Fun & Fruity Crafting Event

Time to explore 10 Summer fruit craft ideas in this fun and fruity Crafting Event featuring fruit themed crochet patterns and a plastic canvas fruit pattern.

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For the next 10 days, we’re thrilled to be bringing you 10 Summer fruit themed craft ideas featuring fruit themed crochet patterns and a plastic canvas fruit pattern.

This Seeing Stars Crafting Event kicks off on June 1st and will run through June 10th – 10 days in total.

I’m teaming up with my friends Emily of Crochet Aweigh and Candace of T&C Crafters for this event. Each day, there will be a different featured craft pattern, and it will either be available on one of their blogs or on one of mine – EyeLoveKnots blog or Yarn Crafts & Coffee. We’re going to share a total of 5 crochet projects and 1 plastic canvas pattern.

Below you’ll find the schedule. This post will update by 12pm EST on it’s day, and I will send a newsletter out at that time to let you know.

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June 1st -Day 1 – Watermelon Slice Applique

Crochet a cute little Watermelon Slice Applique that’s perfect for a variety of Summer projects. Here are a few ideas: sew it onto a granny square, garment or beanie, glue it onto the front of a card, starch it to create a pendant for a necklace or earring, make a bunch and string them together as a garland.

Appliques are great projects for yarn scraps and it’s so easy to change up the size by simply changing the yarn size and hook.

I’ve worked mine using a worsted weight yarn – For 100% cottons, I love using Circulo Natural Cotton Maxcolor 4/6, WeCrochet Dishie, Queensland Coastal Cotton and Cascade Nifty Cotton because they’re colorfast, which means the colors are set so I don’t have to worry about the colors fading or bleeding when using or washing the project, but as an applique, you can reach for any fiber yarn that matches your project, and you can also use any weight yarn with the respective crochet hook to achieve different sizes of the applique.

Because it jumps from the seed row to the row of white and doesn’t have an extra row of red in between, as is the applique works best visually in worsted weight #4, chunky weight #5 and super chunky weight #6 yarns, but if you’d like to use a lighter weight yarn, I just recommend adding an additional row to the pattern after row 3 in solid red across.

View the Free Crochet Pattern on EyeLoveKnots