2025 was a great year, here at Stitch Whisper Designs, and we're looking forward to 2026 being even better!
This cute little hat and bootie set includes a cloche hat with a granny square for the crown and a pair of booties made with the same kind of hexagon that's used in the popular two hexagon sweater!
Alternating single crochets and chain stitches is a surprisingly versatile pattern. There's a lot you can do with it, creating a variety of different textures. Bag Stitch is one of those textures. Not only does it create a pleasing, durable fabric that doesn't stretch out of shape, but you can also create different patterns by doing stripes of different colors in Bag Stitch.
Sometimes, it's nice to have a cuff or brim that folds at a certain place and stays put. This post shows you one way to do that.
Last year, I made lots of knitted and crocheted fruits and leaves to put together as a whimsical, harvest-themed garland. Some of the leaf patterns I tried used a little more yardage than I wanted them to, so I came up with this pattern. It just so happens that I really liked the result, so I shared it as a free pattern.
These are the ten most popular posts on the Stitch Whisper Blog in 2025, starting with #10:
This was a post Practical Crocheter wrote many years ago. If you aren't familiar with crocheted foundation stitches as an alternative to the base chain, go check it out. This post is a written tutorial for foundation double crochet. We use foundation stitches, especially foundation double crochet, in a lot of our crochet patterns.
I really enjoyed making this stocking cap, and this winter, it's been my favorite hat to wear! This hat is knitted with cabled ribbing around the brim and a cable pattern going up the front. All the decreases go up the back, which makes room for the cable panel up the front.
This is another post about those wonderfully useful foundation stitches. Foundation stitches are a wonderful skill to have in your crochet toolbox, and this post provides written instructions for a variety of foundation stitches. If you're more of a visual learner, you can check out my videos here and here.
I think this is probably my all-time most popular free pattern. These mittens and fingerless mitts for young children work up quickly with just a little aran weight yarn and matching needles.
Just like it's handy to create a built in fold for cuffs in crochet, it's also a useful skill in knitting. These instructions are for a classic picot edge. For a simpler folded cuff or brim, give this one a try.
Sometimes you have yarn you love, but it's too thick for what you want to do with it. This can especially be an issue for crocheters. If that yarn has multiple plies, however, you can split those plies apart to make a thinner yarn. How to do that is the all-time most popular post on the Stitch Whisper Blog.
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