How to make a crochet heart granny square. Emma Wilkinson is our crochet heart hero! As a pre-Valentine’s Day treat, she’s sharing a granny square tutorial that’ll melt your heart We’ll say it again: Emma is our crochet heart hero, and her blog, howtocrochetaheart.blogspot.com.au, is jam-packed with heart patterns and other lovely bits. Here’s just one of her crochet heart granny square tutorials, perfect for a quick Valentine’s gift. You will need: 4mm hook 3 balls of yarn in your choice of colour NOTE: US terms used throughout, ch = chain, dc = double crochet, sl st = slip stitch, tr = treble (UK conversion, ch = chain, dc = treble, sl st = slip stitch, tr = double treble) Method: Start with this mini heart. Making the heart: Chain 4, then (without doing a slip stitch) work all the round in the first chain 3 tr, 3 dc, 1 ch, 1tr, 1ch, 3dc, 3tr. 3 chains sl st in the centre, fasten off.
First round Then skip the next 5 stitches, and into the next marked stitch: 3dc, 3ch, 3dc, 3ch. Second round Starting in any corner: 3ch, 2dc, 3ch, 3dc, 1ch. Grumpygirl: Tutorial: The amazingly flat crochet seam. Alrighty then, here goes. Works best with contrast colours. And a smaller hook. Step 1. Prepare to be amazed. Step 2: Insert hook into inner loop of top square. Step 3. Insert hook into inner loop of bottom square. Step 4. Step 5. Step 6. Aerial view of finished hook: Mandala Flowers. The above picture looks a bit blue because it was taken inside the sun tent by the river on Sunday. I took a diversion from making bunting triangles and launched myself into Mandala mode. It was good fun trying something completely new from somebody else's Creative Mind for a change, I can't remember the last time I actually followed a pattern for something.
These Mandalas first caught my eye over on Facebook, on the beautiful Patchwork Heart page. Heather's crochet is lovely, and her mandala table mats really captured my attention. Me being me, I couldn't resist a little play around with the pattern. I made a couple of smaller ones too, although I found that my shell petals came out a bit tight and made the mandala curl into a bowl. So I used the steam iron hovering technique on them, flattening and re-shaping the crochet with my fingers whilst it was still warm and damp from the steam (no pins). Something pretty – the pattern | mille makes... About this pattern: i found this pretty picture on pinterest and was totally smitten. after a lot of googling and searching i wasn’t able to find the pattern, so decided to figure the pattern out myself. dottie angel‘s pictures of her thrifty find was very helpful, and i was happy to find out that this is actually a pretty simple pattern, so novices – don’t be alarmed!
Just go ahead and try it out :) for more pictures, check out this, this or this post. about yarn/hook: any yarn with corresponding hook will do, i find that moving up a hook size from what the yarn says makes a softer material that would work better with a blanket. i’ve made pillows with these squares so that wouldn’t matter so much. i used sandnes duo (dk weight) and hook 4 mm and the square measures 8×8 cm, with garnstudio drops paris (aran) and hook 5 mm one square is a bit over 10×10. first a couple of basics: 2. the first dc on row is made by chain 3 begin with colour of flower. chain 4, make circle with one slip stitch.
Little woollie. Little Spring Mandala. Pattern: Made in K-Town by Barbara Please respect my rights as designer: do not sell, share, translate, or publish any parts of my patterns (including pictures) online or elsewhere without my permission. Do not claim this pattern as your own. Feel free to sell the finished items you’ve made from my pattern! If you do, a link-back to my blog www.made-in-k-town.blogspot.de would be great. Material: As usual, I used small amounts of Catania by Schachenmayer and a 2.5mm hook. Some general notes: For this pattern I use US crochet terms. I did NOT write down the chains at the beginning of each round: for the first stitch in every round, work chains (e.g. 3 chains for the first dc) OR start with a “standing stitch” i.e. join the new color with a slip knot or a simple loop ON YOUR HOOK and just work the first sc or dc as usual.
I hope I haven't lost you already :) Here we go: 1st Round: start with a magic ring and work (1dc, ch1) 12x inside the ring, fasten off (12 ch1-spaces) Neat Ripple Pattern. Ahhhhhhhh look at all those hooky ripplesome ripples, aren't they glorious? I love crocheting this pattern, its relatively simple, rhythmic and soothing, but playing with colours in this way is also energising, exciting and a lot of fun. Well to me it is any road. there's something magical and mesmerising about the way the ripple effect makes the colours sing and dance next to each other, and it's a pattern I can see myself coming back to time after time.
When I made my first ripple blanket last year (finished in August 2008), I followed a pattern in Jan Eatons book (the Soft Waves pattern), and it has to be said that at first this pattern was not plain sailing. But I persevered and eventually I cracked it. But truthfully I always think crochet patterns look and sound far too complex, more than they actually need to be. And I have so wanted to write a tutorial for a ripple pattern that would be easy to understand for beginners and would eliminate certain niggles. Ok so far???? Chain 3. How to crochet in rows without turning. I love crocheting in the round, because I like how the right side of crochet looks. When you crochet in the round (spirals), you don’t need to turn, so you always have the pretty side of the stitches facing you. Typically, when you crochet in rows, you turn your work at the end of the row, which means that half of your rows have the ‘wrong side’ of the stitch facing you.
Particularly because I like to crochet through the back loop (read this post to read about the different loops you can crochet into), I fantasized about ways to make my rows look like my crocheting in the round… So, here’s the trick: you’ll need to crochet with your non-dominant hand, every other row. Sounds crazy! I know! But, it’s really cool. (just so you know, I’m right handed, so crocheting with my right hand is my ‘normal’. To start, I crocheted a chain, and then turned, and crocheted across with my right hand. Okay, so now we’re at the end of the row. I know!
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