Crochet Snowflake Christmas Decorations

Just learnt to make these snowflakes from a pattern in Mollie Makes Magazine.  They are supposed to be the decoration for some gloves but I think they make great decorations for the Christmas Tree or maybe a snowflake garland.

 

 It's a treble round, and the icicle parts are 3 x chains together.  I modified the pattern to make the chain in the middle to be 6 stitch chain in between two 4 stitch chains. 

Crochet Crazy and crochet cushion covers

Craig's cushion: One side red in trebble, other side squares

 I've gone a bit crochet crazy lately.  Think it's the dark evenings that are setting it off.


To start with I've been making a crochet cushion cover for my friend Craig.  One side was fine - I managed to get to the desired 14.5" but when I got to the other side I ran out of wool.


I've just learnt to do single colour crochet squares as I'd love to have a patchwork blanket.  Craig saw these and thought they'd really work as a side to his cushion cover.


He was right, I threaded them together and it really worked.


The only hitch is I've been stitching the sides together with a double crochet stitch in navy blue and it looks lovely and neat one side, but the back side of the stitches not so neat.




I had the epiphany in a dream - yes maybe I am doing a bit too much crochet right now!


Why not edge both sides in blue double crochet stitch and then stitch the sides together - that way the good side of the double crochet will be seen on all sides.




And here it is, edged on both sides with a double crochet stitch.



I then stitched the sides together with a tapestry needle.


But just as I'd finished stitching the sides together I noticed that I'd stitched the red side back to front. Craig was visiting that evening and he actually preferred to have the underside of the squares showing, so I just turned it inside out and let Craig choose his buttons for the fastening at the bottom.


Finally, I made three crochet chains to fasten the buttons with and there you have it, the finished piece of work.



It was really nice to present it to Craig.  It's been a good few months work in the evenings after work and it is the largest crochet project I have worked on so far.


It's crazy to think I only taught myself to crochet with the help of You Tube 10 months ago.