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?!

Bubbly Slippers (Crochet)

I've just designed another slippers pattern, Bubbly Slippers.

I used black yarn for the soles and white yarn for the rest of the slippers. But they would look great in any color.



Click here to get the Free Pattern.... Bubbly Slippers

Star Stitch Slipper Boots

Since I liked the Star Stitch so much and had some fun making dishcloths with it, I then
decided to see if I could work this stitch into a slippers pattern. 

This is what I came up with, Star Stitch Slipper Boots. I think they are cute!
These are women's size 7, which is a 9 to 9.5 inch foot.

To get the Free Pattern, click here..... Star Stitch Slipper Boots.