Flower board deco

I saw this wonderful flower board on Ergahandmade and wanted to try exact similar one for my home too. Its an excellent recycling method for your cartons and cardboard boxes too. All you need is the following

1. Cardboard box
2. Fabric glue
3. Yarns of your choice
4. Cloth to cover the cardboard box
5. Buttons
6. Stapler
7. Satin Ribbons
8. Scissors
9. 3 mm Crochet hook

Step 1: Cut the cardboard to your required size and cut your choice of fabric to a size slightly bigger than the cardboad box

Step 2: Staple the fabric around the cardboard

Step 3: Start crocheting your choice of flowers. I have attached the video links for some of the flowers that I chose for my wall decor.

Flowers:

Step 5:Attach the flowers at your choice of placement with fabric glue.

Step 6: Attach satin ribbons as stems for the flowers
Step 7: Crochet leafs and attach to the satin ribbons
Step 8: Add buttons or butterflies or appliques of your choice to fill the blank spaces. I crocheted butterflies.

Leaf pattern:
Row 1: Ch 7 and SC in the stitch next to the crochet hook, HDC in the next chain, DC in the next 3 other chains and 3 HDC in the last chain and turn
Row 2: Now on the other side of the chains DC in the next 3 chains, HDC in the next chain and SC in the last chain and join by slip stitch to the first SC.

The final product will be a very beautiful wall decor.

It gives such a beautiful color to your plain dull boring wall. Hope you liked the tutorial. If you like it, please leave a message on the comments box.

Thanks
AOME

Owl Shoulder bag

I'm fan of bags. Maybe I inherited this quality from my mom. After her demise, we took all her clutches, purses and bags and stored in a box and never looked at it again. But after many years when we took a look at her collections, it was very memorable. My dad found a torn 100 rupee note and he still preserves it as a treasure. Such a lovely memory of my mom.

This owl bag will be on my favorite's list for a very long time. It took me more than 4months to complete. Now don't think its that touch a pattern. Certainly not :). Its that block that comes inbetween every crochet  project and I also went through it. :D

I got inspiration to start this project from this blog post by Annoo's Crochet World. 

I followed all the instructions in that blog to sew the lining for the bag and from there though my intention was to replicate the same pattern, it did not end that way. I wanted to crochet an owl bag with crocodile stitch in it to give a feel of feathers. Even that did not happen. The attempt was a huge failure and the bag went totally out of proportion wrt to size. Then I decided to go with simple treble crochet and even that came out to be out of shape. It started with a treble crochet and slowly changed it to simple double crochet and went round and round with my choice of yarns. Then gave the shape for eyes and nose and finally finished it. For the handle I went with a simple button hole stitch around the two sides of the handle and kept it simple. Lastly I hand sewed a zip to the bag to ensure it does not stay open . 

Though I kept this project idle for a very long time, something made me go back to the project and that drive never stopped and finished this bag.

Happy Crocheting :)

Apple of my Eye

Love, Heart and Crochet

Valentine's day is nearing and its time to spread some love.
Crochet hearts are awesome and you can make keychains, buntings, coasters, pillows and more

Trying to consolidate some of the crochet hearts here with their links

Click on the picture to get the link for the respective pages.

• To begin with the heart coasters I made last year from Crochet Geek's pattern.

•   Granny sweet hearts by Nancy L Drew
  
   
  
  
  • Heat Pillows by Drops
    
    
    • Crochet hearts from Freshstitches
      
       
      
      
      • Crochet heart baskets
         
        Last but not least I loved this box of crocheted chocolates.. Makes a perfect finish 
        
        Happy Valentine's Day
        
        

Quick girl's purse

You can buy this pattern here

I always love small little purses. So when I got inspiration for this purse, I tried to create my own pattern. I added some appliques and stickers which I loved it. :)

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