Crochet Letters and Numbers for appliqueing and decor

Crochet Letters!

Everyone has heard of crochet hats and booties and blankets but what if you want to monogram something?? Or make giant letter pillows! Or write your babies name on a crochet blanket?? Here are some great patterns for how to do different kinds of letters~

2D Letters and Numbers

First let's look at stand alone 2 D letters, numbers, and punctuation.

This was posted by Moogly 
This is one of the best comprehensive patterns I've found out there. Not only are there written patterns for the letters but she includes some video tutorials for the tricky letters!

http://www.mooglyblog.com/the-moogly-crochet-alphabet/

http://www.mooglyblog.com/lowercase-alphabet/

http://www.mooglyblog.com/the-moogly-crochet-numbers/

http://www.mooglyblog.com/moogly-crochet-punctuation-set/

For those of you that prefer reading symbol patterns than written patterns, these were posted by ninenin sectikleri. I have tried these out and they look very nice especially for using them to applique or hand on a wall.

http://orguoyuncakcnine2.blogspot.com/2009/11/her-yerde-kullanilabilecek-tig-isi.html

Here is another symbol pattern set by fiberneed

http://fiberneed.blogspot.com/2009/03/whats-your-name.html

Embroidering/Crocheting on Letters

This post by Crochetnmore shows how to do surface crochet or surface slip stitch which can be used to add letters and numbers to a crochet work. Keep in mind this only works for solid tight single crochet rows but can be very useful when you do solid shirts or sweaters!

3 D Letters 

I found this free pattern for slightly 3D letters. The letters are just done twice and stuffed. Here is the link. http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/alphabet-pillows

Here is a very nice pattern you can buy for making real fancy 3D letters. It's 2.50 euros per letter from Carocreated.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/one-3d-letter---crochet-pattern-pdf-pattern-for-one-letter-only

There is also a book on amazon done by bigunki which you can order which has patterns for all the letters.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/149420018X/

Just for fun while we're talking about letters I found this really cool DIY tutorial about how to wrap letters with yarn by catchmyparty.com! Since we have so much yarn hanging around check it out it could be a great project for that scrap yarn left over.

http://catchmyparty.com/blog/diy-how-to-make-a-yarn-wrapped-ombre-monogrammed-letter

Here is another done by landofnod. 

http://blog.landofnod.com/honest-to-nod/2011/10/yarn-wrapped-letters-2.html

Hope these come in use! Happy Crocheting~

Random Object Crochet Appliques

 http://www.freepatterns.com/detail.html?code=FC00257&cat_id=313



http://crochetncrafts.com/crochet/crochetdrumsetapplique.html

numbers!

http://allicrafts.blogspot.com/2012/09/free-pattern-number-appliques.html

Mask and Fan applique

https://sites.google.com/site/surawhit/maskandfanapplique

Flip Flop

http://itty-bitty-creations.blogspot.com/2011/08/flip-flop-applique.html

Firehydrant

http://calleighsclips.blogspot.com/2011/02/fire-hydrant-applique-crochet-pattern.html

Football

http://knittinglove4u.blogspot.com/2012/01/football-applique-free-pattern.html

Football

http://thetoddlerwhisperer.blogspot.com/2012/02/free-crochet-pattern-football.html

Pokemon

http://www.debbie-jean.com/2009/12/pokeball-applique.html

Music

http://www.crochetspot.com/crochet-pattern-musical-notes/

My Work - Winter Blanket Completed!

Finally Finished my Winter Blanket Project! It was meant for a double bed but somehow it also fits on a queen bed with the edition of the border ^^ It would look good on either size. I have the start of my pillow project in the background to make a decorative back pillow with a brown and blue border... maybe some mini snowflake border.

 Here is the final center piece for the cover after a lot of animals made and trial and error... have some snowflakes and dear and two birds...I actually have white and blue parakeets so these were made to look like them ^^ Also I made a pile of snow at the base under the dear which is fluffy... So there is my 3d applique section of the blanket

 This shows the snowflake border... :)

 There is a close up of the start of the pillow... some snowflaky wintery kind of design... when I finish the pillows I'll post them :)

Final thoughts... this was a great project... I learned a lot from all sorts of stitching and reading symbol patterns because I did so many different kinds of squares and even designed some of my own... it was really fun and worth it... took a long time and a lot of yarn... but it will be forever~ ^^ 

My Work - Progress on the Blanket~

Ok so... I have completely changed my mind about the blanket... decided the animals and leaves weren't giving me the look I wanted... also the colors are hard to work with when you are trying to do something springy... so I thought... mmmm... blue... white... leafless tree... WHY NOT MAKE IT WINTER! I mean I did the blanket in the winter so It's fitting ^^ and gives me room to change colors and make a spring, summer, and fall blanket too! muhahahahaha I smell yarn!!!

Note to people wanted to try something like this out... I'd add one more color to this... it is hard to work with 3 colors when you have already used a color for the sky or background so you only have 2 other colors to work on whatever you want to applique ontop... If I do another blanket I will definitely add another color... whether it is to border the squares only or to also be in the squares.


 so... the border has become semi snowflakes and I now have dear and birds around the leafless tree with some snowflake falling... also I made a snow pile at the bottom of the tree!

This picture is my inspiration for the blanket ^^

So here is what the center part of the blanket looks like now...

So I haven't sewn down the deer, snowflakes or the birds... but you can see how it will look... I have put off a bit on the snowflakes because the yarn is so big it is hard to make little snowflakes with 4ply yarn... so I came up with the idea of splitting the yarn into the 4 small strands and using one of those with a 2.25 m hook... So now I need to get that hook ^^ then there will be smaller snowflakes everywhere ^^ When I do it I'll post my pattern design for the snowflakes... It is strange no one is making tiny patterns of snowflakes... everyone wants big ones to hang on the tree ^^

Oh and I also have been adding on the border around the whole blanket you can see the brown I added I still need to add white and the semi snowflakes...here is a picture of it below the next picture... there will be a snowflake for every square around the blanket ^^ This snowflake actually came from the mypicot website free patterns for edging... I just had to change it a big because I felt it was too big especially since it is for lace... imagine using yarn 4 times as thick :P ya you need to adjust the stitches a little I will probably post a video about how to adjust stitches for using lace patterns for yarn.

Oh and this is what the picture from the website looks like before I tried it in yarn. So Instead of doing the first 3 border... I'm doing just the snowflake pattern and will crochet the blanket and the semi-snowflake together ^^

Anyways this is what is happening with the blanket... just have to make more semi snowflakes and mini snowflakes for the applique center and sew everything in ^^ Fun fun project... crochet is so relaxing... love it ^^