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!

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!!

 

 

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! 

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 😉

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

Alfombra con vaqueros viejos / Rug made our of old jeans

¿Hola de nuevo! Últimamente ando liada con muchas cosas, y aunque sigo haciendo cositas el tema va lento.

Hoy os enseño lo último que he hecho. Necesitábamos una pequeña alfombra para poner debajo de una silla, y he hecho esta con unos pantalones vaqueros viejos. Primero he cortado en tiras de 3-4 cm de ancho la parte de las perneras. Después, esas tiras se van enrollando y se sujetan unas a otras mediante punto bajo a ganchillo, hecho con un hilo de algodón. Yo usé hilo azul, pero podría hacerse con otros colores que contrasten con la tela vaquera. 

¡Espero que os guste! Es laboriosa, pero fácil de hacer, y el resultado es muy bueno.

Hi again! I'm quite busy recently with many different things, and even when I keep doing things, they go too slowly.

Anyway, today I show you the last thing I've done. We needed a small rug to put under a chair, and I have done this one with some old jeans. Firstly, I cut the trouser leg in long stripes, 3-4 cm wide. Then, I rolled the stripes and join them through single crochet stitches, crocheted with a thing cotton yarn. I used blue yarn, but it could be done with other contrasting colors.

I hope you'll like it! It takes a lot of work, but it was easy to make and the result is quite good.

Hobbes de ganchillo / Crocheted Hobbes

¡Hola! Aquí estoy de nuevo. Ha pasado bastante tiempo desde la última entrada que escribí, pero no me he olvidado del blog. Solo que han surgido otras cosas que quitan tiempo de hacer manualidades, y también de poder escribir aquí.
De todas formas, aquí estoy de nuevo. Esta vez os voy a enseñar un muñequito de ganchillo. Se trata de Hobbes, el célebre tigre del comic de Bill Watterson Calvin y Hobbes. Me encanta el cómic. Y cuando vi este patrón para hacer un Hobbes de ganchillo, no pude resistirme. Aquí os dejo el enlace, de un interesante blog escrito por Sukigirl.

Hi! Here I am again.It seems a lot of time has passed from the last time I published something here, but I haven't forgotten about the blog. But some other things happens, things that stole my time, so I couldn't make any craft or write here.
Anyway, here I am. Today I want to show you a nice stuffed crocheted character. It is Hobbes, the famous tiger from Bill Watterson's Calvin & Hobbes. I love the comic, so when I saw this pattern to make a crocheted Hobbes, I couldn't avoid to make one for myself. Here you are the link to the pattern, in a very interesting blog by Sukigirl.

 http://sukigirl74.blogspot.com.es/2013/10/heres-another-free-hobbes-crochet_14.html

Y aquí está una foto de mi Hobbes.¡Quedó muy bien! La pena es que no tenía lana naranja, y lo hice de color rojo. Aún así me gusta mucho el resultado final.

And here is a picture of my Hobbes. It looks so good! Even when I used red yarn instead of orange. I love it anyway.

Aquí podéis ver su cara más de cerca. Los ojos, la nariz y la boca van bordados con lana negra.

And here you can see its face closely. I made the eyes, nose and mouth with black yarn.

Espero que os haya gustado y os animéis a hacer uno. El patrón está muy bien explicado y como veis queda estupendo.

I hope you liked and you make your own Hobbes. The pattern is quite good, and the final result is so great.

Reparación con ganchillo irlandés / Irish crochet reparation

¡Hola! Parecía que el blog estaba abandonado, pero ¡no! Ha sido un verano muy ocupado. Pero ya estamos aquí otra vez.

Hoy os voy a enseñar algo que se me ocurrió para arreglar una falda. Cuando la saqué del armario a principios de verano, ¡horror! ¿Y estos agujeros? Menudo disgusto, es una de mis faldas favoritas. Así que me puse a pensar como arreglarlo. Lo primero que se me ocurrió fue cortar la parte de abajo, pero hubiera quedado demasiado corta, y sin la parte naranja. Así que seguí dándole vueltas al problema.

Hi! It may seem that this blog was just forgotten, but no! This summer has been a very busy one. But here we go again!

Today I'll show something I made to repair a skirt. When I took the skirt out of the wardrobe to wear it this summer... my God! What are these holes? I felt really upset, this is one of my favourite skirts. So I started to figure out how to fix it. First I thought about removing inferior part, but then the skirt would be too short. And all orange part would be removed. So I keep on thinking about it.

