Project Reveal: Crocheting Clothes Kids Love

Look! I found an old post that I apparently never published!

 Coming in February, AVAILABLE NOW, the book Shelby Allaho and I wrote, Crocheting Clothes Kids Love! will be hitting Amazon. It's available for pre-order now. 

This Backpack was so much fun to make.  The bottom photo is of the backpack Open.  In the flap, secured with buttons, would be a great place to put a little sketchbook.

Here's the original sketch... my designs always evolve a bit.  I'll be revealing more patterns as time goes on.

Here's the link for your holiday shopping! Get a closer look on Amazon.

Yarn Giveaway WINNER!

And the winner of the Yarn giveaway...

the yarn to make both sets of mittens from Crocheting Clothes Kids Love....

is....


Denise A (sealed4ever)

Congratulations!

Please either send me a comment with your address (I won't publish it) or email me at Ellen @ GoCrochet.com with your mailing address and I'll get your prize pack sent out!

Thanks to everyone for entering!

Happy Crochet Month!

Please look at yesterday's post for a free pattern for everyone.

Book Giveaway!

Designer, Jocelyn is doing a review and giveaway of Crocheting Clothes Kids Love TODAY!

So, read my post yesterday and enter to win yarn for the mittens in the book, then go to Cute Crochet and enter to win the book! Thank you, Jocelyn! You have seen many of the photos of my projects, but Jocelyn also shows many photos of Shelby's projects, which are whimsical and delightful.

Happy Crochet Month! GIVEAWAY!

Did you see Shelby Allaho's awesome post yesterday to kick of Crochet Month?  Go check it out and see what crochet has to do with awesome wrapping paper.... you're going to love it.

My gift to you on this Crochet Month is a GIVEAWAY!  I have a set of YARN to giveaway to make both sets of the kids mittens in my book with Shelby Allaho, Crocheting Clothes Kids Love. 

 

The prize pack includes 5 skeins of Patons Classic Wool DK Superwash (which you are going to love!). It's enough to make both sets of mittens from our book! 

To enter the giveaway, leave a comment on THIS post with your first name, last initial and something to identify you, a unique nickname, a town, etc.  This giveaway if for US residents. You may enter between now and March 14th. A winner will be chosen at random from the valid entries.  The winner will be announced on March 15th. The winner needs to contact me by March 30th with your shipping address so I can mail you the yarn! 

I have a FREE PATTERN coming up before St. Patrick's Day (March 17th). So keep checking back here for more Crochet Month fun!

My post today, and Shelby's post yesterday are part of Crochetville's 2014 Blog Tour for National Crochet Month! Crochetville chose Halos of Hope this year as our charity to promote. If you aren't familiar with this wonderful organization, they accept donations of crocheted, knitted, and sewn hats, that they distribute to 450 cancer treatment centers in the US each month. If you are interested in donating hats or money to help get the hats distributed, please visit their website.  The Underground Crafter also has a post up for Crochet Month, go check her out!

FREE Slipper Pattern!

The publisher of Crocheting Clothes Kids Love is offering one of Shelby's patterns for FREE. 
The Crocheted Buckle Bow Slipper Pattern is offered on the Craftside Blog!  Enjoy!

Margaret Hubert Reviews "Crocheting Clothes Kids Love"

Check out Margaret's blog where she reviews Crocheting Clothes Kids Love by me and Shelby Allaho!  

Congratulations! (and more peeks!)

And the winner of the Crocheting Clothes Kids Love Book Giveaway is Hiba Yuki!

I have sent her an email and will be sending out her book shortly.  For the rest of you, thank you very much for entering to win. I'm in the process of adding the patterns from the book to the book page on Ravelry.

Would you like to see a few more photos?

Crocheting Clothes Kids Love

GIVEAWAY! Crocheting Clothes Kids Love pattern book!

Here are just a few of my patterns in Crocheting Clothes Kids Love. There are clothes and accessories for boys and girls, little kids and big kids.  Hats and scarves, and tops and skirts and belts and bags and all with love and care and color we knew kids would love. There will be some bloggers reviewing the book for us, but here at GoCrochet and Shelby's blog Stitch-story@blogspot.com are the "hubs" of activity.

Above is the "Hip to be Me Vest".  I must have sketched at least 5 ways to construct the vest before I decided to do a foundation row at the shoulder and work down the front, then work down the back from the shoulder as well.  So the only sewing is at the side seams. In sizes 4 (6, 8, 10, 12).

