Welcome to DaisyGardenCrochet!
I am a self-taught crocheter who also loves to garden. For the most part, everything that I’ve learned about crocheting has come from everyone who has posted how-to content on the internet. My goal is to give back by sharing some of the crochet projects that I have made and highlighting the patterns that I have used. I also plan to post some of what’s worked and what hasn’t in the garden too. At this point, I don’t have any advertisements or affiliates. If I’ve provided a link, it’s to give credit where credit is due and to provide more information to help you with your projects.
Latest Posts
How to Avoid Weaving in Ends in Crochet
If there was one thing that I fully understood in physics class, it was the maxim that entropy rules. Things tend to move from order to disorder, and crochet is no exception. Even though I am very thorough about weaving in the ends on my crochet projects, I still notice that the occasional tail works…
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Blackwatch Plaid Crochet Blanket
According to the Scots Language Centre, the word plaid originally comes from the Gaelic word plaide, meaning blanket. Nowadays, when we hear the word plaid, we think of distinctive checked patterns seen on flannel shirts. Some of these plaid patterns originate from Scottish tartans. The Scottish Registry of Tartans is an official registry of restricted…
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How to Make Owning a Dog Easier
Dog is God spelled backwards. I always get a little burst of joy when I am reminded of that connection. Anyone who has experienced the unconditional love of a dog knows what I mean. That said, puppy or young dog is demon spelled backwards. OK, it isn’t, but it should be. Shelters are full of…
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My Heart Dog, Hobbes
HobbesFebruary 12, 2010 – April 22, 2024 We never intended to be a two dog family. Daisy, our Westie, kept our house in a state of perpetual chaos, but as I’ve written about my beloved friend and arch nemesis, she wasn’t affectionate. My eight year old daughter, who had done all of the work in…
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How to Blend Double Crochet Color Changes in a Graphghan
“The Devil is in the Details” Making something from a pattern has its challenges, but it’s generally a safe bet. For me, designing something from scratch typically has an “Oh bleep” moment when I realize that I have failed to consider some major detail. After I finished my first graphghan pattern, The Daisy Pillow, I…
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Gardening Mistakes To Avoid
According to Janet Kilburn Phillips, “There are no gardening mistakes, only experiments.” At this rate of experimentation, I should be a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Gardening. One of the main things that I have learned as a gardener is a very deep appreciation for farmers. Feeding all of us requires a combination of…
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The Crochet Daisy Pillow
“Measure once and cut twice” was the ironic warning that the professor gave to my daughter’s sculpture class and that saying makes me smile when I think about my long history of crocheting errors. Luckily, with crochet, nothing is permanently ruined, except maybe my ego, and it’s fairly easy to rip out incorrect stitches and…
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The French Ticking Stripe Crochet Throw
I love watching Joanna Gaines and Erin Napier transform homes on HGTV, and I so wish that I had their talent. I am way more hit or miss in my decorating abilities, and I’ve had some major misses. I once picked out what I thought was a nice gray paint color for the exterior of…
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Free Rainbow Bobble Crochet Blanket Pattern
“Now I know we had no moneyBut I was rich as I could beIn my coat of many colorsMy momma made for me.”Dolly Parton A lot has been written about grit and how important it is for success. The psychologist Angela Lee Duckworth has given a TED Talk about how when working as math teacher…
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How to Crochet a Rope Basket
I’ll never forget my reaction after the winner was announced on the first season of the Great British Bake Off. I went bananas. Flaming bananas. Bananas Foster bananas. After watching the contestants labor over 30 different baking challenges for 10 episodes under intense time pressure and with exacting judges, what did the winner get? A…
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Homegrown National Park, A Hopeful Perspective
Be the change that you want to see in the world.-Arleen Lorrance I saw that quote on a bumper sticker about 34 years ago, and it has stuck with me ever since. I like it because its message implies that we have more power than we think on this planet with 8 billion people. Clearly…
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Free Rugby Striped Toddler Blanket Crochet Pattern
When my son was little, he was a Linus. He went everywhere with his favorite “Yucky Blankie.” Yucky started out as a nice white cotton blanket, but with love, ended up as a dingy, knotted ball of string. Once, I washed him (yes, him) and accidentally forgot to remove something red from the washer beforehand.…
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The Best Way to Eat Strawberries
Did I make you look with that clickbaity title? My apologies, but I think that I have a hack that will make the click worth it. Obviously, the best way to eat strawberries is when they are ripe and freshly picked from the garden, so the title of this article really should have been “The…
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The Arrow Stitch Crochet Blanket
The Footprints in the Sand poem always makes me cry. Someone left a copy in my hospital room after I gave birth to my first child, and with all of the happiness and hormones flowing, I sobbed at the poem’s reminder of those who have carried us through tough times and whom we often take…
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Rabbit Resistant Plants in My Garden
When my mother read Peter Rabbit to me as a child, I remember being terrified by Mr. McGregor. I can still remember the suspense of not knowing if Peter would evade Mr. McGregor’s menacing rake and escape from the garden. The thought of Mrs. McGregor putting little Peter, like his father, in a pie had…
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