Granny Square In Bloom pattern

04 Sunday Aug 2013

Posted by Natasja in My crochet, Pattern, Photo Tutorial

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crochet flower, crochet pattern, free crochet pattern

Here is the Granny Square in Bloom pattern, as used in Liezel’s cushion that I blogged about here.

If you click on the picture, it will open as a PDF document which you can print. The PDF contains step by step photos. The pattern also appears on the Photo Tutorials tab of this blog.

If you don’t need step by step photos, here is the written pattern. I use US crochet terms*:

With colour A chain 5, slip stitch in first chain to form a ring.

Round 1: Chain 1, 8 SC in ring, slip stitch in chain. 8 SC

Round 2: Chain 1, 2 SC in each SC, slip stitch in chain. 16 SC. Fast off colour A.

Round 3: Join colour B. Chain 3 (count as DC.) *Popcorn stitch, 1 DC* Repeat from * to *. Join with slip stitch in chain. Fasten off colour B.

Round 4: Join colour C to any Popcorn stitch. Chain 1, 2 SC in same stitch. *Long SC in DC, 2 SC in Popcorn* Repeat from * to *. Join with slip stitch in chain. 24 SC. Fasten off colour C.

Round 5: Join colour D to any Long SC. Chain 3 (count as DC). 8 DC in same stitch (9 DC shell made). *Skip 2 SC. 9 DC shell in Long SC.* Repeat from * to *. Join with slip stitch to chain. Fasten off colour D.

Round 6: Join colour E to SC of round 4. You will need to fold over the shells of round 5 in order to reach the SC of round 4. Chain 3 (count as DC). DC in same stitch. DC in next SC. *Chain 2, 2 DC, 1 DC*. Repeat from * to *. Join with slip stitch to chain.

Round 7: Chain 4 (count as DC plus 1 chain). *3 DC, 2 chain, 3DC* in chain 2 space of round 6. Corner shell made. 1 Chain. 3 DC in chain 2 space of round 6. Shell made. 1 Chain. Continue working *corner shell, 1 chain, shell, 1 chain* around in each 2 chain space of round 6. Join with slip stitch to chain.

Round 8: Continue working shells in chain 1 spaces and corner shells in chain 2 spaces around, each shell seperated by 1 chain.

I hope you enjoy making your Granny Square in Bloom squares. The pattern is in the Ravelry pattern database, so please link your projects so that I can see what you make!!

*Shelley has translated the US crochet terms into UK / Australian terms over on her blog. You will find it here.

Granny Square In Bloom cushion

04 Sunday Aug 2013

Posted by Natasja in My crochet, My ramblings, Pattern, Ta-daah!

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crochet, crochet cushion, crochet flower, free crochet pattern, granny square

You know that square motif I’ve been telling you about that had me so excited? Well, here it is. It’s called Granny Square In Bloom.

I used the squares to make a cushion for my very good friend Liezel, as a birthday present (you can see her photography blog here).

She reads this blog and follows me on Instragram so I couldn’t post regular photo updates. I gave her the cushion yesterday which means I can finally reveal it to my lovely blog readers. The cushion was a huge hit! I’m so glad that I could make her happy with something handmade.

Liezel went home and took these photos of the cushion in it’s new home.

As you can see, she has a bird theme for the cushions on her bed. I wanted to stick to her theme, so I used three Red Robbin buttons. Aren’t they cute?!

Nitty-gritty of the cushion:

Yarn: Stylecraft Cotton Classique in White, Rowan Handknit cotton in Ice Water, Raspberry, Linen and China Rose.
Crochet hook: 3.5 mm
Pattern for the front: Eight traditional granny squares of 4 rounds each in white, finished off with a row of SC. (Each of the four colours were used for two squares.) Plus the eight 3-dimensional flower squares which are my own design. I call it Granny Square in Bloom squares. The pattern is available for free on the Photo Tutorials tab, in this blog post and also on Ravelry. I didn’t add a row of SC on the flower squares.
Pattern for the back: Traditional granny square of 19 rounds. Each colour round is seperated with two white rounds. I edged the granny square with SC in Linen.
Construction: The 16 squares which together forms the front, and the three side seams were sewed together with a slip stitch seam as described here on the Simply Crochet website. For the opening I slip stitch-joined up to the first shell on each side so that it would form neat corners.
Inner: Microfibre 16″ inner bought from Design-a-Cushions. Design-a-Cushions recommend purchasing an inner one inch bigger than your cover. I therefor made sure my covers were 15″ squared. Doing it this way gives you a perfect puffy cushion. I can highly recommend Design-a-Cushions. They are my favourite cushion inner supplier in the UK.
Red Robin Button: Natural Shell Zakka buttons that I bought on eBay from this seller.

I thoroughly enjoyed designing the square, knowing that my friend will be the very first person to own something made in that design. Liezel, I hope you have the sweetest of dreams when you’re resting your pretty head on the cushion.

Lots of love

Jou maatjie, Natasja

Terrific Tuesday

26 Tuesday Mar 2013

Posted by Natasja in Terrific Tuesdays, Yarnbombing

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crochet, crochet flower, Genoa, holiday, Intrecci Urbani, Italy

On a Monday I can still remember the fun I had over the weekend, Wednesday is the middle of the work week, on Thursday I start getting hopeful and on a Friday I can taste the weekend. But what about a Tuesday? It’s so…. just there. Weekend memories are too far away and the upcoming weekend might as well be a year away.

What we need is a bit of colourful inspiration to get us going on a Tuesday, don’t you think? A pretty picture, beautiful scenery or colourful imagery. Yup, that’ll liven up Tuesdays and turn it into a terrific day!

From now on I will go through my photos and Pinterest likes every Tuesday and find us a pretty picture to add colour and joy to the day.

xxxxxx

A close-up of one of the yarnbomb pieces I saw at Intrecci Urbani on Friday.

Such a cheery image, isn’t it?

Wishing you all a Terrific Tuesday.

Natasja

A Valentine from me to you

06 Monday Feb 2012

Posted by Natasja in My crochet, My ramblings

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competition, crochet flower, giveaway

Without Valentine’s Day, February would be… well, January. – Jim Gaffigan

So true Jim. February won’t be February without a mention of Valentines Day, and here at crocheTime, I’m jumping on the bandwagon by giving away a Valentines Day gift to a lucky reader.

To say a HUGE thank you to everyone who follow me and my hooky ways, I’m giving away this set of flowery brooches.

All you have to do is subscribe to the blog by midnight GMT 13 February. As easy as that!

You can subscribe by going to the top right hand side of the page and enter your email address where it says “Click to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 80 other followers”.

The 80 followers I already have, will also be entered into the draw.

I’ll be using the www.random.org random number generator to select the lucky blog subscriber. I’ll post the result on Valentines Day on the blog and the Facebook page.

Good luck hookers!

Crochet flowers pattern as seen in Mollie Makes

23 Tuesday Aug 2011

Posted by Natasja in My ramblings

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crochet, crochet flower, Mollie Makes

I adore crochet. I adore flowers. I adore bright colours. Ergo I totally freaked out when I saw the cover of Mollie Makes issue 3!

Luckily I am already subscribed to this fantastic magazine so I have the pattern for the flowers. However…. if you don’t have Mollie Makes magazine lying around, but would love to put hook to wool for one of these lovely flowers designed by Annie of AnnieDesign, you can visit The Guardian’s website for the pattern tutorial! How cool is that?! Just visit The Guardian’s site here.