African Flower Hexagon Bag

  Ever since I saw one crazy colorful bag, I couldn't sleep well... ha ha ha... This an amazing color combination gave me no rest!  I immediately decided to make a similar bag for myself! For the hexagon pattern I have chosen an African Flower. I love love love that hexagon! Here I found one beautiful tutorial of it. In fact, I find it easier for me to crochet using a graphical diagram... 
And now is the time to show you my new bag! There is a lot of pictures... I can't make a choose which ones show you and which ones not... therefore, I invite you to enjoy all the pictures!

I'm stuck inside the bottom corners and sewed them to the bottom.

I'm not going to attach the lining... I like the bag that way!

A hook is E/3.5mm. A Yarn I've used is Russian mercerized 100% cotton Uspeshnaya(Успешная) by Pehorka(Пехорка). The yarn is thin(220m/50g), therefore I've used it 2 strands together.

I have a colorful lovely bag! Hurray! Now I'm calm! And happy! And Easter is Coming Soon and I have in my mind at least two crochet projects. And as well a couple of other craft things that have to do with my daughters. My oldest boys 11 y.o. and almost 14 y.o. hardly join us   :(
  Forgot to share the joy... We have sunny fine warm weather the last 5 days!

So have a sunny day each day! 

Kisses Xx

Olga 

 P.S. Just now I noticed that some pictures are repeated in the collages. Sorry about that... Xx

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About Yarn and New Blanket

   Many thanks my dear readers for your sweet comments for my post about my new Spring Granny Blanket!!! It's nice to know that you are reading my blog and find a couple of minutes to write some nice words! I'm so happy reading you comments! Thank you again!  ♥♥♥
   And about the yarn I used to my Spring Blanket - it is German acrylic yarn I bought in the ALDI supermarket. A few times a year there sell some kind of yarn. And yes, Anne, this yarn changing colors of itself.

Lovely yarn, isn't?  Some time ago I made with it a few things.

The set I gave to my friend's daughter. And the earflap hat is still with me. I try to sell it, but nothing worked.

   Looking on one of the pictures in previous post  Helen asked me about something beside the my bed - yes, it's the future blanket I make within the project A Granny a Day 2012. I write about it in my other page. Have you looked there? If no, take a look on the button A Granny a Day under the header of my blog. Just yesterday I have added a new picture. And a few pictures here...

And my African Flowers gradually turning into a bag!

So... it's all for today...  

I wish you sunny days and a good mood!

Create!

With love 

 Olga xx

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Spring Granny Blanket

Hurray! My granny square blanket is fully completed! A first time I made such a big blanket!

The size is 140cm*175cm.

The colours of the blanket I've been associated with a spring.

I like the colours!

 
 I like the dimension! 

I love this blanket because it's FOR ME!!!  

It is so cool to wrap myself from head to toe... m-m-m... so nice... Or seat under it with my lovely girls together... Or with my husband... 

So the blanket contains 8*10 squares. Each square contains 7 rounds. The first three rounds are a circle, 4th round forms a square  with trebles in corners. Below is a description. Contact with me, please, if there is something wrong you notice.

US symbols:

dc - double crochet

tr -  treble crochet

ch - chain

Ch 4 joining in ring;

1 rnd: 12 dc in ring;

2 rnd: in each of 12 spaces between the stitches - [2 dc together, ch 1];

3 rnd: in each of  ch-1-spaces - (3 dc, ch 1);

4 rnd: working in each ch-1-space. *In 1st space to form a corner (3 tr, ch 2, 3 tr), ch 1. In each of  next 2 spaces (3 dc and ch 1). From * repeat 3 more times;

5 rnd: working in each ch-1-space. *(3 dc, ch2, 3 dc) for a corner, ch1. In each of  next 3 spaces (3 dc and ch 1). From * repeat 3 more times;

6 rnd: working in each ch-1-space. *(3 dc, ch2, 3 dc) for a corner, ch1. In each of  next 4 spaces (3 dc and ch 1). From * repeat 3 more times;

7 rnd is a joining round. 

How to join squares with my most liked join-as-you-go-method.

About the border. It is so simple. Just 3 dc and ch 1, 3 dc and ch 1, etc... And in corners 2 dc, ch 2, 2 dc. As many rounds as you want. But I made 10 rounds.

And below is a graphic pattern (in U.S. symbols) of the square in which I drawn only 5 rounds. The round 6 and 7 you will continue in the same manner as round 5.

After I finished this blanket, I felt I am empty... A few days I didn't crochet anything... Only thinking about my unfinished projects. Which of this will be next... So I decided to take up African flower hexagons. It will be a bag!

See you soon with a heart garland I finished a few days ago!
I wish you a spring sunny day!
With love
Olga
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A Few New Projects

Hi everyone!
In the New year I decided to spent all my stock of yarn, which is stored around my house... So a few new projects as I promised before. It's three new blankets!

Number one! A simple Granny Stripe blanket! It will be a 100*150cm. The yarn I use is chunky with 6mm hook, so I think the work will go quickly. It is very important for me - the speed, because in my head I have some more new projects!!!

The how-to-do pattern I looked here. It's easy as usual for me. And I think that some of you also used this pattern.

                         

Number two! A Hexagon Blanket! The yarn is baby acrylic in baby colors like the Number one blanket.
I don't know about dimensions of finished blanket and I don't know for whom it will be... As it will turn... The pattern is very easy(again!) - a circle, which turned out to be a hexagon in the last join-as-you-go-round. A bit later I'll draw the graphic pattern that may be useful to some of you, my dears...

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Number tree! A Granny Squares blanket! The yarn I use is so soft and it's so nicely to hold it in my hand...
I adore to work with this kind of yarn - I'm about the color - when one color goes in another color etc... Very interesting to watch what the color pattern turns out.

This blanket I started to do with yellow squares and couldn't decide which pattern to use - so all yellow squares you see in this picture - all of them are different.

I think I'll do this blanket for myself. I think so... May be... I don't know really... ha ha ha...

The square has seven rounds + the last one join-as-you-go-round. I'll draw the graphic pattern later.
Have a good day! Kisses...
Olga ☼