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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...

.... 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...

Hi girls!!!!! The time flies very quickly while busy in making a lot of gifts for family and friends in occasion of the coming Christmas ..... next week!!!!! So I was absent from Blogland, but I had to in favour of the "present" commitment!!!! ;oD I had taken a lot of pictures of all my works, but I'll show you just a few, ok ??? As you can remember ( HERE ), I was knitting a scarf with stripes (the Long Striped Scarf, from Fiona Goble's knitting book Scarves and Cowls, 36 quick and stylish knits ) .... .... and from the same book, in the meantime, I knitted even the Pompom Scarf , that is like the following .... .... and I tell you, they are so different and so beautiful together ... I crocheted a couple of necklaces, too ! The pattern is the same (my own design!), but I did use two different kind of yarns, so two different sizes of hooks .... YOU CAN FOUND THESE BUTTONS  HERE  !!!! ... and I made another one with buttons and bea...