Category Archives: Tutorials

One method to closing your circle crochet pieces is with the cinch closure. After you’ve stuffed your piece and fastened off, keep your yarn tail on the tapestry needle. In your last stitches (usually 6 or 12 stitches), weave your needle in and out through the stitches. Once you’ve gone through all the stitches, pullContinueContinue reading “How To: Cinch Closure”

Once you’ve mastered the basic stitches, color changing in the middle of your piece is just as easy. This tutorial and instructions are shown using single crochet. First step is to single crochet all the way up to the last stitch is the round of row. Then: Insert hook into last stitchYarn overPull through (stepsContinueContinue reading “How To: Color Change”

To me, the most exciting part of crocheting a stuffed animal is using stuffing! One of the most common types of stuffing is polyester and is soft and easy to use! The trick to even stuffing is to pull it apart into smaller clumps and place them in your object one at a time. WhileContinueContinue reading “How To: Stuff”

When you finish crocheting your piece, what do you do when it’s still attached to the ball of yarn? The next step is called fastening off. The best part is, fastening off is super easy. All you have to do is cut the yarn attached to the ball of yarn, leaving a few inches ofContinueContinue reading “How To: Fasten Off”

You might have noticed in your crochet kit you’ve purchased from Lousy Llama Creations or in crochet hook supply sets, little plastic pieces. These are stitch markers! Most of them either look like spirals or plastic safety pins but there are a wide variety of styles. Stitch markers are great for keeping track of stitchesContinueContinue reading “How To: Use a Stitch Marker”

When starting out crocheting, the terminology and words and numbers looks like a foreign language. I mean, it is a different language! But once you learn how to understand the words, you’ll feel like a real master. Let’s start here: [inc, sc 2] repeat 6 times (18) Ahh! Don’t panic! The part in brackets, weContinueContinue reading “How To: Read Crochet Patterns”

While there are many ways to sew pieces together in crochet, the only thing that matters to me is making sure my pieces don’t fall apart. This is just one method to sew pieces together. Personally, I use this method for everything besides putting squares together (which you should check out the mattress stitch ifContinueContinue reading “How To: Sew Pieces Together”

If you’ve already learned how to add a smile to your pieces, adding blush will be easy as pie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5LierdOqW0&list=PL-KEOQJ7DzrHydHzWyl8wHeKvfpCJ-8Pf&index=13 Video Tutorial: How To Add Blush to Crochet Pieces Starting with the pink yarn on your tapestry needle, start from the back and poke through on point 1 under the eye. Create a straight lineContinueContinue reading “How To: Add Blush”

Everything looks more adorable and happy with a smile! The best part is, it’s super easy. When I add smiles, I prefer to add them when I add the safety eyes, before the piece is stuffed and finished but you can add it when the piece is finished if you’d like. You just won’t addContinueContinue reading “How To: Add a Smile”

Safety eyes are an easy way to make your crochet pieces 10x more adorable. Safety eyes come in two parts – one part being the black piece that’s the actual eye and the second part being the back washer which is usually tan or white. To attach a safety eye, place the black, round partContinueContinue reading “How To: Adding Safety Eyes”