Are you taking part in The Making Spot crochet along? I’m so taking part, I’m done! Over the Bank Holiday weekend I finished the bracelet and I really, really, really like it. Thank you to The Making Spot for introducing me to tiny crochet hooks and crochet thread!
The nitty gritty of my bracelet:
- The bracelet design I chose from the four given in the pattern, is Bracelet with Crocheted Balls. You can find the pattern on the Coats Crafts UK website here.
- I used Aida 10 crochet thread in silver grey and a 1.5 mm crochet hook
- In the end I didn’t use the monofilament thread and diamante clasp you can see in this post, but went for my first choice of 3 mm silver ribbon to thread the balls and glass beads.
Not only is The Making Spot hosting the crochet along, you can also take part in The Big Flower Swap:
If you’re not content with sharing a photo of your finished crochet online, why not send it into us here at Crochet Along HQ? We’ll send you someone else’s flower so you will receive some pretty petals in the post! Before the swap ends and we post back your blooms, we’ll photograph everyone’s flowers in a DIY Crochet Flower garden.
To join in the Big Flower Swap: crochet one or several flowers from the free pattern, and post them (along with a stamped, self-addressed envelope) to: Crochet Along, The Making Spot, Future Publishing, Bath BA1 2BW, England.
I made the big flower from the necklace pattern and posted it this morning. It would be great if one of my blog readers receive my flower, and even greater if I receive one of your flowers!
So here is my bracelet for the crochet along, and flower for The Big Flower Swap. It’s been an education working with crochet thread and a small hook, and I love it! (I loved it so much I already have a plan to crochet rosebud earrings to match my bracelet. )
The crochet along runs until the 28th of September, so you still have loads of time to crochet a bracelet and/or necklace and flower(s) for the swap.
One CAL done, another one to start: The theme for Rachell’s crochet along (working our way through Jan Eaton’s 200 Crochet Blocks book) has been decided on: Cottage Garden. I’m so happy! My stash is filled with cottage garden shades! Starting 1 September we are making block no. 1 and no. 2 from the book. All the information about this CAL is on Rachell’s blog.
So many things to get my hooks into! Love it!
crochetime 
TY for the link.
I really like your bracelet! I might have to check out that CAL
As if you don’t have enough CAL-ling going on already! 🙂
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Love your bracelet! 😀
Just one question about CAL.
Can I just crochet the flower and not the necklace or bracelet?
I enjoy making flowers and would love to do the swap with other crafters 😀
Thanks ❤
Hi Khin. I think you can, yes. The Making Spot people wouldn’t know whether you’ve made a bracelet or necklace or not, they just get the flower in the post and that’s that. go for it!
Yay! Okay, thanks so much 😀 I’ll be making some (:
May be I’ll get lucky and get your flower 😀
Meee too.. but I have sooo many things on the go at the moment.. but CALS are a like puddings.. always room for more!
Take good care
Helen x
I agree Helen! Heaven forbid we are left out when a CAL is going on somewhere in the world!
So organised! Great work however. Hope to get around to it soon but time does have a habit of running away with itself! Should take a leaf from your book!!
Blimey how did you get your rose to turn out right! I cannot get my head round this pattern! Argh!
Hi Hannah. The pattern is a bit tricky. You do the 3 chains, then the 9 hdt in the first chain to form a ring. The sentence that says “Work in spirals, inserting hook only in back loop sof the preceding row” is your instructions for Rnd 2 and Rnd 3. You are basically increasing the size of your circle, but doing so by only making stitches in the back loops. When you then turn your work, you crochet anti clockwise from what you’ve just done. (As if you’re at the end of a row and need to go back.) Know what I mean? Row 1 and Row 2 from this point onwards you then do in the ridge that was formed when you only crocheted in the back loops earlier. In Row 1 the idea is that you have to keep going from the outer edge all way to the centre of your disk, in htr’s. Row 2 is where you make the petals on top of all the htr’s you did in row 1. It only really looks like a flower at this point. So to summarize what they ask you to do is to make a disk consisting of stitches in the back loops only. Then when you flip that disk over, you have a outer edge and ridge of stitches into which you make htr’s so that it looks like a spiral. Then you make the petals, starting from the centre of your spiral working it’s way back to the outer edge. I hope this helps!
Thanks for the tips! I’m going to give it another go next week so hopefully my second attempt will be more successful!
So pretty! I’ve just hopped over there to get the pattern!
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Congrats on your beautiful lilac Rose and winning! You go girl.
Happy hooking!
Alet
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