Wednesday, January 29, 2014

The "HE" Cap


 

Materials Required:

Sports Worst weight yarn of your choice
Colours: Denim Blue, White, Black
Crochet hook: 4mm 
Tapestry needle

Terms:
Ch - chain
HDC - Half Double Crochet
DC - Double Crochet
TC - Treble Crochet
FPDC - Front post Double crochet
BPDC - Back post Double crochet.

Pattern:

 

You can get the pattern here


Saturday, January 4, 2014

Graph ghans

 Most of us wants to gift personalized gifts to our near and dear ones. Especially when its a gift to a new born its even more special. Afghans and lapghans are always very helpful to wrap the newborn to make them feel warm and cozy and when its a cold place, the use of lapghans and afghans are more.

I always wanted to make lapghans. I'm going to start this year with a try on that. I have a big list of images that I want to try. But I am yet to decide which one will be first and how far I am going to be successful in trying it the right way. So fingers crossed and keep watching for me to brag  all about my first try on these lapghans :D Hopefully its this year ;)


Making personalized image lapghans and afghans first need to be converted to graph charts. There are so many methods to do this. I'm going to list them here so that its helpful to me and you as well.

An example of  converting a picture to graph



Free websites

  1.  Stitch board.  
  2. Pic a pat 
  3. How to make your own crochet pattern 
  4. KnitPro 

 Paid websites

  1. http://www.mckcreations.com/ 

Hope you try anyone of these methods  and crochet your own lapghans and afghans. Please share your views on the comments..

Friday, January 3, 2014

Hair clips

 I love these hairclips.. If I had a chance to wear this during my childhood, these clips would have been all over my hair :)

Happy to share the pattens with you...

Crochet Hook : 1.65 mm
Yarn : Any 4 ply yarn

 Pattern 1:

Row1:Chain multiples of 2.(12 chains) Do not join Ch 1 and turn
Row2: 5 DC in the first chain, slip st on ch 2, 5 DC in the third chain, sl st in the 4th chain and continue till the end. Fasten off . Leave a long tail.
Now fold them in a circular way to form petals of a flower, and sew the flower to the clip

Pattern 2:

Row 1: Ch 17
Row 2: 3 DC in each chain and fasten off. Leave a long tail
Fold like the previous pattern in circular way to form a rose shape and sew with a bead to the clip

Pattern 3:

Row 1: In a magic ring, ch 1 and 12 SC.
Row 2: Join in the first SC and *Ch 2, 2DC in the same chain, 2 DC in the next chain, ch 2, slip stitch in the 3 rd chain* and repeat from * to *
This 6 forms the petals of the flowers.
Fasten off and sew to the clip