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Denise Lavoie


Denise designs crochet and knitwear as well as paints and creates mixed media art pieces whenever she can.  Her work and designs have been published in books and magazines.

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Projects by Denise Lavoie


Foundation Half Double Crochet Basics

When working any in-the-round motif pattern, there are a few different ways to start off your motif, and there is no right or wrong way. Some people prefer to crochet a series of chain stitches and join them with a slip stitch to form a ring, and others prefer to use the magic ring method. Both are effective, depending on your own personal preference, but there’s still another way to start off a motif pattern and that’s by using a row of foundation stitches.

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How To Do a Puff Stitch in Crochet

The time has come for you to learn how to do a puff stitch! Don’t worry if you’re just learning this type of cluster stitch for the first time – there are also popcorn stitches and bobble stitches to learn too!

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How To Do a Bobble Stitch in Crochet

The time has come for you to learn how to do a bobble stitch! Don’t worry if you’re just learning this type of cluster stitch for the first time – there are also puff stitches and popcorn stitches to learn too!

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Flower Bud Handbag

Take this casual, floral beauty with you anywhere you go and always have a sturdy place to keep all your belongings. The Flower Bud Handbag is chic and sturdy with solid leather handles. It is also lined to keep its shape and to provide extra support.

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How To Do a Popcorn Stitch in Crochet

The time has come for you to learn how to do a popcorn stitch! Don’t worry if you’re just learning this type of cluster stitch for the first time – there are also puff stitches and bobble stitches to learn too!

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How to Line a Crochet Bag

This quick tutorial on how to create a bag lining will, I hope, speak your language. If you’ve ever constructed a crocheted garment and seamed it with a backstitch or a whip stitch or put together a motif-based blanket, you’ve already got most of the bag lining basics in your crafty techniques toolbox.

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Tunisian Crochet: How to Carry Up Multiple Colors

Working with color when crafting is universally appealing – just look at the explosion of long color run yarns like Noro and other such brands. My painting experience is instructive in this area: colors come alive and reveal personality only in context with other colors. As on the painting canvas, so too in creating crochet fabric – there is is something infinitely satisfying about watching colors take form and reveal themselves in the context of a crochet project, especially in Tunisian crochet by carrying yarn.

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Tunisian Crochet as Accent

I am a big lover of tunisian crochet. I have utilized this style of crochet in many of my designs. To underscore this point, in last August’s edition of ILikeCrochet.com I discussed tunisian crochet as a vehicle for injecting color into a crochet design.

In this second tunisian crochet article, I’d like to introduce a different

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Summer Mist Poncho

There are times in warm weather when you just need a little something around the shoulders to counteract those lazy summer breezes.

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Tunisian Crochet as Accent

I am a big lover of tunisian crochet. I have utilized this style of crochet in many of my designs. To underscore this point, in last August’s edition of ILikeCrochet.com I discussed tunisian crochet as a vehicle for injecting color into a crochet design.

In this second tunisian crochet article, I’d like to introduce a different

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