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March spring tokens

 

In Romania, every year in March, boys offer red+white little accessories to girls, to celebrate the spring coming. It is called "Martisor" . Girls wear these little gifts throughout month of March by attaching them to their blouse, or as bracelet. We wear them thinking it will bring spring into our hearts as well! 

Here are the photos of some of the designs that I came up with this year. Each little crochet flower is around 4-5 cm in diameter, and is created in cotton yarn.

 

Try the pattern for the white gerbera crochet flower:

 

R1: (red) 4 CH, SL ST to create a circle.

R2: (red) 3 CH, 11 DC in the ring, SL ST in the 3rd CH from beginning of row. Now we have 12 DC.

R3: (white) 1 CH, 1 SC in same place, {2 CH, skip 1 DC from row below, 1 SC in next DC} 5 times, 2 CH, SL ST in first SC from beginning of row.

R4: (white) SL ST in first space from the 2 CH of row below, {1CH, 1SC, 2 CH, 1 TR, 3 DTR, 1TR, 2 CH, 1 SC, 1 CH} in same space of 2 CH from row below, SL ST in next space of 2 CH from row below; repeat 5 times { }.

Cut the yarn and then hide the leftovers with the hook.

Legend: chain stitch (CH), slip stitch (SL ST), simple crochet (SC), double crochet (DC), treble crochet (TR), double treble crochet (DTR) (quadruple)

 

You can find more patterns for little flowers in this document here. Click to download it.

 

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The Cardigan

 

During my knitting phase, I decided to make this cardigan for late autumn time. Its beauty comes from colors and not from my knitting technique which is that of a beginner. There it is. The size is for 3 year olds, although Damian was just 2 years and 3 months old and around 97 cm tall. Enjoy also the pictures of Damian wearing it .

These are the main steps in how I made it:

  • first I created the body in one piece without any borders, endings; that was added later on; when I got to the underarm I split the one piece material I had so far into 3 pieces and knitted each one separately; I did not decrease anything for the underarm; its all straight, so at the end of this phase I had one rectangular sort of material; also I did not decrease anything for the neck;

  • then I knitted the two arms separately; Again I did not decrease anything from the shoulder to the wrist; so I had again 2 pieces of rectangular materials;

  • I made the endings for both sleeves using 2 knit - 2 purl  model and also decreasing in the first row a few points;

  • I carefully sewed with a big needle the shoulders and then continuing with attaching the two sleeves to the body and then from the underarm continued sewing until the wrist;

  • Then I made the hood starting from the forehead part so to say,  and keeping the material as a rectangle until covering the whole neck part; then I started decreasing one eye in each row until there were only 5 left;

  • After that I made the ending (or the beginning) of the hood with gray color;

  • Now I sewed the hood to the body;

  • I made the ending for the body identical in model to the one for the sleeves;

  • Then I made the ending for the front of the cardigan; in one part I made little wholes for the red buttons to fit in;

  • In the very end I made the pompom using 2 circular paper cut pieces. 

Is there such a thing as a crochet machine?

 

I asked myself this very question one day and I started searching for one on the internet. And surprise, I could not really find a crochet machine. It seems though that there are machines that can make lace or crocheted edgings, such as meter long edgings.  But these work with lots of hooks/needles and are far from resembling the classic crochet hook you and I know. Obviously there are automated knitting machines out there for the textile industry, but a machine to imitate crochet as we know it manually, are not. Or, at least I could not locate any.

 

For me this means that the art of crochet remains something unique, made exclusively by the human hand. So, if we see and know how to recognize a crochet item in a store at the mall we must think that somewhere in the world there was someone who created, worked, put heart and soul in that thing. 

This, I dare say, should make us appreciate more the artisan shops, because they are still trying to keep alive a piece of tradition, human creation and art.

 

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My Idea

 

What if some of the talented people that know how to handcraft, crochet, knit, sew etc (as the possibilities are endless) were to produce their creations for more than personal use,  I mean for sale. I dare to think that this can be a highly unused potential of human creation in a highly standardized market. Although one can buy accessories and clothes at very low prices nowadays due to automation and globalization, we lost one thing: uniqueness.

 

There is something special about handmade items as they all have a story behind them, they are not just things, and I like to think that they have a tiny piece of the soul of the person that created them. 

 

Crocheting  is a hobby for me that I do with pleasure as this offers me satisfaction to be able to create useful things that cannot be found at the mall. You are invited to see my creations on the Home tab.

 
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