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Great Stress Reliever

You know those days when you feel so tense because of the stress of the day? Well, what if you could just pick up your ball of yarn and hook and crochet the stress away. We guarantee it will reduce your stress levels as you focus more on the pattern and less on your worries.

Creative Outlet

If you’re looking for a new skill to express your creative energy, crocheting might just be the thing for you! You can do so much with a crochet hook—you can make scarves, blankets, book covers, bags—the options are endless.

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A post shared by macrame & crochet art (@knoty_tales)

Make Your Own Items

There’s very little that compares to the feeling of displaying your own creations in your home, so why not pick up a hobby that is meant to be used or seen in everyday life! From clothes to bags to headbands, we bet you won’t be able to hide the fact that you crochet if you stick with it!

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Jenkins was only eight when she learned to knit and crochet, and she hasn’t stopped ever since. She drew inspiration from everything around, before realizing that food was her absolute favorite creative outlet.

“I was always looking for different ways to use my love of wool, textile, and color. And that’s how my art was born. The everyday has always fascinated and inspired me, particularly food. So I began to take things we all know and love—like fish and chips—reinventing them in wool,” explains Jenkins on her official website.

Jenkins explored her love for knitwear design at the University of Brighton, where she graduated with a degree in fashion and textiles. In addition to finding huge success with her viral, food-inspired crochets, she worked with several major fashion brands, including Missoni, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren.

The post Crochet Artists Kate Jenkins Knits Delightful Food-Inspired Creations appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Well, they’re not what you think—heated blankets. They’re actually a blanket in which you knit or crochet a set number of rows each day and you correspond your yarn color to the temperature it is outside.

You don’t have to be a knitting expert as these blankets are a great way to give knitting or crocheting a shot. They use a basic crochet stitch and you can decide what colors you would like to use in your blanket. Like, for example, you can use light blue for temperatures cooler than 20, green for temperatures in the 30s, and red for temperatures in the 40s.

Typically, people choose blue tones for colder weather and orange or red tones for warmer weather, but you can be as creative as you want! At the end of the year, you’ll have a colorful blanket that tells the temperature story of the year.

You can still get started on your blanket even though we are in February by researching what the temperatures were in January and starting from there.

The post Temperature Blankets: The Latest Crafting Trend on Instagram appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Katika is a young artist from Hungary who fell in love with crochet in 2014. Over the next couple of years, she’s been working hard to master this technique and develop her own artistic language. Her portfolio includes several hundred pieces in vibrant colors, and the most interesting are her celebrity crochet portraits.

“I’m set on making full use of yarn’s texture and bright colors to create three-dimensional, saturated pieces, in which the image itself harmonizes and resonates with its physical form as well as with my artistic technique and vision,” the artist wrote for Bored Panda.

“Sometimes I make beautiful pieces. It does not have a practical use but exists to make your life brighter, to amuse, and to captivate you,” she added.

Check out her amazing portraits in the photos below. They will definitely leave you breathless.

The post Vibrant Celebrity Portraits Made From Crochet appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Raise Awareness About Heart Disease

The American Heart Foundation recently launched Little Hats, Big Hearts, a campaign that provides newborns with red hats to help spread awareness about heart disease and congenital heart defects. To be able to donate to the cause you need to use cotton or acrylic red yarn that’s medium to heavyweight and machine washable.

Blankets For Children

Karen Loucks started Project Linus, a nonprofit that gives handmade blankets to children in hospitals and shelters throughout the United States. They also have knit and crochet patterns in tons of different sizes that you can choose from.

Scarves For the Homeless

Maybe you’ve come across scarves wrapped around trees and thought they were there by mistake. Community groups and churches started leaving handmade scarves in public areas with notes attached to help keep homeless people warm during the winter and you can donate scarves to help out this project.

Help Dogs Get Adopted

You’ve probably heard that black dogs have difficulty getting adopted and to deal with this issue, volunteers are knitting jumpers, sweaters, and hats to help all dogs find their forever homes. What’s cuter than seeing a dog in one of your creations?

The post 4 Ways to Craft For a Cause appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Tools

For this DIY, all you’ll need is friendship bracelet string and a pair of hoop earrings!

Instructions

1. First, clean your hoops, especially if they are old, with rubbing alcohol
2. Choose the color of string you would like the hoops to be
3. Start wrapping the hoops in the string until they are covered completely
4. Tie a knot, cut off the tail, and you’re ready to wear!

Alternatively, instead of just wrapping the string, you can make what’s called a Chinese staircase by simply making knots throughout the hoop. Tie the piece of string to the hoop, pull the string out to make it look like a circle on the side, then put the string through the hole and pull. Continue doing that throughout the whole hoop and you’ll have an even more unique design!

https://www.instagram.com/p/_oxQa9DRHW/?tagged=crochethoops

The post How To Make Crochet Earrings Without The Hassle of Crochet appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

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A post shared by Amy Perry (@crochetedwithhoney)

Great Stress Reliever

You know those days when you feel so tense because of the stress of the day? Well, what if you could just pick up your ball of yarn and hook and crochet the stress away. We guarantee it will reduce your stress levels as you focus more on the pattern and less on your worries.

