Zookeeper Hat - Bunny

Premier Hush® is a wonderful bulky weight yarn perfect for creating plush and warm items for your loved one. Hush works up quickly for quick-to-go items in wonderful solid pastels and great prints, perfect for the ”tots” in your life. Hush is great on its own, but it also works well in combination with other yarns, like Ever Soft®. We've combined these two yarns to create an adorable hat for kids and adults as well.

Anyone in the family can have a fun bunny hat. The Zookeeper Bunny Hat, knit/crochet pattern found here, gives both knit and crochet directions for three different sizes, from infant to adult. Knitting or crocheting a hat for a boy bunny? Simply switch out the pink yarn for blue.

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Animal hats are always fun for kids and adults as well. The Puppy Hat is another great hat pattern that you will enjoy making and wearing as well. Check it out here.

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Couture Jazz Woven Cowl

If you were in Girl Scouts, you might remember weaving a "Sit-Upon" out of newspaper or some other type of paper. Or maybe you made woven potholders. Chances are, you've done a little bit of weaving somewhere. If not, no problem. We're going to show you how to weave with Couture Jazz® to make a soft, warm cowl.

You will need a piece of cardboard and something to hold your yarn onto the cardboard. We've used the top of a paper box and some straight pins, but you could also use clothespins or binder clips to hold your yarn to the box while you weave.

 

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Fashion Jeweltones Shell Texting Mitts

A soft, cozy yarn that self-stripes; what more could a girl who knits and crochets want? Oh yeah, a little bit of BLING! And Deborah Norville Fashion Jeweltones® has just that! Tonal sequins peek out of your stitches to add some fun sparkle to winter accessories and garments. Jeweltones is a #2 fine weight yarn that comes in 11 beautiful colors, some of them with self-stripes.

While we're all dreaming of spring, we still have a few chilly days ahead. These fun mitts will warm your hands in sparkling style. They're fingerless, so they're easy to crochet and leave your fingers free to use your cell phone. And because Jeweltones is 40% wool, they will still be warm for your hands. This is an easy project, but you will need to check your gauge to make sure your mitts fit properly. We've used a size G hook.

The pattern for these cute-as-a-button mitts can be found here. Grab a crochet hook and let's get started.

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Texting mitts are a must-have for any fashionable woman's winter wardrobe. We also have a texting mitt project that uses Serenity Chunky® yarn so they work up very quickly. That project can be found here.

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Arm Knit Scarf - Ever Soft, City Life, Enchant

Now that we know how to arm knit, it's time to get creative with yarns and color combinations. For this scarf, we have combined Ever Soft, City Life, and Enchant, all from Premier Yarns. Maggie offers some tips on working with multiple strands here.

Ever Soft is a light-worsted weight oh-so-soft acrylic perfect for a wide range of projects. This brilliant and lustrous yarn offers great tonal ranges ideal for afghans – and a seasonal palette of brights and pastels perfect for year-round garments for babies, kids, and adults!

Add a little bling to your wardrobe with City Life, a beautiful track yarn. Perfect for fun and quick jewelry projects, it adds a touch of sparkle and an element of classiness to any project. Accessory projects really shine when knit or crocheted with City Life.

Enchant features a high effect metallic thread with payettes. Payettes are soft next to the skin, making Enchant perfect for delicate jewelry pieces. Combine Enchant with your favorite Premier yarn for your next knitting or crocheting project to add some sparkle and flash and really create a showstopper.

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If you still need to work on the basics of arm knitting, this post has everything you need to know.
You can also watch Maggie's Arm Knitting Tips Playlist on Youtube (or this link for the lefties) for more in-depth information on the ins and outs of arm knitting.

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Go Team Stadium Cushion

We all love sports and have our favorite teams, whether it’s football, basketball or soccer. And we love to show off our team colors whenever we can. Deborah Norville Everyday “Go Team” Yarn® makes it easy to find your team’s colors. It comes in 13 color combinations, sure to match your favorite!

Spun with exclusive pill-resistant acrylic, “Go Team” is ideal for projects for the whole family. Machine wash and dry for easy care; and your projects will have that ”just finished” look for wash after wash. Premiers ”smart prints” create the look of stripes and Fair Isle color changing without the work, beautiful in both knit and crochet! Premiers “rich solids” coordinate beautifully with our prints. And did we mention the softness of this yarn? You’ll love it!

Cheer on your favorite team—and avoid hard bleachers—with this great crocheted seat cushion.

 

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Pom Pom Pixie Children's Bag

Bring the hottest European fashion trend to kidswear with Pom Pom Party® specialty yarn from Premier. Each skein features 8 multi-colored pompoms hand-tied to the yarn, offering fun and funky texture to projects ranging from hats to sweaters, blankets, and toys.

Pom Pom Party Yarn

Perfect for carrying everything your little girl needs, this delightful bag is made extra special with bright colors and fun pom poms. She will love showing off her Pom Pom Pixie bag to her friends. This bag is the perfect size for carrying school work. It would also be fun for your little ballerina to carry her shoes and accessories to ballet class.

