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Spring Basket & Bunny Gnomes Crochet Pattern

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The Spring Basket & Bunny Gnomes Crochet Pattern is a delightful crochet project that is perfect for adding fresh spring notes to your home decor. Designed by Elisa’s Crochet for Annie’s Signature Designs, this pattern includes instructions for creating a beautiful flowered basket and a pair of cute gnomes, with a bunny look, that look like they just snuck in from the garden.

The pattern is worked mostly in single crochet and includes clear instructions on how to make the color changes smoothly and neatly. The finished basket measures 9 inches across and 4 inches high, while the gnomes measure 7 inches tall and 3.5 inches wide, making them the perfect size for any home decor.

The pattern uses Premier Anti-Pilling Everyday DK light (3) weight acrylic yarn, 2 skeins of white and 1 skein each of green, seaglass, carnation and canary for the basket, and 1 skein each of seaglass, canary, green, blush, white, and carnation for the gnomes. Using this yarn, your finished items will be soft, durable, and easy to care for.

One tip that I’d like to share with you is, when working on the different parts of the pattern, be careful to follow the color changes, as they can be a bit tricky at first. Make sure you have a clear and detailed plan of the colors you want to use as this will help you to keep track of your progress and make sure that your finished items look neat and professional.

Another tip is to use a stitch marker to mark the beginning of each round, this will help you keep track of your stitches and make it easy to count and see your progress as you work.

Get the pattern here: Spring Basket & Bunny Gnomes Crochet Pattern

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Free Loving Life Crochet Blanket – Free Crochet Pattern

I do love a crochet blanket pattern that looks cheerful without feeling overcomplicated, and the Free Loving Life Crochet Blanket Pattern from Mary Maxim definitely has that bright, happy feel. It’s offered as a free download on their site, which is always a nice little bonus when you’re in the mood to start something new without first talking yourself into another paid pattern.

This pattern uses Caron All Day Cotton yarn and a 5 mm H-8 crochet hook, so straight away it feels like the kind of blanket project that would have a nice soft cotton finish rather than a heavy winter-afghan feel. Mary Maxim lists multiple colour combinations for the yarn bundle suggestions, including combinations like Grass Green and Bermuda Teal, Eyes Blue and Watermelon, along with White, which gives you a pretty good hint that this design is meant to be colourful and fresh.

What caught my eye most is that it looks like the sort of project that would suit crocheters who enjoy blanket making but want something a little more lively than plain stripes or the usual neutral throws. Sometimes you want a blanket that looks like it belongs on a couch in a happy craft-filled home, not one that disappears into the furniture. This one feels like it would bring a bit of personality. That last part is my impression based on the colourway suggestions and the product presentation on the page.

I also like that Mary Maxim has grouped it under their Free Crochet Patterns section, which makes it easy to see this as an accessible project for everyday crocheters who are browsing for their next make. It is listed as pattern FP6097, and at the time I checked, the page showed no reviews yet, so this may be one of those patterns you get to try before everyone else starts pinning it all over the place.

My overall take? If you enjoy free crochet blanket patterns, bright cotton yarn projects, and blankets that feel a little bit fun and uplifting, this one is worth downloading and having a look at. It has that easy “ooh, that would look lovely draped over a chair” appeal, and honestly, those are often the patterns that jump the queue ahead of all the sensible ones.