Tag: Crochet

Plarn and Plastic Lids Shopping Bag

craftster Plarn and Plastic Lids Shopping Bag

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Recently I made the paper shopping bag for the ‘Craft Challenge #47 – Reusable Shopping Bag Challenge 2′ and one of the other (really great!) entries was the plarn and plastic lids shopping bag.
The idea is at first sight not so different from that of the plastic bag tote (there you can also find a link on how to make plarn (= plastic yarn)), the special thing is the bottom which she made from big round plastic lids and which gives the bag a sturdy bottom.
She attached the bottom like I did with my beverage carton crochet.

A great bag!


Links:
Plarn and Plastic Lids Shopping Bag (Question: What to do with all the plastic lids cluttering my cabinet???)

Craft Challenge #47 – Reusable Shopping Bag Challenge 2
Entries to the challenge

Here at unikatissima:
Paper Shopping Bag
Plastic Bag Tote
Beverage Carton Crochet

Venetian Crochet Motif

flickr papahotch Venetian Crochet

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I find this Venetian crochet motif most beautiful and I’m impressed if someone makes from single motifs a whole top.

I also found an instruction and even an instruction for a round lace collar.
Sigh.


Links:
Top from Venetian Crochet Motif

Instruction for Venetian Crochet Motif (Crocheting Venetian Lace Motif Help Photos)
Instruction for Round Lace Collar (Venetian Crochet – 1915 Collar and Lace Edging)

Here at unikatissima:
Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons

Crochet, Tatting and Sewing Patterns in Rick Rack Braid

knitting-and Patterns in Rick Rack Braid

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Do you still have some old rick rack? Then you can download an old book with crochet, tatting and sewing patterns using rick rack braid.

 

Fortunately I don’t have any, so I’m not led into temptation ;-))


Links:
Crochet, Tatting and Sewing Patterns in Rick Rack Braid (Nufashond Rick Rack Book Volume 2)
via: Corset Cover or Camisole

Online Amigurumi Pattern Generator

knittink Online Amigurumi Pattern Generator

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I’m busy programming another pattern generator, something similar to the maze pattern generator and the pattern generator (cellular automaton) and therefore I looked for online pattern generators.
So I found the online Amigurumi pattern generator.
Incredible!
I’m really not one for Amigurumis, but I find the generator amazing! ;-))


Links:
Note: The following link is still correct, but links now to a knitting toy generator:
Free Online Amigurumi Pattern
Unfortunately the link above doesn’t work anymore, thank you Claudia for telling me, see instead the Google search result for ‘free crochet amigurumi pattern’

Google search result for ‘online pattern generator’

English Wikipedia entry for ‘Amigurumi’
German Wikipedia entry for ‘Amigurumi’

Google image search result for ‘Amigurumi’

Here at unikatissima:
Maze Pattern Generator
Pattern Generator (Cellular Automaton)

Crocheted Bruges Lace

Ars Una Species Mille Crochet Bruges Lace

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I’m planning for a certain time to try crocheted Bruges Lace but found it always a little old fashioned – until I saw amongst others the photos.
Oddly enough I don’t find them old fashioned at all ;-)

I then researched a little further and found a most beautiful little cap and a very impressive opera coat.

Well, we will see.
And if it doesn’t work I will make a scarf from ;-))


Links:
Photos from Ars Una, Species Mille
via: Google image search result for ‘bruges lace’

Bruges Crochet – beautiful cap (for a larger picture click there on photo)
Bruges crochet opera coat

Instruction for crocheted Lace of the Bruges (Crocheted Lace of the Bruges)
=> scroll down for different patterns

Here at unikatissima:
Tea Dyed Doily Scarf

Tea Dyed Doily Scarf

flickr myauntdebbie - Doily Scarf

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I must confess that in fact I like to crochet doilies – but I don’t want to have them, because I don’t have a clue about what to do with them ;-).
That’s perhaps the reason why I like so much putting together things from squares or the like ;-))

Well, now I can make me such a doily scarf ;-)
I think that you can very well hand-dye it with tea or coffee.


Links:
Tea Dyed Doily Scarf (Arsenic and Old Lace Scarf SOLD)
via: clothes that cover and expose

Google Suchergebnis für ‘dye fabric with tea’
Google Suchergebnis für ‘dye fabric with coffee’
Google Suchergebnis für ‘Stoff mit Tee färben’
Google Suchergebnis für ‘Stoff mit Kaffee färben’

Here at unikatissima:
Entries containing the word ‘medaillon’

Wire Crochet

Seafore Wire Crochet

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I presented already the beaded freeform wire crochet and the wire hairpin lace bracelet, but here at wire crochet you can find a lot of tips that you can use making the other items.
Just check it out :))


Links:
Wire crochet (C is for Crochet) – click on ‘W is for Wire Crochet’ in navigation bar

Here at unikatissima:
Beaded Freeform Wire Crochet
Wire Hairpin Lace Bracelet

Bolero and Shrug Patterns

Jessica Tromp Bolero and Shrug Patterns

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I surfed the internet a little bit and found a website with lots of most beautiful Bolero and Shrug patterns, as well knitted as well crocheted.
But of course you can make other clothes from the single crochet patterns ;-)

I find best on shrugs that they don’t take so long to make as sweaters and the like ;-))
Although I feel the same constriction about shrug-making as for the crocheted Bolero: first I want to lose some (more) weight.
A fine excuse, isn’t it? ;-))

Addendum: it seems that Jessica Tromp put the pattern somewhere else: 60 bolero-crochet-patterns.
You find the photo under bolero 6a and directly to the right the directions on making the bolero.

The instruction for the medaillon seems to be further up on the same site where the yellow bolero is.
This is the direct link, but it doesn’t work for me.

Happy crochet :)

Links:
Bolero and shrug patterns, for women, knitting and crochet

Here at unikatissima:
Crocheted Bolero
Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons

Crochet Shawl

Makhina Crochet Shawl

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Again such a wonderful item I’ll never finish in my life! This time a shawl in a – as I find – very interesting crochet stitch which is a ‘refinement’ of the so-called Puff stitch (I think that it is in German Büschelmasche).

I have the feeling that if one is about to begin now one can finish the shawl until summer ;-))


Links:
Crochet Shawl (Tig isi fistikli sal yapimi) (Turkish and English)

Instruction for Puff Stitch (Puff Stitch) (English)
Instruction for Büschelmasche (Die Büschelmasche) (German)

Crochet Sachets

Crochet Sachets

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I don’t know the name of this crochet pattern but I find it very nice.
I would’ve liked to crochet a sommer top with it but I’d never finish it.
Such a crochet sachet is therefore the right thing for me to work a little on the pattern ;-))
And it’s very apt to be a little gift and/or soap sachet.


Links:
Folder named ‘Sachets’
Photo of two crochet sachets
Diagrams for two crochet sachets