the Autumn urge

I guess its the crispness in the air, the gorgeous fall colors, or the anticipation of the cold season that follows it but Autumn always seems to evoke in me an urge to crochet. I know that soon the ones I love will have a need for warmth and I love nothing more than filling that need.

Right now the weather here is still warm so it's not quite time for hats and scarves. Yet, I still want to crochet. I have found the perfect small crochet projects in Linda Permann's lovely book Crochet Adorned.

I love this book. Linda's projects are so creative and opened my eyes to a whole new world of crochet. Many of her projects combine sewing and crocheting.

I was inspired by the Garden Party Cardigan featured on the cover and appliqued pretty crocheted flowers to one of my little girls sweaters.

I love how it turned out. It's too sweet for words. I'm working on another with a different color scheme for my other little girl.

I was a bit intimidated by the thought of sewing these flowers onto the sweater. Linda's tutorial here made the process go smooth though. Now these little guys are waiting to be sewn onto something.

Little birdies, another great pattern from Crochet Adorned. Perhaps they want to perch on some pillows, we'll see.

Comments

[Heather]

Oh my, those are adorable. That really made the sweater so special. I need to start doing this more, it so enhances certain pieces of clothing. Great post

[lily boot]

wow! they are gorgeous - especially the birds. That looks like one lovely book that might just tip me over into crochet :-) Thanks for the inspiration.

[Jodi]

The little birds are so cute....My crocheting usually only includes about two stitches -- double crocheting and granny squares. I really think I need to start trying new things. Thanks for inspiring.

[Heather]

TypePad HTML EmailIf you can do those two stitches then you can anything! I started the same way.

[ali]

Oh my goodness, that turned out sooo sweet! and those birds are very cool!!

[The Jolly Bee]

One more thing....I wanted to invite you to participate in my drawing for an apron. I'm nearing 100 blog entries and I thought it was worth celebrating. I hope you'll head on over and enter -- Jodi

[Suzanne]

hello little birdies!