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Crochet tunic

Finished at last! It took me about a year from brainstorming the idea to sewing the pieces together. I had a serious creative block during the process and some technical challenges, but overall I’m happy with the result!

Model on photos and future owner of the tunic is my dear friend Monika.

The tunic is made of linen thread with 1,5 mm crochet hook. The circles are combined with leather.

A small lacey part is on the front and a larger piece on the back, holey diagonals create hidden patterns. The base colour is dark blue, geometrical shapes are green, yellow, grey and a little accent with red.

The most challenging were the circles. To turn a rounded shape into rectangular one in a large piece in a way its’s even and flat is quite a conondrum. On smaller circle I increased and played with stitch hight. On large side piece I decided to crochet the corner pieces separately and then join everything together. Lastly smoothed the lines out with last allaround rounds. There’s a previous blog post about this large tile.

Hedvig

Crocheting milestone!

Craft

The highlight of my week – finished the large piece of my tiled crochet project!!

It took quite a bit of engineering, testing and remaking. I crocheted 4 corners separately, trying to keep the bottom of triangles curved. Sewed the corners to the ring and started crocheting all around, evening it out with different stitches. Now it’s done it feels like the entire project is almost complete 🙂 That’s obviously is not true, but sure feels like it. Today’s plan is to join some smaller pieces together and make a revision of what’s left to do.

These pictures illustrate the overall mood at home rather accurately. Find a sunny spot and relax! Since June is about to start, I plan to follow their lead. Therefore, I brake my promise to post every Sunday. Perhaps it will be every other Sunday? Or maybe I will be so inspired, I continue the same frequency 🙂 My summer goals are:

Grow tomatoes
Finish crochet project
Photograph all finished craft items and finish portfolio
Complete school graduation project
Draw daily
Gather enough inspiration to last winter
Be happy

Take care, have fun and enjoy summer!

Hedvig

Crafting week

Craft

My week off from work has come to an end. I had so many plans, go to summer house and plant some seeds, finish crochet and sewing projects, finish some art projects… The truth is for the first couple of days I just ran errands, cooked and cleaned. By Friday I really felt the vacation mode, only to end it today. It’s true what they say – a proper vacation lasts at least 3 weeks.

But no more guilt over plans and reality! I had bought a bird pattern from Ann Wood and it had been waiting for it’s turn for quite some time. So I gathered my materials and got on with it!

Bird in the making. Pattern by Ann Wood.

The fabric I used is ties from drift store. On my hunting trips for material men’s shirts and ties are my favourites. Ties are often made of silk and they come in beautiful colours and patterns, perfect for small projects.

The bird ist yet to be finished, I’m stuck at lacking black paint. Just need to go and get some acrylic paint, acrylic won’t stain after it’s dried. It’s my first ever to use wire and carve a beak out of wood.

This is my crocheting project. I feel that once I get this really big motif finished, it’s just a matter of formalising. This huge circle needs to become a 50×50 cm square. So I’m figuring out the best way to give this circle corners and unite it into square. I’m open to suggestions, how would you do it?

Take care,

Hedvig

Crocheted pouch

Craft

I’m working really hard to finish the last big school project, a crocheted tunic. And I curse myself for the intricate design. Of course, a simple thing would be boring and not a chellenge enough, but honestly I’m tired of it. And yet again, I need to unweave a part of it, because I’m not totally satisfied with it. Aargh!

So I decided to take a break and share with you a completed project. It’s a small crocheted pouch, designed and made by me.

This picture is my starting point and inspiration. The aim was to translate the feeling of the image into tapestry crochet pattern and create a balanced composition within the limits of technique.

My esthetics is not overly colourful and bright, so I restricted myself to four colours, base colour + pattern colours.

For crocheting I used 10/2 (2-ply fingering weight) woolen yarn and 1,5 mm (6 in US chart and 2,5 in English chart) crochet needle. The pouch has a rounded base 10 cm in diameter and is 21 cm in height. The top edge is finished with picot stitch. For fastening the pouch I made a 3-colour twisted cord.

If you like the design and would like to make a pouch for yourself, grab the free pattern here!

crocheted-pouch Download

I would like to see your pouches! Share the images on Instagram, using #omailmpattern.

Back to my tunic,

Hedvig

Sketching and crafting

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It’s getting warmer outside and my green fingers a bit itchy. But the more I want to do outside stuff, the less time I actually have for it. For some reason the last couple of months before summer holidays tends to be crazy busy at work. But windowsill gardening is in full swing 🙂 And I’ve done some sketches.

Drawing needs to stay on the back seat for a while, since I’m focusing on finishing my school projects and I just can’t handle doing everything all the time. My big goal is to complete my crocheted tunic by the end of May.

Love,

Hedvig