Friday, March 09, 2012

Latest in Crochet and other Stuff...

Recently I've made a few interesting discoveries in crochet, aside from newspaper yarn mentioned in my previous post. For one, tapestry crochet. The technique is not new and I've also made a few projects and designs using tapestry crochet. But I'm not good with colors and prints, so I have been looking for nice designs to crochet. While browsing on Ravelry I found some wonderful bag designs using tapestry crochet technique.
These are from a talented artist in Australia, Anne Churches, who specializes in creating rugs and bags. I almost bought a bag, but it would be too expensive with the shipping cost. So I thought I should at least try out one of her patterns. I think it is on an introductory price at $2.50AUD.  I bought one bag pattern, and hope to start on that project soon...
Now for a look at some projects I finished this week. Since we revived the crochet livelihood program at Project Brave Kids, I got inspired to make small items we can possibly work on in the next few weeks.
I've made a couple new designs of small doilies (5 inches in diameter) that can also be used as topper for jar covers.
crochet jar topper

I also finished two sets of glass cozies using my pattern from a few years ago, Striped Shells Glass Cozy. I published the pattern here. One ball of Cannon or Monaco cotton thread, with partial balls for contrast color will make 4 cozies. This is one set of 4, in green color:

crochet glass cozy

I hope to come up with samples of other small projects, including cellphone cases.

Last but not least, I finally finished the black tunic ordered from me!

crochet black tunic

5 comments:

  1. Wow Mimi. You have been busy. The tunic looks nice. Can't wait to see what new cell phone cases you come up with. Tapestry crochet looks so nice, but I guess I just don't have the patience to try it. :P

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  2. The tunic looks soo nice!

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  3. Thanks Tina and Pearlin for stopping by! I thought I couldn't finish that tunic...it was getting so boring at some point, since its the 6th time I worked on that pattern :p
    Tina, I remember you had the patience to make the Dora bag, and probably more tapestry crochet projects ;)
    Right now, there are just so many things I want to make! I keep hopping from one project to another.

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  4. That tunic is gorgeous!! Nicely done.

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  5. OMG!!! how could you! That is very awesome!!!

    I hope one I can have a finished product bigger than a pouch at least. All I can create are pouches single stroke all throughout, and with color combinations...Thank you! this is very inspiring. ^_^

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