MaryJ Homemade's Miniature Backpack

Shalom y'all! I finished making these little backpacks last week, they are just SO cute!!! 

Now, this is NOT MY PATTERN! It can be found here on video at Crochet Miniature Backpack by MaryJ Handmade (and on Ravelry here ). I was going to provide a written pattern to this, since the video goes pretty fast, but that's against copyright so no can do. Unless and until Mary J gives permission, the video will have to do.

Tess Ciarloni's Crochet Boho Crop Top

Just completed all the finishing touches on this beauty, modeled by the lovely Erika, who I made this for :)

This is the first shirt I ever crocheted (most of what I knit and crochet are hats, slippers, and washcloths) and I am quite pleased with the result. The free pattern is here on Pop Shop America, which I (of course) highly recommend. It is not nearly as complicated as it looks; it was just complicated enough to keep me interested. If you want to see my project notes, you can see them here on Ravelry.

Greetings!

Shalom y'all! This is my blog that will detail my adventures in knitting and crochet. In case y'all don't know, chains are of course used in crochet, and a WIP is a Work In Progress, both in knitting and crochet.

I go by either Debbie or DeeDee -- I got the nickname DeeDee from my nephew Brandon when he was little and couldn’t say Debbie. I added the Q later when I met my friend (now wife) Mary Sue, who was called SuzyQ by her late father. The 5724 is my birth year on the Hebrew calendar, which I picked when there were more than one DeeDeeQ on yahoo mail! Anyway, I go by DeeDeeQ5724 on Ravelry and Flickr.

I learned to knit about 30 years ago, when I was visiting my pen pal in Copenhagen. Well, she TRIED to teach me, but all she really succeeded in was teaching me how to cast on! (Not a bad thing at all.) I found a knitting book sometime later which showed me how to do the stitches and I became a knitting fool! My paternal grandmother used to crochet but she never taught me -- I learned how about 15 years ago, again with a book. 

Back to Ravelry, where I spend most of my time online (that and Facebook!). It's a great website for fabric artists of various kinds, and you can catalog your WIPs, your stash of yarn, patterns you want to make, plus find many more patterns and yarns there. And if you find a pattern online that isn't  on Ravelry, you can publish it yourself. I just did that with this cute little backpack pattern, which is available on YouTube. But there's no written pattern, so I am starting this blog to be able to publish that (if I get her permission), as well as patterns I have devised myself.

DDQ