WoollyRhinoCrafts

A special treat! I needed a little knitting break, so I made a Nyan Cat grid! I think it would make a nice c2c crochet pillow cover (I've sort of been itching to make weird pillows but I don't want to turn into my grandmother and have 96 decorative pillows swallowing all of my furniture).  Anyway, SURELY someone needs this! I didn't add diagonal lines for c2c because I don't want people to think it's c2c ONLY. For real, do what you want with it. Be free. Get creative. You can download it and edit it, if you want. Add more stars or something. I do wish I had added a few more stars.  Happy crafting! If you make a cool thing and share it online then please provide credit and link back to this page! I tediously clicked every single one of these squares to color them. For real. I did. Check out my shop if you're looking to buy something or check my commission/custom order status! If you're looking for patterns then go to Ravelry or Ko-Fi . On the latter, I

I DON'T KNOW WHO NEEDS THIS BUT I BET SOMEONE OUT THERE DOES. You're welcome. I have not tested this, but I'm confident in my c2c charts. I imagine it as a nice, weird pillow (and I might actually make a pillow at some point - I'm a smidge bogged down by my own arbitrary schedule at the moment). 30x30 is also a good size if you want to sc, like, a square hat? Put some pom poms on the top corners. I AM GIVING YOU FREE IDEAS.  It'll work for duplicate stitch knitting too, no doubt.  Get creative, cowards. If you make a thing and post it on the interwebs then please link back here because everyone needs to SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM! OOOOOOH YEAH! Check out my Etsy if you want to buy physical items, Ravelry or Ko-Fi for patterns! I also offer a cool membership on Ko-Fi that currently gets you Pokemon c2c stuff each month!

A second pattern update this week! Look at me go! The Hot Beverage Beanie is an old oooooold olde pattern from back when I first started knitting, so it was LONG overdue for an update, unlike the possum hat . 

  Alrighty! I'm working on updating MULTIPLE patterns this month and this one is ready to go! This is one of my original designs and it is isn't actually that old of a pattern, but I made some tweaks to it based on customer feedback. I also made the pattern itself more readable and added some additional images to the end. Nothing too crazy, but regardless, you can now buy the UPDATED version! Snag it from my Ko-Fi Shop Or Ravelry Or (if for some reason you want to pay more to make Etsy richer) Etsy   There's currently ONE possum hat available to purchase and you can get it here . It's the one pictured in the pattern images above. There will be some more possums added next month when I do my Pride Month Hat Drop...just in time for summer..........

Yesterday I posted about ChatGPT's valiant attempt to write a crochet pattern for a plushie Slenderman . The result was not very slender and also not really any sort of man. More of a weird, moderately unnerving Pokemon. You can see "Slenderman" right there in the image next to "Macho Man." I don't even really know what to say about "Macho Man." He's mostly naked, bald, and I don't think ChatGPT knows what a bandana is. I also don't know what's up with the arm and leg bands. Are those the elbows and knees? I aim to find out while also trying to help this AI become self-aware because I crave the end of humanity. That aside. If you would like to make yourself an AI-generated "Macho Man," here is the pattern as given to me. I'll mess around with this some more next week. Maybe do a little once a week AI pattern monstrosity post. Materials:      Tan yarn      Black yarn      Red yarn      3.5 mm crochet hook     

The results were...something. Unsettling? Charming? Definitely not Slenderman, but not really anything else either? Some sort of Pokemon? Here's the pattern, as it was given to me by my AI friend ChatGPT, if you'd also like to make this "Slenderman." Materials: Black yarn White yarn 3.5 mm crochet hook Fiberfill stuffing Yarn needle Scissors Abbreviations: ch = chain sc = single crochet inc = increase (two single crochets in one stitch) dec = decrease (single crochet two stitches together) Body: With black yarn, ch 2 Round 1: 6 sc in second ch from hook (6) Round 2: 2 sc in each st around (12) Round 3: [sc, inc] around (18) Round 4: [2 sc, inc] around (24) Round 5: [3 sc, inc] around (30) Round 6-10: sc around (30) Round 11: [3 sc, dec] around (24) Round 12: [2 sc, dec] around (18) Begin stuffing the body. Round 13: [sc, dec] around (12) Round 14: dec around (6) Fasten off and weave in ends. Arms (Make 2): With black yarn, ch 2 Round 1: 6 sc in second ch from hook (6)

I finally got around to doing one of the numerous things that I had planned to do at the start of this year! I updated one of my very old patterns! The Dalek Hats! And this is just in time for the new Doctor Who! I went through and improved the pattern, tweaking the sizing, and I added more details to the written pattern and some additional images of the new version of the hats. The last section of the pattern is text-only for those people that like to print their patterns! AND I also made a few videos to go along with the pattern, which you can find on my YouTube channel , which I hope to update more frequently with more and more fun (weird, unhinged) tutorials.  Anyway, I don't want to ramble too much, so you can find links to the updated Dalek Hats pattern below:  Crochet Dalek Hats on Ko-Fi Crochet Dalek Hats on Ravelry I kept the pattern the same price, although it is much more detailed now (just $5 USD). It includes both the classic Dalek design and the newer paradigm Dalek,

