Archive for the ‘Crochet-a-Longs’ Category

I have quite a few customers interested in doing the Bernat Mystery Crochet-Along 2010.  This fun project crochets a sampler afghan by giving new clues every Wednesday, starting on September 22nd.

The featured Bernat yarn is Bernat Softee Chunky – a 12 ply acrylic.  American Yarns is the only Australian supplier of Bernat, so if you’d like to be involved and need to order some yarn, please send me an e-mail:  info (at) americanyarns (dot) com (dot) au.  The price is $4.00 per 100g ball.

For more details on the Bernat Mystery Crochet-Along, go here and to follow the progress of the project and gather clues each week, go to Bernat’s Blog.

If I have time, I might join in as well!  Have fun everyone!

A basket for the Easter Bunny!

Crochet this adorable basket for easter as an alternative to giving chocolate or for somewhere to put all thos eggs!  Free pattern from LionBrand.com – choose any wool/acrylic/cotton you desire. Plain colours work best.

This project is very good for practising your increasing/decreasing skills in crochet as well as crocheting in the round.

COST:  FREE ! (materials not included)

TIME:  Every Saturday morning in March, 9am to 10am

LOCATION:  American Yarns, Shop 3, 265 Blaker Road, Grovely, Brisbane, Australia, 4054

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I am in the process of offering crochet-alongs for my customers and after reading a few other blogs, got the idea to offer a 12 month crochet-along calendar to inspire you at different times throughout the year.

If you are in Brisbane, you’re welcome to come along to a FREE class in-store.  They’ll be on saturday mornings from 9am to 10am.  If you’re not nearby, you are of course welcome to participate online!  I am in the process of working on an avatar/JPG/button for you to post on your blog.  You can come back and post links to your blog after you’ve completed each project if you like.

The patterns I am choosing can all be found on, or as links on, Ravelry.com.  I have themed each project on the song “12 days of Christmas” and it is rhymed along woth the first line – “On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me…”.

My projects start with:  “In the first month of crocheting, I made from Ravelry…”

So come along and join in the fun – we’d love to see you!

This year I’ve decided to offer my customers the opportunity to purchase the kits to make the garments featured in Lion Brand’s Crochet-a-Longs.

Starting with this month’s project -  The Moderne Jacket.  This lovely warm jacket is crocheted with two strands together of Lion Wool and Lion Cashmere Blend

There are four sizes available – small, medium, large and extra-large.

For those of you conscious of price, because let’s face it, the starting price of $187 for the small is a bit exy, you can crochet this with two strands of Vanna’s Choice and Vanna’s Glamour (available by Pre-Order) together.  The project tutor – Heather – will be posting about this in the Lion Brand blog on Thursday (US time).

Happy Crocheting!