Crochet Pieces from the past

 Hi all

Hope all of you found yesterday's cast on stitch tutorial helpful.   Today I am happy to share with you two of my crochet creations which I have completed in 2018.  But haven't blogged the finished piece.  I started these two pieces in the idea of making it into cushion covers but till now I haven't complete it into cushion covers and I end up using them as a table cloth for my tablemate.  They just fits the size of the tablemate perfectly.   Let us see the pieces.

First on is made out of two colour granny square and solid granny square.  I have used the carpenter wheel quilt block as a guide and joined the granny squares.  I like it very much.  I wanted to do blanket using these two color granny squares but it will take ages to complete.  So I have done a single carpenter wheel block.   You can google for two colour granny squares and you can find tons of ideas of arranging the squares.   You can make beautiful quilt blocks out those squares.

My old projects on solid granny squares can be seen here.

Next is Sweet Caroline.  I have followed the pattern from here.  You can find beautiful pattern in that site.

For both the project I have used 4ply acrylic yarn and a 4mm hook.  You can view my other crochet creations here. 

Hope all of you like these crochet pieces.  Tomorrow I will come up with my Kantha embroidery Saree which I have bought recently.  So do come back again tomorrow.  Happy crocheting and have a nice day. 

Two colour granny squares

Hi friends,

In this post I wanted to show you my embroidery finish.  But, since it is cloudy here I was not able to take clear photos of it.  So I am showcasing a crochet WIP.

All crocheters are familiar with granny squares in different forms.  Traditional granny, flower in a granny, granny stripes, ripple granny.  I have also done some projects with these grannies.  During october I watched a youtube video from crochet crowd of making two color and four color granny squares.  I immediately tried it and got hooked on making those grannies and after a month this is what I have come up with. 

This again is inspired by quilt blocks.  I have selected star patterns coz these are going to get displayed during the month of December.  

Traditional Eight point star block

For this block I made 4 granny squares in white and 4 white and red squares, 4 orange and white squares, 4 red and orange squares. Each square is made up of 4 rounds.

Saw tooth star block

For this I made 4 white color square, 8 red and white squares, 4 orange color squares of 4 rounds.

I have decided to finish these squares into cushion cover.  To make the cushion cover one more row on all sides.  So totally 40 more white color granny squares has to be done for both the cushions.  For the back I am going to attach a fabric.  For the time being this is the only project in focus and each day 100 stitches on mega cross stitch project are also done.  

When I get bored of doing the same craft I switch over to another craft and this is what I have done last week.  Quilled wall hanging.   It's easy and I have to frame it. For the next years sale in the church I thought of doing one or two quilled wall hangings.  

Since I am not doing any big embroidery projects I am learning Long and short embroidery stitch now and then.  Now I am following the lessons of Mary Corbett of Needlenthread.  I have also purchased One of the Trish Burr books.  So in 2017 I will take up a project with long and short stitch which is a dream for me.

Hope all of u r busy with your crafts.  I will be back with my embroidery finish if the weather allows me take good snaps.  Till then, Happy crocheting and have a nice day.