Gang! I will be in Pasadena May 14-15 to teach some crochet classes at Vogue Knitting Live! VKL is a 3-day yarn/knitting/crocheting extravaganza which features:

Happy St. Patrick’s Day! I’m at the Creativebug studios this week filming a new series of classes for you! I also filmed a short video tutorial for this quick little four leaf clover to put on YouTube, but I didn’t have time to edit it :-o. This pattern is part of my Marshmallow Cereal Charms pattern that is for sale on Etsy, but in the spirit of the day, I though I’d post it here for you guys to work up some cuties!

Little Four Leaf Clover

Finished size: approx. 2 in. wide x 2.25 in. tall

What You’ll Need:

• Approx. 5 yards of green worsted weight yarn. Approx. 10 yards if you want to make one double-layered and slip stitch them together.
• H hook
• scissors
• tapestry needle

Abbreviations

ch(s): chain(s)
dc: double crochet
rnd(s): round(s)
sc: single crochet
sk: skip
sl st: slip stitch
st(s): stitch(es)
(  ): Work everything inside the parentheses into the next stitch.
[  ]: Work everything inside the brackets the number of times indicated

With Green, make magic circle, or ch 3 and sl st to 1st ch to form ring.

Rnd 1: Ch 1 (doesn’t count as a st), 6 sc into ring. Don’t join rnd. (6)

Rnd 2: (2 sc) into each sc. Sl st to 1st sc to join. (12)

Rnd 3: [Ch 2, in next st (4 dc), ch 2, sl st in next st 2 times] 3 times around. Ch 2, in next st (4 dc), ch 2, sl st in next st. To form the stem, ch 4, sk 1st ch, work 3 sc evenly in remaining chs, sl st to next st. (43)

Break off and weave in ends.

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I’m running a  giveaway on Instagram for a really cute prize package from one of my favorite brands So So Happy!  Click on over to my post on Instagram to enter to win! The giveaway ends in 4 days on March 15, and then I will draw a random winner.

I was super excited when So So Happy contacted me, because I’ve been following them for years. Manda and I even bought matching hoodies at Comic Con when we were there in 2010!

I can’t wait to see who wins!

On Instagram, I started seeing a few people post about some character named Apple from some movie called Turbo Kid, and I got curious about it. Manda and I watched it on Netflix a little bit ago, and we loved it! “Set in the post-apocalyptic year of 1997, TURBO KID is a retro-futuristic nostalgic tribute to 80’s action-adventure films follows a teenager who goes on an adventure to save the girl of his dreams.” It’s funny, adorable, and gory in the way that makes you LOL. Manda hates blood and guts and stuff, but she still laughed all the way through. Gregg drew her, too!

In the movie, there’s no water, and the land is very dry and dusty. On the other hand, it was raining like crazy this weekend. I started taking photos of my Apple doll on my staircase ledge, but she fell into the dirt and greens below, so I just kept taking pictures of her there!

The main character, Turbo Kid, tells Apple that she needs a weapon, and he makes her one out of a baseball bat and a garden gnome. She raises it in the air and shouts, “THIS IS MY GNOME STICK!!!” I am currently obsessed with crocheting tiny gnome sticks.

I used the basic pattern that I created for the Peanuts Crochet book/kit (affiliate link) and made a few alterations to get her a jumpsuit and some cute booties.

The lil gnome is based on photos of Mochimochi Land’s tiny knitted gnomes. I’m still working on tiny tweaks to the pattern and build so that I can make lil gnome sticks for my pals!