Gift wrapping ideas - children

The pattern for the owl you will find under the page Crochet patterns

The yellow part is actually fabric as I didn't have any yellow paper.

The patten for the bear you will find under the page Crochet patterns

Christmas gift wrapping ideas

I love wrapping all those Christmas presents. This is some of my tips:



Earclips from the 80's :-)
Going through old jewellery I found some really great earclips, in gold and black. So I used one for this parcel.

More earrings from the 80's

Feathers
Using feathers is also great.

Vintage jewellery
Any old jewelry lying around the house?

Paper bags 
I love these paper bags you can decorate with whatever you want. You get them in all different sizes.

Cut-out
Go on  - enjoy yourself cutting out different shapes, pictures etc and stick them on the parcels.
I bet you will enjoy it.

Advanced cut-outs 

If your REALLY love paper cut-outs - why not make collages . Cut out different themes, colours and so on. Write personal messages and glue them on.

Add caption

Detail from the side - small messages written, printed out, cut-out and glued on.

The backside of the gentlemens parscel.

Pearls and twigs

Little snowmen

I love the little crocheted snowmen. Found the idea on Pinterest.

Burberry pattern in crochet style

I am just loving the Burberry check pattern, but I can not crochet the checks/squares.. So this is my crocheted "Burberry" version. Just stripes - no squares.. he he

Top of hat

I mixed the different yarns

Bye bye summer

Saying goodbye to summer 2015 with  a pair of  bumblebees...

Baby bears

I made these cute bears for my little nephew. You will find the pattern in the page Crochet patterns.

Little flags for baby boy

An icebear

Chevron tube shawl in autumn colours

I crocheted a tube shawl in the chevron pattern. It is really simple to make. You'll find hundreds of patterns in Pinterest.

This is the pattern; Chevron

Crochet hat with kitty cat ears

Watching the Disney film "A bad hairday" with my niece, Victoria, we both loved the kitty cat hat Laura Marano wore in the movie. The day after I was off  to buy yarn, As I am not a god knitter I had to try to crochet the hat. And here is the result.

Victorias hat

One hat finished - and one in the making... 

70's crochet vest -

I could not resist trying to make the crochet vests Miu Miu showed at Resort 2015. Not very difficult considering that I didn't use a pattern. You will find patterns in Pinteres if you want to make one.

Minnion crochet hats (what not to do)

The Minions are back and now they have got their own movie, too!!:-). It has given me the motivation to finish some of the crochet minion hats I was making for the hat presentation last summer. Unfortunatly I was not able to finish them in time for the presentation. During autumn I struggled trying a lot of different yarn, a lot of different colours and making a lot of different types of eyes (oh, my - the time I have spent crocheting eyes!) Well, the result is not what I hoped for. Sometimes I wish I just would follow a pattern and stick to it.

This is the first one I made. The eyes ar kind of big (filled with cotton) and trying the hat on one of my nephews I realized it looked horrible on.

A plastic version !

A selction of minion eyes. 

The eyes are to small

I have a lot of different yellow yarn as I have been trying out the different kinds

Something wrong about these eyes too,

The eyes should be closer to each other. They do look like little bandits don't they? 

And how horrible can a pair of  crochet eyes turn out? 

The best one so far I think