you decide to leave this one out or replace it with something else. I am also providing two slightly different pixel graphs for this one. I am working with the same color palette for all of my squares but you can use different or more appropriate party popper colors if you’d like!

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

– Party Popper Pixel Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Rouge, Bright Yellow, Hot Blue, and Clay. Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Here’s another option!

Or how about a flower?

Or a party hat?

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of each square after it is crocheted is approximately 16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like! You can also turn any of these squares into individual pillows. Lots of ways to use them!

Did you miss the other squares?! Find them here:

Cupcake C2C Crochet Square

Present (Gift Box) Crochet Square

Balloon C2C Crochet Square

Music Note C2C Crochet Square

Ice Cream Cone C2C Crochet Square

Raise your hand if you’ve been eating ice cream out of the freezer every night?! There’s definitely been a lot of quarantine snacking in our house! Dreaming of those summer days when we can go out for ice cream! Had to add an Ice Cream Cone to the Celebration C2C Blanket! Can’t have a party without cake without ice cream! Just look at that big scoop of strawberry ice cream!

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

– Ice Cream Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Baby Pink, and Clay. Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of each square after it is crocheted is approximately 16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like! You can also turn any of these squares into individual pillows. Lots of ways to use them!

Cupcake C2C Crochet Square

Present (Gift Box) Crochet Square

Balloon C2C Crochet Square

Music Note C2C Crochet Square

Hey DJ keep playin’ that song! I had to add some music to the Celebration C2C Blanket! I also think these music notes would look stunning in black and white and made into a pillow. It would be such a great gift for a music teacher!

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

– Music Note Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Fern Green, Rouge, and Lilac. Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of each square after it is crocheted is approximately 16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

I love how this purple music note turned out! Not sure what it’s called? I was never good at playing instruments or reading music!

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like! You can also turn any of these squares into individual pillows. Lots of ways to use them!

Cupcake C2C Crochet Square

Present (Gift Box) Crochet Square

Balloon C2C Crochet Square

It’s not a party without balloons! The Balloon Corner-to-Corner Crochet Square is the third square in my Celebration C2C Blanket! The surface slip stitch worked perfectly for the balloon strings. I even left them hanging over the edge a little bit. Thinking outside the box on this one!

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

– Ballon Pixel Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Yellow, Rouge, and Hot Blue. And a bit of Brown (Clay) that I used in the cupcake for the Balloon Strings Feel free to choose your own colors! Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of each square after it is crocheted is approximately 16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like! You can also turn any of these squares into individual pillows. Lots of ways to use them!

Be sure to see the other squares that have been posted:

Cupcake C2C Crochet Square

Present (Gift Box) Crochet Square

This Crochet Present (Gift Box) Corner-to-Corner Crochet Square is the second square in my Celebration C2C Blanket! I love this one because it can be used for so many occasions… especially Christmas! Change the colors to red and green and it’s perfect for holiday gift giving! You could even use this one square for the front of a pillow!

I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

Materials:
– Present Pixel Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Natural, Soft Fern, and Hot Blue. Feel free to choose your own colors! Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of my present square after it is crocheted is approximately 16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like!

Find the First Square (The Cupcake Square) HERE.

**You may make and sell products from my patterns but if you do I ask that you link back to my post. Please do not copy and post this pattern and claim it as your own. Please do not re-publish photos as your own. 

I have a new project on my hook! We’ve been celebrating a few birthdays in our house and although we didn’t expect to be having quarantine parties, we have been making the best of it and enjoying lots of family time! It got me thinking that a lot you are also celebrating special occasions at home and practicing social distancing. Which inspired me to create a Celebration Corner-to-Corner Crochet Blanket! This will be similar to my Crochet Christmas Character Afghan. The blanket will be made up of 9 corner-to-corner crochet squares. Each square is crocheted by following a pixel graph. Each pixel graph has a picture that has something to do with a birthday/party/celebration theme! I am not going to give too much away because I want each square to be a surprise. I will be posting each square in their own individual blog posts.

The first square is a Cupcake!! This is going to be the middle square! Of course you can arrange your 9 squares any way that you would like but I love that the cupcake with a heart will be the center focus. You could also crochet this square without the heart in the middle. Up to you!