Below, you'll find the "Mohawk Earflap Hat"  It was so much fun to find a solution to the mohawk.  How to make it "stand up" without being just boring cut yarn.  I'm sure Chief will be wearing this at the next Michigan football game. (Go Blue!)  (Yes, I know, we live in Ohio, but Tom went to Michigan for grad school, so since they got our money, they also get our loyalty.)

I have a signed (by just me) copy of Crocheting Clothes Kids Love, for one random winner.

The mittens, I'm so proud to say are worked two different ways.  Either set, with a change of color, could be made for girls or boys. The blue mittens are worked from the cuff/wrist up to the fingertips. The pink textured mittens are worked from the fingertips down to the wrist.  a Rafflecopter giveaway

Can you 'Hold on' for one more day?

Just one more day!  Shelby Allaho and I have been waiting, mostly patiently, for the release of our new book Crocheting Clothes Kids Love.

It is so exciting to have the book released. COME BACK tomorrow for a GIVEAWAY of the new book. I will give one away (to a US resident... sorry, shipping is so expensive outside of the USA).

Of course, this is "Hold On" by Wilson Phillips. I was reminded of this song by special stand-in Mom, Glenda. She mentioned that this song was meaningful to her during a tough time.  I heard a new song the other day that might just become my new theme song... I'll try to share it with you next week.

Nice to "Meet" you

It was a good thing Chickee was home yesterday on a snow day so that she could help me use FaceTime. (I'm a video-chat newbie). Together we got to meet Shelby Allaho.  It is absolutely amazing that Shelby and I wrote Crocheting Clothes Kids Love without ever having met or even talking on the phone. All our correspondence was done by email as we collaborated on designs, yarn choices, and the written text all through the process.

Now that the book is a mere 9 days from being released we have finally "met".  Not exactly in person, but so close! 

Shelby still has not received her author copy of our book thinking that perhaps that it has gotten lost in en route across the ocean. We had decided that I would not look at my copy until she got hers and we could open them together. Since hers went missing we decided to Face Time and I opened my package and we looked at my copy together.

It's not spiral bound but it has a really interesting binding that does IN FACT lay flat when open without "breaking" the binding.

The photography is really, really good!  Thank you Nancy Langdon for the beautiful photography.

Here's another peek of a project....

Including a Tunisian boy's tee. It did evolve from the original sketch but I think you'll be happy with the subtle texture, cotton comfort, and easy drape.

Crocheting Clothes Kids Love on Goodreads

Are you on the social media site, Goodreads?

My books, Go Crochet! Afghan Design Workbook, and Learn Bruges Lace are both listed on there. Now Crocheting Clothes Kids Love is up! 

Go check it out! Then go order one for yourself :)  hee hee, only a couple more days until the book's official release on February 1.  Also, save your pennies because Shelby Allaho, my co-author will be in the USA, and we will be TOGETHER signing books at the Knit and Crochet Show in Manchester, NH in July.  More details later at the date approaches, but this gives you time to make your plans to visit with us.

Ok, I can't wait!  Here is a favorite piece of mine from the book. A simple tank with a great edging and optional corsage. I can't wait for you to see it on a child in the book. Too cute.  Need a reminder of the other peeks that I have posted?  Check them out here.

Crocheting Clothes Kids Love Peek!

 Here is one of the earliest sketches of the projects for Crocheting Clothes Kids Love.  Less than 3 months now until the release of this book with my co-author, Shelby Allaho. The sketch gives a sense of the wavy stitch pattern, gives a sense of the overall size and shape.  Now that I look at it, I think it's funny that I call it a "crazy" color scheme!  It's crazy for ME because I don't usually favor colors in the orange/yellow wedge of the color wheel but I knew that kids would love the colors and combination.  What you don't see, is how the bag evolved over time!  There is a little secret hidden in side the bag. Can you guess what it might be? 

You can get a glimpse of the final backpack in the upper photos on the cover.

Sneak Peek!

Shelby Allaho, my co-author on Crocheting Clothes Kids Love offers a sneak peek of one of the projects today!

Stitch-Story.com

Crocheting Clothes Kids Love

Goes to the printer TODAY!  WooHOO!  February can't come soon enough!

And as an ADDED bonus... It's going to have "lay-flat" binding.... not sure what that means, but it sounds good.  That's a new development! YAY!

Crocheting Clothes Kids Love is available for PRE-ORDER.

Crocheting Clothes Kids Love

Here's the OFFICIAL cover....  of Crocheting Clothes Kids Love by Shelby Allaho and Ellen Gormley, coming in February, 2014.