Easter Eggstravaganza Saturday's Special Offer

Treat yourself to some lovely, snuggly 50% cotton, 50% acrylic beautifully variegated pastel yarn.  Truly scrumptious!  With a whopping 25% off Planet Yarn's usual price it's a bit of a bargain too! 

Same as yesterday, the price has already been reduced in the shop so no codes to remember.  Just fill your basket with yarny goodness.

Easter Eggstravaganza Good Friday

 

 

Day 1 of Planet Yarn's Easter Eggstravaganza! Today's offer is 20% off Stylecraft Special Aran. The reduction has already been made in the shop so no pesky codes to enter. Offer ends at 10pm.

Little Easter Eggs free crochet pattern

I woke up this morning and fancied hooking up some colourful little Easter eggs, probably to use as bunting, for the Easter weekend coming up. 

I'm really quite pleased with how they turned out.  If I'd been remotely organised they probably would have made very cute Easter card embellishments...maybe next year...

I'm a visual learner/worker so writing up patterns is easier for me if I use symbols rather than words.  Here's what I ended up with:

 Then I used Crochet Charts free downloadable programme to make the proper version:

...and here are the written instructions, look I've even matched each round colour on the chart to each section of the pattern...which...well actually it makes it easier for me!  Heh! 

Using dk yarn and a 4mm hook.

Round 1

Begin with magic circle, ch 3 (counts as first dc) and 11 dc into the circle and slip stitch to the third ch of the ch3 to complete the circle.  Pull gently on the yarn tail to close the magic circle (12)

Round 2

Ch 3 (counts as first dc) and dc into first stitch of round 1, 2dc in next two stitches, 2dc and 1hdc in the next stitch, 1hdc and 1 sc in next stitch, 2sc in next stitch, 2hdc and 1dc in next stitch, 3 tc in the next stitch (you are now at the top ‘pointy’ bit of your egg), in the next stitch of round 1 1dc and 2hdc, 2sc in next stitch, 1sc and 1hdc in next stitch, hdc and 2 dc stitches then sl st into the third ch of the ch3 to complete the egg shape. (29)

Round 3

Sc around your whole egg shape (29)

Fasten off yarn and sew in your ends.

You’ve cracked it!  (sorry, not sorry)

So there you go!  A quick little Easter project if you fancy it.  As I said before, mine's probably going to end up as bunting...what will you do with your little eggs?

Easter Weekend Offers

Coming soon to Planet Yarn is a whole Easter Weekend of offers.  Four offers altogether, changing daily and starting on Good Friday.

Each offer will be posted super early morning on The Planet Yarn Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and here too!

Happy Easter Weekend!

Delivery Day!

It's always exciting at Planet Yarn when we get a delivery!  Even if it's just a restock of our usual favourites.  Today, however, there was a special delivery which included the brand new Stylecraft Special dk shades!  So, that's a whopping 85 shades in the Special dk range now!  The new Buttermilk shade is a lovely warm yellow and definitely the Planet Yarn favourite.  The other two, Mushroom and Vintage Peach, fit in beautifully with their siblings.  There's a very good reason for knowing this too, because finally, after almost a year of the Special dk shade card being out of stock, it's arrived!  Yay!  So now we can all peruse the lovely, scrumptious shades offered to us in the comfort of our own snuggly, crafty spots.  Happy days!  Here's a quick peek of one that arrived today:

I think they must have had a tricky time placing Mushroom on the card, it could have quite happily fitted between the peachy tones, or the pinky tones.  It's definitely going to be a very versatile neutral colour.  I'm not the world's biggest fan of mushrooms, so it was a pleasant surprise to enjoy this colour.  Still not a chance I'll be eating any mind!  It wasn't until I saw Vintage Peach next to apricot that I realised how much this shade added to the peachy/orangey toned yarns.  I'll have to get it and Vintage Rose together sometime soon to see how they 'talk' to each other.

I'm off to update the shop now, got to make sure my listings have the correct amount of balls available! 

Oh...and I'm very much looking forward to the Easter break and all the extra hooking time that comes with it!  What projects are you going to be working on?

Spring Giveaway and New Stylecraft Special DK Shades

Over on the Planet Yarn Facebook page and Instagram account there is a giveaway going on.  The winner will get their choice of Yarn Pack from the Planet Yarn shop.  Not bad eh?

To enter the giveaway you'll need a Facebook and/or Instagram account.  Have a look at the information about it on the site and see if you fancy entering. 

Looking forward to spreading the love of yarny goodness when the winner is picked on 20th March.

Hurray for Spring and lovely colours of yarn!

Stylecraft have been busy choosing three new colours of yarn to add to the 82 their Special dk family already boasts.

Here's their big reveal photo:

They will be available in Planet Yarn as soon as they arrive, which will hopefully be 3rd April or soon after.

I'm intrigued by the mushroom colour, apparently it's neither beige nor lavender...hmm.  We shall see!

Baby hat with ears? Sorted!

It's been a while but I really did intend on posting this ears pattern quite soon after the original pattern was written up.  However, seven months later here it is!

Start with the baby basics newborn hat pattern and make two of the following:

US terms
dk yarn, 4mm hook
you are crocheting in the round, just like the method for making the hat.

Row 1: make a magic circle, ch 2 then dc 12 into the magic circle loop and sl st into first dc (not the ch2) (()
Row 2: ch 2 then 2dc into each dc in row  and sl st into the first dc (18)
Rows 3 & 4: dc around and sl st to join (18) and fasten off.

To place your ears on your hat squish the hat so it's lying flat (as in the photo above) and stitch your ears in place.  Make sure you catch the stitches on both sides of your ear and sew firmly to the hat stitches. 

Ta dah! 

As my mum would say, when I put hats with ears on my boys, your baby now has two sets of ears!  All the better to hear you with!

One day I will make one to fit my own head, why should babies have all the ear hat fun!