Smartphone pouch with Tinkerbell stitch

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Une publication partagée par Sandrine Ociepka (@angelsan59) le 21 Août 2017 à 9h15 PDT

Oval doily for Mom's birthday

Here is a little crochet interlude....

When I make gifts for people I know come lurking about my blog, I postpone posting about it. Yesterday (well, actually today, but we celebrated yesterday as it was Sunday) was my Mom's birthday, and I made her an oval doily for her console in the hall. As you can see the decorations around it, I was done for Easter !

It was a bit difficult because The original pattern was way smaller. I had to add rounds and rounds of chaines and stuff. Then blocking made marvels ;)

See you later for more tatting adventures...

Crochet Mandala

Here is a crochet mandala I made last month and forgot to post. My mother in law gave me some cotton samplers she got from a client of hers or something. Now I have no clue what to do with it ;)

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Voici un mandala au crochet que j'avais oublié de poster le mois dernier. Ma belle mère m'avait donné ces mini pelotes de coton qu'elle a eue à une de ses clientes. Et maintenant je ne sais pas vraiment quoi en faire.

Yellow doily

I know I don't put doilies in my home as they don't fit our modern decor, but I know others (looking at mom and grandma...) who are ready to "sacrifice" themselves to indulge my doily making addiction. I don't know who will adopt this one yet.

Yesterday I bought a mini crochet doily magazine (we have plenty in France), and finished this 20cm doily over the evening. 

I am now making the long version, in white. If this one is done in size 10 thread with a 1.25 mm hook, the white one is done in size 20 thread and a 1 mm hook.

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J'adore faire des napperons en crochet, mais ça ne va pas avec mon intérieur, heureusement je trouve toujours des gens pour les adopter. 

Hier j'ai acheté un des nombreux magazines de crochet, et j'ai fait ce napperon en une soirée, en fil 10 et crochet 1.25mm.

Maintenant je fais la version plus longue en fil 20 et crochet 1mm

Bunny doily

Once a year I like to make a filet doily for Easter. Preferably a bunny. I know filet crochet is old looking, but it's the first technique I learned as a teenager, and we could argue that it's close to pixel art...

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Une fois par an je fais un napperon de pâques en filet. C'est la première technique que j'ai utilisée au crochet étant ado, même si ça fait vieillot.  Maintenant on pourrait dire que c'est du pixel art...

Granny blanket finally finished

After  4  years of on and off.... the blanket is finally finished.  I have to say that taking part of thecrochet along really motivated me, and I would like to thank Sandra from Cherry Heart for initiating this.  And thank you to all the people who cheered me up alngthe way.

This was the occasion for me to get myself on Instagram. This time people following me on Facebook and Instagram got the freshest news.

It's a lot faster to post from a tablet than blogger;)

Anyway, the blanket is now9 by 14 squares, in scrap acrylic yarn,  4mm hook, and you can see I added a red and cream border.

I really feared I wouldn't have enough of the cream colour, I even unknitted some items to get more, as I used discontinued yarn.But it was fine in the end.

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La couverture est enfin finie, grâce aux  encouragements du crochet along. Je suis maintenant sur Instagram, du coup vous pouvez me chercher là bas aussi. Je crois que mes photos apparaitront en premier là.

J'avais peur de ne pas avoir assez de couleur crème  pour finir, j'ai même défait certains trucs pour être sure d'arriver au bout. Le problème d'utiliser des pelotes qu'on a  récupérées, et pas achetées en magasin ! Mais ça a été pour finir.

Granny square blanket progress

Here are the last squares of the granny blanket for DBF. Well, I might still need to make some more, but so far, so good. Being part of the blanket crochet along really motivated me.

I got the stomach flu (again !) and after the obvious no-craft period when I was in pain in bed, I got very prolific.

I made 24 squares in a day, when I was making about 4 a day before.Don't ask.

I kept going and joined some squares to the blanket, and made this tutorial to show how I join " on the go". I hope it can be useful....

Coming in March : crochet and daffodils

March is Crochet and Craft month, and I'm already crocheting at the moment, so I'm in phase with the world.

I joined the Cherry Heart blanket crochet along. I'm making the granny squares afghan at the moment, so it sounded like a fun thing to do. To share my pictures I also had to join Instagram, so you can follow me there too.

I don't knowif I will use it after that or not, it looks like a lot of crafters use Instagram, so please share your experience of it !!!

