Category: Self-made Tools

Jewelry Bust

Design Sponge Jewelry Bust

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With this jewelry bust you can treasure your jewelry, especially your necklaces, in a beautiful way and present them at the same time.
I presented a necklace bust before, I find this one more elegant with its unadorned white – but you must always look what looks best where.

 


Links:
diy project: jewelry bust

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Necklace Bust

Crocheted Row Counter

unikatissima Crocheted Row Counter

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Recently on a weekend I wanted to knit 78 rows. I always loose count, because I simply don’t like to keep a tally where I must lay the needles out of my hands.
And I didn’t have the right beads for a row counter bracelet or the wire for a knitting row counter, so I crocheted quickly something from stash yarn ;-)

My crocheted row counter consists of 2x nine connected loops (you can take ten loops too, what you prefer).
For the first loop I crocheted 9 chains, then always 5 chains and a treble treble in the first of the 5 chains.

Then I colour marked the first and the fifth loop (embroidered with different coloured yarn).

Technically you should use the row counter after the edge stitch, but I’ve used yarn that is slightly too thick and used my row counter before the row.
The disadvantage is then, that the row counter always glides over the whole needle, but I’ve been satisfied anyhow with my first shot from the hip ;-)

Technically too I should steam my row counter because it curls, but I could use it anyhow.

Well, and now the use: For me the yellow row counter counts the one place digits, the green one the tens place digits.
I pick up the next loop on my needle every other row when I come along, I’m counting thus double rows.
I don’t plan to knit more than 198 rows in an item, so two row counters are well enough for me ;-)

After having done the ninth loop of the yellow row counter I’m taking the first loop of the green row counter on my needle = row 10.
From row 11 on I use the first loop of the yellow (= 1) and the first loop of the green row counter (= 10) on my needle = row 11. etc. etc.

It worked well for me in any case and I’m nearly looking forward to knitting my next item where I have to knit a lot of rows ;-)

 


Links:
How To Crochet A Treble Treble Stitch

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Row Counter Bracelet
Knitting Row Counter

Plastic Bottle Crochet Boxes

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I find these little storage boxes great: simply take a plastic bottle to pieces and crochet them together in a new way ;-)
They make me think of the beautiful postcard boxes.

 


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Plastic Bottle Crochet Boxes (Round Square of the box.bottles, MC) (English Google translation)
Russian original page

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Postcard Boxes

Wire Votive

unikatissima Wire Votive

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At last a new votive ;-))

 
    What you need:

  • a high drinking glass where a tealight easily fits in,
  • wire (I used plain garden wire) and
  • a tealight of course ;-)
 

That’s what you do:
First you bend a loop where the tealight will rest later on.
I made it here slightly triangular.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

Then you bring the wire to a height of about the half or two thirds of the height of the tealight, put the tealight on the loop bent before and bent the wire once around the tealight.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

You see that the tealight and the wire around it still fit in the glass.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

Now you only have to bring the wire straight up and make a sharp bent to suspend the tealight at the rim of the glass.
Subsequently you can embellish the end. I only bent a spiral, but of course you can thread on beads or similar.
By the way, it’s best if you let the tealight ‘float’ a little bit above the ground.
unikatissima Wire Votive

 

So, the beautiful summer evenings may come now ;-)

 


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