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An opened plain cardboard crochet kit on a wooden table beside a small piece of cream single crochet fabric with a hook resting in it.

Yarn & Tools Crochet Kits for Beginners: What Is Inside, How to Judge One, and What to Make Next Crochet kits for beginners range from carefully designed learning tools to bags of mismatched supplies with a hopeful…

A plain mint-green rounded amigurumi piece on a wooden table beside a crochet hook, a stitch marker, a yarn needle and a small tuft of fiberfill.

Tips & Techniques How to Make Amigurumi: the Full Process, Explained for Beginners To make amigurumi, you crochet small shapes in tight rounds, stuff them before the opening closes, and sew…

Sage-green crochet blanket with scalloped edges pinned out flat on gray foam mats beside a tape measure.

Tips & Techniques How to Block a Crocheted Blanket Knowing how to block a crocheted blanket starts with knowing what blocking can change. It can relax curling…

A cream crochet blanket with a narrow sage green border folded over the arm of a linen chair beside a sunny window.

Questions & Guides Are Crochet Blankets Safe for Babies? Are crochet blankets safe for babies? There is no honest yes-or-no answer, because a crochet blanket is not…

Crochet swatch in cream worsted yarn showing repeating single crochet and double crochet clusters, with a crochet hook resting on it.

Tips & Techniques How to Crochet the Blanket Stitch If you are trying to work out how to crochet blanket stitch and every tutorial seems to say…

Six crochet swatches in the same oatmeal yarn showing different stitch textures, laid on a wooden table beside a hook.

Tips & Techniques What Crochet Stitch Is Best for a Blanket? A Practical Comparison If you are wondering what crochet stitch is best for a blanket, the honest answer is that it…

Several crochet blanket swatches in cream and heather-gray yarn, worked in different stitch heights, arranged together on a wooden table.

Tips & Techniques Fastest Crochet Stitch for a Blanket: A Real Comparison If you've searched for the fastest crochet stitch for a blanket, the honest answer is that no single…

Overhead view of several skeins of cream worsted-weight yarn arranged beside a partly finished cream crochet blanket square, a curled fabric tape measure, and a small notebook with numbers jotted on it, on a wooden table.

Questions & Guides How Much Yarn for a Crochet Blanket How much yarn you need for a crochet blanket comes down to three things: the finished size you're…

Cream single crochet baby blanket folded on a linen surface beside a ball of matching yarn and a crochet hook.

Ideas & Collections Crochet Newborn Blanket Patterns: Free Options and How to Choose One Crochet newborn blanket patterns don't come with a fixed size. “Newborn” describes how a blanket will be used,…

Several crochet baby blankets in different sizes arranged with a measuring tape for scale.

Questions & Guides Crochet Baby Blanket Size Guide and Stitch Planning The right size of baby blanket crochet project depends on how the blanket will be used, the pattern…