I Met a Little Girl who Crochets!!

So this post is kinda different. No pictures, because it's about a person.
At work the other day, I was crocheting on my break, as usual. We take our breaks in the lobby ( I work at Taco Bell). A young girl and her mother came in, and the girl goes, 'Look Mo,m, she's crocheting!'
A little later, after they had eaten (still on my meal break) I asked the mother if she crocheted. She said no, it was her daughter that did. I talked with the little girl a bit, and learned that she is 8 1/2! I gave her my Red Ring Bracelet, which I haven't posted yet, but don't worry, I have pictures.
Her mother said they come to my Taco Bell every Wednesday, and that she would see me next time. I'm so excited!
Blessed Be and Happy Hooking!

Under the Sea Crocheted Pendant Necklace

This gorgeous double-strand necklace was inspired by a glass pendant of unknown origin. I have lots of jewelry-type things that I have no idea how I got.. The yarn is Caron Simply Soft Paints, colorway is Oceana (I believe). Two cabone rings make up the clasp. (see Softy Baby Bracelets ). I really love this necklace. The pendant hangs to cleavage (I don't measure things...) and the top strand is a loose choker. This beautiful necklace is completely metal free! (except maybe inside the glass pendant, I don't know how they make those)

Decorations are courtesy of craft time with the nephew. I did more crafting than he did, but oh well. Maybe I'll take pics of those and post them, even though none of them are crocheted <3
Blessed Be and Happy Hooking!

This necklace is now for sale in my Etsy shop!

Awesome Camo Dicebag for teh Brother

My sister-in-law got this cool camo yarn and used most of it for..... something. So I asked if I could steal it for a dice bag for her husband, my brother. This is the result! It's tall because I wanted to use up as much of the small ball as possible, but wanted it to work quickly. I hate working in large rounds, it takes forever haha. Also, I was at my best friend's little sister's Hallowe'en sleepover. 5 eleven-year olds, 3 nineteen-year olds. I needed sanity.

All those dice fit in there!

Close up of the drawstring.
If you want the pattern for my dicebag, see my 2-Hour Dicebag, and just make it taller.
Background decorations courtesy of craft day with the nephew <3
Blessed Be and Happy Hooking!

Softy Baby Bracelets

Super soft pastel baby yarn and two sizes of cabone rings (little plastic, or other things, rings that you crochet around) come together to create this adorable bracelet for a baby girl.

Purple, blue, yellow, pink and white medium weight baby yarn is crocheted around two cabone rings, one smaller than the other, which slips into the larger one. Completely metal free, this makes a great baby fidget bracelet. I have done a few of them now, this was the first. I tried it in my nephew, and he absolutely loved it. He cried when I took it off of him, so I had to make him one. I used emerald green Caron Simply Soft (not the actual name of the colorway, sorry), and now he never takes it off. Unfortunately, Simply Soft isn't made to stand up to noodles, mud, Nerf sword-play, trips the park, etc., etc., in a day of the life of a 4-year old. This just means I try to salvage the rings and make him  a whole bunch of "power couplets" (he will be an engineer, I just know it. That's what he calls them.)

And here's one I made with my Serenity Garden yarn. I think it's name is Heathers or something. It's like a pastel rainbow with white and no blue.

 I couldn't get it to lay flat. Isn't it pretty though? They come out so cute, and they only take about 10-15 minutes, and tiny amounts of yarn. I don't have much scrap yarn yet, because I'm still fairly new to crocheting and buying yarn, but these are great scrap-busters. Annnnnnnnd, yes, I will post the pattern!

Choose your yarn, hook, and cabones. They can really be any size, so long as the smaller one fits through the larger one after being crochet around (which roughly doubles with a fine yarn, and triples with a thicker yarn).
Tie a slip knot, insert your hook.
Insert your hook through the hole of either cabone ring. I usually start with the larger.
Single stitch around the ring, as if it were a magic circle. (If you don't know how to do a magic circle, look up The Art of Crochet by Theresa on Youtube.)
Stitch halfway around the ring. If you want it to be exactly half, crochet all the way around, counting stitches, then undo half.
Chain roughly 23. This will depend on how long you want the bracelet and the thickness of your yarn. Experiment!
Insert hook through the other ring.
Single stitch aaaaaalllll the way around till you get to the chain again.
Single stitch into the last chain (the one closest to your hook), and across the chain to the other ring.
Insert hook into the first ring, and crochet the other half (remember how many you did for the first half?).
Slip stitch into the first stitch (it may be helpful to transfer your loop onto a smaller hook to make the slip stitch easier.) Finish off and your done! Do a ton of them to make a play chain for your kid/s, or for a mother or mother-to-be you know. With such a huge variety of yarns and rings, you could even do a dainty, beaded one with a fancy clasp.
My overall favorite thing about these, though, has to be that they are metal-free. I have somewhat metal-sensitive skin, and I have a friend that cannot have metal touch her skin at all, so these make great alternatives to traditional metal jewelry and clasps. I have more crocheted jewelry to post, too! I'm so excited XD.
Blessed Be and Happy Hooking!

