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Yarn Apple Watch Background

by Brandy Burke

Tell me you love yarn without telling me you love yarn! I’ll go first…. I have it on my apple watch — and you can have it too with my free yarn background for apple watches – choose from light or dark background and look at fun little yarn illustrations every time you check the time.


Here’s how to download and set your yarn background for your apple watch.

Step 1: Enter your email address below to sign up for my email list and get access to all of my fun freebies (scroll down)

Step2: Download the background to your phone (or screenshot it and crop out all the noise

Step 3: Open the photo on your phone and hit the share button – as if you were going to send the photo to someone

Step 4: Scroll down and click “create watch face”

Step 5: click “add” next to the image

Enjoy 🙂

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Christmas Crochet Care Instructions Printable

by Brandy Burke

You’re spending hours on those Christmas makes for friends and family (and hopefully yourself, too). Make sure they take real good care of your time and yarn investment with festive crochet care instructions. This freebie is available to all HookandPaper subscribers and when you subscribe, you also gain access to all of my previous freebies!

You  get 10 to a page and can print this as many times as you wish *for your own personal use*

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Halloween Crochet Printable

by Brandy Burke

Working on some spooky makes this Halloween season? I have the perfect free printable for my email subscribers – Halloween Crochet Care Printables to include with your scary gifts.

Think Amigurumi, spooky scarves in green and purple or orange and black – crochet trick or treat bags – anything you can make for Halloween can probably use a care instruction card to go along with it – and I’ve got you covered!

These print ten to a page and when you subscribe, you get access to all of my other freebies as well!

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How to Store Crochet Projects (Plus a Free Printable)

by Brandy Burke

I have a  crochet work in progress for nearly every room I frequent – one I work in in my bedroom before bed, one in the office for my lunch breaks or otherwise downtime, one in the living room for when I’m decompressing with a good netflix binge, and several more stored away for later use.

Storing crochet projects has always been a nightmare – I’ve tried different boxes, bins, wads…. but I finally found a solution and I think you’ll love it too.

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Crochet Project Storage Bags

I found these great storage bags on Amazon that are enormous – they measure 16.7 X 12.4 and hold a lot of project and yarn. They’ve been great for all of my granny squares, scarves, hats, and other projects – they didn’t do a great job of holding my 50X60 blanket and 20 scrap balls of yarn I’m using to make it, but even a laundry basket has a hard time at that.

There’s a big bonus to these bags though – keep reading for a freebie

Crochet Project Storage Printable

The bags are great on their own but the big bonus is that the label on the front is a perfect fit for my Work In Progress Printable. These little cards are free to print as many times as you wish – they help you track things like pattern name, hook size, yarn, and little notes (like “need 12 more squares” for instance).

Even if you don’t have these crochet project storage bags, these free printable cards come in handy – enter your info below to be taken to the download page. Once you enter your email address you’ll receive a confirmation email. Click confirm and you’ll be taken to the download page – you’ll also immediately get access to all of my other Crochet printable

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Things to consider when deciding how to store crochet projects

  • Choose airtight(ish) storage bags and containers
  • If you can’t store your hook with your yarn, write down the hook size and store it with your project
  • WIPs (works in progress) can get out of hand, so have one place where all of these projects live
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Crochet For Cancer Printable

by Brandy Burke

Loving someone who is dealing with something as scary and life disrupting as cancer can leave you feeling pretty helpless. Since my mom’s sudden, out-of-the-blue, completely unexpected colon cancer diagnoses, I’ve turned to the only thing I know to do, crochet. So I made these crochet for cancer printables to help others, too.

Mom has more crochet chemo caps on the way than she’ll ever know what to do with – and her current regimin doesn’t include hairloss – but still, I hope in some tiny way it helps her. It helps me to make them. It makes me feel like I’m doing something at a time that I’ve never felt more helpless.

I know we’re not alone – so many people face cancer every day – leaves you wish you could do SOMETHING.

You have yarn and a crochet hook, so if you’re like me, that something might be to crochet chemo caps, prayer shawls, blankets….something.

