amimono note

Crochet!

Today's entry is about crochet. I saw Chie's works and I want to share some of my crochet too. I use to crochet a lot! These are some doilies I made.

I especially like the largest one in the picture and made several of it. I gave them to my mother.

These doilies' patterns are from a Japanese book called "Ondori basic Series 3, Lace Crochet" (ISBN 4-277-20925-4). This book is basically an explanation of the Japanese style symbols of crochet stitches with detailed illustrations, but it also has some fabulous patterns. I highly recommend this book.

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This is the biggest fillet crochet I've ever made. Sorry for the bad picture... The pattern is from the Swedish Handcraft Guild's cross stitch pattern book. I bought the book in Japan. Unfortunately it is out of print.

I like this one too. The pattern is from "Beautiful Crochet Lace", ISBN 4-529-02584-5 (also a Japanese book).

These above are all done with #40 crochet thread.

A few more stuff...

Snowflake ornaments pattern is from here. I think this is one of the prettiest crochet snowflake I've made. K and O shaped ornaments are tatting. I really like how tatting lace looks like, but I'm not good at it.

Finally, some small purses. These are crocheted with Appleton crewel wool. Have you ever tried to use crewel wool for a crochet project? If you are going make something small but has lots of color, they are great. They are sold in small quantity (=less expensive) and have great color variation. Appleton's are a little bit coarse but there are softer wool yarn for embroidery from DMC, so you can choose.

Posted by noriko at May 9, 2005 03:16 PM