Crochet Pillows

Working hard pays off. These are just a couple of the crochet pillows i made. You don't see it in this photo, but they're all backed with vintage fabrics!
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Wednesday, August 6Crochet Pillows
Labels: crochet Wednesday, July 2Pillows in progress
Labels: crochet, work in progress Friday, June 27Vintage Crochet
Thursday, June 26Crochet Flower
Labels: crochet Monday, June 16Crochet pillow
Friday, May 30Vintage Crochet and a Queen
We found Queen last weekend in Park Slope. I lured my Love to come along, i wanted to stroll around and check out some stoopsales. Love was not excited. Buy honey, there will also be sales with a lot of old records. Score. He went along. And we did find a bunch of great records and this painting. Glad Love was there to convince me to give her a new home and to carry her all the way back. Tuesday, November 27Work in progress - crochet i've been working on some this and thats here and there. yes i'm actually getting crafty creative again. makes me really happy and i didn't have the change to do it a lot the last couple of months. missed it.working on some crochet bracelets. do we love?
Labels: crochet, work in progress Sunday, November 25Ooops... ![]() This is what happens when you get all your clothing out of storage and dump it all in the laundry without realizing your yarn and crochet needles are still in there somewhere. I couldn't fix the needles, but did manage to untangle all the yarn.don't try to wash your crochet needles in the laundry. the machine survived but i don't think it's to be recommended. Labels: crochet Tuesday, August 7Crochet in progress Haven't done any crochet-ing in a while. Getting back in to it with some basic stitches. Planning on making something not so basic with it. Well, maybe, but at least something i never did with crochet before.Keep tuned. Labels: crochet, work in progress Friday, May 25Ever tied a tie? It had been a looong time ago since i last tied a tie. When i was a young kid someone showed me once. I must admit i fumbled around a bit at first. But when you figure it out, it's not that hard. I made these three kids' neck ties and i think they came out real cute! I think i will be putting some labels on the back and get them ready to be put up for sale one day. For the light blue tie i made an applique of a flower that i drew in Illustrator, printed on felt with some vliesofix on the back, and ironed&sewed on the bottom front. Gonna make some more pretty appliques! You could wear the ties as an adult, but then they are verrrry short! A bit weird. But possible. but weird. hehe. The crochet hat was very much a trial project. Size is for kids around 2 years or so. I used yarn i had laying around which i wasn't going to move with me. That explains why the colors are all mixed up and not really color coordinated. Frugal thinking! Use what you got. Maybe i will pretty it up with a flower brooch or something that i first still have to make. ;) Now that i've at least figured out how to do it, i have already put some pink yarn aside to take as carry on luggage. I should be able to make another during the 7,5 hour flight! Oh yeah, i'm also working on a sew along with Nico. Had i mentioned that already? I think we both had planned to have it finished by now, but both of us had to re-prioritize! My version of the cape is almost ready! Thursday, March 15round and round I couldn't take my eyes of the beautiful projects in the old craft magazines i thrifted not too long ago.Pretty obvious sign to me that i had to up my game and learn some additional crochet stitches. And lucky me, my favorite yarn was on special discount this week! Ooh, lots of colors! These circles were certainly for practice. Can you pick out the one i started with? Yep. Top left corner. Ohoh reality check - i GOT to start counting my stitches better. And look at me go, i counted and it worked, the circles stayed flat. hehe, correct counts really work. Except for the first one, the others will be turned in to round pillows. Labels: crochet Wednesday, March 7crochet inspiration Ooh!! I've found some wonderful vintage (early 70's) crafty magazines while thrifting last weekend! (huge indoor fleamarket at the outskirts of Amsterdam)Many great pictures and ideas for new creative projects. I'm especially inspired by all the lovely crochet pictures. I do need to up my game. Learn more variations. I could do this. I have put it on my work in progress list so it will get more priority in the following week. For now, let's just look at the great pics from the magazines. Saturday, January 27New friend at the playground Well, hello there.I'm Geanny and I'm having fun at Ismoyo's Playground. They say I'm shy, but I'm not. I just don't use a lot of words. I'm more of an observer. Maybe that's