homemade@myplace

In the last two weeks, I've started a couple of projects (both crochet and knitting) and I've completed one of them ... It all started back in Italy, when in a grocery store I found some crochet magazines ... One of them had only patterns from DROPS Design and a shawl caught my attention ( here), but I had to wait to go back to Maputo to start to crochet, as I don't travel, usually, with my yarn stash !!! ;oD Yes, the right yarn was waiting for me in a basket in my studio/dining room in Mozambique ... When back in Africa, just two days from our return, I started to crochet away one of the 21 ( and 7 halves!) motifs needed for my shawl-to-be .... The central motif is given by a simple flower, surrounded by a thick circular frame ... that is included in a square made from chains .... I didn't follow the instructions blindly, as they were telling me to crochet all the motifs first and then sew them together, when the crochet work was done ......

Why??? Well, I need to crochet some flags (not big, for a bunting) for an upcoming event in school : International Day !!!! Being Italian, I have to think about a decoration good for all Europe, so I thought about some blue european flags…. No problem to crochet the flags : a rectangle is fast done with some single or double crochets, but the Europe flag has in its centre a circle made of stars…. So I started a research on Pinterest for a crochet pattern including both a circle and a rectangle, but no luck…. sigh! I found, instead, patterns for circles in squares….. Then, I decided to develop one of this patterns into a rectangle : I obtained what I needed !!!! ….. still need to think about the stars to embroider on my blue flags, but I think some little straight stitches will do !!!! ;oD WHAT DO YOU NEED ??? a hook :   4mm for my yarn. Choose the right hook for the yarn you intend to use for your   rectangles!!! yarn :  I've worked two strands together of ...