…compilation of tutorials
I presented bags/purses/totes made from plastic bags already (see links below), but I like a base cap from crocheted plastic bags very much, too.
Just the thing for summer :)
Links:
Recycled Plastic Baseball Cap
Here at unikatissima: bags/purses/totes made from plastic bags
I found a blog where the author fetched the cross stitch patterns of an old aunt from the attic and published them.
I saw beautiful patterns thereby and it’s not as if you had to work cross stitch only with the patterns ;-)
The blog is written in Netherlands and English (the italic text), but the patterns can be recognized anyhow ;-))
Links:
Cross Stitch Patterns Treasures (Tantes zolder) (Netherlands and English)
Here at unikatissima:
What Can You Do With Filet Crochet/Cross Stitch Embroidery Charts?
I really like crochet bags ;-), therefore the tutorial on how to make bags from crochet squares came in handy.
It remembered me of Inga’s Häkelbeutel, but is still easier to make.
You can make it also with my Lacy Crochet Square Margarethe but I think that the holes will be too big if you don’t line it.
Anyhow: Have fun crocheting the next beach bag ;-)
Links:
Bag from Granny Squares (Get Your Granny On~ bag)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tags ‘crochet’ and ‘bag’
Inga’s Häkelbeutel – German Granny Square Bag
unikatissima’s Lacy Crochet Square Margarethe
crochet medaillon
I really love freeform and freeform crochet and therefore I found of course the instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beads instruction on how to crochet a freeform necklace with wire and beadsinteresting.
I haven’t tried it yet because I (still) have no jewelry wire and she wrote that her wire has since gone all rusty – it doesn’t have to come to this.
I will make the necklace one day!
Links:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
How to make a beaded freeform wire crochet necklace
Thanks, Louise, for telling me! :)
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘freeform’
Entries containing ‘freeform’ and ‘crochet’
Recently I knitted more often (mostly mazes and cellular automaton patterns) and got some little helpers together on the spur of the moment.
The first is a take-those-threads-away (I simply don’t know the name of this item!) for two-coloured knitting, that I made from a plain piece of wire: …
… simply bend the wire twice around the finger, hook the threads into and begin knitting.
The second are paper clips used as stitch markers…
…that I hooked in every 10. stitch, everywhere where the decimal lines from the pattern are.
I selected a different coloured paper clip every five clips, that helps to orientate in the pattern faster.
For the partly chaotic cellular automaton patterns it can be a real help.
And the last are my post-it notes I use to mark the row I’m working on.
Some people use rulers but the post-its stick better to the paper and if necessary I can take it with me without having to mark the last row.
However I noticed that I have to change the notes quite often because the glue gets weak from the constant tackling and untackling.
Links:
At unikatissima:
Entry concerning the maze pattern generator
Maze Pattern Generator
Entry concerning the pattern generator (cellular automaton)
Pattern Generator (Cellular Automaton)
Recently I presented the beaded hyperbolic planes, now I found a TED Talk to this that inspired me to eventually crochet a hyperbolic plane.
I wanted to crochet this in fact for a long time, ever since I got this beautiful pin I still adore.
Thank you again!
Links:
TED Talk: Margaret Wertheim: The beautiful math that links coral, crochet and hyperbolic geometry
At The Institute For Figuring:
Crocheted Hyperbolic Models and Coral Reef Taxonomy Gallery at The Institute For Figuring
– a wonderful gallery
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef
– ditto ;-)
Beaded Hyperbolics
– still ditto ;-)
Crochet instruction for a hyperbolic plane (Interweave Knits article Taking Crochet to a Higher Plane)
At unikatissima: Beaded Hyperbolic Planes
I have already presented translations of crochet terms, now I found even more complete translation lists at Garnstudio & DROPS Design (see links below at the links).
I find them a great help at translating patterns into/from other languages.
Links:
At Garnstudio & DROPS Design: select your language, e.g. ‘American’ or ‘English’, then select ‘Tips & Help’ in the top menu bar and there into the sub-menu select ‘DROPS Dictionary’ (at the end).
There you have lists in a lot of languages into/from which you get translations, at the moment English to/from Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, German, Dutch, Spanish, Portuguese and French .
When knitting or crocheting you must often count the rows.
I have seen people who kept checklists in a very disciplined way, but personally I find this taking-the-pen-and-sketching-a-checkmark-on-the-list bothersome, the more so as one needs a table for this (at least I need it ;-)).
But not if you’re making a row counter bracelet (ok, you must leave your work beside, but you don’t need a table ;-)).
I didn’t make one yet, but I found the tutorial very good.
I’m sure that you can make the beads yourself, e.g. from polymer clay or felt (but felted beads may be too lightweight ?!)
Links:
Row Counter Bracelet
via: Row Counter Bracelet at ravelry
Google search result for ‘row counter bracelet’
Google image search result for ‘row counter bracelet’
Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘polymerclay’
Entries with the tag ‘felting’
Today again more an inspiration than an instruction, nonetheless fascinating: beaded hyperbolic planes.
And while you’re at The Institute For Figuring you must absolutely take a look at the Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef!
Wow!
Links:
At The Institute For Figuring:
Beaded Hyperbolics – a wonderful gallery
Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef – ditto ;-)
Recently I ‘discovered’ crochet cables via the ravelry group ‘Crochet Celtic Cables’.
I knew them for long but up until now I never found them very nice.
This is different now ;-))
They seem to be as versatile as their knitted ‘siblings’ and I will surely get back to them once more.
Links:
Crochet Cables – Fun and Effective
Crocheting Cables Photo How-To
Cabled Embroidered Purse
Crocheting Cables – 6 stitches
Adventuring Sage Cable Vest
Even an instruction for Tunisian crochet cables:
ARNie’s Method for Working Tunisian Crochet Cables
Google Suchergebnis für ‘crochet cable’
Google Bildsuchergebnis für ‘crochet cable’