Creative Outlet

If you’re looking for a new skill to express your creative energy, crocheting might just be the thing for you! You can do so much with a crochet hook—you can make scarves, blankets, book covers, bags—the options are endless.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by macrame & crochet art (@knoty_tales)

Make Your Own Items

There’s very little that compares to the feeling of displaying your own creations in your home, so why not pick up a hobby that is meant to be used or seen in everyday life! From clothes to bags to headbands, we bet you won’t be able to hide the fact that you crochet if you stick with it!

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Fina Bagcrochet /handmade bags (@fina_bagcrochet)

The post Crocheting Should Be Your Next Hobby appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Jenkins was only eight when she learned to knit and crochet, and she hasn’t stopped ever since. She drew inspiration from everything around, before realizing that food was her absolute favorite creative outlet.

“I was always looking for different ways to use my love of wool, textile, and color. And that’s how my art was born. The everyday has always fascinated and inspired me, particularly food. So I began to take things we all know and love—like fish and chips—reinventing them in wool,” explains Jenkins on her official website.

Jenkins explored her love for knitwear design at the University of Brighton, where she graduated with a degree in fashion and textiles. In addition to finding huge success with her viral, food-inspired crochets, she worked with several major fashion brands, including Missoni, Donna Karan, and Ralph Lauren.

The post Crochet Artists Kate Jenkins Knits Delightful Food-Inspired Creations appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Well, they’re not what you think—heated blankets. They’re actually a blanket in which you knit or crochet a set number of rows each day and you correspond your yarn color to the temperature it is outside.

You don’t have to be a knitting expert as these blankets are a great way to give knitting or crocheting a shot. They use a basic crochet stitch and you can decide what colors you would like to use in your blanket. Like, for example, you can use light blue for temperatures cooler than 20, green for temperatures in the 30s, and red for temperatures in the 40s.

Typically, people choose blue tones for colder weather and orange or red tones for warmer weather, but you can be as creative as you want! At the end of the year, you’ll have a colorful blanket that tells the temperature story of the year.

You can still get started on your blanket even though we are in February by researching what the temperatures were in January and starting from there.

The post Temperature Blankets: The Latest Crafting Trend on Instagram appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Katika is a young artist from Hungary who fell in love with crochet in 2014. Over the next couple of years, she’s been working hard to master this technique and develop her own artistic language. Her portfolio includes several hundred pieces in vibrant colors, and the most interesting are her celebrity crochet portraits.

“I’m set on making full use of yarn’s texture and bright colors to create three-dimensional, saturated pieces, in which the image itself harmonizes and resonates with its physical form as well as with my artistic technique and vision,” the artist wrote for Bored Panda.

“Sometimes I make beautiful pieces. It does not have a practical use but exists to make your life brighter, to amuse, and to captivate you,” she added.

Check out her amazing portraits in the photos below. They will definitely leave you breathless.

The post Vibrant Celebrity Portraits Made From Crochet appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Raise Awareness About Heart Disease

The American Heart Foundation recently launched Little Hats, Big Hearts, a campaign that provides newborns with red hats to help spread awareness about heart disease and congenital heart defects. To be able to donate to the cause you need to use cotton or acrylic red yarn that’s medium to heavyweight and machine washable.

Blankets For Children

Karen Loucks started Project Linus, a nonprofit that gives handmade blankets to children in hospitals and shelters throughout the United States. They also have knit and crochet patterns in tons of different sizes that you can choose from.

Scarves For the Homeless

Maybe you’ve come across scarves wrapped around trees and thought they were there by mistake. Community groups and churches started leaving handmade scarves in public areas with notes attached to help keep homeless people warm during the winter and you can donate scarves to help out this project.

Help Dogs Get Adopted

You’ve probably heard that black dogs have difficulty getting adopted and to deal with this issue, volunteers are knitting jumpers, sweaters, and hats to help all dogs find their forever homes. What’s cuter than seeing a dog in one of your creations?

The post 4 Ways to Craft For a Cause appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.

Tools

For this DIY, all you’ll need is friendship bracelet string and a pair of hoop earrings!

Instructions

1. First, clean your hoops, especially if they are old, with rubbing alcohol
2. Choose the color of string you would like the hoops to be
3. Start wrapping the hoops in the string until they are covered completely
4. Tie a knot, cut off the tail, and you’re ready to wear!

Alternatively, instead of just wrapping the string, you can make what’s called a Chinese staircase by simply making knots throughout the hoop. Tie the piece of string to the hoop, pull the string out to make it look like a circle on the side, then put the string through the hole and pull. Continue doing that throughout the whole hoop and you’ll have an even more unique design!

https://www.instagram.com/p/_oxQa9DRHW/?tagged=crochethoops

The post How To Make Crochet Earrings Without The Hassle of Crochet appeared first on My Daily Magazine - Art, Design, DIY, Fashion and Beauty !.