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Crochet Succulents and Cacti Will Brighten Up Your Window Sill

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Brighten up your desktop or a windowsill with beautiful beautiful crochet succulents and cacti that you never need to feed, water or prune. If you’re looking for a quick, easy project with a wonderful payoff, pull out your needles and start crocheting these colorful flowering plants.

Here’s Why You Need These Crochet Succulents

You love to knit and crochet, but sometimes, your preferred projects can take a long time. You also might be getting bored with the usual scarves or hats.

With these crochet patterns, you can quickly create bright, pretty decorations for your home or office. Making these is an enjoyable project that’s suitable for any skill level.

Totally Precious Potted Plants

These darling potted plants are perfect for you or for a gift.

Are you far from a green thumb? Do you kill every plant you attempt to grow? That’s not a problem because these plants require no care.

Are you looking for the perfect gift for someone who needs cheering up? These tiny, darling flowers will bring a smile to anyone’s face.

Find Your Favorite Flowers

You can choose a miniature planter packed with spiny cacti or a blooming Christmas cactus.

If you prefer flowers, select a colorful planter filled with primroses, pansies or African violets. They are all bright, realistic and totally adorable.

How Can You Get Crochet Succulents?

The patterns for these projects are available from the Etsy store Planet June, which specializes in crochet patterns. Reviewers say these plant patterns are fun, quick and easy to do.

As soon as you make the payment, you’ll get an instant download of the pattern you choose. All you have to do is choose your yarn.

Have fun making these darling plants for your next project.

Grandfather With Vitiligo Crochets Dolls To Boost Children’s Self-Esteem

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When one grandfather took up crocheting as a retirement hobby, he had no idea it would lead to a whole new career creating inspiring, life-changing dolls for children and adults.

 

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Making a Memory

Joao Stanganelli, Jr., a 64-year-old Brazilian man, wanted to give his granddaughter a memory of himself that would be more meaningful than a photograph. He decided to make her a crochet doll.

Stanganelli has vitiligo, a skin condition that causes the skin to lose pigmentation unevenly. When he made the doll, he named her Vitiliga and gave her the same white patches he had.

Inclusion and Self-Esteem

His granddaughter and her friends loved the doll. Soon, children and adults with vitiligo were asking for their own dolls.

Stanganelli and his wife estimate they have made more than 200 dolls for people with skin conditions, physical disabilities, visual impairment and other things that made them feel left out, embarrassed or ashamed.

 

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“I want to give them representation and self-esteem,” he said.

He’s Still Crocheting Away

Stanganelli uses the amigurumi method of crocheting. Amigurumi items tend to be soft and fluffy, which makes them especially comforting.

His Instagram page features dozens of children posing with their doll replicas. The busy grandfather says he’s still working hard, but now he gets to work at something that brings joy to himself and others.

 

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Celebrate Christmas with a Crochet Nativity Scene in Amigurumi Style

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It’s never too early to start a new needlework project, and Gourmet Crochet is ready to help with an utterly adorable Crochet Nativity Scene.

Crochet Nativity

Here’s Why You Need to Make a Crochet Nativity

It’s ridiculously cute.

  • It makes a wonderful gift.
  • It gives you a chance to use up your spare yarn.
  • You can customize the colors to your liking.

Where Can You Buy the Pattern?

It’s available from Gourmet Crochet.

Gourmet Crochet is an Etsy seller who specializes in unique patterns for amigurumi and other crochet projects.

When Do You Get Instructions for the Crochet Nativity?

The instructions are available as an instant, digital download. You can see them as soon as your payment is processed.

Reviews for this pattern say that the instructions are clear, detailed and easy to follow. You should have no trouble creating this adorable crochet nativity scene.

Crochet Nativity

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Hand-Knitted Baby Bird Nests Needed For Local Rescue Group

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If you’re like most knitters, you probably have more yarn than you know what do with. Now, you can put your yarn to good use creating hand-knitted baby bird nests.

Knitted Baby Bird Nests

Carolina Waterfowl Rescue (CWR) needs tiny, knitted or crocheted nests for their orphaned and abandoned baby birds. CWR takes in thousands of baby waterfowl and songbirds every year. Rescuers need soft, cozy nests to keep these fragile babies warm. A secure nest ensures that the birds’ legs will grow properly.

Knitted Baby Bird Nests

Tremendous Response

The need for nests is especially critical in the spring. CWR puts out a plea for the handmade nests every year. In the past, they only received a few hundred. This year, the call went viral.

Knitted Baby Bird Nests

An adorable picture of a baby bird in a handmade nest went from CWR’s Facebook page all over the country. The post included a link to a pattern for wildlife nests.

Knitted Baby Bird Nests

CWR has been stunned by the response. Thousands of soft, knitted and crocheted nests have poured in from caring, compassionate knitters and crochet enthusiasts all over the country. CWR volunteers and staffers say they’re overwhelmed by the generosity of the stitching community.

Knitted Baby Bird Nests

Hand-Knitted Baby Bird Nests Are Still Needed

Despite the outpouring of support, CWR says that they can always use nests. They can also send extra nests to rescue groups that need them.

If your fingers are itching to create some handmade love, patterns are available on CWR’s Facebook page or on various YouTube videos.

Once your nest is completed, you can send it to:

Carolina Waterfowl Rescue
PO Box 1484
Indian Trail, NC 28079

CWR asks that you use tracking on your package if you want to know when it arrives. They don’t have time to acknowledge each one.

This is great way to support a wonderful organization, so get those needles going.