Front view of the Pom Pom Pixie bag

Close up view

Back view of bag showing back pack straps

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Flower Dance Alpaca Shawl

Isn't this shawl beautiful? We think so. It is called Alpaca Flower Dance Shawl (pattern here) and is made with Alpaca Dance® yarn from Premier. This shawl displays a beautiful medley of colors to create a stunning wrap made for warmth and style.

Alpaca Dance is a luscious blend of 75% acrylic and 25% alpaca, making it soft, soft, SOFT, perfect for wearables and home decor projects. It is a hand wash, dry flat yarn. Alpaca Dance comes in 20 gorgeous colors.

This project uses the join-as-you-go method to attach the 27 motifs together to create the finished piece. This is an intermediate skill, but you will love learning it and it is sure to become one of your favorite methods of joining motifs together instead of sewing them individually.

One individual motif

Close up view of the joins

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Left video:http://youtu.be/IK8ILjSK9SA

Pattern http://www.premieryarns.com/Product/Flower+Dance+Shawl.aspx

Yarn: http://www.premieryarns.com/product.aspx?sku=010065P&sk=alpaca+

How To Crochet a T-Shirt Rug

We all know that crochet is great for home decor projects. Many of us grew up with Moms or Grandmothers who crocheted kitchen rugs out of scraps or feed sacks, fabrics that were durable and stood up to a lot of wear and tear and the kitchen. Craft Tee® Yarn from Premier is a yarn made of t-shirt knit material. This makes it perfect for home decor projects like rugs, pillows or even bowls. Craft Tee is a number 6 super bulky weight yarn that comes in 16 beautiful colors to match any color scheme. We will be making a simple round rug from the pattern found here.

You will need a large crochet hook, sized P or Q. This is a great project for beginners, so let's get started.

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Bouquet of Roses

Everyone loves roses, and nothing makes you feel special like receiving a gift of roses. Wouldn’t it be great to give a gift of roses that will last? With this Bouquet of Roses crochet pattern, you can do just that. Make one or several, mix and match colors, get creative with it. The possibilities are endless.

For this project you will need a worsted weight yarn like Everyday® from Premier Yarns, a size 7 (4.5mm) crochet hook, a tapestry needle and several pieces of floral wire. You can use a flower vase to hold your roses, or something as simple as a plain drinking glass or even a mason jar. We’ve also added a piece of ribbon to the jar to add a touch of elegance.

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Faux Fur Pom Pom Scarf

Looking for an easy-to-make scarf that’s also stylish and fun? The Faux Fur Pom Pom scarf is perfect. The only crochet skill required is the chain stitch, so this is a great project for beginners. This scarf is made with Serenity Chunky yarn and medium sized Faux Fur Pom Poms. The pattern can be found here.

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Arm Knitting Challenge Sponsored by Maggie's Crochet and Premier Yarns

Enter the Arm Knitting Challenge by March 4, 2014 11:59PM EST.

Please join us in our next Challenge sponsored by Premier® Yarns. To join the fun, arm knit a creation using Maggie's arm knitting tips and lesson videos as your guide. You may submit a scarf or afghan as Maggie shows you or submit your own arm knit object.

Favorite Project (People's Choice) Wins $50 value of Premier Yarns!

On March 5, 2014 a photo album of all entries will be posted to Facebook.com/MaggiesCrochet.
Vote by  "liking" an entry. The winner will be announced March 12, 2014

Check out the full collection of Premier Yarns and purchase materials online at www.PremierYarns.com.

Please read the Arm Knitting Challenge Rules and Submission Guidelines

Suggested Materials:

Serenity Chunky

Starbella Lace

Starry Night

City Life

Enchant

Ever Soft

Couture Jazz

Saturate

Post your in-progress photos to www.Facebook.com/MaggiesCrochet or www.Facebook.com/PremierYarn

Get some inspiration from some of the entries from our previous challenges:

Enchanted Scarf Challenge

PomPom Hat Challenge

Blooming Granny Challenge

Starbella Strata Hand Chained Scarf

Premier® Starbella® Strata^TM  is like no other ruffling yarn you've seen. Strata is actually a pre-knit tube that can be pulled and stretched to make a cowl. It can also be knitted or crocheted like any ruffling yarn. Today we will be hand-chaining it to make a beautiful scarf. So easy!

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Home Cotton Kitchen Towel

Premier® Home Cotton^TM Solids and Multis is the perfect yarn for making kitchen towels and dishcloths. Home Cotton Yarn is cotton blended with polyester which means projects dry faster, colors stay brighter longer and hand-made projects last longer!This easy Kitchen Towel is a great beginning crochet project. Give it a try!


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Starbella Popover Pillow

Premier® Starbella® is so versatile! We've shown you how easy it is to make a ruffled scarf with Starbella. Now look how easy it is to crochet this Popover Pillow. You get the best of both worlds by crocheting the pillow cover, then using the ruffling side of Starbella to make the ruffled fringe on the pillow.

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