holiday SNOWMAN crochetalong!

[leesespieces]

my momma's been through some stress this year, so i want to surprise her and do our whole christmas tree in snowmen, because they're her favorite thing around this time of year.

2nd part of the inspiration for this crochetalong is that, in case you haven't read my other posts around the site, i work at michael's, and i do the kids club craft class every saturday. last saturday we did little clay snowmen. it started out as just a basic snowman with a hat and scarf, but the kids were really having fun with it so i encouraged them to get creative and make their snowman unique and do whatever they wanted to it. one little girl even made a mom and baby snowman with little gifts sitting under a little pipecleaner trellis. SO cute!!

soo i thought this would be a fun crochetalong to get everybody ready for the holidays!! let's all make little snowmen and personalize them however we want and see how many different ones we can come up with! there's tons of simple patterns for snowmen on crochetpatterncentral.com, under christmas, and then under winter stuff.

so who's with me?!

[darski]

I have been planning to make the melting snowman anyway so I'm in I guess

I want a mr and mrs melting for my hallway - it's going to be too too too cute

http://www.crochetnmore.com/meltingsnowman.htm

I am going to make mine a tad larger so they show up in a long hallway

[Cocoa Cream]

If I can find the time and the scraps of yarn, I would love to join you in this CAL! My mom collects snowmen, and it's kind of a tradition to get her at least one every Christmas. This year I want to make her one...so I found a simple looking pattern that I think I can do. It's pretty big (19 inches tall), so I'm thinking of filling the bottom with a bag of rice/bean/sand to make it a doorstopper instead of just stuffing it with fiberfill. If anyone wants to see the pattern, I've linked to it below.
This will be my first CAL, so I'm looking forward to it!

http://www.freepatterns.com/fp_pdfs/...rt_Snowman.pdf

[MyGirlFriday]

Is there a specific one that we do or do we select our own?? I should read the entire post! I will find a cute one!! I do like the ones that have been posted!!
I adore the melting snowman~I have a friend I would love to do that one for!
Count me in!
mgf~

[andrea2006]

Oh I have so much going on I did copy down the melting snowman just a ? though what is orange cardstock? I saved the one that is snow ppl to I got the link from
http://www.myhq.com/public/c/h/chunk...kie/links.html

If you go to xmas it has lots of different patterns all in one place so its easier for me to look there, I even bought little shovels and presents and small carrots for the nose to make em all different but alas I am in so much now I pry wont get it done. Maybe I will have some time in a couple weeks right before xmas.

[andrea2006]

Here i found the direct site that I thought was cute and pretty easy.

http://members.aol.com/maglizrd/priv...etsnowmen.html

[darski]

I collectd the links for us from the myhg listing - it isn't all of them I suppose but it's what I found;

http://members.aol.com/SAG55/sman.html

http://members.aol.com/lffunt/snowmanbm.htm

http://members.aol.com/SAG55/smjar.html

http://www.geocities.com/pmshc/snowmandoorgreeter.html

http://members.aol.com/SAG55/snowloll.html

http://www.********.com/xmascrochet/pat14.htm

http://www.angelfire.com/folk/celtwich/Snowpot.html

http://www.********.com/xmascrochet/pat9.htm

http://www.crochetnow.com/mr-snow-man.php

http://granny2shoes2.tripod.com/03crochetsnowmen.html

http://members.aol.com/SAG55/flatsnow.html

http://www.wrights.com/class/12_xmas...crosnowman.htm

http://www.roxycraft.com/crochet_bo_snowman.htm

The last one - Bo snowman is brand new to cpc this week.

[angelfire]

I have a few patterns that I purchased that I will work with.
also here is a rolypoly ornament
http://www.freepatterns.com/fp_pdfs/..._Charcters.pdf

[darski]

Orange cardstock is just a weight of card that is fairly firm. I plan to use plastic canvas in mine

[minwifeof4boys]

I'm In!!! I need encouragement to do the little snowman greeter plus if it works then I might make a few