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

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..