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Crochet tips, tutorials and maker stories.
Learn new techniques, find your next project, and meet the makers behind our community.
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amigurumi
How to Change Colors in Crochet Neatly: Rows, Rounds and Mid-Row
Learning how to change colors in crochet is one of those skills that completely transforms your projects.
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Customer Story
From Knitting Needles to Crochet Dolls: Ingrid's Unexpected Creative Journey
A lifelong knitter, Ingrid picked up a crochet hook during a six-week recovery from surgery. One blanket later she was hooked, and she has now made...
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Customer Story
The One Craft She Could Never Master: Jean's Crochet Journey
Jean had knitted for years, and crochet was the one skill that would not come. That is exactly why she went after it. Three years on...
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Customer Story
She Turns Her Practice Swatches Into Baby Blankets: Leslie's Story
Sixty years in, Leslie still reads the pattern first and still makes a tension swatch containing every stitch. Then she sews the swatches into car seat...
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Customer Story
Self-Taught at Eleven, Still Hooked at Sixty: Esther's Crochet Journey
Esther taught herself to crochet at eleven from a booklet inside a magazine in South Africa. Forty-eight years later she fits it around a full-time job...
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amigurumi
The Anatomy of a Crochet Doll: How a Crochetree Doll Is Really Built
No seam at the hips, a head that stays upright, embroidered eyes, and curls with no knots underneath. Here is how a Crochetree doll is actually...
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Customer Story
Her Therapist Told Her to Keep Crocheting: Kat's Story
Kat tried crochet in 2018 and gave up. Five years and three children later she tried again, and within three months she had made a Pearl...
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Customer Story
When Knitting Became Difficult, Crochet Opened a New Door: Vicki's Story
For most of her life Vicki was a knitter, until arthritis made it too painful. Then her sister taught her to crochet, and Crochetree gave her...
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Customer Story
The Doll Is Never Just a Doll: Maggie's Crochet Journey
For more than fifty years, Maggie has poured love into every stitch. She shares how doilies and baby blankets led her to Crochetree, and why every...
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Doll Making
The Ultimate Guide to Crochet Doll Hair: Curls, Waves, and Perfect Wigs
Every lock of a Crochetree doll's hair is crocheted as one single piece. Learn how our wigs are built, how increases create corkscrew curls, how to...
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Customer Story
Make It Uniquely You: Kaz's Crochet Journey
Kaz taught herself to crochet at seventeen from a book she found in a shopping mall. Fifteen years later, every doll she makes carries her signature...
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Customer Story
With Love in Every Stitch: Tere's Crochet Journey
Tere learned to crochet at her mother's side when she was six years old. Today she makes sweaters, amigurumi, and Crochetree dolls for the people she...
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