2-Hour Dice Bag

This really took me a little less than 2 hours, maybe 1 1/2. I used my lovely Serenity Garden Gemstones yarn and my trusty E hook, but you could use any yarn and a matching hook. So ridiculously simple...
Okay, so
Ch 2, 6 single stitch(SC) into the 1st chain. DO NOT JOIN. This is worked in rounds. Increase (2SC in one) around. [12 stitches]
*Inc, SC in next* around [18]
*Inc, SC in next 2* around [24]
*Inc, SC in next 3* around [30]
*Inc, SC in next 4* around [36]
If your base is big enough, stop increasing. If you want it bigger, keep going!
Now just Sc around and around and around and... etc. etc. until it's tall enough. Slip stitch.
Now *DC in next stitch, Ch1, skip next stitch, and DC in next* ( I actually have a DC in every stitch for a more ruffley top, either way works well.) around.
For the draw string, cut a piece of any yarn you want ( I used Bernat Satin in a pretty forest green) twice as long as the circumference of your bag. (okay, I just cut about 14-16 in and trimmed the excess). Fold in half and use your hook to thread it through the Ch 1 spaces, all the way around. If you have a bead with a large enough hole to fit all 4 strands through, use it! If not, don't worry. Tie the ends of the yarn together and trim. Make sure the drawstring slides easily and you left enough slack to open the bag. Voila! A one of a kind dice bag for you or your favorite nerd! Or, if you don't want o make your own, check out my Etsy shop, Craftsbychi. www.etsy.com and search for craftsbychi. I'd love to make you one! Blessed Be and Happy Hooking!

Happy Hubby Pentacle Necklace.

My husband has had this metal pentacle necklace for quite a while, and one day I decided to play with it. He loved it, and so it stayed. I used black Patons Grace 100% mercerized cotton and an E hook and just single stitched around. For the points of the star (which lay on top of the circle) I just tucked them back a bit. I started on the1/5 of the circle to the right of the loop and chained 1 behind it. I then threaded red Patons Grace though the chain, going back over a few links on the end to secure. This was done sometime in summer, and it's still completely intact. Well, the clasp broke, but that has nothing to do with the crochet hehe.
Blessed Be and Happy Hooking!

Autumn Song Pentacle Coaster

So as you can see this coaster isn't very big, but it could also make a cute patch or add a hanging loop and hang it as an ornament. For this I used Serenity Garden yarn in Gemstones and a F hook. This yarn changes color very slowly, but each stitch is a different shade, making for a gorgeous medley of color. Here is the pattern for the pentacle. 
Materials:
Any weight yarn
2 colors (or do the whole thing in one color, or mix it up!
Matching hook
sk-skip
ch-chain
sl- slip stitch
sc- single Crochet
dc- double crochet


Directions:
With first color
CH 5 join with sl.
1. Sc in loop 10 times join to begining with sl

2.* Ch. 7 sk next sc sl in next sc* repeat 4 more times (5 loops formed) join begining with sl.

3.* in ch7 sc 4 times, ch 3 ,sc 4 times* around in all loops tie off

4. with color 2 attach to any star pt in loop* ch 8 and sc in next star pt* repeat around join with beg sc

5. Ch 3 dc in same sc(2dc),* in ch 8 loop dc 10 , 2 dc in sc* repeat around join with sl in beginning ch3

It works up really quickly and this yarn just makes gorgeous stars. Blessed Be and Happy Hooking!

Super Simple Square Washcloth Potholder Thingy

I love cotton washcloths, and they take so little time to make. This one was done in Lily Sugar&Cream (nearly the only cotton I use, since it's grown in the U.S.A.). This one was a basic square with a hanging loop at the top. I just love the colors! So I suppose I ought to write up the pattern for you all, hhmmmmm? Please excuse any errors, I'm new at the writing bit. American crochet terms used.
Materials:
Lily Sugar&Cream/Peaches&Cream yarn (about half a ball for the main color, and a very small amount for the contrasting color on the hanging edge)
US sizes G/6 (4.25mm) and H/8 (5 mm) hooks
Yarn needle
Directions:
With the G hook Ch 5 or 6. join with a slip stitch.
Ch2 (counts as 1st DC, now and throughout). 2DC. *Ch2, 3DC* 3x. join to 1st DC.
Ch2. DC in next 2 stitches. *DC, Ch2, DC in Ch2 space. DC in next 3 stitches.* 3x. DC and join.
Follow this pattern for as many 'rounds' as you like, until its big enough.
Finish off BEFORE you add the edge with the hanging loop. I did this edge in two strands of cotton yarn held together.
Tie a slipknot in the yarn and put in on your H hook. Insert hook through the first stitch of whichever side you choose. Single stitch (SC) until the middle of your row (you should have an odd number of stitches in the row. You're going to skip the middle stitch). Chain until your chain is twice as long as you want your hanging loop (I did about ten). Skip the middle stitch and SC into the next one. SC across until you reach the end, finish off.
Alternatively, you could leave off the loop and do an extra row of double yarn SC for a scrubby edge, or SC all the way around for a cute border! Really, the possibilities are endless. Blessed Be, and Happy Hooking!