Kraamcadeaus / baby gifts

It all started out with knitting the doll and mouse for my own children. Then a few years later, suddenly it hits me again. I like to make things. Then I crochet the piglet. I used a pattern made for Zpagetti and just made it out of cotton. Then I really got into it and started to make my own little stuffed toys, like the pinguin. The last thing I made is the small cardigan as a baby gift. What do you like best?

Het begon allemaal met het breien van de pop en de muis voor mijn kinderen. Toen, een paar jaar later, ging ik als kraamcadeau het varken haken, patroon geschreven voor Zpagetti en gewoon katoen gebruikt. Daarna ging ik mijn eigen kleine beestjes haken, zoals de 'pinguïn'. Ik doe dan maar iets op gevoel. En nu als laatste dat vestje en mutsje gebreid (zo schattig). Wat vinden jullie het leukste?

Crochet geeks

This is a question for the crochet geeks :-) Today I got frustrated at the shop where I buy my yarn. There is only one in Delft and I tried to ask my question, but the lady would not listen.

She pointed out that I should have made a test piece (I never do that,do you?) and that my work could never be any good since I did not do that.

Well what my problem is: according to the pattern I have to crocher rows 17 until 20 over and over again. But maybe you can see that row 16 has 10 dc bundels and row 20 has 12 dc bundels. So if you want to crochet row 17 on row 20, it will never work. How would you solve that?

Vandaag heb ik een vraag voor de haakpro's onder ons. Ik geef toe dat ik geen proeflapje heb gehaakt en dat mijn werk wat kleine uitvalt dan bedoeld (maar daar ging het me nu niet om). Ik werd net in de wolwinkel weggestuurd omdat ik geen proeflapje had gehaakt en dus geen recht van spreken had (in het kort gezegd dan). Maar goed, in dit patroon is de bedoeling dat je rij 17 t/m 20 steeds blijft herhalen. Echter, rij 16 heeft 10 stokjesbundels en rij 20 heeft er 12. Hoe dan ook, kun je dus niet klakkeloos hetzelfde doen op rij 20 als op rij 16. Ik heb geprobeerd meer tussenlossen te haken, maar dat wordt niet mooi. En ik heb geprobeerd gewoon 4 bundeltjes over te slaan ipv 3 met hetzelfde aantal lossen, maar dan gaat het echt trekken. Kortom wat zou jij doen?

Alle hulp is welkom!

Dank,

Francis

NEXT GIVE AWAY!

This weekend I fnished this cute painting. It is lovely. My 10-year old daughter thinks it is the best I made so far. Please like me on my FB page and you are in for the chance of winning this. The size is about 20 by 20 cm (8x8").

Dit weekend heb ik dit gezellige schilderijtje afgerond! Mijn dochter van 10 vindt het een van mijn beste creaties tot nu toe! En je kunt 'm winnen, door fan te worden op mijn Facebook-pagina. Kom eens daar kijken en win dit leuke schilderijtje!

Bedankt!

GIVE AWAY!

Lieve lezers, dear readers,

Mijn give away is verplaatst naar mijn Facebook shop!

My give away is transferred to my Facebook page!

Kom me daar volgen ('like') en je doet mee aan de verloting van dit schattige tasje (het wordt nog mooier!).

Come and 'like' me and you can take part in the raffle of this cute bag (it reads 'sweet'). It will be so much fun to have this in your house!

Flower Basket - sping is in the air!

Aren't they lovely! The pattern I used I got from the blog 'Haken en meer' where you can order the cotton Claire used for her basket. As you can tell, the colours are just splendid! It brings spring to your room! Of course, as always, I jinxed the pattern a little bit. Please note how I crocheted the small flowers along the edge below the flowers. This fluffy flowers I made with the pattern of Pinkfluffywarrior. I just used two colours instead of one. In total the result is just awesome I would say? And you?

Giraffe

A new experiment. Small paintings with animal theme. I am planning to make four of them and cluster them into one frame. Nice gift for a baby right?

What do you think?

Bag for my daughter's birthday

My daughther turned 10 this Friday and I wanted to surprise her with one of my own creations. I found the pattern for the Granny square at 'Haken en meer' and I started with that. The pretty colour cotton I had found in a shop in the city centre. Then I thought how to incorporate this into a bag. I figured it is nice to crochet a white base and stitch the squares on top.

Then the rest came to me. For the top part I first calculated how many beads I needed (25 in this case) and I put them on the yarn first. Then you just make single crochet and when you want to add the bead you just put it into the stitch. I think it looks quite pretty.

The second part is a quite complicated pattern. I took it from the book 'Haken!' from Betty Barnden. It is 'stars'.



The buttons I stitched on it afterwards. I had found them earlier and thought they were very pretty. They fit quite right. Then the bottom part are single crochets. But honostly I always go with the flow. It comes to me during the process. So sometimes I change to double crochet if I feel it looks better. When I figured that the granny squares should fit, I started with pink for the back side of the bag. I used a so called 'weave stitch' for the back side. This means a single crochet, then a chain stitch, a single crochet after skipping one stitch and so on. I did the back side in the pink, blue and white.

Then I stitched the granny squares together and on the bag and stitched the sides together. For the edge at the top of the bag I did a single crochet and entered the needle every fifth stitch in the second row underneath. The shoulder strap is made of Zpagetti and I added a flower with a flower button.

If you have questions or remarks, please feel free to let me know!

Thanks,

Francis