In the Mood Crochet Mood Project
If you're looking for an alternative to a crochet temperature blanket, these 4 crochet project ideas will help you track your moods and use them to create a crochet blanket or shawl, unique to you
In the Mood | Crochet Mood Blanket or Shawl
In the Mood is a simple way to track your moods and combine it with your crochet skills, to create a personalised crochet project that you can be proud of.
Tracking your mood is well documented to be a successful way to care for your mental health. A detailed article from Calm.com details the 5 benefits of tracking your mood:
- Creates space to feel your feelings
- Helps you take better care of yourself
- Recognise patterns and triggers that impact your mood
- Allow you to communicate better with others
- Allow you to recognise if extra support is needed
Crochet Makes You Feel Good!
Crochet is cited as being many people's happy place - giving us a time out from the world around us, a chance to concentrate on the repetitive stitches, or get lost in a complicated pattern to quieten the noise in our heads.
In the Mood combines the benefit of tracking our moods with stitching up small project or section of a project each week, that doesn't take up a lot of time, but that can create a routine of assessing our moods and embracing our feelings.
You can read the report on the study by clicking here.
How it works | In The Mood
1. Choose Your Project
Let face it, we all like to make different project types, so there are 4 different patterns you can follow, each using crochet stitches that are linked to a mood or emotion.
You can choose from:
- Crochet Triangle Shawl Pattern by Me' 'n' My Hook
- Crochet Rectangle Wrap Pattern by Me' 'n' My Hook
- Crochet Granny Square Pattern by Cosy Rosie UK
- Crochet Blanket, worked in rows by Cosy Rosie UK
If you can't make your mind up what to make right now, you don't have to; all the patterns will be free to view on the designers websites as they release over the first few weeks of the event, so you can focus on tracking your moods and start stitching when you're ready.
Find out more about the patterns further down the page.
2. Track Your Mood
Sign up to receive motivational emails along with my regular newsletter, and you'll receive a printable mood tracker to record your moods over the next 12 months.
The In The Mood Tracker includes:
- Mood Descriptions
- with 7 different emotion headers, various moods and feelings have been divided up for easier mood assessment
- Weekly Mood Assessment
- a weekly printable mood tracker for you to fill in your daily mood
- Space to note your gratitude list
- Space to note your self-care practice
- Monthly Overview
- You can opt to print one for each month and note you mood that way without the Weekly Mood Assessment
Purchase All 4 of the In The Mood Printable Patterns
You can download and print all 4 variations of the In The Mood patterns by purchasing the pattern bundle.
Click the button below to purchase the In the Mood Bundle, ready to download and print them.
3. Get Stitching
How the patterns work
- Chose the project you want to stitch up based on your moods. You can choose to make:
- In the Mood Triangle Shawl by Me 'n' My Hook
- In the Mood Wrap by Me 'n' My Hook
- In The Mood Blanket
- In the Mood Granny Square Blanket
- Your overall mood for the week, will determine which stitch pattern or granny square you will make to represent that mood.
- Each mood has a special stitch assigned to it, that will feature in the pattern section you'll make
This will allow you to create a truly unique project that is centred around you and your moods.
In The Mood Special Stitches
Each mood and emotion has been grouped into 7 main headers, and each mood has a special stitch that will feature in the that section of the project you choose to make.
Video Tutorials - Special Stitches
Each of the special stitches will have a video tutorial showing you how to create that stitch, and each of the granny square designs will have their own pattern tutorial to help you complete your project with confidence.
In The Mood Pattern Information
The 2 shawl variation's for In The Mood have been designed by B of Me 'n' My Hook. There are 2 different shapes to choose from:
- Triangle Shawl that increases out from one side - Click here to make
- Rectangle Wrap that is worked in rows - Click here to make
Both versions of In The Mood Shawls highlight the stunning texture created regardless of which mood your stitching up for the overall weekly mood.
Recommended Shawl Materials
Bernadine used Size 2/fingering weight yarn and the estimated yarn amounts required is up to 1200m - this amount will vary depending on which stitches are needed, but this estimation is based on a regular finished shawl size.
To find out more about Bernadine and her In The Mood Designs, click here.
I have designed 2 variations of blanket patterns that you can chose to make for your In The Mood project:
- a blanket made in straight rows
- a granny square blanket with 7 different square designs that feature the special mood stitches
- I've used a Size 3/DK weight yarn
Purchase All 4 of the In The Mood Printable Patterns
You can download and print all 4 variations of the In The Mood patterns by purchasing the pattern bundle.
Click the button below to purchase the In the Mood Bundle, ready to download and print them when they publish on 16th January 2024.
Making it?
I am so excited that you're diving in and want to make your own In The Mood Project.
Take a moment to sign up and download your In The Mood Tracker using the form below.
Then come and share in the join the Cosy Rosie Community that you're taking part, sharing which pattern you'll be stitching up.
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About the Autor
Hi, I'm Fiona, the hands behind Cosy Rosie Crochet - the place to learn to crochet as you make!
With over four years of hands-on experience leading in-person crochet workshops since 2018 and designing and publishing my own patterns since 2019, I bring a wealth of expertise of sharing crochet techniques.....
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