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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...

A friend of mine asked me to crochet her a cover for her terracotta water dispenser .... I never did that before .... I checked on Pinterest to find some inspiration ... almost nothing ... I asked my friend to take some measures (circumference, diameter and height) and knowing that she loves the blue&green combo, I started to crochet a circle for the top ... I've been using some turquoise yarn from my stash and a 4mm hook and my design involved some filet crochet !!! As the subject was "water" (and because of the colour selection), I decided to consider some fish to crochet on the cover ... The fish pattern was taken from Betty Barnden's FILET CROCHET and I adapted it (on a piece of paper with small squares) accordingly with my needs (number of stitches, groups and spaces) ... ... and after some rounds, I started to see the fish ... The thing is that, because starting to crochet from the top to the bottom, you have to ...

….. It has been a long time without a patterns or photo tutorials from me…. Sorry for that, but I didn't have honestly the time or the mind set for all that !!!! ;oD Today I can show you what happened to my  colourful and stripy piece of fabric  …… … Yes !!!! It turned out as a bright and cheerful placemat ( Tobia and Matteo want one both!) …. I didn't put down a proper pattern to follow, but I can give you some directions, if interested !!! Using a 2,5 mm hook, I decided to chain 110 chains+3 more (as my first double crochet for the beginning of the first row) for the foundation row and the first 2 rows (in red) are made of double crochets (please remember that I follow US crochet terminology!). Then I added pink at the beginning of the 3rd row (without cutting the red thread) : with this colour, instead, I worked 2 rows of single crochets. At the end of the 4th row, I cut the pink thread and reused the red one, working other 2 more rows of double crochets! The...