Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Baby's First Play Rug - Finished

This is a reversible afghan.  For instructions on how to make the squares, please see my older post with the same title.  The individual squares are joined together using a yarn plastic needle and using a herring bone joining technique.  All yarn ends are tucked (woven) underneath the crochet stitches and worked towards and within side A and B layers.  The border is worked in 4 rounds of sc(s), starting with side A up first round, side B up, for second round; Side A up for third round and Side B up for 4th round. Since the border is not worked in a continues fashion,  after connecting with sl st (slip stitch) at the end of the round,* I turn the afghan, then ch1, then sc all around and connect with sl st to the beginning ch1. to complete the round*.  Then repeat * * the same for remaining rounds.  The reason I used this technique is to prevent the crocheted fabric from curling up towards one side of the crocheted fabric (usually the right side, side B).

Side B


Side A

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Rose Curtain Tie Back on a fleece drape





Tada! How do you like it?  I was going to remove my winter drapes that are made out of fleece to keep heat in and cold out during winter time, but I think I'm just going to keep them open with these tie backs instead of removing them and hanging them back again during Fall and Winter season.

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Crocheted Rose Curtain Tie Back





I want to make 3 or 4 pairs of these to use as Ties for my Curtains.

Oct. 11, 2017 update:  Pattern for this Tieback is available
here