Crochet Chiq

Hello everyone! Whew this past weekend at the CHA has been a whirlwind! I got hit hard with cold so thank you for waiting a few days for me to get this post up!! For those that don't know this last Friday to Tuesday was the Craft and Hobby Show in Anaheim, CA . As you can see above I ran into Mikey from The Crochet Crowd in the Red Heart booth. Red Heart has a new motto this year " Make it. Love it. Share it. " Mikey and Diva Dan were a delight to meet in person! I can not say enough what down to earth real and awesome people they were! I really enjoyed speaking with them at the booth, on the show room floor and at the Prime CHA Networking event.

I am floored with EXCITEMENT!!!! It's not every day that one of your crochet mentors messages you to let you know that he loved your pattern enough to make a RED HEART video about it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am so honored Mikey choose my pattern out of the 1,000's that are available on the redheart.com website! I remember the first time Mikey Instant messaged me I jumped up and down and said I am chatting with THE Mikey!!! Yes the "the" was necessary  at the time I was just a fan and I was happy when I got 5 view on my small blog a day! I had asked him what he thought about my First AFC video and he gave me soo much good advice! fast forward 1.5 years ish and now he filmed one of my designs :)

I am on crocodile overload because Mikey @  The Crochet Crowd  with  AllFreeCrochet  are doing a huge giveaway!! (Details can be found on the crochet crowd website click on the link above) So I give you the simple easy and fun Crocodile Cuff I used a size F hook and  a teal size 3 and a sparkle white crochet fashion thread size 10 chain 16 for an xtra small wrist ( you should be able to slip it on and off) or 23 Row 1 - chain 4 and 2 dc in the 5th chain from the hook, *skip 1 space and chain 1, skip one space and 2 dc in next space* Repeat until the end. sl to first stitch * you make the crocodile stitches  around all the 2 dc's and IGNORE the single dcs. Row 2 - ch1, *5 dc around the first dc, dc around the next dc , skip the 1 dc* repeat This is where you put 2 dc ** You want your second row of scales to be inbetween the first row*** This is where you want to put 1 dc Row 3 - with alt color attach and ch 3 on any single dcm ...

A clutch is in progress here using redheart changes yarn! Wow is April almost over already?? This month has zoomed by so quickly! I would like to start by thanking Michael  Sellick @ the  Crochet Crowd  for all of his encouragement and help!Did you know I learned how to crochet by watching his videos and reading his patterns?  Check him out on facebook, pintrest and youtube!  <a HREF="http://ws.amazon.com/widgets/q?rt=tf_mfw&ServiceVersion=20070822&MarketPlace=US&ID=V20070822%2FUS%2Fcrocchiq-20%2F8001%2Fb3e1bc35-b04a-49ed-82de-5322c800ae69&Operation=NoScript">Amazon.com Widgets</A> AFC Also a huge thanks To Blogger: Crochet Chiq - Create Post  Christine @  AFC   for brainstorming with me on i...