Showing posts with label Crochet Patterns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crochet Patterns. Show all posts

Sunday, 3 November 2013

Pattern for the Striped quilts

These are crocheted in pastel 1 ply wools but crochet cotton size 14 or 20 would do as well with a 1.25mm hook (US size 10).  I used white plus five pastel colours. Starting with white thread,
1. Make a chain of 46 stitches. 
2. Work a single crochet into every chain.
 Don't cut off white thread, take it up the side of the work.
3. Join in a pastel colour and work a treble crochet into each stitch.  Work two chain to turn.
4. Repeat previous row. Cut thread leaving about 3 inches to use for sewing into the quilt later.
5. Work two rows of sngle crochet with the white again and leave attached on the side.
7. Repeat with another pastel thread working two more rows of trebles.
Alternate with the single crochet rows in white and the treble rows in pastel until the quilt is the desired length ending with a row of single crochet in white.
 Sew all the ends from the pastel threads and the starting thread  from the white thread into the quilt so that are secured and invisible.  Cut off the threads close to the quilt.

With the white thread, work a single crochet into every stitch across the previous row of white sc then down the first side working four stitches into the pastel treble stripes and two stitches into the white stripes. Continue across the other end working one stitch into each of the ones in the first row and the back up along the third side.
Work two more sngle crochet stitches into the two white ones at the end of the row to bring yourself to the corner of the quilt.
 Miss the first sc from the previous row and work five treble stitches into the next stitch.  Miss the next sc from the previous row and work a sc into the next stitch, creating a shell.  Repeat all the way around the quilt and end off with some secure stitches before weaving the tail of white thread into the work and cutting off the excess thread.

Friday, 1 November 2013

Pattern for the Shawl

Using 1 ply wool and a 1.25mm crochet hook make a chain of 41 stitches.
1st row: Turn the work and crochet a row of single crochet (sc) into the chain (40 stitches).
2nd row: Work another row of single crochet into the first row.  This creates a solid edge.
Work three chain as a turning chain.
3rd row:  Miss first sc, work a sc into the 2nd stitch, 3 ch, miss the next sc and work a sc into the following stitch.  Work across the row with three chain loops joined with a sc into each alternate sc from the previous row. Turn work.
4th row: 2 slip-stitches to the top of the first 3ch loop.  Work another row of 3ch loops with a sc into each 3ch loop from the previous row.
5th row: 2 slip-stitches to the top of the first 3ch loop. Work a row to 3ch loops with a sc into the each 3ch from the previous row until you get to the last 3ch loop.  Instead of making a final 3 ch loop, make a treble crochet stitch into the last sc of the previous row which keeps you at the top of the last loop instead of slip-stitching your way back to the top of the loop and it begins the decreasing at the end of each row.
6th row: Work 2 chain loops across the row with a sc into each 3ch loop of the previous row until you get to the last loop, 1 double crochet (dc) into the last loop of the previous row.  Turn work.
7th row: Work 2 ch loops into each loop of the previous row until you get to the last loop, work 1 dc into the last loop.  Turn work.
Continue on decreasing at the end of each row until the last row has a single 2ch loop.  End off and sew the beginning and ending threads into the triangular shawl and cut off.
Using the wool doubled, cut into 5 or 6 cm lengths.  Make a fringe by attaching a double loop (ie. 4 threads) into the loop at the end of each row.  Trim the fringe to the desired length.  I cut mine back to 1cm long.  The photo shows the fringe at the original lengh of 2.5 cm before trimming.