What do these two things have in common? Spiral striping. Make a stuffed barber pole or candy stick, or use the method to make a lip balm cozy, reading glasses sleeve, or pen case. This pattern is customizable with two different beginnings, a four- or six-strand spiral that may be made as long as you like, and three different endings.

A fruit basket of ornaments or appliques especially suited to a kitchen or a market tote. With this pattern, make each of seven fruits in whole or sliced form, with leaves and stems as desired. The leaves range from 1″ (apple and pear) to 3″ (peach) long, with the fruits all in between.

Three patterns, three kinds of light bulb. Each is about six inches tall and ready to light up your life or manifest your good ideas.

The grain monster could be a friendly baker’s or brewer’s monster, or a mean gluten monster. You also decide whether to include arms or tail and how long to make them.

The mud monster is ready for rainy adventures! He may track mud in the house and slop water on the floor, but he means well.

Pi and pi are here to emcee your Pi Day celebration, hang out on your desk, indoctrinate small children into geekdom, or be prizes in math competitions. There is no sewing in either pattern – they are entirely crocheted together and all shaping is from crochet stitches.

These hippos are pretty nosy, and if you let them in your house you may have to keep explaining what you’re doing.

Make a very flat owl face for use as an applique or coaster. You’ll stitch the eyes first and separately from each other, and then the rest of the face around the eyes. The beak is a long stitch made into faraway loops in the style of overlay crochet; the rest of the shaping is done via various height stitches.

Simple stuffed trees are easy to decorate and adapt to any yarn you’d like to use.

A small box for your small treasures, with three lids to choose among. Each trinket box begins with the base, worked in the round using a hybrid of joined rounds and spiral that I call a stepped spiral: slip stitch at the end of each round, but do not chain up. This is described in the pattern. The sides, of sturdy half double crochet, are stit...

Miniature decorations for miniature trees or fireplaces, plus a lot of advice for crocheting with embroidery floss, particularly metallic and satin floss. Pattern includes instructions for a magic chain garland, round ornament, pine cone, and 4-, 5-, or 6-pointed star, including a star with one point longer than the rest.

Little sluggos with bobble eyes want to populate your garden and shelves. This pattern lets you choose among sluggos looking straight ahead or to the right or left.

Simple little ghosts to haunt your home.

This little dachshund with bobble-stitch feet is ready to stick his long nose into your house. The pattern includes instructions for solid colored and black and tan dogs.

A fruit salad of ornaments or appliques especially suited to a kitchen or a market tote.

A fruit basket of ornaments or appliques especially suited to a kitchen or a market tote.

A four inch barn owl fits anywhere that needs something to loom over it.

Ginnie and Colin are a pair of little squids modeled after the giant and colossal squid, respectively. If you are having any problems with whale attacks, they will clear that right up for you.

Use these snowflakes as cheerful (and soft) appliques for a sweater or scarf, or stiffen them with your favorite method from thread crochet to hang as ornaments.

This broad-shouldered monster looks particularly good in brushed crochet, giving it big fuzzy toes.

Pig and hippo heads for the same body mean you can populate your tiny river or tiny barnyard, or both.

Aug 2015: Click the “visit pattern website” or “for more information” links to get the pattern free in a blog post. The purchase link is for a nicely-printing PDF version with additional progress photos.