homemade@myplace

Hi my dear friends!! I have to apologize for my long absence from the blog, but we had a lot of problems with internet (will they ever stop????) and my laptop is almost dead, so I'm using the one of my husband... This is even the reason, you will find me more often on Instagram, as you need just a photo and a little caption.... the right solution for me, at least for the moment! I really miss my blogging activity, but my internet reality is not easy! Anyway, I did a photo tutorial for you and I hope you will love it!!! It's all about my mini mandalas (shown for the first time HERE) and they look like the followings I think you got the idea, right? ;oD WHAT YOU NEED: some colourful yarns from your personal stash. I was using acrylic leftovers from other projects and still have some, so other decorations are on the way!!!! a hook, in my specific case : a 4mm hook a pair of scissors a yarn needle a tape measure some stitch markers (op...

I left you, some days ago, with an "unfinished business" ( here).... But everything is done now!!! I don't know you, but I cannot find a joining method that I really like for diamonds. I've been browsing around, via Pinterest and various blogs, but nothing really convinces me ... I think that next time I'm going to use diamonds, I will finish them with a round of single crochets (US crochet terminology!) and then I will join them with a simple whip stitch, maybe in contrasting colour ... will see ! This time, btw, I decided to leave the edges of my diamonds rough and I joined them with slip stitches .... there is a little bit of overlapping, but this creates some 3D effect that I don't dislike .... When all sewn/crocheted together, this is what I got ... Then, I collected a wooden rod and some bits&bobs from my box of crochet/knitting tries and I made a panel of colourful diamonds .... a close up at the not s...

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 ...