tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46768838488258683072024-03-14T02:03:13.626-07:00Anna's Free Baby Crochet Dress Patterns - Inspiration and IdeasAnna's crochet blog for ideas and inspiration. Shared success stories and more ideas.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02974067884207848573noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4676883848825868307.post-14346567683388390572014-08-12T14:19:00.003-07:002014-08-17T10:05:00.402-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This blog is a compliment to my popular YouTube Videos. Here you will find sizing help and a few free patterns. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I love to crochet baby dresses and hats - it is my passion. And I love it when people share with me their success stories. If you have a success story from one of my videos or a picture that you would like to share - Please do! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I am going to start posting your success stories - to inspire all the other beginners out there. And if you have any advice, share that too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Please send your stories that and a picture too. Thanks everyone : )</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">You can find these cool success stories on the 2nd page tab above.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my goals for sharing these videos with you, is to inspire you to try! You should see my first dress, it was a little lopsided and simple, but it was pretty. It is so simple, and really great for beginners.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Everyone was amazed, I got so many compliments when my daughter wore it. She started calling it her "blankey dress". So I named my Etsy Shop after her term. <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlankeyDresses?ref=search_shop_redirect">https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlankeyDresses?ref=search_shop_redirect</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I want to inspire you to make your own designs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Making something up, and then seeing how beautiful it is, is so awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You just need an idea. Look at Etsy.com, or on YouTube. Take lots of different elements that you like and put them together. You might fail a couple times - I failed a lot - and I ripped out <em>a lot</em> of stitches. Without the failures, you can't learn. The important thing is that you don't give up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's like learning how to read, or ride a bicycle, one day it just clicks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Something that holds a lot of people back is the desire to make it <em>perfect. </em>Or the desire to have every stitch and row match up perfectly. None of my dresses are perfect (they have lots of mistakes), but I still think they are pretty. No one has ever inspected my dresses and said, "Did you know your row is crooked right there?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The only thing people say is "Wow, you made that? That's amazing!" So, don't be afraid to mess up, and be less than perfect. It's fun to try. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was encouraged by my first success, so I started to make up even more dresses for my daughter to wear. I tried learning new techniques and styles from YouTube tutorials.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is so fun to dress your daughter, or grand daughter in a one of a kind creation. So go ahead and try something new. And please share your success projects with us. Successes can inspire others to try!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02974067884207848573noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4676883848825868307.post-45836705430246698942012-10-16T20:52:00.000-07:002014-09-06T07:21:14.078-07:00<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lots of people have been asking me where I get my ideas for my crochet dresses. When I started this (and even a still!) I couldn't read crochet patterns very well. So I had to make things up, or not make them at all. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My mom gets a flyer in the mail for Annie's Attic. They sell lots of cute crochet, and craft items. She would save the flyers for me, and I would search through the pages. I also started looking at Etsy.com for ideas. I wanted to try everything!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I never copied a dress, but I got lots of great ideas. Sometimes I would like a specific stitch that they used, or I would like the way they did the bodice. I still like to look at other people's work for inspiration. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My first dress I made was so simple, yet people thought it was amazing! I was so encouraged to try more. The next dress I made her looked even better. I had learned how to crochet a flower, and that added a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that my daughters are too old to wear the dresses (12 and 7), I find neighbors and friends to give my dresses to. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> My favorite was the mauve, pink, and white striped newborn dress. It is so full and just looks amazing - yet it is so simple. (I kept that one - maybe for a grandbaby!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whenever I really wanted to read a crochet pattern (there are lots of free, un-copyrighted ones out there) I had to go to my mom's house. She would sit beside me and tell me how to do each row. I knew what all the abbreviations meant, and I knew how to do all the stitches, but my end product never turned out like the picture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I have been working on how to read and write a crochet pattern for many years now. I bought several patterns to try and learn from. Most were written so poorly, they may have been written in a foreign language.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I thought, there must be a better way to write a crochet pattern - that's not so confusing! I worked a long time writing a pattern for my new dress. I wrote it so simply, that I think any beginner could understand. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I started this blog as a way to share my crochet dresses. Trying to make a dress just from the video is difficult, because you have to keep stopping it and rewinding it. I have received so many requests for the written patterns for my dresses. So I hope all my wonderful subscribers like these patterns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Not all my patterns cost money, I will post free ones, too. They will be located on my "Free Patterns" page.</span><br />
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