Category: Crochet

Crochet Things

by Irish Bees Don't Do Mondays, posted in Crochet

This heart didn’t turn out exactly like the one in the pattern I used. https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/amigurumi-heart—free-crochet-pattern

Somewhere along the way I lost stitches and had fewer rows to decrease than I should have so it’s turned out a bit wonky. Nonetheless, it’s still cute. 🙂

I’ve been crocheted some flowers to embellish another little hat:

Crochet bits

by Irish Bees Don't Do Mondays, posted in Chatting, Crochet

This crochet heart has some dried lavender with a few drops of pure lavender oil to give it some sweet smelling scent with calming properties as well.

The tiny yellow flower is from Attic24 and is called ‘Teeny Tiny Flower’.  The white flower behind it is a variation of the Flax flower pattern that can be found in ‘100 Lace Flowers to Crochet: A Beautiful Collection of Decorative Floral and Leaf Patterns for Thread Crochet’ by Caitlin Sainio.

I made this one, also with lavender, to pop onto a little wooden coat hanger with the cardi.

And, just because I have conquered crocodile stitch, another pair of croc booties.

Ruffled bootees

by Irish Bees Don't Do Mondays, posted in Crochet

I always wanted to make a pair of these bootees having seen them on Ravelry a while back.

The wool is from Elann: Pippi Longcolors : ‘crystal spring’.  ***Update: This wool has been rebranded to ‘Impromptu Lite’ and is available from Amazon). I love how gently the shades blend into a smooth gradation but have made each row of ruffles a band of colour.

They were made using a 4.5 mm hook. The sole length is 8 cm with a width of 4 cm. The height of the bootee (measuring right up to the top of the upper row of ruffles) is 10 cm.

The pattern can be found on B.hooked crochet page or on Ravelry – click the link below:

Crocheted ruffled bootee pattern

Broccoli and Cauliflower Soup

by Irish Bees Don't Do Mondays, posted in Baking, Crochet

I made a lovely big pot of soup.

It’s a colour only bogey men would love but it’s smells and tastes great.

Or Gracie  (just joking, she must have been thinking of FISH here).

Roasted Cauliflower and Broccoli Soup

  • 2 middle sized bags of frozen mixed cauliflower and broccoli florets, DEFROSTED overnight, spread out on a baking tray, spritzed generously with Fry Light and sprinkled with a little garlic powder and turmeric.
  • Bake for 30 mins on 180º.
  • Fry a couple of onions (I use Coconut oil because I know it is magic and will make me immortal).
  • Add all the cauliflower and broccolli to the fried onions and continue to fry.
  • Stir in 1600 ml of stock (I like Kallo organic vegetable stock cubes and used 4).
  • Up to you, but I added some more garlic powder, some black pepper, some turmeric, a little hot chilli powder and a little medium curry powder.
  • Leave to simmer for about 30 mins.
  • Blend – I use a regular hand blender that does the job easily – and blend it till it’s smooth.

Serve with crusty granary bread – I popped a large granary cob in the oven to warm it through and it tasted like freshly-cooked bread.

Gracie having another nap.

I also made a couple of crochet roses:

The scalloped roses (the orange and grey ones) came from a pattern on Attic24’s blog https://attic24.typepad.com/weblog/may-roses.html and the pale lilac coiled rose came from Pink Milk’s blog http://www.pink-milk.co.uk/2013/11/coiled-rose-crochet-pattern.html

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Crochet Flower Posy Pretties

by Irish Bees Don't Do Mondays, posted in Crochet

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These flowers and the Silver Ragwort came from ‘100 Lace Flowers to Crochet’ by Caitlin Sainio. 

The small flower is one of Attic24’s flower patterns and is very sweet.

The little spiral or noodle can be found by Googling – there are so many ‘patterns’out there to make them.

The Hibiscus pattern is here: Hibiscus

The web site pattern has a much twistier, witch’s hat hibidcuspistil and gorgeously wispy, curly hairy things  coming out the end. Mine’s a bit of a hairy foot wart and needs refining but it was my first go. 

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Crochet sheep for Yarndale charity appeal

by Irish Bees Don't Do Mondays, posted in Chatting, Crochet

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This sheep fellow is off to Skipton in Yorkshire, to join a huge flock of sheep to be sold to raise money for the Martin House Hospice – a Yorkshire-based charity that supports the care of terminally ill children.

Full details about Yarndale, the hospice and the crochet / knitting patterns for the sheep can be found here:

Yarndale

Or go to Attic24’s blog – Lucy’s blog – the lady who worked out the sheepy pattern. She has the pattern and photos to help stitch it all together.

Attic24

Crochet curled roses

by Irish Bees Don't Do Mondays, posted in Crochet

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These coiled roses use up oddments of yarn and are very easy.

Round 1: Make a chain of around 25 – 30, for  a small one, 30 – 40 for a medium or 40 to 50 for a large.

Round 2: Make a DC into the fourth chain from the hook, then a DC into every chain back to the beginning

Round 3: Chain 2, then * 1 Dc into next stitch, 2 DC into next* to the end of the row

Round 4: Change the colour yarn to contrast with the main colour then * Chain 1, SC next, Ch 1* to the end

Finish off

Curl the crochet into roses and use the yarn tails to weave them into place – all done.

xoxoxo