Crochet shape patterns

Everything in the world can be broken down into very basic and simple shapes. When you look at anything  in life you're probably seeing simple breakdowns of many sized circles, squares, rectangles, and triangles or pretty much any other shapes that are closely related to those ones.  With all these shapes you can build anything that you can imagine.   With combinations of different shapes you can create a whole new complete shape. We can do all this with a little yarn and a crochet hook. I will show you how to create all the wonderful basic shapes that you will need to make any project your imagination can come up with.

Abbreviation Key:

(if you have any troubles go to youtube, they have tons of awesome tutorials)
ch = Chain

sc = Single Crochet

st = Stitch

sl = slip

rep = repeat

Rnd =round that you are working in a circular fashion

Row= row you are working

* = denotes repeats

tog = together

dec = decrease by looping together next two single crochet    stitches

bp = Back Post

inc = Increase by adding another single crochet into the      same stitch also written as "2sc"

(First comes first, aways start with your basic chain stitch)

Basic Squares:

ROW 1: ch 10, turn

ROW 2-10: *1 sc, rep from *to end of row, turn

 After your Last stitch on row 10 Fasten with sl st.

Basic Circles:

RND 1: Beg. Ch 2

RND 2: 5 sc into Beg st

RND 3: *2 sc  rep from * to end of rnd

RND 4: *1 sc, 2 sc, rep from * to end of rnd

RND 5: *1 sc, 1 sc, 2 sc, rep from * to end of rnd

RND 6: *1 sc, 1 sc, 1 sc, 2 sc, rep from * to end of rnd

(to make even larger continue with the trend of the pattern increasing "1 sc" each rnd)

END RND: *1 sc, rep from * to end of rnd (if wavy around the edges add one more RND of  1 sc ), fasten with a sl st

Triangle (top to bottom {has a curve to it}):

ROW 1: ch 8, turn

ROW 2-5: *1sc rep from * to end of row, turn

ROW 6: sc dc, *1 sc, rep from *until you have 2 sts left, sc dc, turn

ROW 7-9: *1sc rep from * to end of row, turn

ROW 10: sc dc, *1 sc, rep from *until you have 2 sts left, sc dc, turn

ROW 11-12: *1sc rep from * to end of row, turn

ROW 13: *sc dc, rep from * to end of row, turn

ROW 14: *1sc rep from * to end of row, turn

ROW 15: sc dc, turn

ROW 16: sc, fasten to make sl st

Basic Tubes:

RND 1: ch 10 (or however many you need)

RND 2: *1 sc, rep from * to end of rnd

RND 3-15: *1 sc rep from * to end of rnd, fasten with sl st.

(To make larger add more ch sts to the Beg, to make longer just keep rep RND 3.)






So now that you know the basic shapes you can experiment with them to create your own awesome shapes that you can use for anything!!!!

so frickin nervous

I haven't worked at a real job for almost a year now, i've just been making hats and doing whatever...

I start my first day at friendly's today.... as a waitress. Ive never been a waitress but i've heard lots of bad shit and some good... but either way i'm not sure if i'll do a good job or not... i'm really nervous...to the point where i kinda feel ill. but hopefully it will all turn out fine.  hope i will still have time for my hats... :o(

ok well i guess i'm off to work...
*nervous yay...*
wish me luck
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Shy Guy from NINTENDO Mario Brothers Custom Hat

This is the first of my newest series of hats. This is Shy Guy he's a character from a video game call Mario Brothers by Nintendo.

These hat ideas started when I ask my bf what kind of hat I should make next .... he of course being an avid fan of video games said Mario. then he immediately showed me a photo of the Shy Guy character.  I recognized him right away and said "hell yeah I can make a Shy Guy! If I can make Optimus prime... I can make anything!"

So I set to work and over night all the parts were crocheted. As I started to pin the pieces together to form the hat I knew right away this hat was going to come out exactly how I wanted   :o)
Then today after I went out and enjoyed the beautiful weather, I came back inside to sew the Shy Guy up.  He actually didn't take very long to make but then again I'm an insomniac so night time goes by like day time... way too fast.

But anywho I really hope you like him!  More coming soon!!!
I'd love to know what you think of him so feel free to leave comments below :o)
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