Combining Stitches

I made this dishcloth by combining the moss stitch and star stitch. I think it's very
pretty. I call it Pretty Flowers in the Moss. 

I used the lighter weight cotton from Knitca.com and a 4.50 mm hook. 

I have a post here about making the Star Stitch.
http://suescrochetknit.blogspot.ca/2014/01/the-star-stitch.html

The Moss Stitch is very easy. It is simply 1hdc, 1 slipstitch and you repeat that to
the end of the row. On the next row you make 1 hdc in each slip stitch and 1
slip stitch in each hdc of the previous row. Here is a video showing how to 
do it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR2GfDB80tE 

I enjoy experimenting with different stitches for dishcloths. This combination would 
also look very nice if used for an afghan.

The Houndstooth Crochet Stitch

I decided to make a dishcloth in the houndstooth stitch. I hadn't tried this stitch
before but my daughter uses it a lot and I think it's beautiful. 

There are some different ways to make this stitch. You can see how to make
the larger houndstooth design here.
http://newstitchaday.com/how-to-crochet-the-houndstooth-stitch-2/

I thought that was a little too big for a dishcloth, so I chose the smaller version which you
can see how to do on this video.

Here are photos of my Houndstooth Dishcloth. I used the ligher weight size 3 cotton 
yarn from Knitca.com

As you can see, each side of the dishcloth looks a little different. I'm not sure which
side I like better! 

Reversed the "Tears"

Here is a photo of slippers I made from my new pattern, Apache Tears Slippers
where I reversed the directions of the "tears". In these slippers the tears are 
slanting to the back of the slipper rather than the towards the front. 

I have included the instructions for making these with the "tears" reversed on the same page
as the original. 

Photo of another pair of Apache Tears Slippers

This is a photo of a pair of my new slippers pattern, Apache Tears Slippers
that I did in brown, camo and green. I changed colors every second row
instead of every third. 

My new pattern - Apache Tears Slippers

I love the Apache Tears Afghan. I had made a couple of them years ago from
this pattern - Apache Tears Afghan.

Here is another neat one with different spacing that makes a great effect,
http://sarahlondon.wordpress.com/2013/06/20/crochet-apache-tears-free-pattern/

 Those are beautiful patterns but the down side is each row is worked from
right to left, and that makes it necessary to leave a fringe unless you want to 
sew in ends on every row, and that is not very fun!

So I decided to see if I could work this design into a slippers pattern. Since
it's done in rounds, there are no yarn fringes or ends to sew in on each round.

Here is what I came up with.

 You can get my Free Pattern here - Apache Tears Slippers.

I am working on another pair done in brown, camo and green. I'll post a picture when
it's finished. There are a lot of great color combinations that you could come up with,
which makes this pattern a lot of fun. I changed colors every 3 rows, but you could
change colors every 2 rows, or even every row. Wouldn't these look great done
in the colors of the rainbow?!