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At the end of THIS POST I wrote that I had some leftovers from my t-shirt yarn and some royal blue to try .... I did!!!! I started with the royal blue ... some trivets.... For the granny circle, I just followed a free pattern from Kotbury , HERE !!! Both the granny square and the granny triangle, instead, I remembered the patterns by heart (I think I made so many of these in the last years!!!) and I worked only 3 rounds for each. The borders, in all 3 samples, are made of single crochet stitches (US crochet terminology) and the picots are made with 5 chains each! Then I made two necklaces ! The first one was even shown in my Instagram account ... I crocheted a long chain with the blue and the red together, then I made some tassels out of some cotton threads from Bali and I knotted them around the foundation chain and .... voila' !!!! The second necklace had less t-shirt yarn available, so the design had to be slightly different, e...

In February I started a small, but industrious project, which I completed before the Easter weekend ...   I had a big (500g !) yarn ball in silver (from Robin DK 500g ) and I wanted to use it since a long time, so I collected a pile of crochet patterns books from my bookcase and I started to browse trough them all ... It didn't take a long time to find the right pattern. I wanted something different and challenging in various ways... First, I never tried a ripple pattern before, NEVER ! Unbelievable, if you think how easy it is and how common it is between the blankets makers!! There is always a first time, right? The other thing that I was dreading was to start a long foundation chain for the blanket to be, but the pattern I found didn't need one!!!! How great was that!!! You "just" need to crochet "some" circles to start your blanket : I know, this could be a time consuming task, but it made my blanket special ! Worth it!   The pattern...

.... and here it is : my first post of the year!!!! I'm happy to be back, after a long Christmas break in Italy and some fun on Instagram !!!! ;oD As you remember ( here ), I made some handmade gifts for friends and family members and today I've decided to share one of the patterns with you : did you like the crocheted necklaces ??? They were both gifted : one to my mum (the bold turquoise one, because she has beautiful blue eyes) and one to her sister, aka my auntie (the delicate yellow one .... not because of her eyes!!!!). I made one for me (4mm hook and yarn from Sirdar WASH'n"WEAR), too, while checking the pattern for you to follow .... You will need to crochet your own 4mm crochet hook (yellow version)/ 8mm hook (turquoise version) yarn : there are no restrictions! My yellow yarn is from KATIA MERINO BLEND (colour 19), while the turquoise yarn is from SCHACHENMAYR original MERINO SUPER BIG MIX (colour 69) a pair of scissors a yarn need...