Rachel's Heart Puff square crochet instructions and free crochet pattern
Another crochet square idea There is a featured project on the yarn page: Joann home>knit and crochet>yarn. It is for a crocheted afghan using a striped texture and Red Heart "FiestaŠ" yarn. The gauge is 12 stitches to 4"(10 cm), so if you doubled the stitches to 24, it should make a perfect 8 x 8" square. It's lovely too and looks very cosy and warm. We could call it the Joann Square. Joann.com is a huge online store which sells a great range of yarns at good prices by both fibre and weight. There is also a clearance section - good to look for cheap yarn. In addition, they have a vast range of sewing and quilting, scrap booking and home and holiday craft products and ideas. Click anywhere in the box.Rachels' Heart Puff Square These crochet instructions below are from Rachel (West Coast, USA) for her pretty 8" Heart Puff Square. She has very generously sent this free crochet pattern, with a graph to go with it, to inspire you all to keep crocheting for the abandoned children and AIDS orphans of Southern Africa.
Wouldn't this make a wonderful crochet baby blanket? Just one of these lovely squares in the middle of an orphan's crochet blanket, would make them smile and know that they are loved from afar. The pattern contains the a photograph of the square and the graph. Please send us photographs if you make up this pattern as I am sure Rachel will love to see the squares, as we will. And, of course, as soon as they are in a crochet blanket, and in the hands of their happy little owner, we will take pictures and post them to the site, for you to enjoy.
For those of you learning how to crochet, the combination of Rachel's crochet instructions and the graph should mean it is not too difficult, if you follow the two together. To download your free crochet pattern, just fill in the form below. You will receive a thank you page with the pattern attached, and all you need to do is click where instructed.
The pattern contains the a photograph of the square and the graph.Please send us photographs if you make up this pattern as I am sure Rachel will love to see the squares, as we will. And, of course, as soon as they are in a crochet blanket, and in the hands of their happy little owner, we will take pictures and post them to the site, for you to enjoy.
Thank you for your support and enthusiasm in contributing to this crochet and knitting project to help keep the abandoned children and AIDS orphans of Southern Africa warm. Here are the
postal instructions
for getting your squares safely to Africa. Please subscribe to the
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for stories of your squares, the blankets and the children who receive them.

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