Funda para disco duro /Hard-drive cozy

¡Hola! Hace ya tiempo me hice con un disco duro externo, nunca se sabe cuando se queda una sin espacio en el ordenador (o si un virus te va a aniquilar todo lo que está ahí almacenado). Así que en cuanto vi que venía sin funda, ni corta ni perezosa me hice con el ganchillo y aquí os enseño la funda tan coqueta que le hice, con un bolsillo para guardar el cable de conexión al ordenador y un botón para cerrarlo. ¿Qué os parece? Bien sencillo, tejido a puntos bajos.

Hi! Some time ago I bought a portable hard-drive, just in case I run out space in my computer (or a virus destroyed everything stored there). When I realized it has no case, I ran for my hook and crocheted this nice cozy, even with a pocket to put wire in it, and a button to secure everything. What do you think about it? It's so easy to make, crocheted in simple stich.

Cesta de camisetas /Basket from T-shirts

¡Hola de nuevo! Ya terminé mi cesta para la colada. Ha quedado bien vistosa, y parece resistente. Y lo mejor es que cuando esté sucia... ¡directa a la lavadora! Al final he necesitado 15 camisetas para hacerla, con la técnica que publiqué en el post anterior, pero ya tengo cesta nueva y no he tirado 15 camisetas, todo lo que se pueda reciclar es poco. Aquí os pongo una foto, espero que os guste y que os animéis a reciclar de esta forma, es muy entretenido y muy práctico.

Hi again! I've already finished the basket to make laundry. It looks very colorful, and seems sturdy as well. And a good point to consider is that, when the basket got dirty, it will just go to the washing-machine! Finally I needed 15 T-shirts to make it, using the technique I posted just before. But now I have a basket and I didn't throw 15 T-shirts away, anything you can recycle is not enough. Here I post a picture, I hope you will like it and that you also use this technique to recycle some old clothes. It is very enjoyable, and also practical.

Tejiendo / Knitting

¡Feliz Navidad! Este año estoy aprovechando las vacaciones para tejer un jersey. Y os copio un enlace de una web repleta de patrones para tejer y hacer ganchillo. Podéis encontrar multitud de prendas y accesorios, tanto de verano como de invierno. Espero que os guste.

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/es/kategori_oversikt.php

Merry Christmas! This year I am enjoying Christmas knitting a sweater. And I paste a link of a web full of free patterns to knit and crochet. You can find a lot of clothes and accesories, both for winter and summer. I hope you will like it.

http://www.garnstudio.com/lang/en/kategori_oversikt.php

Buhos en cuadrados de ganchillo / owls in granny squares

Aquí dejo un enlace para hacer unos "granies" bien bonitos, con un búho en el centro. Si llego a verlo antes hubiera incluido algunos en mi colcha, que pena. Gracias a Sarah, de Repeat Crafter me, por el patrón.

Here I drop a link to make a nice owls in granny squares. If I had known these when I was making my quilt, I would included some in it. A pity. Thanks to Sarah, from Repeat Crafter me, for the free pattern.

http://www.repeatcrafterme.com/2012/11/owl-granny-square-crochet-pattern.html

Colcha de ganchillo / crochetted granny square quilt

¡Hola!

Siempre quise hacerme una colcha de ganchillo. Como me gustan los cuadrados de colores (granny square), me lancé y así ha quedado la colcha. 

I always wanted to make a crochetted quilt. Since I like granny squares, I went for it, and this is the result.

Algunas lanas que tenía por casa eran demasiado gruesas, así que hice algunos cuadrados del mismo tamaño que el resto, pero diferente diseño. Y para unir unos cuadrados a otros usé punto de escapulario con lana de distinto color.
I also used some yarns to thick to be included in the squares. So I made other squares, same size but different desings. And I attached the squares with herringbone stitches, with several colored yarns.

Llavero amigurumi

¡Hola! 

Hoy os voy a enseñar un amigurumi diseñado por mí, este cangrejito-llavero. Con un resto de lana roja os podéis hacer uno de estos crustáceos, que podéis usar como llavero o como más os apetezca.

Kawaii

Hi!
Today I'm showing you this little amigurumi-crab that I designed and made myself. Just with a red yarn leftover you can make this nice softy crab and use it as a keyring or however you like.
Kawaii