Lately I got nostalgic of the time I was livingin the UK reading peoples blogs. Spring is my favourite time of the ear, and daffodils my favourite flowers. When i see pictures of new borm lambs in the fields,daffodils people bought to brighten their homes.... ah ! I reminds me of when I bought daffodils buquets in Tesco !

But then yesterday MIL gave me those lovely daffodils she found in a plant shop, and the world felt right again. I'm looking forward to the daffodils coming out here and there in town.... It'sa bit early for that here.

The adventures of the granny afghan

Crafting is an addiction : no matter how much you tell yourself you should stop because you already have too many items, you have to make stuff. It's part of what you are. I managed to stop stitching when I came across my folder of stitched projects that never see the light, but I still need to crochet from time to time.

Luckily mom needs potholders and doilies, that's already something. And I'm thinking about trying crocheted fingerless gloves for DBF.

But at the moment I crochet granny squares. When I see all those lovely afghans out there, I feel a bit ashamed to leave mine in progress for so long. Last time I worked on it was 2 years ago ! That's where keeping a blog is really useful.

So for those who just arrived, this afghan is DBF's idea. He wanted a blanket with many squares of many colours, like old times. So I started this in 2011 and I'm still working on it.

The random colours are not so random, of course, and it's a good exemple of probability and alternations. The only concern is that I won't haveenough cream colour to link them all. So I will need to make an extra border. But so far, so good.

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Me voilà de retour sur la couverture en carrés commencée en 2011 pour DBF. Ca avance pas mal cette fois....

Christmas is coming?

People on Facebook are counting.... 6 weeks till Christmas. But I won't count the days since last post..... So where have I been? Mostly playing Disney Magical World on 3DS. Video Gaming and no crafing means nothing to post, of course. Except crocheting snowflakes here and there.... and making these Christmas trees. Well, they are the second set I made, my mom took the first set !!!!

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Des sapins que j'ai crocheté entre deux parties de Disney Magical World sur 3DS. En fait, c'est le deuxième set que j'ai fait, car le premier est parti chez ma maman !

Mini pouches frenzy

Here is my creative train of thoughs. I love pouches. How can I make them more usable and trendy? Small is kamai. Plus the bag is made faster, and I can try different stitches on them. And mini pouches were born. The idea is to use them as key ring, to put coins, sd cards, usb cards, chapstick or anything you want.

I first ma de the lilac one, for me, and I finished it with a rainbow loom flower. I thought an elastic band would be practical to open and close the bag. And it mixes medias ;)

I then made the peach ones, and you can see the different stitches used.

Finally I made a beige in attempt to be more gender neutral....

I want to make those mini pouches for the Christmas fair this year, but I have no idea if people would be interested in them....

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J'adore les bourses, mais comment faire pour les utiliser de façon plus classe? Et ce qui est petit est mignon, et ça se finit plus vite, et on peut essayer différents points dessus. Et les mini bourses sont nées.

J'ai d'abord fait la bourse lilas, pour moi, et j'ai rajouté une fleur en élastique. Il me semblait que l'élastique serait bien pour fermer le sac.

Ensuite j'ai j'ai 2 bourses pèche et  une beige. Je voudrais en faire quelques unes pour le marché de Noel de cette année, mais je ne sais pas si ça intéressera qui que ce soit....

Crochet flower slippers

We can say only one thing..... why aren't mine looking like this????? It's my second attempt at making crochet slippers, with a different pattern, and they are still not good for my feet, somehow.... I suppose japanese feet are different from mine?

Pattern at Pierrot yarn

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C'est la deuxième fois que j'essaye de faire des pantoufles en crochet, avec un modèle différent, mais rien à faire, ça ne correspond toujours pas à mon pied. Il faut croire que j'ai des pieds très différents des japonaises....

Explication à Pierrot yarn

Star stitch purses

A while back, I was trying to understand the lovely (but tricky) star stitch in crochet. I decided to give it another go, and 2 purses were born : a green coin purse, and a pink phone case.

I find this stitch a lot of fun now, but it requires a lot of yarn !!! And the result is quite bulky.

And, weirdly enough, on Sunday my mother in law came up to me with a lovely book about the star stitch, because she couldn't figure out how to do it.... And here I am making a demonstration yarn and hook in hand. She lended me the book, so I will be making more star stitch projects...

