Ann Parri, aka The Happy Crocheter, designs crochet patterns, creates uber-cool novelty food scarves, and in her spare time works as a wife to her wonderful husband and mommy to her two cute little kiddos.
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The Happy Crocheter
The August 2012 edition of Let’s Knit Magazine features Ann Parri (aka TheHappyCrocheter) as the designer spotlight. Check it out!
Thank you so much, Let’s Knit Magazine, for this special opportunity! :)
Congratulations, Julia! Come by my shop to choose your hat! :)
I would like to sincerely thank everyone who participated in the Spring Giveaway for their interest in my hats and Etsy shop! And I would like to offer all participants a coupon for 10% off in my Etsy shop (http://thehappycrocheter.etsy.com) for the rest of the week. Until March 24, simply enter SpringGiveaway2012 at checkout for 10% off your order.
Thank you very much and congratulations again, Julia!
Ann
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Final Day Before TheHappyCrocheter’s Spring Giveaway! Please be sure to enter at http://www.facebook.com/AnnParriDesign/app_197602066931325.
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Spring Giveaway!
So excited to announce my first ever TheHappyCrocheter Giveaway! I’ll be giving away one of my ready-to-ship ladies’ cloche hats or chemo caps from my Etsy shop (http://thehappycrocheter.etsy.com) next week on March 21st. I’m even paying for shipping worldwide! To enter the giveaway, see the link “Spring Giveaway” on my facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/annparridesign. It’s open to everyone, so I hope you’ll enter! :)
I’ve had people ask me before how I write crochet patterns. Okay, perhaps I’m a little hesitant to answer in detail, but I’m more than happy to share some of my own process. I often create out of need, to be honest. (Although I use that word need lightly.) I need or want something for myself or a family member, but rather than look for something online, I dream up something in my head. My current need is hair for my daughter. She’s so cute, but she’s getting along to six months now and still completely bald! Poor baby! So, because it’s cool here even in summer, she needs a cap, and a summer cap at that, so cotton instead of wool or acrylic, and because she has no hair, I want to make her something that will look cute and maybe even a little hair like. So I dreamed up a hat of cascading ruffles.
Okay, so I have a sort-of picture in my head. Then what? Well, I have often thought that I’d be best to sit down and write out something concrete, but this pretty much never works for me. Instead, I pick up a ball of yarn and my crochet hook and just get to it. It can be pretty funky the first time around! But after a couple, two, three, four, five… tries I have something great in front of me. It fits, it looks cute, it’s just right! By this point, I usually have the pattern fairly well memorized in my head, so it’s time to write down what I know. Just get it down on paper! Then, it’s off to crochet another one or two or.. and finalize the pattern as I go.
I can tell you the pattern that took the longest and most revisions hands down: The Busy Bunz Wool Soaker. I’ve got variations of that one all over the house - some that fit some that don’t, some that just need to be tossed! Although my recent baby booties pattern wasn’t far off. When I finally collected all the variations along the way I was surprised how many I’d made!
New Baby Booties Crochet Pattern!
After NUMEROUS trials and revisions, the Little Strollers Moccasins Baby Booties Crochet Pattern is ready and up in my Etsy shop - http://thehappycrocheter.etsy.com
