Granny Rose Pillow

 I had no internet all last week… I understood that I’m an internet addict.  I came to my computer every morning and walked away… to make breakfast and do my usual chores which I usually do after surfing the web in the mornings… Oooooh… I got used to living without internet on the 4^th day. And I liked it! I went to sleep at midnight, not at 2 or 3 o’clock. For once I was watching TV with my family without a crochet hook in my hands because I had enough time to crochet during the day… 

And now about a Granny Rose pillow… The pillow is ready! While I was making it I decided to give my Granny Roses to my sister, she lives about 80km away from me and she is not very happy right now due to her son’s Kawasaki syndrome (I never heard before about that illness). So I hope my pillow will make her a little bit happier!

  I started taking pictures about Week 3 progress while my daughters were beside me, and look what I got! 

 (Above part of this post was corrected by two my sons.)

Just playing with the flowers

Who stole the last flower?

An Easter Rabbit came to eat a bisquit...

Almost all is eaten...

 And finished pillow!

  some more bright pictures...

I chose as-you-go joining method. I like it so much! Here you can find the tutorial how to do it.

The border I made: 3 dc in the one stitch, skip 1 st, 1 sc in the next st, skip 1 st,  etc...

In the corner stitch do 5 dc instead of 3 dc.

 I made the pillow on both side - it is more easy for me then sew one side to the fabric.
For the back I made 4 simple granny squares in 8 rounds each and I joined them with as-you-go method.

I was so happy making the pillow. Thank you, Astri, for your great crochet-a-long! 

So my beautiful Granny Rose Pillow now lives in my sister's house! By the way my sister has hinted that she would be happy to get a couple more of similar pillows ... :)

And the good news: my nephew now is at home, he feels much better! 

I'm so happy again - another my big project A-simple-square-blanket-for-my-son is also ready and I have some it's pictures as well, so I'll tell you very soon about the blanket and one quick project (I've promised in the last post).

My dears

 I wish you a happy and a sunny day -

every day!

With l♥ve

Olga

I'm linking to Pillow Topic at The Crochet Boulevard

A New Project... Granny Rose Pillow

  Instead of  finishing my current project (a simple square blanket for my son) I started a new one... haha... It's a beautiful Granny Rose pillow. I found it's Crochet-a-Long on the Apple Blossom Dreams blog. And I have done first week's assignment - the roses. Here they are...

My choice is acrylic DK yarn Stylecraft Special in Citron(1st from left on the picture above), Fondant(3rd), Pomegranate(4th) and Spring Green(the last) as well as King Cole Gentle Touch in Burnt Orange(2nd) and Robin in Cordial(5th). I've bought all this yarn in my favourite on-line yarn shop Deramores  UK located .

 

I've a little bit changed the original pattern of rose's petals that's way my roses are more lush. On the next picture you see orange original rose and the rest are in my edition.

I was struggling with the first rose but then I got used to it! Hurray! All 16 roses are completed! My pillow will be 4 by 4 squares. Today I'm going to start making The Leaves(Week 3). I'm so excited and I can't wait till I finish my post!!  :)
I hope I'll show you soon a progress of my simple-square-blanket-for-my-son. All the 30 squares in 9 rounds are done and I should join them and make a border. I've chosen the joining method and I've no idea about a border... So, see you soon! And I'm going to crochet The Leaves!

A sunny day to all of you!

With love and  a good spring mood

Olga )*