March's Challenge: Cross Stitch

March's challenge will be a cross stitch flower.
There is a list of free cross stitch flowers here
Scroll down at crochetabout.com to find links to some flowers.

Lucky Penny

I wanted to make a four leaf clover to hold my lucky penny. It came out smaller than I thought I would make but after last month's huge heart it's a nice change.

February's Challenge: Crochet

During February we'll be crocheting a lucky penny holder for March. Unfortunately most of the links that I bookmarked don't seem to work anymore.

Here are some patterns
by Irene Duquette
by Bonnie Stochaj (photos at bottom)
Lucky Penny For the Bride (no photo, scroll down)
by Carol Alexander

And an idea
Skeeter's Lucky Pennies

My Heart's Done

Here's my embroidered heart. It looked better flat. I searched books and the internet for stitches I wanted to try. I probably spent more time looking at stitches than embroidering them! I didn't really plan where I was going to put the stitches and it shows. If I had to do it again I think that I would start in the middle and work my way out in lines of stitches in heart shapes.