Magic Coaster! Very Easy Crochet Project

 This week our daughter sent me a video on making Magic Potholders.  The YouTuber is Play Hooky With Me.  I decided to give it a try with some scrap yarn that was just sitting beside my handwork chair waiting to be used up.  This photo showed what happened!  It only took a couple of hours, maybe. I did not keep track but I did complete it before bed that day.

The yarn I used was I Love This Cotton.  It was crocheted with a 3.5 mm crochet hook. 

I do not know if anyone can see my page on Ravelry, but if you can, here is the link. I know I can see it but it is possible that if you don't have a Ravelry login, you might not be able to see it.  If you don't have a login,  it is totally Free.  I started in 2007 with an eye to keeping my knitting needles organized and also my yarn acquisitions.  That did not last...however, that is one of the things I intend to do...at least enter all my knitting needles so I will stop buying more....If I already have the size I don't really need another set, do I?!

Anyway, I would appreciate it if someone who does not already have a Ravelry account would go to that link and see if they can get to the page.  Many thanks.

Easy Flat Crochet Butterfly

Yesterday when I went to the Post Office to mail some envelopes I learned that the Granny Square butterflies I had made were too fat to go through the mail as a regular envelope.  By rights they should have gone through as a package which was going to be mighty pricey for a greeting card.  At least that is what I thought Dear One would have said.  Fortunately the nice lady said she would try to send them as "large envelopes" since she had some of that type already in the mail.

So, since I wanted to send a few more cards I got up early this morning and started looking for flat butterflies.  This is what I found.

Jane from JennyandTeddy had the perfect butterfly, which was especially nice since I had to learn to make a "magic loop"!  That took a few tries but I think I have it down now!

Easy Flat Crochet Butterfly– Yarn scraps or  Lion brand 24/7 cotton

– 3.50mm crochet hook or E/4 US hook size

– Sewing yarn needle

(you can make the butterfly bigger or smaller by using bigger or smaller size crochet hooks

Round1.Make magic ring or adjustable ring and 9sc in ring (9 sts)

Round2.(Sl  st in the first stitch) (in the next stitch make 5dc and chain2 turn 1hdc in next chain stitch from hook and 4dc in the same stitch of 5dc)     then skip1 stitch,( sl st in the next stitch then chain 2 turn make 1hdc in next chain from hook and then 1hdc sl st in the same stitch),( sl st in next stitch and chain 2 then turn 1hdc in the next chain from hook and slst), ( sl st in the next stitch), ( next stitch make 4dc then chain2 and turn make 1 hdc in the next chain  from hook and make 5dc) then in the last stitch make sl st.

Make antenna by make 5 chain then turn and make sl st in each stitch and repeat the other one.

Tie off ends and weave in or just cut, depending on what you will do with the butterfly.

These are the ones I made.  The first one was a disaster and I pulled it out.  Now they look almost like butterflies!