**EDIT 4/15/23: I totally know that I spelled axolotls wrong in the graphic. I just don't care and I'm not changing it because 2023 is the year of me being unhinged af. There are A LOT of axolotl patterns floating around. AxoLOTl of patterns, if you will. Ahem...you all know that I also love alliteration so April...and Axolotls just goes together, right? If you don't know about axolotls then let me give you some QUICK ANIMAL FACTS: Axolotls are a weird type of salamander, which is an amphibian. Most amphibians (e.g. frogs, mudpuppies, more common lizard-looking salamanders, etc.) go through different stages as they develop - eggs, tadpoles, adulthood, and they move onto land as adults. Axolotls don't do this. They never move onto land. They are aquatic as adults and they keep their gills looking like cute babies forever. The frilly things on their heads are their gills btw. There are some other species of salamanders that remain aquatic as well, but I digress. Axolotls

Bo'Katan, y'all. Katee Sackhoff carries this show - change my mind. I did the Mythosaur earlier and I realized after that I should have just also done the Nite Owl at the same time, especially after this week's episode. I considered saving this for next week, but I do what I want.  If you're looking for the Mythosaur then head over here .   As with the Mythosaur, I made two. You've got a smaller, versatile 35x35 and a bigger 50x50. Feel free to download and edit them as needed for whatever you're doing. These are good for c2c, sc, duplicate stitch knitting, and cross stitch. I'd use caution with stranded knitting because the grid squares are...square. This will make the circle not circular since knit stitches are not square. Anyway, link back here to this post if you use these charts for anything cool! Please and thank you. This is the way.   For the latest updates, follow me on Facebook ! Check out Ko-Fi for patterns and I now offer monthly subscriptions f

I'm sure someone out there needs this for something. I made two versions - a smaller 35x35 and a 50x50 that has a little more detail. These will totally work for c2c crochet or sc (but at the time of writing this, they are untested). They'll also be fine for cross stitch and duplicate stitch knitting. Do whatever you want! Knitting will be a little skewed because the grids are squares and I also worry a bit about the large sections of background color, but anyway...here are your Mythosaur skulls so you can make your little Mandalore banners and stuff, you nerds! Feel free to save the charts and make tweaks as needed, but if you post your creations online, don't forget to link back here to share the love and joy! I should probably do the Nite Owl sigil, shouldn't I? Stay tuned...   If you want to get the latest updates and be the first to know about new free (and also paid) patterns then be sure to follow me on Facebook ! Scope out my current item inventory and see if I&

St. Patrick's Day is in March, and I associate potatoes with Ireland (due to that whole Potato Famine, I assume), and I also got a weird commission for, uh, a bunch of potato people and a potato king? So, does it make sense that this month's pattern roundup theme is...potatoes? I think so! Each of the potato people I made needed to be a little different (colors, sizes, etc.) but I looked around at existing amigurumi potato patterns for a starting point and inspo for my bunch of potatoe people. Here are my favorite potato crochet patterns and they are all totally FREE!!! Images below belong to their respective owners/pattern makers, of course! Only the potato people above are mine. Potato Amigurumi by Stitch By Fay This is a very easy potato of good size and I used this pattern for two (I think??) of my potatoes, but I used worsted weight yarn and an F hook to make them a bit larger than the pattern. Fay has A LOT of fun free patterns! Stitch by Fay on Facebook Amugurumi Potato

If you're bored and you go perusing this blog, you'll find some very old posts about Drama Llama hats. These were the first hats I ever designed and it's a super easy pattern! I had no idea what I was doing. But that's good because it's very simple and minimalist and great for someone wanting to get started with colorwork! The pattern is a great pattern for getting a feel for carrying your floats and working with yarn tension! I FINALLY (many years later) got around to digitalizing the pattern! I cleaned it up a bit, and you can get it from my Ko-Fi shop or Ravelry RIGHT NOW! I don't know why I put it off for so long. This just kept getting back burnered for other projects. If you're interested in buying a completed hat with prancing llamas (or alpacas) and exclamation points (to add DRAMA), I do have two purple and white ones available here on Etsy. I don't know how long they're going to last, but I do plan on stocking these this fall when I do m

This has been a very long time coming. I spruced up my old Dark Tower Beam Guardian charts and they are here now, for FREE. The Dark Tower fandom has always been one of the most pleasant, coolest, chillest, awesome-est bunch of people. I used these charts for my Beam scarves, which I made a whole lot of and did not charge very much for (my bad). They're square because square is a nice shape for things, so you can use these for something other than scarves. The charts will also work for crochet - c2c or tapestry crochet or whatever you want to use them for! For most of the Beam scarves I included the Guardians at each end and staghorn cable. In the middle, you can put whatever - Eye of the Crimson King , Sigil of the White , the Unfound hieroglyphs. I think I've done all three for different scarves? You can also double-knit these and change the number of stitches for the border on the sides. If you don't double-knit you should do a ribbed bottom edge and probably i-cord edg