Crocheted pillow - Christmas gift?

This pillow is made by crocheting nine squares, where I decorated or crocheted all nine in a different way. You can personalize the pillow by stiching words on that means something to you. This can be a wonderful creative project, for yourself - or maybe a friend for Christmas?

I glued on feathers on one square, and stiched on secuins to make a star.

Funny furry handbag

Why not make yourself a funny fur bag? It is easy to make. You can use a sewing machine or just hand-stich. The white part of the eyes is crocheted. The black part is fabric. The chain I took of another pursebag whom I never used. After taking these pictures I have made the bag smaller; about 4-5cm on both sides. I will post photos later.

Crocheted carpet - this is FUN

Oh yes, this was great fun. Using crochet needle nr 12 on Hooked Ribbon XL I crocheted this carpet. I MUST make more carpets. Inspired by the blog susimiu.es I  will try to make the mandala carpets shown in blog.

And by the way... this yarn is made from old t-shirts .. isn't that great?

I got the inspiration to this easy carpet from Pinterest. It turned out not to be as easy as I thougt. The carpet is nice and soft to walk/stand on.  

I used crochet hook number 12 - shown in picture is also hook number 3. I crocheted the star first. Then switched to white yarn .

A lot of ends has to be stiched in to carpet, using a really big needle and a small crochet hook.

This is the yarn I used. It is like crocheting with shoelaces..... Next time I would like to try the other type of yarn from Hooked. It is called Zpagetti Zolid. They even have yarn with prints on wich leaves an endless variaty in the pattern you can make. The yarn is sold from the website hoooked.co.uk.

Crocheted poncho-cape

Preparing for autumn and winter I crocheted this easy cape or ponco(?) You  don't find it much easier than this. I always have something to crochet or knit when  I  watch the telly, travelling by ferry or bus, etc. This has been perfect. No fuzz at all.

I love the red colour

From the back

Here you can see how easy this is. I have no buttons, hooks or anything on it.

I had to crochet a litte bit of pattern - or it would have been a little dull

 Maybe I can use it over a coat aswell?

How I worked it:

I used woolyarn Superwash Sport, crochet needle nr 6. Here are som short guidelines to how I made it. (American terms first/uk terms)
I worked 175 ch/ch
1.row: all single crochet/double crochet
2.row: all half double crochet/half treble
3.row; 2 ch +1 ch, "1 hdc in every second hdc, 1 ch,"
4.row: 1 hdc, 1 ch, "1 hdc in next hdc, 1 ch"
I made 4 rows of hdc/htr and 6 rows of the the pattern from 3. and 4.row (little squares)

The gap/hole for the head is about 23 ch/hdc long made over 4 rows.

Pokemon lovers: Pikachu

I crocheted this little pokemon as a birthday-present for my 12-year old niece Victoria. She loved it :-)

Matchy, matchy

I love my bag from River Island I bought last year. Just had to make a hat to match it :-)

Crochet collar DIY - Marc Jacobs Fall 2016

I am still at these wonderful crochet collars that you can see in Marc Jacobs RTW Fall 2016 collection. They are easy and fun to make. The patterns I make as I crochet.

Crochet headband

Making a crochet headband is really easy. You can make them in any colour and decorate them with pearls, flowers etc if you wish.

Knitting jumpers

Everybody is knitting jumpers these days. And so have I. The jumper is inspired by Miu Miu RTW Fall 2015. I am quiet satisfied that I actually managed to finish it - I never use patterns.

Unfortunatly I don't have the knitting skills to make the holes that the "original" Miu Miu jumper has. But I am quiet satisfied anyway.

I stiched on the arms

Crochet collars

Marc Jacobs showed some wonderful crochet collars in the Fall RTW 2016 collection. I have made an easy one. I found the pattern on Drops Design, www.garnstudio.com. It is a red collar for young girl. As it is a pattern for a childs collar, I added about 50 extra ch. It was really easy and good fun.

Crochet boater

Chanel RTW Fall 2016 has some fabulous hats. I have made my version of them. Since I havn't got my hands on any faux leather to cover the straw boaters, I had to crochet instead.

I bought a straw boater from HM, 

I removed the black band and added some filling instead.

I crocheted the cover, and put on a leather band.

I added the handle (to carry the hat)

the handle I made from a broach and the handle from a make-up bag.

Usually I crochet covers so that you won't see any of the straw-boater. But this time I didn't.