 I used the C2C (corner-to-corner) technique to crochet each square.  Follow THIS VIDEO DEMONSTRATION by The Crochet Crowd for more explanation on how to crochet C2C afghans.  I used a size H crochet hook and worsted weight yarn . Specifically Bernat Super Value. Each square takes less than a skein. I do not currently have a count on how many skeins for the entire blanket.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). I like the way the overall stitches look tighter and neater. You can absolutely use the traditional method! Keep in mind that it will take a little bit more yarn and your overall project will be larger (which isn’t a bad thing!)

Materials:
– Cupcake C2C Pixel Graph. Download HERE.
– Bernat Super Value Yarn in colors, Rouge, Natural, Yellow, Baby Pink and Clay. Feel free to choose your own colors! Shop all colors of Bernat Super Value Yarn HERE on Yarnspirations.com.
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle

Each pixel graph is 24×24 squares. The finished size of my cupcake square after it is crocheted is approximately 16×16 inches. I have not added a border to it.

No better time to start a big project than now! Celebrate your loved ones! Create this blanket with as many (or as little) squares as you’d like! I would actually love to see a blanket in all different color cupcake squares.

There will be extra squares and blank graphs for you to create your own celebration square if you have an idea that I haven’t created. There are a lot of options and ways you can add on to this!

Happy New Year! 2020 is going to be a great year and I can’t wait to show you all the new crochet project ideas I have! I wanted to create something festive for New Years Eve and came up with this 2020 corner-to-corner crochet shawl. I crocheted two triangle C2C pieces then stitched them together.

Classic Blue is the Pantone color of the year so I chose this bold blue (Royal blue) from the Bernat Super Value line along with a nice gray. You could choose any color of your choice!

I made two pieces (instead of one big C2C triangle) for several reasons but mainly the numbers fit better when you place it this way on the graph. It would be hard to make c2c numbers, letters, or pictures go diagonally.

All you need to do to make the two triangle pieces is to crochet only the increases. Stop before you decrease! You can actually make the triangle as big as you want!

Materials:
– Bernat Super Value in Royal Blue and Heather Gray (one skein of each)
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Tassel maker (optional)
– Pixel Graphs get them HERE and HERE

I used the Corner-to-Corner (C2C) method to crochet the graph.If you aren’t familiar with the C2C technique, I have a video class available HERE for purchase that teaches you this technique! The Crochet Crowd also has a very helpful video tutorial for FREE that shows you the basic technique of corner-to-corner crochet. Check that out HERE.

You will need to make the left and right side graphs. It is easiest to turn the paper upside down after you print out the graph. This way you start at the corner. Stop when you get to the blue line on the graph.

If you are interested in making your own pixel graphs see THIS POST!

I joined the two pieces using a SC Lattice join. I have made a video showing you how to do this!

Happy New Year to all! I wish you health, happiness, and heaps of yarn!
Thank you for all of your support!

***You may make and sell products from my patterns but if you do I ask that you link back to my post. Please do not copy and post this pattern and claim it as your own. Please do not re-publish photos as your own. 

Want more free patterns? Keep in touch on my Repeat Crafter Me Facebook Page for new pattern sneakpeeks and when they will be available on my blog! And feel free to post pictures of your finished hats and/or links to your shops on my Facebook wall so all can see. Be sure to also follow me on Instagram! I love when you tag me (@repeatcrafterme)!

I’m dreaming of snow covered trees while living through this Southern California October heat. So while it may be 90 degrees here, I can still sit inside and crochet all the Fall, Winter, and Christmassy things 🙂 This Snowy Tree C2C (corner-to-corner crochet) project makes an awesome pillow or you can add a big border and make it into a baby blanket. I used Bernat Pipsqueak yarn for the snow and I love how it’s so fluffy and soft and looks like real snow!

Materials:
– Bernat Pipsqueak Yarn (two 250g skeins if making the pillow)
– Bernat Super Value in Kelly Green, Aqua, and a bit of Brown for the trunk
Shop all yarn HERE on yarnspirations.com
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Standard Size Pillow
– Tapestry Needle

You will want to download the Snowy Tree Pixel Graph. You can do that HERE. When you are done, it will be reversible. The same image will appear on either side of the crocheted piece. If you aren’t familiar with the C2C technique, I have a video class available HERE for purchase that teaches you this technique! The Crochet Crowd also has a very helpful video tutorial for FREE that shows you the basic technique of corner-to-corner crochet. Check that out HERE.

Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). This allowed me to have a smaller overall piece. You can absolutely use Double Crochets but your rectangle will be larger – better for a blanket instead of a pillow.

To make the pillow, you will want to crochet a back panel. I used the Pipsqueak yarn for the entire backside! Follow the same pixel graph but keep it all one color (33×27 pixel squares). The pipsqueak yarn is actually really easy to work with when using the corner-to-corner method!

Crochet the edges together using single crochets!

Add in a standard size pillow before completely closing.

Snuggle up and enjoy!

If you make this project be sure to tag me on social media so I can see your creations! Use #RepeatCrafterMe or @repeatcrafterme

***You may make and sell products from my patterns but if you do I ask that you link back to my post. Please do not copy and post this pattern and claim it as your own. Please do not re-publish photos as your own. 

Want more free patterns? Keep in touch on my Repeat Crafter Me Facebook Page for new pattern sneakpeeks and when they will be available on my blog! And feel free to post pictures of your finished hats and/or links to your shops on my Facebook wall so all can see. Be sure to also follow me on Instagram! I love when you tag me (@repeatcrafterme)!

Merry Christmas in July! It is becoming tradition for me to create a fun Christmas blanket project in the month of July. A few of the past years projects include my Crochet Christmas Lights Blanket and my Gift Box Granny Square Blanket. This year I made an adorable Corner-to-Corner Crochet Christmas Owl Blanket! It’s actually a fairly quick project, especially if you are already familiar with the C2C technique. It’s baby blanket size, measuring approximately 40×40 inches but you could always make it bigger by continuing the border.

Materials:
– 2 skeins of Bernat Super Value Yarn in and Lush Green and Topaz (you may not need both skeins of topaz but it is much easier to have both attached when working on this blanket)
– 1 skein of Bernat Super Value Yarn in Black, White, Berry Red, Mushroom, Walnut, and Bright Yellow.
Shop all colors HERE on Yarnspirations.com!
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Tapestry Needle
– Christmas Owl Pixel Graph

I used the Corner-to-Corner (C2C) method to crochet the graph. If you aren’t familiar with the C2C technique, I have a video class available HERE for purchase that teaches you this technique! This blanket is square so you don’t have to worry about increasing on one side and decrease on the other (like you would need to do in a rectangle blanket). So the square shape makes it less confusing if you are a newbie to corner-to-corner crochet. The Crochet Crowd also has a very helpful video tutorial for free that shows you the basic technique of corner-to-corner crochet. Check that out HERE.

Most Corner-to-Corner crochet projects are completely reversible! This one is too! The Santa hat will facing the other direction on the backside.

You will need to download your pixel graph. I created two color options for you but of course you can use whatever colors of yarn you desire! Did I mention that there are over 50 choices in the Bernat Super Value line?!

Download the Pixel Graph version 1 HERE and version 2 HERE

Here are some corner-to-corner crochet tips that I filmed while making the blanket! I go over changing color, making a border, and then I show a little of the candy cane edging!

Don’t you just love the candy cane border!
You can find the full tutorial HERE.

Thanks to my oldest son for stepping in as my crochet model this time! Zoe was at camp and I had this guy at home during photoshoot time 🙂 Between the matching santa hat and his rimmed glasses, I think he coordinates with the blanket perfectly!

***You may make and sell products from my patterns but if you do I ask that you link back to my post. Please do not copy and post this pattern and claim it as your own. Please do not re-publish photos as your own.***

Want more free patterns? Keep in touch on my Repeat Crafter Me Facebook Page for new pattern sneak peeks and when they will be available on my blog! And feel free to post pictures of your finished hats and/or links to your shops on my Facebook wall so all can see. Be sure to also follow me on Instagram! I love when you tag me (@repeatcrafterme)!

I wrote a Crochet Book! Crochet Cute Critters is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com! It would mean so much to me if you would consider purchasing a copy! Thank you for your continued support!!

