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Crochet teacup

I sometimes wonder whether I will have enough projects to keep myself crocheting. Having no project to work on can make me nervous.

However, I'm alright for now, because I managed to come up with something new... the crochet teacup!

I figure that this will keep me busy for a while, since I have quite a lot of vintage teacups. I might even crochet cover for all the teacups in this little cupboard.

And after this, who knows... maybe a crochet bookcover or a crochet photo phrame? I say it's legit as long as it keeps me out of trouble :)

Tada!

My rippled blanket is done!

It took me nearly 4 months to finish, although I didn't work at it all the time. Sometimes just one ripple a day, and sometimes a few more.

I've really enjoyed working on this project. Ripples are just so easy and relaxing to crochet... I'm really tempted to just start another one (I know two little boys that would both love to have one).

I used mostly acrylic wool for this, only the light blue yarn is a thick cotton. Nearly 95% of the yarn that I used was thrifted, which makes for a very inexpensive blanket (although I didn't keep track of how much it cost me).

Do you want to know what Amber thinks of it?

She's happy :)

My crochet cushions

I wanted to post a photo of the latest cushion that I made this summer for a friend's wedding, but then I realised that I hadn't posted any of the others either, I believe (excuse me if I'm accidently double posting ;))

So in order of creation here are the four cushions that I crocheted in the last 16 months. They are all granny squares, because that is just so very easy to do :)

Number 1.

Number 2.

Number 3.

Number 4.

If you'd like to see some more cushions that I made you can do so here.

Krukhoes van t-shirts

In het kader van Boomie's Recykleren hier een blog over het maken van een krukhoes van gerecyclede t-shirts.

Beginnen bij het begin: de t-shirts (of in het geval van de foto hierboven: een zomerjurk) om t-shirt garen van te maken. In feite kun je allerlei kledingstukken gebruiken zolang ze maar rekbaar zijn. Knip stroken van ongeveer 2 cm breed (steekt niet zo nauw). Nog mooier is het om het shirt in stroken te snijden met een rolmes. Zie hier hoe dat werkt.

Nu heb je een voorraadje t-shirt garen. Dat alleen ziet er al heel gezellig uit, vind je niet?

Ik ga dus een hoes haken voor een krukje. Geheel in het thema van recyclen komt het krukje uit de kringloopwinkel. Het was lelijk bruin, maar nu lekker fris blauw geschilderd. Ik heb dit overigens al eens eerder gedaan, zie het resultaat hier.

Aangezien het krukje rechthoekig is, moest ik even opzoeken hoe ik een rechthoekige granny square moest beginnen... die had ik nog niet in mijn repertoire zitten :) YouTube is ook nu mijn vriend.

Daarna is het gewoon even flink doorhaken. Omdat zelfgeknipt t-shirt garen niet altijd overal even dik is, moet je af en toe flink kracht zetten bij het haken. In plaats van sereen wat handwerken is het dan even flink doorbuffelen (tong uit de mond!).

Maar het resultaat mag er zijn! Een heel gezellig kruk hoesje voor bijna niks!

Van binnen naar buiten: t-shirt van mezelf, zomerjurk van dochter, longsleeve oudste zoon, t-shirt van m'n vader en wederom mijn eigen t-shirt. It's a family affair :)

T-shirt garen is ook uitermate geschikt om vloerkleden van te haken. Dat heb ik eerder hier en hier gedaan. Ik heb deze kleden om beurten in de keuken liggen. Ze zijn super praktisch en heel makkelijk te wassen op 60 graden.

Ik hou van Recykleren en kan het iedereen aanraden om het ook eens te doen.

Ter inspiratie hier nog een aantal van mijn andere Recykleer projecten waar ik gebruik maak van een kussensloop, nog een kussensloop, pyjama & t-shirt, tuniek, theedoek, trui, nog een trui, overhemd, stropdassen en zomerjurk.

Ripples

Remember the blanket that I started at the begining of the summer holidays?

I've been steadily working on it, crocheting a few ripples nearly every day. It's a long process, but a very nice project to work on. Especially now that the evenings are cooler it's lovely to have a warm blanket sitting in my lap.

I think I'm about 75% finished now, so I'll just keep rippling for a while :)

Summer has started

Hopefully if I state it loudly and boldly enough it will actually happen as well. Come on sun... grill!! Let's bring it on!

At least the children are off school. Summer holiday started at noon today.

Here is Linus sliding into his summer vacation, a yearly tradition for the little ones.

I took the children to the film this afternoon. We saw this film and we ALL enjoyed it. Really nice.

And I started a summer crochet project: a ripple blanket. It will be about 150/200 when it's finished, so I have some way to go :)

Kitchen mat made of recycled t-shirts

Some photos of my latest crochet project that I finished the other day.

Once again I made my own yarn from old t-shirts. Nowadays, I'm using a nifty way to cut the shirts with my rotary cutter, which is not only quicker, but cuts the yarn in neater strips as well.

Crochet wave!

Little label still sticking out...

It's funny how I recognise every single fabric and know whom it belonged to... I like that...

So that was a colourful and practical project... now what?!

Weekend

Amber had her musical performance on Saturday. It was amazing to see her on stage, I'm sure I was literally beaming with pride.

Today we all took it easy. It was so cold I nearly put on the heating. We enjoyed ourselves with board & iPad games.

And I started a new crochet project, which needs to be finished by the end of the week. Busy week ahead anyway with Amber's birthday marathon, some deadlines and the usual work & children stuff.

Going round in circles...

... so I may as well crochet some.

Granny blanket

I finished my granny square blanket. Or: almost finished, since there are still about a thousand threads to weave in.

It was a very nice project to work on, perfect for winter evenings on the sofa.

I like the trimming that I came up with, as usual it was improvised. In fact, I wanted a picot edge, but I was too comfortable on above mentioned sofa to get up and check how to do that exactly. So, this is what I came up with and I'm pretty pleased with it.

The question is: do I now finish one of my many WIPs or do I start a new project?

PS. Yes, there is one mistake in the pattern... can you spot it?