homemade@myplace

….. I still didn't share with you my first try with tapestry crochet ( it's a photo tutorial, so just a little bit of patience and then I'll show you what's all about!!!! ;oD) and today you are going to read (just a little bit) about my second project, well documented through some pics (more than a little bit!) !!!! It all started the last weekend, just from scratch…. I've with me some selected yarns from my stash (just few balls to work with in the meantime, while living in the temporary flat) and i had the desire to try to crochet a flat bag with a tapestry crochet design… After a couple of attempts, this is what I was able to create … … and these are the front and the back of the bag put together, to have an idea about the whole bag design … but from the inside !!!!! ….. This bag needs some lining ( I have the right piece of fabric in the storage place !!!!!! ) and it has reached the following measures : 43cmx35cm, good even to bring ...

In this  post  I've shown you a couple of trees and I've told you that soon I could have revealed you what idea I had for the big tree…. Today is the day!!!!!! In the meantime, I've bought a canvas (60x90cm) on which I laid some pieces of crochet, like …. ….. clouds, raindrops, grass and some old felt friends (look  here !)….. I was playing with them for a while, just to find the right composition… …..and I didn't forget these  little guys , the right ones to complete this woodland scene…. ….but I didn't want to leave the canvas in white, so I decided to use some ochre (it's what I had in my cupboard! I'm not really enthusiast about yellows, but, at the end, this was not a bad choice! Phew!) for the background… ….then….I just wanted to cry!!!! Honestly : do you imagine what does it mean to sew all this stuff on a canvas????? Note that the back wooden frame is quite annoying in projects like ...