My sons wonderful 2nd grade teacher had a fun request! She asked if I could customize a crochet blanket with a specific word on it. It was my pleasure to get started on this special piece for her and her husband. Her name is Valerie (Val) and his name is Edward (Ed) and when you put the letter “u” in the middle, it spells “VALuED” !! Isn’t that the most adorable thing you’ve ever heard?! I knew that the C2C (corner-to-corner) method of crocheting would be the perfect way to personalize this piece!

I know that this specific design wasn’t going to be useful to my Repeat Crafter Me readers, but I wanted to take this time to show you that you can easily customize your own C2C blanket using the blank pixel graph below!

You can download the Blanket C2C Graph HERE

Feel free to use any colors you wish! The turquoise and blue are just placeholders.

Use a pencil (or colored pencils) to sketch in pixel letters/words of your choice! I am providing one that says SPRING and LOVE below but wouldn’t it be sweet to make one for your kids with their name or initial in the middle?!

The size of the finished piece is about 60×35 without the border. I used a Size H crochet hook and Bernat Super Value worsted weight yarn. So many color options that you can shop RIGHT HERE.

If you aren’t familiar with the C2C technique, I have a video class available HERE for purchase that teaches you this technique! The Crochet Crowd also has a very helpful video tutorial for free that shows you the basic technique of corner-to-corner crochet. Check that out HERE.

VERY IMPORTANT: Instead of the traditional C2C method of using DC’s and chain 3’s to make each pixel, I used HDC’s and only chained 2 (and chained 5 instead 6 on the increase stitches). This allowed me to have a smaller/tighter squares. You can absolutely use the traditional method and your blanket will be even larger!

There are many options for the border. I decided to use the same border as my Rudolph C2C blanket (but I added more rounds). You can find picture and written tutorials for the border HERE.

Let me know how you customize your Crochet C2C Blanket by tagging me on social media! Use #RepeatCrafterMe in your posts!

The holidays are in full swing and I’m sure many of you are bringing home your Christmas tree this week! Which inspired me to make this little red pickup truck tree pillow! I use the corner to corner crochet technique and my “throw pillow” turned out to be the size of a standard bed pillow but it is still super cute and functional. You can never have too many cozy christmas pillows! You could also use the graph below and crochet it using SC stitches instead of C2C for a much smaller pillow. Or it doesn’t have to be a pillow at all. I considered making it a wall hanging or even part of blanket. You could easily add a big thick border!

Materials:
– Bernat Super Value yarn in Berry Red, Lush Green, White, Gray, Black, and Brown. You only need one skein each. With just a little bit of the Gray/Black/Brown. Shop all colors HERE on Yarnspirations.com
– Size H Crochet Hook
– Pickup Truck Pixel Graph
– Pickup Truck color change pattern HERE
– Tapestry Needle
– Standard size pillow (if making into a pillow)

I used the corner-to-corner crochet method to make this blanket. Instead of using DC stitches like a traditional C2C, I used HDC. See video below on how to corner-to-corner crochet using the Half Double Crochet!

First you will want to download the Pickup Truck Tree Pixel Graph. You can do that HERE. When you are done, it will be reversible! The same image will appear on either side (the truck will just be facing the other direction). If you aren’t familiar with the C2C technique, I have a video class available HERE for purchase that teaches you this technique! The CrochetCrowd also has a very helpful video tutorial for FREE that shows you the basic technique of corner-to-corner crochet. Check that out HERE.

JUST ADDED! Jenn from Jenn’s Creative Crochet has graciously created the written color change pattern for this project! I know this helps out so many of you who don’t like counting each pixel square. You can get the free downloadable PDF of the written color change pattern HERE. 

You can follow Jenn’s Creative Crochet HERE on facebook and find her own pixel graph designs HERE in her Etsy shop! 

ALSO NEWLY ADDED! I forgot to post a second version of this graph! I had come up with two versions originally… one with the tree laying sideways and one with the tree standing up upright. Wanted to pass along this other graph to those that might like it better! Get the Pickup Truck Tree Graph Version #2 HERE.

If you are going to make this into a pillow you will need to make another C2C piece the same size as the pickup truck piece but in a solid color (I chose gray). You can follow the blank graph below.

No need to add borders! You will simply crochet the two pieces together! Make a SC between each “square” along the edges, chain 2, and SC in the next space. When you get to the corners you will want to make a SC in the corner. See picture below.

Insert pillow before completely closing!

Happy Holidays and Happy Crocheting!