BOS Round 7 Sneak Peeks and 10 fun Fall Scarf Crochet Patterns to check out while you're waiting

The Battle of the Stitches Round 7 is well under way and we're excited to share some of the details with you.  

Photo used with permission of Shana L Rowe.  (c)

16 Totally Awesome Crochet Scarfs

With Fall just around the corner, it's time to start making those warm accessories; scarfs are the perfect addition to any Autumn day outfit!

  Here's a round up of 16 great crochet scarf patterns. Some are free and some are a small fee.

It's time for Who Done It and Who Won It in Round 6 of the Battle of the Stitches

Once again, we want to give a big shout out to all of you , our fans, for supporting The Battle of the Stitches crochet challenge and each of the designers involved!  We've enjoyed your guesses in the various games the designers hosted and appreciate all the shares and votes to help make this challenge a success.

We're excited to finally share with you who designed each project AND who won!  Thank you to each of our challengers for all of their hard work!  It was fun to get to know and work with everyone.  

Thank you to each of our sponsors!
Day by Day Crochet, The Clay Sheep and The Silk Drop have been great supporters and we hope that you will follow and support them along with us.








And Thank You to each of our judges!  This was not an easy task for them this round (It seems like each round gets harder!)
Heidi from Snappy Tots
Jennifer from Crochet by Jennifer
Katy from KT and the Squid
Ann from Glamour4You
Celina from Simply Collectible Crochet


And now, for the moment you've all been waiting for!!!!
Who Done It?  

THE THEME, THE STITCH AND SOME FUN SNEAK PEEKS FOR ROUND 6 REVEALED

The Stitch:

Out of ALL the amazing crochet stitches out there, how do you choose just 1 for a round of The Battle of the Stitches?  Well,  it takes a LOT of searching.  Many stitch books are browsed, online tutorials looked through and a note book to jot down the ones that stick out.  What works well for the season coming up?  Will it be easy to design a wide variety of crochet patterns using it as the focus?  It's easy to pick 1 stitch to design 1 project, but to have 12 talented designers all using the same stitch at the same time with the same theme is a little more difficult to narrow it down.  In the end, for this round, it was just that gut feeling.  You know the one, "This is it!"  It cries out that it's a MUST have.

Round 4 Wrap Up, Winners and eBook!!!

Wow!  What a round it was!  It was such a great experience getting to host this round.  The designers were all amazing.  The support team were all spectacular keeping you all informed.  And, the eBook...such a wonderful collection of love themed love knot patterns!  Have you picked up your copy, yet?  I just cannot say enough about it!  Fourteen gorgeous designs (some featuring more than one pattern) -- one design from each challenger, and two bonus designs from myself and co-admin Lisa Jelle -- all for just $5.95.  That's less than $0.50 per pattern!!!  Such a deal!

 

 

By featuring the love knot stitch this round, we wanted to challenge our designers, but, at the same time, remove the intimidation that is often associated with the stitch.  We wanted to show that you can create all kinds of things with this stitch and use it in multiple ways.  We have featured it being worked in rows, in the joined round, in granny square style, and as an overlay.  It's been used as a standalone stitch in some patterns and used as the focus combined with additional stitches in others.  This is a versatile stitch very much worth your very favorite yarn and hook.  The eBook includes a stitch tutorial by our very own Lisa Jelle of Kaleidoscope Art&Gifts and a link to a YouTube video that all of our challengers found very helpful.  These will help you with the basics, and the patterns that use more than just the basics have photo tutorials of their own.  If that's not enough, each pattern includes clickable links that will put you in direct contact with the designer in numerous ways.  You will not be left to figure it out on your own if you need further help.

 

A great big CONGRATULATIONS to our winners, Circle of Neverending Love Poncho by Sheri Weber of The Country Willow, the Fans' Favorite winner,  and With All My Love Photo Prop by our very own creator and co-admin, Kate Wagstaff of Crafting Friends Designs, the Judges Choice winner!!!!  Boy, were the judges surprised and excited to find out that it was her design that they'd chosen!  :)

 

Both winners will receive an amazing prize package from our sponsors.  A huge THANK YOU to Crochet by Faye, Day by Day Crochet, The Clay Sheep, The Hookeraholic Crochet, Kaleidoscope Art&Gifts, and The Silk Drop.

 

 

Below, you can see all of the Round 4 designs.  Below each photo is a link to that designer's Facebook page.  Click on over and congratulate each of them on a job well done!  Then head on over to the Battle of the Stitches website and grab your copy of the eBook so you will have all of these wonderful designs for your very own!

