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..

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

Ballu the toppywala...

I wanted to create my own teddy bear.. While doing crocheting it, I remembered my childhood days where  people used to wear black or white caps. I remember many Hindi movies where the clerks used to wear those kinda caps.... I wanted my teddy to have a similar one. The teddy was my complete imagination and I am happy I could create what was in my mind. :)

Snowman

Just finished this little cutie man. I was badly missing those snowy days of Iowa.. I didn't follow any particular pattern. Tried to recreate what was in my mind and it came out as expected. My hubby was giving me honest feedback at every stage.

Happy holidays... ho ho ho...

Chunky basket

 

Materials required:

Yarn: Chunky yarn
Crochet hook : Size K (6.5 mm)

Pattern:

Row 1: In the magic ring ch2 and 15 DC. Join on the first DC (15DC)
Row 2: 2DC in each DC  (30 DC)
Row 3: *2DC on first DC, 1 DC on the second* repeat around (45DC)
Row 4: *2DC, 1 DC, 1 DC* through out ( 60DC)

Row 5: SC on the outer loop alone ( 60SC)
Row 6: DC on both the loops ( 60 DC)
Row 7- 11: DC through out (60DC)

Row 12: Mark the center point. Above this center point the handle for the bag is going to come.

12 DC, Ch 5, skip 5 DC, 26 DC, Ch 5, skip the next 5 DC, 12 DC and join.

Row 13: 12 DC, 5 DC on the 5 chains, 26 DC, 5 DC on the 5 chains, 12 DC. Join and fasten off.

Sew the remaining yarns.

To make the basket stiffer, you can spray the quick starch or dip the bag on  starch water and dry the basket.

And finally :)