Double Knitted Potholders

unikatissima Double Knitted Potholders Rosebuds

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Recently I needed a gift on a quite short notice and then I remembered the double knitted potholders.
After all I still had some cotton thread (thinking of heat resistance and so on) and designed quickly a rosebud pattern (see links below).

 

unikatissima Double Knitted Potholders Rosebuds The potholders have – as double knitted items always have – the pattern on one side …

 

unikatissima Double Knitted Potholders Rosebuds … and the inverted pattern on the other.

 

By the way, the potholders were well received ;-)


Links:
Double Knitted Potholders (Free Knitting Patterns – Heart Double Knit Hot Pad)

Here at unikatissima:
Rose bud pattern (JPG file, ~ 128 KB)

Indian Summer Votive

unikatissima Indian Summer Votive

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Recently I had a nice idea, inspired by the nature bracelet and the clip art candles or faux quilt votives, resp.: a quick autum votive.
It became more beautiful than I expected ;-))

 
 
That’s what you do:
unikatissima Indian Summer Votive

    You need:

  • a tealight
  • some cardboard
  • broad transparent tape
  • colourful leaves
 

unikatissima Indian Summer Votive Tape the cardboard to a cylinder that has to be wider than the tealight but not especially beautiful.
Important note: my Votive was too narrow with this circumference and became warm very fast. I suggest strongly to make the cylinder wider!

 

unikatissima Indian Summer Votive Put the transparent tape around the cardboard cylinder with the sticky side outside(!).
My tape is about 5 cm broad therefore I put two on top of each other. The arrow shows where they overlap.

 

unikatissima Indian Summer Votive Now simply tape on colurful leaves. They may even overlap.

 

unikatissima Indian Summer Votive When you’ve finished you can decide whether you want to wrap everything with another layer of tape – this time sticky side inside ;-), then you simply pull your votive from the cardboard cylinder and put a tealight inside.

 

Another important note: The votive is very light and can therefore easily be blown into the flame.
When I will make this again, I think that I will put small tape stripes crosswise from side to side and weigh down everything with sand or a little plate.
Or I will work it directly around a glass, I think that’s smarter, because nothing can be blown away then ;-)
So don’t forget: Never leave burning candles unattended!

By the way, the leaves become brown as fast as ‘untreated’, but it is a beautiful decoration for an autumn table anyway.
Addendum: In the comments of the German entry Menoora writes, that leaves apparently keep their colours when gently ironed.
It’s worth a try, isn’t? ;-)

You can make it even more beautiful by taping a layer of packing tape transfers with interesting texts or comic pictures over the leaves :)
How about e.g. with a beautiful layed autumn table and the votives in place of name cards? The names could be designed in the style of the beautiful labels.

Anyway: Have much fun with this!


Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Nature Bracelets
Clip Art Candles
Faux Quilt Votives
Packing Tape Transfers
Beautiful Labels for the Kitchen

Leftover Sweater

woolworks Leftover Sweater Pattern

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Well, it’s mentioned as an leftover sweater because every diamond can be worked from another yarn of your stash.
But I find the ‘construction’ of the sweater interesting ;-)

 

Because I haven’t understood the sketch until I’ve cut and folded it from scrap paper, see here a picture on how the sweater should look:
woolworks Leftover Sweater.jpg
I will have to give it a try somewhen ;-))

 

If you don’t like it (or don’t have a stash big enough ;-)), see what else you can do with your stash kann.

 


Links:
Leftover Sweater (Oddball Sweater)
via: Sweaters

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘stash’

Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps

initiative-handarbeit Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps

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I find the lamps funny ;-)
Especially because you don’t do anything else than freeform crochet on the spherical lamp frames.

But I won’t make them because my ceiling is very low and I had always to go round the lamps ;-))
But I have more lamps ‘on offer’ ;-))

 

Because the instruction is in German, here a (very short) translation:

You need: sphere lamp frame, different yarns (funky yarns, cotton, wool, ribbon yarn and so on, all in white or nature colours), big crochet hooks (5 mm and 7 mm (for conversion of crochet hooks see links below)) and if you like some big paillettes.

Patterns: They say that it looks best if you use a lot of patterns.
You can find inspiration in their PDF file, where they use the following stitches:
= ch (Chain)
= sc (Single crochet)
= dc (Double crochet)
= V st (V-stitch)
= ps (Puff stitch)
= shell (Shell stitch) with 4 dc, 3 ch, 1 dc
If you click the stitch names here above, you can see how these stitches are worked.

How to: Begin on top: crochet a chain ring to lay around the top opening. Crochet rings of patterns around the lamp, but they say that it looks great, too, if you change the pattern often by e.g. working crochet medaillons and adding them into your patterns.
They suggest to best crochet directly on the lamp frame so that you always can see whether it still fits.
They say that it was better to work too narrow than too wide and that they often worked with a couple of threads at a time with 7 mm needles.

Finish: Sew everything on at the top and bottom of the lamp frame. Cut from all threads fringes of about 1,60 m/4,5-5 inches and add to the bottom edge. If you like to, add some big paillettes.


Links:
Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps (Umhäkelte Leuchtkörper) (German)

Stitch descriptions:
ch (Chain)
sc (Single crochet)
dc (Double crochet)
V st (V-stitch)
ps (Puff stitch)
shell (Shell stitch)

Possibly helpful sites:
Crochet Hook Sizes And Conversions
Converting a pattern from US terms to UK terms

Here at unikatissima:
Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘lampshade’

Inchie Frames

ARTchix Studio Inchie Frames

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I find as well fabric inchies as well paper inchies beautiful, but I never quite knew what to do with them.
Now I know it: I have to frame them ;-)

They embellish ready bought frames in the instruction, but you can always make your frames yourself ;-)


Links:
Frame Your Inchies

Here at unikatissima:
Fabric Inchie Collage
Serendipity Collage
Entries with the tag ‘photoholder’

Monika’s Dish-Cloth Apron

Monikas Dish-Cloth Apron_th.jpg

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After having published the entry Slippers from Old Textiles, Monika sent me an email with the photo (click to enlarge) and the following text (translation – and translation errors! – by me ;-)):

“I’m making such aprons for years. The ‘edging’ or rather the slings are from ready bought bias tape (the package with 5m lasts conveniently for exactly one apron two aprons, so that also the costs remain reasonable).
The aprons are always a great success. If the pattern makes it possible (e.g. gingham patterns) I sew little pockets from the pieces that I cut away on top.”

Well, isn’t this a great idea?
Thank you, Monika!

And if you have the dish cloth 2x, sew some matching potholders ;-)


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Here at unikatissima:
Slippers from Old Textiles
Sewn Potholders