homemade@myplace

Hi there!!!! It seems I`m not able (or can`t find the time) to be here more regurarly, and I`m sorry for that, as I really love this place of mine... anyway, I made another pattern to share with you all! The idea came to me last year, while working on triangle motifs to figure out a simple heart.. this came out very elongated and I decided to use it for a silly hat, good for both Valentine`s Day and the italian Carnevale, at the end of February...!!! This ridiculous hat is a very quick make and I like the fact it doesn`t need to be stiffened to hold its point up!!! The hat is made of 3 panels (1 upside-down heart and 2 triangles), worked using DC (= British tr) stitches and joined as you go (no sewing involved). The upside-down heart is kept on the back of your head when wearing the hat, as you can see from the above picture : there is a kind of tail along my neck on the left selfie of my collage ! WHAT YOU NEED : YARN : King Cole BIG VALUE chunky, 100g, 100% premium...

I know spring is approaching, so I was thinking of a pair of light fingerless gloves with a small old far west lure ... What do you think, are you in, too ? The construction is very simple : you need to crochet 2 basic granny squares and then embellish them with some colourful fringes !!! I crocheted them in just one afternoon !!!! WHAT YOU NEED I've been working with : a 4 mm hook a 50 g acrylic yarn ball from  Filatura Cervinia CAPRICE  shade denim blue (gloves) small amount of  Sirdar COUNTRY STYLE wool blend DK  shade 397 periwinkle ( for top/bottom/thumb borders) small amount of  TIGER garn/yarn (plied) ,  Sirdar Wash'n'Wear Double Crepe DK  shade Original Denim,  CHARITY Double Knit Pullskein  shade 011 silver grey and  Filati Cervinia CAPRICE  shade orange (fringes) a pair of scissors a yarn needle Please remember that I follow the US crochet termilogy, thank you ! You need to know how to crochet...

In February, I made my first triangular scarf ( HERE) ... .... and yesterday I completed a new one !!!! I decided to follow the same pattern used for the previous scarf, but selecting a different colours scheme, more bluish .... Using the same circular knitting needles (4,5mm), I started my project with a royal blue (found in my yarn stash) from SIRDAR "Wash'n'Wear" DK double crepe and I chose other yarns to add later on ... It was a calm knitting, as I used to knit some rows each time (very rare!) I was getting bored with my crochet projects (yes, more than one at a time!) ... When the royal blue was gone (no more from my stash), I decided to join (look HERE) the new colour ( ROWAN RYC cotton jeans, shade 363 blue wash, 2 balls) ... After this shade, I decided to add few rows (I ended my work at row 220) of SIRDAR Snuggly DK shade 0385 twisted blue ... and off the knitting needles ... Honestly, even though I love blues, ...