Fingerless mittens (crochet)

 Hi there! I would like to show you the last pair of fingerless mittens I made for myself. Sometimes it is terribly cold at my office, and my hands got really cold when I am working at the computer. So I took a leftover of yarn (worsted, I think) and crocheted these mittens.

 

 

First I made a chain of 11 stitches. Then, I made 9 hdc (half double crochet) along the chain. I turned and repeated until it was long enough to cover my wirst, so I closed with some dwarf stitches to make a cuff.

Then I started to work in the round, following this chart:

For the thumb, I started in the 5th row. I made 2 front post double crochet stitches in the first and second stitches of the row (so, 34 stitches in total). In the 6th row, I made 2 front post double crochet stitches in the first stitch, then 2 back post double crochet stitches in the following 2 stitches, and again 2 front post double crochet stitches in the next stitch; so, 36 stitches in the row. For the 7th row, I made 2 front post double crochet stitches in the first stitch, then 4 back post double crochet stitches in the following 4 stitches, and again 2 front post double crochet stitches in the next stitch; 38 stitches in the row. And I kept increasing 2 stitches per row up to the 10th row (included). In the 11th row, I made one front post double stitch in the first stitch, skip the increased stitches and follow the pattern, with 32 stitches per row. I ended after the 16th row, but that is up to you!

Happy Halloween!

 Hi there!

This week I have been doing a crocehted witch hat that was my daughter's costume to attend to school. 

I have followed the youtube tutorial "The Whimsical Witch Hat", by Crochet with illJay.

https://youtu.be/l1gKDUKpItI

And I added a cute spider - Webster pattern, by Drops Design 😃

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=6367&cid=23

 

And here you are, pictures of the witch hat 

 

Bottle carrier

 Hi there! I want to show you this bottle carrier I made crochetting. I used cotton yarn, Drops Paris (color 35, vanilla). I have adapted the pattern of a skull shawl you can find in many webs and in Pinterest (I have already saved it). 

I am quite happy with the result. It is original and fun. I hope you will like it!

Pencilcase

 Hi there! A long time has passed since the last post, more than a year. It was a busy year, believe me, we even move to another country. Thus, it has been difficult to find time to make new things, and to write a post about them.

Anyway, today I just want to show you a little pencil case, made with yarn scraps in crochet. It is very simple, just a kind of bag made on single crochet, sown to a frame, and a pink skull as decoration. The skull was made following the pattern by Crochet Nirvana:

http://crochetnirvana.weebly.com/blog/how-to-crochet-skulls#.Yl2VpyhByMQ 

Here you can see the result, it's so cool!!

 

 

A Christmas present

 Hi everyone!

I just want to show you a picture of a knitted Christmas present for my brother. It's a Star Wars beanie, I followed a pattern by Bobbie Jo, available for free in Ravelry.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/empire-star-wars-beanie

 It really turned out great, my brother was very happy with it. I made a i-cord cast on and I love it.

 

Enjoy!

 

 

Unicorn slippers!

 My 6YO girl is always barefoot at home. So I made a cute pair of unicorn slippers for her. The look just gorgeous! I followed Glimmer Sisters Unicorn Slippers by Brenda K. B. Anderso, available for free in Ravelry. I just changed the colors, white slippers are nice but they would get dirty really fast. So here we are, violet unicorns. I made them with Drops Karisma yarn, and use a bit of antislip layer so my kid will not break a leg sliding along the floor. 

New carpet

 Hi there! I hope you are just fine, not suffering the COVID-19 disease.

Anyway, I want to show you the last item I have done. I wanted a washable and colorful rug for my child bedroom. I didn't find anyone we like, so I thought about making one by myself. But, how should I make a rug? I have previously made one from jeans, but I did not have so many old jeans right not. So I thought about using my yarn leftover stash, which was quite big. Then, I crochet c2c technique using 3 different threads at the same time, 2 thin and one thicker. To polish the edge, I made a reverse single stitch (crab stitch) all around the carpet. After crocheting it, I attached an antislip layer at the bottom, so it is no slippery. And this is the stunning result!! I like it very much, and my kid also loves it. It is washable and very colorful. We are so glad with result! 

New gloves!

Hi everyone!

This past week I have finished my new pair of gloves. I used a Drops Desing pattern:

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=4307&cid=23


And Drops Fabel yarn. I am looking forward using them during this winter. I think they look gorgeous!!
 

Great knitting web with free patterns!