 

 

 

Crafting Friends Designs

 

The Country Willow

 

Chris~Cross~Crafts

 

Blackstone Designs

 

3 Boys & a Ball of Yarn

 

Pink Snail Boutique

 

Desert Diamond Crochet

 

Busting Stitches

 

Two Brothers Blankets

 

Articles of a Domestic Goddess

 

Silverdragon Crafts & Critters

 

The Crafty Geekette

 

Kaleidoscope Art&Gifts

 

Little Luvies Shop

 

Continue to follow Battle of the Stitches for Round 5 beginning in March!  There will be lots of fun happening in the mean time that you won't want to miss out on!

And last but not least...Our final 2 Challengers in Round 4 of the Battle of the Stitches are:

We're rounding out our 12 challengers with these 2 final designers. We hope you are as excited about this as we are!   Our Round 4 of the Battle of the Stitches will begin next week and all 12 ladies are eager to get going and anxiously waiting for the news....
WHAT crochet stitch will they be given to be the focus of a completely new design?
WHAT will the theme be?  There is a slight twist to what is going on behind the scenes of the Battle for this round and you're about to find out what that is.

Giveaway: Will you get the KO?

It's time to battle it out (enter) for more fan prizes!

• Our first prize is brought to you by The Silk Drop.  This beautiful skein of sport weight Mulberry Silk yarn in Jewel Tones is approximately 52g-53g (approx. 187-190 yards).  I could totally see this as a beautiful cowl or fingerless gloves! 

  

  1 skein sport weight Mulberry Silk in Jewel Tones from The Silk Drop

• Next up, Little Luvies Shop has donated this cute Hello Kitty Amigurumi Pattern Book.  Who do you know that would love a crochet Hello Kitty or Hello Kitty friend?

And, last, but definitely not least, Crafting Friends Designs would like you to enjoy one of her favorite crochet stitch pattern books (definitely one of my favorites, too)!  This book includes 300 different stitch patterns with written patterns and charts for each.  There are so many to choose from, you'll definitely have a hard time deciding which to play with first!  The winner will have their choice of the hard copy or Kindle version of the book.

To enter:

1. Follow Battle of the Stitches on Facebook.
2. Follow The Silk Drop on Facebook.
3. Follow Little Luvies Shop on Facebook.
4. Follow Crafting Friends Designs on Facebook.
5. Comment on this blog post telling us who you are rooting for to win BOTS Round 3.
6. Complete all other entries through the Rafflecopter widget below.

One winner per prize, one prize per winner.  Entries will be accepted until 9/28/2014.  Winners will be announced in a very special blog post on 9/29/2014.
We want to give a HUGE Thank you to all of our Sponsors! 

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Also returning for Round 3, we have Challenger #4

Welcome Amanda of +MNE Crafts back for another round of Battle of the Stitches!

Though Amanda just started crochet pattern designing earlier this year, she has been crocheting more than half of her life.  Crochet is her passion!  Since the release of her first pattern, she has published at least one pattern a week as well as a couple of eBooks.  Amanda's main design focus has been children's items, though she has started to include adult items as well.  Her favorite stitches are front and back post stitches.  In addition to crocheting, Amanda enjoys photography, reading, writing, and spending time with her family.

We can't wait to see what Amanda brings us in Round 3!  In Round 2, Amanda designed the Bermuda Pearl Mermaid Tail photo prop.

You can find more MNE Crafts designs here:

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Round 3 Challenger #3, returning from Round 2

With hook and yarn in hand, Misty of  Misty Makes is ready for the Round 3 starting bell to ring!

Round 3 of the Battle of the Stitches is drawing near

Hey everyone, I'm Kate from Crafting Friends Designs back to set you up for another round of the Battle of the Stitches.  I'll be your hostess again this round and I hope you're as excited as I am for Round 3 to begin!  It is so much fun to sift through all the applications of designers I'm familiar with as well as those I'm not.  Getting to know new people behind the business logo is always a plus and the friendships and business relationships that have been built in the past 2 rounds have been awesome.

Recently, Heidi from +SnApPy ToTs  visited me with a gift from the wonderful ladies who participated in Round 2. 

It was so awesome to receive a hook from  Day by Day Crochet made using 12 suns for our theme "Fun in the Sun" and 12 because we had 12 challengers.  I Love it and will never forget them now :)
I also received a gift certificate to JoAnn's and some nut covered chocolates (maybe because I'm nuts for hosting this each time?  It's a lot of work, but well worth it!) 

So,  a HUGE thank you to all who have participated so far and a Big ole Good Luck to the ladies who will challenge in our September competition!  We will be announcing the returning challengers along with the new challengers this week, so follow along and cheer on your faves.