why i have those big round eyes. I don't run around and get into mischievous trouble, i like to sit in my corner and play quietly. Mostly by myself, but if i want some company there are many friends around in the playground who i can play with. Note: Freestyle crochet, approx 6 inch high. Labels: crochet Saturday, January 13Half of a personality Help! I've got half a personality!As you see, i still haven't had enough of crochet. It takes a lot of time if you want to end up with a decent sized figure, but luckily i seem to find little moments in time that would otherwise be waisted and now can be filled with my hook and some yarn... Labels: crochet, work in progress Monday, January 8Saturday, January 6My crochet efforts Things I'm learning about crochet: - The importance of good light. Crochet efforts done in dim nightlight don't always look good in the morning. - Count. Keep track. You can love to 'wing' it, you can love to freestyle. It won't come out as good as when you would have counted. Promise to myself: work with more light and count all the way through. The pink one was the last one i did and i think it's nearing what i wanted them to look like. Cute and a bit mischievous. My hubby made up a complicated "will-leave-you-confused" story of the smallest one being the cousin of the brown one, whose mother was the sister of the white one, making her the mother of the smallest one, the pink one being her sister, or not, because she's not the mother of the brown one but being the pretty cutey, thus sometimes even causing a bit of jealousy amongst the others, but not in a bad way since it was like, well all family, so there is love first. All knowing being the prettiest one is only a temporary thing; the next prettiest one is always in the future. ![]() Labels: crochet Wednesday, January 3Current wip Can't start fresh and anew (like 2007) when i still have lots of catching up to do... I have some work in progress and a couple of finished projects to show still.Getting 'hooked' on crochet, figuring out all the possibilities it brings me. Working hard and learning a lot. Got to stop myself when my fingers start to hurt... Updates will follow soon! Labels: crochet, sewing, work in progress Tuesday, December 12Crochet learning update Some might have already read it, but I'm working on learning how to crochet. As a little girl i have picked up a crochet hook maybe once or twice, but didn't get any further then making circles. Then somewhat over a year ago i tried again. Didn't get any further than this friendly little purple pea. hihi.Since three times is a charm, I'm giving it another go. This time i even picked up a book to show me the basics from where i can go on and freestyle on my own. And since it's true that you have to start simple and work your way up to more complicated projects, I've started simple. Some sort of yellow egg warmer and a square creature of which a version was in the book shown as a pincushion. i might be funny like that, but i can not stick pins in anything that has a face. Currently i'm working on a couple of bunny friends. Not in the book. Ah... who needs a book anyway? Oh yeah, i remember, to learn. I'm getting there. Stay tuned for a next crochet update. Oh I've just read that beyonce and jay-z bought a 40.000$ crochet chair! Wow that's a lot of money. It's made by a Dutchy, designer Marcel Wanders. My crochet 'skills' are nothing compared to his. The chair is gorgeous! Labels: crochet Saturday, November 26Learning to crochet: A purple pea?![]() This little project really made me laugh. Getting inspired by reading other crafty blogs and seeing some of the cutest crochet crafts. I thought lets see if I can figure out how to do it. I was kinda searching for something creative which was portable already. Something more portable than bringing my laptop or sewingmachine everywhere I go. Crochet only requires the crochet needle and some yarn! That will fit in my bag! Ok, so I decided to give it a try. Bought what I needed and sat down with a cup of tea. Hmm. I vaguely remember having crochet a kind of string of yarn at school when I was very young. But how? In the store picking up some cheap try out yarn I ofcourse went for the cute purple color. If you can Cutify something, there is no reason not to. I didn't use a pattern. Did look some crochet patterns up on the net, but that is still out of my league. I couldn't find any logic in it which I knew of I would be able to pick up on easily by myself. So I forgot about the patterns and just flowed with it. After a while I ended up with this round, well, what is it, thingy. Next to each other I've put two buttons on. And now the purple pea can see! Like I said before, if you can Cutify ... Archives COLLECTIONS Embroidery cute POSTCARDS
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