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Il y a un bout de temps, j'ai essayé le point étoile, sans succès. Là j'ai réessayé, et youppie, ça marche ! 

Et j'ai fait un porte monnaie vert et une pochette à portable rose. 

Comme par hasard, dimanche, ma belle mère avait acheté le livre "Le point étoile, la star du crochet", mais elle ne savait pas comment faire le point. Et donc j'ai fait une démo, avant d'emprunter le livre. Je sens que je vais faire pas mal de nouveaux projets....

Back to crochet

Looks like I come back to posting about once a month.... oh well !!! I was in the middle of making critters on my rainbow loom, when I felt a sudden urge to go back to crochet. This was quite unexpected. But not so much, if you think that you hook a lot with rainbow loom things ;)

First I made this pineapple lace pouch. I love pouches. I don't know why, because appart from using them for knick knacks around the house, there is no real use for them. I wish I was living in old times when all ladies used pouches instead of handbags....

I also made a yellow one. Both are made with fine cotton thread. Size 20 I would say. I'm not sure, I used old thread I had.

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Il semblerait que je poste environ une fois par mois quelques jours... enfin !!! J'étais en pleine création de bonshommes en élastiques quand j'ai voulu faire du crochet. Après tout, on utilise un crochet avec le rainbow loom....

Du coup j'ai fait deux bourses en fin coton (20 je crois, le fil est trop vieux pour avoir encore l'étiquette !). J'adore les bourses, même si ça ne sert pas beaucoup, à part pour mettre des trucs dans la maison. J'aurais aimé vivre à l'époque où toutes les dames utilisaient des bourses à la place des sacs à main....

A new year catch up and many wishes

It's been 2 months, but I've been very very busy.

I had 2 Christmas markets, and they went ok, even if people seem to want to buy food and not much else. So I'm thinking about making some of my family acclaimed biscuits as a test next year...

I modified my stand this year, so look at the pictures :

I also made presents, a crochet cosy for my dad's ipad, and a blue snood, originally for me, but my mom wanted it, so.... It was my first time working on such big needles 10mm.

And I also want to try and sew a bit more, so here is a Christmas tree in fabric

At the moment I'm knitting a vest for me, in almond green, it should look good.

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Ca fait deux mois, durant lesquels j'ai été très occupée. D'abord avec 2 marchés de noel, qui se sont bien passés malgré le fait que les gens n'achètent quasiment que de la nourriture. Je crois que je vais essayer de faire mes fameux biscuits l'an prochain.

J'ai aussi fait des cadeaux, une pochette à mini ipad, un snood, et j'ai fait un peu de couture, avec ce sapin en tissu de noel.

Pour l'instant je tricote une veste vert amande pour moi, j'es^ère que ce sera super !

Pink scarf in crochet

On the day of the ID Créatives expo, I started this scarf to play around with my new  5mm LITE hook. So you can see it took me a while to make ! But it's quite long for once, on purpose. And it's for me, yes, it can happen...

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J'ai commencé cette écharpe le jour d'ID Créatives, pour essayer mon nouveau crochet de 5mm qui s'allume. Vous pouvez donc voir que ça m'a pris du temps à faire, surtout que je la voulais assez longue. He en plus, pour une fois c'est pour moi !!!

Tiny bear

Here is a very tiny bear I made...it's about 2cm !!! You can compare with the other amigurumis, the rock Under  them is the same....

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Voici un très petit ourson, de 2cm!!! Vous pouvez comparer avec les autres amigurumis car la pierre en dessous d'eux est la même...

Bear boy

Still feeling good about making amigurumis, so I made this little boy disguised as a pooh bear.

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J'aime toujours faire des amigurumis, donc j'ai fait ce petit garçon déguisé en Winnie l'ourson

White and red bear gurumi

I'm on a roll making amigurumis... This bear is a bit bigger than usual (10cm) but I added a little bag and a scarf.

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En pleine inspiration pour les amigurumis, cette fois-ci cet our est un peu plus grand que d'habitude (10 cm), mais j'ai ajouté un petit sac et une écharpe.

Nun amigurumi

Next Saturday my great aunt is celebrating her 40 years of service as a Dominican nun misionnary and so I made this little amigurumi (9cm). I had a lot of fun  trying to find out how to make it.

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Samedi prochain my grand tante célèbre ses 40 ans de service comme Dominicaine, et donc je lui ai fait ce petit amigurumi (9cm). Je me suis bien amusée pendant la conception!