Christmas wreath

A Christmas wreath.

green holly, 

red poinsetias, sock and hat

and white hellebore and snow flakes,

lighter green mistletoe,

then came a gingerbread man

and a christmas tree in dark beige

Begin at the beginning.

A polystyrene circle with one flat side and a crocheted cover,

lots of leaves 

mostly holly leaves for this wreath

and lots of thingies to make it pretty.

Helleboris

these mistletoe was actually my own invention, only later I saw a almost similar pattern

holly and red balls

pattern holly

pattern balls

some old decorations from last year and some new 

poinsettias here

hellebore from this book

snowflake

pattern

I have not made this xmas tree this year, it's a decoration from last year. Now I've searched the web for the site I got it from, it was a picture and it looked so quaint I had to make a few of them

Here is a tutorial for those who need it.

eta:- I found the original photos I liked so much I made a number of these lovely Christmas trees. click here 

Isn't it always when you don't look for it, you find it.

the little gingerbread man,

here is the tutorial

the sock and hat I found in this book

wow! finally my wreath is almost disected to a t

next year I won't have to search for patterns again.

finally I can post the entire wreath

MY CHRISTMAS WREATH

happy face here 

Mittens and wristies

This is one garment I love to wear ..... and make!

These lovely colourful mittens is a free pattern from Cherry Heart and the pattern is here.

It is made from one of my favourite yarns, it's Idéal from Bergere de France. It has so many cheerful colours and it keeps well.

The first time I saw the picture of these wristies I knew that at some point I will try to make them. I say try, I'm not yet such a great hooker and I thought they must be very difficult, but in the end it was dead easy making them.

BUT, I don't have a clue where I can find the pattern. I made it, some time went by and now I can't find the website where I got it from. When I find it again, I will definetly post it.

Again these are made from Idéal from Berger de France

Keyrings and change

 Also forever searching for those small change which fit into shopping carts?
To be honest I saw these thingies on a website and just wanted to make a few of these purses,
just because they look so cute. I suppose some people will get lucky this Christmas. :)
Though, I'll keep one for me.

 I've used little bits of leftover cotton.

Purse closures I bought here

Pattern is here

Winter's best friend

Amazing how lazy a blogger I am, 

but not so in my crocheting.

It's some time I wanted to do something with circles in squares.

Actually I want to make a blanket in this pattern,

but it needed testing first,

using Stylecraft Special DK

(I have a large stash of it, almost all the colours)

the famous V-stitch

Pink

Ode to pink.

Pink makes you think of soft things, 

or cuddly things, 

of sweet things,

it gives you a feeling of harmony.

I needed a wreath of pink roses. 

 Brightness

Softly sweet

 Colours

My wreath of pink roses, what a joy it gives me to look at it. 

The perfect rose

Seldom you find a pattern that fits so well into your fingers, as if it is one you designed yourself. Searching on the net for flowers I found a rose ..... the perfect rose

I loved it ....

it must be pink ....

a wreath of pink roses

Then I had to search for the right pink to make the "perfect" roses.

One day I walked into a shop and there it was, the right pink for the perfect rose. It is Katia mississipi 3, a cotton I learned to really appreciate.

  Here it is, Above the picture of the yarn there is a link to all the colours.

Only pink roses were maybe too much, so I added red, also of Katia mississippi 3.

A mix of green yarns were chosen to cover the styrofoam circle.

At this point I was thinking of making leaves, maybe the pink will be too much, not for me though.

I was looking for roses leaves and tried a few, but eventually I wrote a pattern for myself. There are many very good patterns for rose leaves, but I needed them to fit with my roses.

The beginning of a rose wreath, not yet there but almost.

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The Perfect Rose pattern is from Kati crafts

Cross stitches

Maybe 30 years ago my great love for handcraft was cross-stitch embroidery. This piece is of Pako, my favourite make of cross stitch packets. Now my eyes can not see those little stitches anymore .... or I have to get a proper magnifying glass.

The entire thing!

Giving up on the CAL 2014

Not all my projects end up as successes, in this post I'll explain why I put a stop to this one. Not that it all is lost, no way, I have enough ideas for this yarn, it's just that I don't feel comfortable with this multicoloured blanket it is turning into, maybe I started out with too many colours.
Maybe I have crafted all my live, but it turned into this intense frenzy only about a year or so ago when I bought my first yarn online and that was a lucy packet. All this amazing colours, I couldn't believe my eyes!
But, eventually it turned out not to be my thing.  It looks great in a ripple blanket or such, but this blocks .... I don't like. I can't imagine this technicoloured bomb anywhere in my house or anywhere! I started out with too many colours. In the first block I used 13 colours!
So far I'm really, really strugling with the colours. With so many different blocks, it will look better with much less colours, at the most 5.

Week 2 Popcorn parade

Week 3 Starburst flower

Week 4 Basket of berries

What a strange stitch at the outer rim, positive thing about this, it made me realise I do understand and I can crochet these difficult stitches.

Week 5 Starfire

Week 6 Blooming lace (actually I like the way the colours came together in this block, it almost looks like I start grasping colour combinations, but this is where I stopped my blanket. I won't frog it yet)

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CAL is from a facebook group 

Official CCC Social Group