Materials: The barber pole lip balm cozy shown was made with embroidery floss and a size 1 steel hook (2.75mm), the darker lip balm cozy was made with fine yarn (weight class 2) and a D hook (3.25mm), and the candy stick was made with craft thread and a size 1 steel hook (2.75mm). The remaining pieces were made with worsted weight yarn: the barber poles with an F hook (3.75mm), the left-hand pen case with an H hook (5mm), and the right-hand pen case with a K hook (6.5mm).

Stitches and techniques assumed: magic ring, slip knot, chain, single crochet and its decrease (optionally: invisible decrease), slip stitch, attaching new yarn with slip stitch, half double crochet, weaving in ends, sewing up openings.

The pattern points you here in particular for links to pages on the needle join and running stitch closure.

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The total amount of yarn is about a quarter ounce (7 g), mostly in the main face color with a small amount in 2-3 other colors, depending on which style eye you use. Photos show each round along the way and clarification points.

Stitches and techniques assumed: slip knot, chain, slip stitch, single crochet, half double crochet, double crochet and its decrease, triple crochet, stitching in back loop only, single crochet color change and for taller stitches, weaving in ends, attaching new yarn with slip stitch, magic ring.

Taught in pattern: needle join, in particular in second stitch after end; triple treble crochet; linked triple crochet. This video from Mooglyblog will give you a view of the linked triple crochet, but it doesn’t translate entirely because she pulls loops up through bars that only exist if you make a row of LTR starting from a turning chain. In this you’ll have to pull your loops up through a standard tr; a diagram of suggested locations is given in the pattern.

The story of this pattern is on the blog.

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