homemade@myplace

At the end of THIS POST I wrote that I had some leftovers from my t-shirt yarn and some royal blue to try .... I did!!!! I started with the royal blue ... some trivets.... For the granny circle, I just followed a free pattern from Kotbury , HERE !!! Both the granny square and the granny triangle, instead, I remembered the patterns by heart (I think I made so many of these in the last years!!!) and I worked only 3 rounds for each. The borders, in all 3 samples, are made of single crochet stitches (US crochet terminology) and the picots are made with 5 chains each! Then I made two necklaces ! The first one was even shown in my Instagram account ... I crocheted a long chain with the blue and the red together, then I made some tassels out of some cotton threads from Bali and I knotted them around the foundation chain and .... voila' !!!! The second necklace had less t-shirt yarn available, so the design had to be slightly different, e...

A friend of mine asked me to crochet her a cover for her terracotta water dispenser .... I never did that before .... I checked on Pinterest to find some inspiration ... almost nothing ... I asked my friend to take some measures (circumference, diameter and height) and knowing that she loves the blue&green combo, I started to crochet a circle for the top ... I've been using some turquoise yarn from my stash and a 4mm hook and my design involved some filet crochet !!! As the subject was "water" (and because of the colour selection), I decided to consider some fish to crochet on the cover ... The fish pattern was taken from Betty Barnden's FILET CROCHET and I adapted it (on a piece of paper with small squares) accordingly with my needs (number of stitches, groups and spaces) ... ... and after some rounds, I started to see the fish ... The thing is that, because starting to crochet from the top to the bottom, you have to ...