How to Use the Crochet for Cancer Printable

Or maybe you just want to use your stash and crochet for a charity – either way, I have these little handmade care instruction card printables – they’re free, print them as many times as you wish for your own personal use (aka: don’t sell them cause that would be wrong and weird) – include them with your handmade item.

You can print 10 to one page and there are faint cut lines to help you quickly turn one sheet of paper into 10 little cards, complete with a caring message, a cancer ribbon, and care instructions. Highlight the appropriate care instructions with a highlighter or circle them with a pen and tuck them in to your handmade gift.

These are broad cancer printables – meaning you can use them for sewn or knit projects as well.

Download the Crochet for Cancer Printable

Just scroll down and subscribe to my newsletter – from there you’ll be sent an email asking you to confirm – click confirm in that email and immediately taken to a page to download this free printable and all the freebies I’ve released now and in the future.

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Free Yarn Label Printable

by Brandy Burke

If you’re like me, you cake your yarn nearly as soon as you get it. I cake my yarn because it’s how I store it on my yarn wall, but you might cake it simply because it’s easier to work with once caked, you can pull from the inside or the side depending on how much yarn you need, and you can ensure there are no knots or tangles before beginning your project.

Whatever the reason, caking your yarn or rolling it into a ball often means you lose the label. In my Yarn Wall Q&A Youtube I shared a few ideas for how to track what yarn make, color, and size you’re using – one of them is this free yarn label printable. Print the file as many times as you’d like to and append it to your yarn cake, skein, or even ball.

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I have to admit that while I love these, I rarely have the need to know the maker, yarn weight, and lot color of my yarn, this is because my brain just simply doesn’t allow me to work on long projects that require a lot of the same yarn – I prefer to work on scrappy projects that use a lot of random colors, or on short projects like crochet scarves, or crochet potholders.

Typically when I decide to work on a large project I will buy all of the yarn I need and keep it separately. Still, there have definitely been occasions where I’ve needed to mark a certain color or lot and these little yarn label printables come in very handy.

How I Organize and Store My Yarn

I get a lot of questions around my yarn wall – created with pegboard, pegs, and a lot of thought, it has served me well for many years. Here’s a great video I put together that captures the frequently asked questions I receive.

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Crochet Valentines Printable

by Brandy Burke

Who are you crocheting for this Valentine’s season? I have a list but I’ve only barely started.

I’ve created these sweet Handmade with Love care instruction cards to include with your gifts – I think they are perfect for Valentine’s Day but they’re also great for any time. These sold well on my online shops before I decided to close them to focus on other areas of my business – and now they’re free to you. Just use the subscribe form below and after you click submit you’ll be taken to a page where you can download them.

You’ll also get all of the other freebies I’ve ever offered – all in one place, just for subscribing.

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If you’te looking for great Valentine’s Crochet Projects – a great place to start is with my crochet heart earrings – this simple pattern uses embroidery floss to whip up delicate little hearts to dangle from your ears.

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Free Work in Progress Notes Printable

by Brandy Burke

Whether I get midway through a project and experience an interruption or I just get bored with what I’m working on, I usually have multiple projects going in various stages. I was working on the granny square cardigan project that requires like…36 squares or something, and when I came back to it, I was sure I had been using my favorite crochet hook (a 4.5mm). I whipped up a square and it was so tiny compared to the others. I counted and checked to make sure I was supposed to be doing half doubles and not doubles, I blocked the square to be double sure. It was obvious I was using the wrong hook. If you’re curious, I was supposed to be using the 5.5 hook. Both are a pretty shade of green so I am cutting myself some slack for not being sure.

From that moment I created these work in progress printables and at one time, I sold them on my Etsy before I decided to shut down my etsy and just focus on sharing what I love instead of trying to make money from it (because the business of doing your hobby can take the fun away from doing it).

Then I realized, it would be a great thing to share with readers and fans of Hook and Paper – AND, yes, encourage you to sign up for my email list so that I can talk directly with you about the things we both love anyway.

So now, not only do you get the other freebies we’ve chatted about in the past when you subscribe, you also get the Work in Progress printable – you can print them as many times as you wish (but you can’t sell or share them).

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