Sucrette

11 Jan

3D Flower, Before and after, circle in a square, Crocheted cushion, Sucrette's square

Back on the wheels: Sucrette’s square: two finished projects!!

Goooood morniiiing !

Yes, I’m back on the wheels… After a couple of gray days, light came back again in my life and mostly because of you and your supporting sweet words… Thank you so much my friend for your presence and for being so caring and loving…You’ll never know how much I needed every single word you left in the comments 🙂

During the holidays, I worked on something I want to share with you today…In fact, the two new wips I talked about in this previous post were somehow linked in one new square I created during Christmas time.

Enough talking… let’s see something …I hear you say … ok ok 🙂

With some thin cotton yarn, I’ve made some little colorful granny flowers…

and with these granny flowers I transformed a white lampshade…The same kind of lampshade I transformed back in 2010…Do you remember it?

But this time I used small granny flowers with hot glue…

and I prefer this one:

mmmh 🙂 Isn’t it lovely?

And after I fall totally in love with this colorful granny flower …I decided to continue with the pattern and make it a square, yes, a little square with a 3D granny flower in it…

A little afghan block that can be used to make blankets, scarfs, potholders, coasters, cushions, table runners…etc…A variety of cute crocheted projects from this little square of mine…

I’m gonna call it : Sucrette’s square 🙂 because it is granny and because it is colorful and because I created it and I’m madly in love with it 🙂

So, with Sucrette’s square I’ve made these two:

A white lampshade decorated with little colorful granny flowers…

and…

A rectangle cushion with a green background like a field of flowers to welcome spring 😉 (It is not too far anymore:) )

Sucrette’s square PDF pattern ( a graphic pattern with step by step pictures) will be available very soon in my etsy shop 🙂 Yes, yes, yes, I’m gonna open an etsy shop and I’m totally excited about it!

And also available, very soon, here, to purchase for a very special symbolic price for you my dear friends…

Have to go now…back on the wheels…back to my ripple…and my painting…and and and… so many projects on my head… I wish I had 4 hands and days of 48 hours 🙂

Love you all…and wish you a super day!

Sucrette

09 Jan

flowers

Deep orange and yellow…

Sometimes I feel like I’m zero creative and I feel down down down….I can not even hold my crochet hook…and I am unable to do anything at home… 🙁

Even though those kind of days are rare, they do happen and I can not make anything but wait until they go…

Sometimes I buy flowers… to bring back my normal happy mood …

Sometimes it works… sometimes it doesn’t…

See you very soon in a much better mood I hope…

Sucrette

06 Jan

colors and yarns, Corners of my home, new projects, paintings

on the go…

Good morning !

How are you feeling today? Are you still in “Holidays-mode” or did you get back to your everyday’s “routine”? I’m trying to get back to the routine-mode but it is quite hard…the girls are still at home and there is still mess everywhere and new toys in every room and this is getting me crazy…

I saw, once, a very cute quote: “Please excuse the mess, the children are making memories” This quote makes me smile and everytime I get mad about the mess around here I try to remember the quote 🙂

So, this is how we are spending our days, girls playing with their new toys while mummy try to concentrate on hers …

…starting three new projects…

…One with her best friend her acrylic nako yarn…

… one with her cotton stash…

…and the last one with a brush and some colors…

It is always so exciting to start new projects…but to finish them is another story 😉

Will tell you more about each project later …Have to go now…There is some shouting coming from the playing room 🙂 the girls are surely making memories 🙂

Have a wonderful end of week!

Sucrette

04 Jan

Crochet pot covers, free patterns

Sweet pot covers: A written and a graphic pattern

Hello Hello Hello!

Sweet morning to you all! This is for you my sweeties the tutorial of the jam pot covers! I’ve made a written one and a graphic one for those of you who prefer graphic patterns (like myself 😉 )

For the pot covers I made I used as yarn : Stylecraft special DK, a very good acrylic yarn, with a 3.5mm crochet hook. I still have some stylecraft leftover yarn from my Granny MONSTER I made back in 2010 🙂 I love leftovers 🙂

So? Are you readyyyyyyyyyyyyy? Prepare some leftover yarn, a good crochet hook … aaaaaaaaand… let’s dooooooooooooo it!

For this pattern I’ll use the U.K terms.

Remember a tr (U.K terms) = dc (U.S terms) = bride (France)

and a dc (U.K terms) = sc (U.S terms) = maille serree (France)

Written pattern:

Make 4 ch and close to obtain a circle.

Rnd1: Inside the circle, crochet 12 treble (U.K terms).

Rnd 2: Increase: crochet 2 tr. in every tr. of the previous rnd. Total: 24 tr

Rnd3: Increase: crochet 1tr. on the first tr. of the previous rnd then 2 tr.on the second tr. of the previous rnd, 1tr, 2 tr, 1tr, 2tr etc etc to obtain in total: 36 tr

Rnd4: As round 3: 1tr, 2 tr, 1tr, 2tr etc etc … Total: 54 tr

Rnd5: As rnd 3 and 4: 1tr, 2tr, 1tr, 2tr etc etc … Total: 81tr

Rnd6: make 1tr on the first tr of the previous rnd then 1 ch. leaving one tr of the previous rnd empty. 1tr, 1ch, 1tr, 1ch etc

This round, round6, is made for the passage of the chain you’ll crochet after. You have to pull this chain and make a beautiful bow to transform your doily into a pot cover…(see next pic how the red chain has been inserted)

Rnd7: Increase: 1tr on the tr of the previous round, 2tr on the chain of the previous round, 1tr, 2tr, 1tr, 2tr etc etc

Rnd8: 4dc on the first 4 tr of the previous round then 1dc-3ch-1dc on the 5th tr of the previous round so: 1dc, 1dc, 1dc, 1dc, 1dc-3ch-1dc, 1dc, 1dc, 1dc, 1dc, 1dc-3ch-1dc, etc etc

You have now a small doily 🙂

Crochet a chain of 100ch. to pass between the trebles of round 6.

Pull this chain and make a beautiful bow! You’ve done it 🙂

Graphic pattern:

Symbols used:

Round 1 to 7:

Round8:

That’s it! A very simple, quick project to use all your leftovers 🙂

You have now a beautiful jam pot cover to brighten up your kitchen table! or a small colorful doily… when you’ve already eaten all the jam 😉

Happy crocheting!

Sucrette

02 Jan

Crochet pot covers

Something sweet to begin the new year with …

Goooooooood morning sweeties!

This is my first 2012 post 🙂 How’s everything? How was your new year’s eve? Are you still digesting ALLLLL the food you’ve eat that night? Did you start a diet like myself to loose all the extra weight of the holidays ? 🙂 hahaha It will be so hard for me …

Today, there is something sweet I want to share with you… something I crocheted during these holidays…The girls are still at home until January 9 so there is little crochet happening while they are here…not too much… just a little…to start 2012 with…

Some sweet jam pot covers 🙂