The beads and diamonds pattern has been on my radar for several years now. I thought it would make a wonderful recycled plastic bag project. I wanted to recycle the black plastic bags that I have for the project. I have been saving black bags up in hopes of having enough to crochet the complete pattern, but sadly I didn’t have enough.
So I added some of the pink salmon plastic bags that newspapers come in. It added a nice contrast allowing me to finish the bag. I did have to shorten the top due to the lack of black plastic bags.
Many people ask me about the yardage when using recycled bags as plarn. These black retail-sized bags results were: 4 bags cut 3/4″ wide = 50 yards of plarn.
The free crochet pattern is found here. The original pattern is written for regular acrylic yarn or cotton so if crocheting with plastic bags isn’t your thing, use something else.
Here is one more photo of the bag hanging up.
I crocheted these round ripple dishcloths using up some scraps of cotton I had. The flowered center uses 7.5 yards of cotton so it is a great way to use up those bits of cotton yarn. The two dishcloths were crocheted using one 2 ounce ball of Sugar n’ Cream ombres yarn in pink lilacs colorway.
The crochet pattern used is Julle’s blue ribbon round ripple dishcloth. I crocheted the dishcloths using the smaller option cloth from the pattern. Using the smaller option, my dishcloths are 9.5 inches wide using a G (4.25 mm) crochet hook.
Total yardage for the dishcloth including trim is
This is a new teddy bear pattern that I have been working on. I wanted to create a pattern that was crocheted all in the round that was simple and quick with less seams and fewer joins. After several test bears and tweaks to the crochet pattern, I present In the Round Teddy Bear!
Please enjoy the free crochet pattern and a big thanks to TeaLover (Jan) from Ravelry who was so kind and patient with me as I developed this pattern. She was extremely helpful with her knowledge and crochet skills helping me perfect this pattern. It is our hope that this pattern will comfort and bless each child who receives a bear made from the pattern.
In the Round Teddy Bear pattern
8.5 inch tall bear with Red Heart Super Saver (RHSS) yarn
G (4 mm) hook
Pattern uses less than 2 ounces of total yarn (RHSS = 1.7 ozs) and is written in US crochet terms.
Legs:
Rnd 1: Chain 8, turn and SC down chain, work 2 SC in end, SC around the corner working on the other side of the chain, work 2 SC in the last stitch. (16 SC sts)
Do not join. This pattern is worked in the round without chaining, joining or turning unless otherwise directed. Place a stitch marker to mark beginning of round if desired.
Rnd 2-10: SC in each stitch. (16 SC) Leave a tail to join legs at crotch. Make 2 legs, on the 2nd leg don’t FO yarn.
Position the two legs next to each other, so that the yarn tail of the first leg is between the two legs and the working yarn of the 2nd leg is to the side.
Use the tail of the first leg to join the 2 legs together at front center at crotch. Use a yarn needle to stitch 2-3 joining stitches of the two legs together at center. Don’t stitch too tightly, as you need to work into these on the next round. (see photo below)
Just finishing up my Christmas in July mini stockings for this years’ Warmth for Warriors drive. Here are my last two stockings for the month.
I wanted to do a little experiment using the BLO mini Christmas stocking pattern. The stocking on the left was crocheted in back loops only (BLO). The one on the right was crocheted through both loops using the same pattern. They are both 6 inches long but the one crocheted through both loops is a bit wider.
Here is the link to the free crochet pattern for the
This is my first time tie-dyeing a t-shirt. This was a backyard fun event that our Women’s Bible study held for a summer get-together. You need a 100% cotton t-shirt and tie-dye paints. One of the ladies provided the paints, rubberbands, plastic bags and racks to do the dyeing.
You pinch and rolled up the creased shirt from the middle at the center. Here is the rolled up t-shirt with rubberbands around it to hold in place. I used different colors of paint to decorate my t-shirt. I just followed directions and didn’t really know how it would turn out.
After painting the rolled shirt, you put it into a sealed plastic bag for 2 days. Here is my shirt inside my bag.
After 2 days, I put rubber gloves on and did the cold water rinse, followed by a hot water rinse in a big pot in the kitchen sink. Then I took off the rubberbands and opened up the t-shirt. Wow is an understatement when I saw it revealed. It turned out so cool! After more rinsing and once the water ran clearish, I hung up my t-shirt to dry.
Here is a photo of the finished product.
I crocheted this cotton star kitchen set as part of a bridal shower gift. The star dishcloth is one of my original free dishcloth patterns found here. I created this dishcloth pattern back in the summer of 2008. I can’t believe it was already 17 years ago!
I added a diagonal potholder to match the dishcloth. I used the double-thick diagonal hotpad free pattern that is a wonderful classic pattern found here. I like to chain 34 stitches to start to crochet a hotpad that is just over 6 inches wide.
Below is a closeup photo of the star dishcloth.
I crocheted another round ripple lovey for the local hospital. This lovey is crocheted by chaining 24 single crochet stitches around a ponytail tie to start. This creates the hole for inserting a store bought animal.
I generally follow the round ripple pattern written by Aggie May to crochet the lovey. I crocheted 3 rounds in pink and then white yarn for 11 rounds. At round 12, I crocheted 2 rounds in pink, then one more double crochet (DC) round
Here is a cute new teddy bear pattern I crocheted. It’s a free pattern at Blumenbunt blogspot. The pattern is available in English and German. Here is the direct link for the English version of the Easy-Peasy Teddy Bear pattern.
Here is the first one-piece bear I crocheted using the pattern as written.
I found my edges difficult to keep straight but you really can’t tell once it is stitched together and turned inside out. So next I crocheted the pattern a second time but in two pieces. I didn’t leave the arms connected on this one as shown in the photo below.
Here is the final product of the 2 piece teddy bear.
I had a yearning to crochet some cotton dishcloths the last few days. I have a big bag of cotton scraps and the Magnolia Mandala crochet pattern is just perfect for using some of it.
I only crocheted through round 8 as I wanted smaller dishcloths. These can also be used as pretty hotpads too. For these first two, I used a G (4 mm) crochet hook which resulted in a 8.5 inch wide dishcloth.
Here is the second crocheted Mandala scrappy dishcloth in teals.
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