Snowman Jar Cozy - Crochet Version

A few weeks ago I shared a knitting project I had made called "Snowman Jar Cozy" using a free pattern from Red Heart's website.  You can read about that project here.   It was such a fun project that I thought crocheters needed their own pattern for a snowman jar cozy and I came up with this one in order to share the fun.  :)

 

Snowman Jar Cozy

Materials:
Red Heart Worsted Weight Acrylic Yarn
  - Soft White
Assorted buttons for eyes, nose and mouth (Red Heart's design uses buttons for the eyes and felt for the nose and mouth pieces)
Round Glass Jar/Vase - 5 1/2" tall & 15" around middle (I got mine at Joann's in the floral dept)
Size H (5.00mm) Crochet Hook
Hot Glue Gun

Row 1) Ch 19, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch st across, ch 1, turn. (18 sc)

Rows 2 - 36) Sc in the back loop of each st across, ch 1, turn. (18 sc)

End off, leaving a long tail for stitching.

 Finished stitch piece will look like this:

 

Fold over and whipstitch edges together:

 

 





Face Finishing:
I found my carrot nose button at Joann's, and then just raided my button box for buttons to make the eyes and mouth features.  When I made the knitted version, I stitched all the buttons on, but found this to be difficult, especially when the cozy wasn't stretched out over the jar.  On this crocheted version, I first slipped the cozy onto the glass jar/vase.  I then put small pieces of doubled-over scotch tape on the back of each button, then I positioned all the buttons onto the cozy to form the face features, adjusting as needed, until I had them where I wanted them.  I then pulled off each button one at a time, removed the tape from the back,  then hot glued the button back into place.

Fill with Candy!  (I recommend Peppermints or Candy Canes!)  :)
 

Peppermint Snowflake Ring Ornament

Peppermint Snowflake Ring ornament is the 4th (and final) of my 2012 Ring Ornament Series. The ornament was made using Caron's Simply Soft yarn and worked by crocheting around a 2" plastic ring. You can find the links to the other ornaments in this series, and for last year's series on the right sidebar of the blog. Enjoy! :)

 CLICK HERE TO GET PATTERN 

Football Baby Blanket - New Pattern in Shop

Football season is in full swing.  I know this only because I have observed others watching it.  I don't really understand football, which is why I don't watch it, but I found that I do like crocheting footballs and recently came up with this cute little baby blanket.   It's done in single crochet and the finished size is about 27" wide x 38" high.  It could also be used as a lap blanket for someone who does enjoy watching football.  :)

The pattern is available in My Etsy Shop

Happy Thanksgiving!  :)

Christmas Present Ring Ornament

This week's Christmas Present Ring ornament is the 3rd in my 2012 Ring Ornament Series. The Christmas Present ornament was made using Caron's Simply Soft yarn and worked by crocheting around a 2" plastic ring. You can find the links to the other ornaments in this series, and for last year's series on the right sidebar of the blog. Enjoy! :)

 CLICK HERE TO GET PATTERN 

Star - Christmas Ring Ornament

This week's Star ornament is the 2nd in my 2012 Ring Ornament Series.  The star was made using Caron's Simply Soft yarn and worked by crocheting around a 2" plastic ring.  You can find the links to the other ornaments in this series, and for last year's series on the right sidebar of the blog.  Enjoy!  :)



 CLICK HERE FOR PATTERN 

Santa's Jolly Belly - Christmas Ring Ornament

I am doing another Christmas Ring Ornament Series this year, and Santa's Belly is the first one up. 
Ornament is made by stitching around a 2" plastic ring (see bottom photo).

This series is still a work in process, so I'm not sure how many there will be this time around.  I'm planning on releasing one each Monday, so stay tuned for the rest.  :)

 CLICK HERE FOR PATTERN 

Snowman Jar Cozy Finished

I'm still plugging away on all of my projects-in-progress and I did manage to finish one up.  This is the Snowman Jar Cozy and is a free pattern on www.redheart.com.  Very quick and easy project and a lot of fun too.  I didn't end up using any felt for the face features and used all buttons instead. 
I thought that would be more durable from year to year.  I found the glass vase at Walmart for about $1, so it's also an inexpensive project. 

And on a whole different topic, I had to make some changes to the comment section.  I have been getting dozens of spam comments every day, which means dozens of spam emails in my inbox too.  I also discovered that if anyone had left a comment and chose to have follow-up comments emailed to them, they ended up getting copies of all those spam comments too.  I changed the comment section to require a google or open id account.  So far that seems to have solved the problem and I haven't received a single spam since.  Keeping my fingers crossed on that!  Spammers need to get a real life!  :)