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Play things To Crochet For The Kids

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http://crafty-anna.blogspot.com/2010/09/free-crochet-pattern-sailboats.html

You need something to put in those Easter baskets, don’t you?  Warm weather is coming (although right now, it seems hard to believe in my neck of the woods!) and the kids will be looking for fun, new playthings.  When I saw these freebies, I just had to share.  Hope you enjoy them!

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http://allicrafts.blogspot.com/search/label/crochet

UPDATE (2/12): The pattern for the sail boat pictured above is no longer available as Anna’s blog has disappeared.  Sorry.

Update (4/12):  try this link for Anna’s blog:

http://crafty-anna.blogspot.com/

 

 

Comments

  2. I’m looking for the toy sailboat… do you still have it… I would love the pattern, I do daycare and one of my kids asked me to crochet a sailboat, I have searched and searched for one , until someone from “crochet talk sent me to your website,.. can you help me? thanks

  3. I would love to have the pattern to the sailboat, but the link does not work. Is their anyway to get the pattern?

  4. do you still have your sailboat pattern you can put back on… I’m in very need of one and can’t find one and someone showed me a picture of yours, but no pattern.. thank you

  8. Jd could you tell me the name of the site it used to be on I understand it’s not active anylonger but I might know how to get ahold of the pattern please e-mail me at [email protected] Thank you so much. I have seen quite a few people ask you for this pattern so I would like to try to be able to get it for all of you again. Thank you so much

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