Hi there!

I have recently discovered this great web with lots of free patterns, and I would like to share it with everyone! It is called Knitty

http://knitty.com/ISSUEff19/index.php

You can browse their past issues and check patterns included in there, or just go to the pattern library and search what kind of item you would like to knit and add what features you would like it to have.

Hope you will love it! I'm looking forward to finishing all the stuff I have started to choose one of these great patterns.

Crocheted bag

Hi there!

Summer has started, as well as the time spent in the park watching my 4YO girl playing with some other kids. Sometimes I am wishing I have simple and rather mechanical to do, so I can keep an eye on her and do something at the same time.

So I tried with this item, a crocheted bag useful to go shopping. Pattern by Drops Design, here you have the link:

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=9108&cid=19

I used some cotton/acrylic yarn, same as I used for scientific amigurumi. I used 50 g in orange color, and 100 g in green.

I am very happy with the result, it is very useful and I could do something else but being seated 😉

Scientific amigurumi

Hi there,

How are you? I hope very fine.

Today I want to share with you a nice pattern published in Ravelry. It is a crochet pattern of an Erlenmeyer flask. Here you are the link:

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/earl-lenmeyer-the-flask

I am preparing a gift for a labmate who is about to defend her PhD thesis. And this amigurumi flask is just great. I crochetted it together with a test tube. The test tube it really easy to crochet, just make a magic ring of 5 single crochet stitches, make 2 sc in the next round and keep on crochetting as long as you want your tube to be. You can "fill in" your tube just using a colored yarn, and changing to white yarn for the empty part. When you think your tube is big enough, just stuff it, and decrease in each sc crocheting only in the back loop. The cap of the tube is also easy, make a magic ring with 6 sc, increase in the next round to 12 sc, and then crochet in the back loop in the next round. Make 2 or 3 more rounds and finish it. Your test tube is done!!

I hope you will like it.

Fingerless mittens

Hi!

I want to show you my new fingerless mittens. I always get cold hands while working on my laptop, so this is the final solution! I had a leftover skein of Drops Lima yarn and I crocheted them on a cold Saturday afternoon. I followed this pattern,

https://handmade-rukodelky.blogspot.com/2015/02/crocheted-simple-fingerless-gloves-sm.html?m=1

And here you have the result

Double side knitted scarf

Hi there!
I just want to share with you a picture of the scarf I made for muy 4yo girl. I wanted to knit something with double side knitting technique. I was thinking on an emoji motif, and I asked my kid about it. But then, she asked me: 'and why not a solar system scarf?' Wow! Let's do it!
So I worked on the pattern on Stitchfiddle, and I drew the solar system part, including asteroid belt between Mars and Júpiter, Pluto and Kuiper's belt. But I needed a longer pattern to make the scarf long enough, so I added an alien spacecraft, a couple of rockets, Virgo constellation (it's my girl sign), and a big comet. I have finished a few weeks ago, and I have also knitted a pair of mittens following Drop's Mr. Fish pattern. Everything was done with Drops Fable yarn.

https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=7301&cid=19

Here you have a couple of pictures of both scarf and mittens.

 

 And here I post the chart pattern, it has 420 rows and 40 stitches.

I hope someone else will use it, please let me know how it looks!

Crochet backpack

Hi there!

Today I'm showing you my last crochet craft. It is a backpack showing Totoro motifs.

I used some Drops Safran surplus (the white background) and some Drops You. I made up the pattern based on this ravelry blanket pattern:

https://www.ravelry.com/projects/Skirtyfyde/baby-blanket-latvian-garden

And in this picture:

  And I drew it using Stitchfiddle, which I think is really useful to make this kind of pattern.

https://www.stitchfiddle.com/en

Here is the pattern, in case anyone would like to use it. But please, do not sell it!!

It is also available in Ravelry:

Pattern in Ravelry

Interesting research

Hi there!

Have you ever heard about knitting research?? I've just read about it last week, and I think it is so interesting! Thus, I want to share it. I am talking about KEME, Knitting in Early Moders Europe, an ongoing research project which began as an EU-funded Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellowship at the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenhagen.

And the best thing is that anyone can get involved! I just let you the link here:

http://kemeresearch.com/

You may participate knitting or reviewing the evidence and commenting it. And you can also subscribe to receive an eNewsletter reporting all the latest KEME activity.

Enjoy it!! Let's hope they will achieve great and interesting results!!!