This week, I gathered some scrap yarn and had some fun making crochet wind spinners. These are easily made in an afternoon and add a little bit of fun to the back yard. I was looking through random videos on YouTube and stumbled upon (as you do) a tutorial on how to make the spinners. If you'd like to see the video, I'll link it up to the end of this post. If you're a person who likes to read the instructions, I'll add here how I made mine so you can have a go at making one too... and so I can reference back to this in future. Start with a 3.5 hook and just some regular 8 ply yarn. You don't need a lot of yarn, especially for the first couple of rows. I've found it best to leave longish tails on both ends of the spinner until you decide where and how you want to hang it. In this pattern, we don't turn the work at the end of the rows. Cut and start fresh at the beginning of each row. I used the same white yarn for the first two rows, then yellow, green and finished with blue (in the spinner pictured above). Chain 75 and tie off. (At this stage, go back and tie a little knot on your starting yarn tail so that you know the starting point). SC to the end of the row and tie off. Crochet 2 DC into each space of the previous row and tie off. Crochet 3 DC into each space of the previous row and tie off. SC to the end and tie off. Feed through and trim the yarn tails, except for the first and last ones. One side will be used to hang some sort of weight (eg. beads or a tassel or pom-pom etc) and the other side will be where it's hung from. Arrange (in a stack) your spinner so that it's a nice even corkscrew shape. Add your weight to the bottom tail - this is where I added a tassel as I didn't have any large beads. Now hang up your new wind spinner somewhere in the garden and enjoy. Here's the link to the video that I watched to make the first spinner.