St. Paddy's Day Crochet

Paddy not Patty
Some green and white colored, Irish-themed crochet projects for St. Patrick's Day.



This one's a leaf motif pot mat I found here. It came out nicer than I expected in the variegated green and white thread. Also a good example of why flash isn't always your friend.


Three-leaf clover button hangers from a shamrock pin pattern. I made a loop out of the loose ends so they can be easily slipped over buttons (I was too lazy to get out my glue gun and find pins). The patterns are for yarn, but I used doubled-up crochet thread to make button-sized clovers.


More clovers, in four-leaf and three-leaf varieties. Making these out of variegated crochet thread is nice but a touch difficult. The thread needs to be doubled in the middle of the right color to get it to line up all the way through. The mini one in the upper right of the pic below, and the four-leaf ones in this pic, are from a pattern similar to the three-leaf, which you can find here.


Some more clover varieties. The bottom left is from this pattern, also for yarn. I did not double the thread, but I should have.



I made these using a pattern I found last year. I have been unable to locate a working website for the pattern, therefore I'm pasting it below.

Shamrock Pin or Fridgie 2 1/2" X 3"
Design 2002 by Catherine Lindsay

You'll Need:
Green bedspread-weight cotton thread,2 strands held together
Size "O" steel hook
Small safety pin or magnet strip
To Make:
Leaving a 6"-long tail,ch 4,join with slip st to 1st chain to form loop.
Rnd 1:Ch 1,sc in loop,(ch 3,sc in loop)3 times.Join with slip st to 1st sc(4 ch-3 loops).
Rnd 2:Ch 1,(in next ch-3 loop work[sc,hdc,dc,trc,dc,hdc,sc])rep around.Join with slip st to 1st sc(4 leaf motifs).
Rnd 3:Ch 1,(sc in next sc,hdc in next hdc,2 dc in next dc,3 dc in next trc,2 dc in next dc,hdc in next hdc,sc in next sc)rep around.Do not finish off.

Stem:
Ch 8,sc in 2nd ch from hook and in next 6 chs.Slip st in next sc.Finish off.

Finishing:
Using 6" tail,sew small safety pin to back of shamrock,or glue on a magnet for a fridgie.

Evil Bitch-Monster of Death notes: for my tight stitches, this pattern takes about 32 feet of thread, doubled over to 16 feet. For looser stitches, probably a few feet more.

Next year, I'll look for hunter green and kelly green crochet thread.