Autumn competition at Hobbyportal. Part 4/4. Poisonous Flower

Brooch Poisonous Flower

A small but cute flower brooch was born out of a rose I found in one Asian magazine.
I use d two types of yarn, a black and an orange, crochet 1.5.

Autumn competition at Hobbyportal. Part 3/4. Spider

Paper folder Spider

I am a rather organized person and like to have my magazines clips in separate folders. I have gathered some material for Halloween as well and needed a folder. So this competition was a good opportunity to fix one.

I used a black folder, orange cardon paper, and self-adherent paper lace border I purchased in a hobby shop.

I crocheted the spider following the diagram found in the Internet, although without the net around it (cotton yarn, 100gr=ca 600m, crochet 1.5).

The orange carton paper is glued to he folder, same for the spider.

Autumn competition at Hobbyportal. Part 2/4. Dame of Spades

Necklace Dame of Spades

Halloween is still not much known holiday in former Soviet republics so it was not very easy to carry out a competition for it on a Russian site. Yet I think the works became quite interesting and creative.

One of my works was the necklace “Dame of Spades” (after the famous opera and Pushkin’s work)

I used the cotton yarn (100 gr =ca 600m), crochet 1.5, a metal chain, old earrings and a part from a broken ring

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Take the round piece from the (broken) ring and start crochet around it.

Hide the ends f the threads and hang the beads/parts of the earrings on the flower:

Sew the upper part of the flower to the black satin ribbon. Decorate with beads:

Crochet two smaller flowers:

Place and then sew the smaller flowers to the ribbon:

With the help of small metal join rings hang the parts of the earrings/beads on the necklace:

Sew the metal parts of the lock to the both ends of hte ribbon, decorate with beads:

Ready for the ball:

Autumn competition at Hobbyportal. Part 1/4. Autumn breeze

On my favorite craft site, http://www.hobbyportal.ru/ , we have competitions in different crafts every season.
I usually participate in those in knitting and lace. It’s a great insensitive and a kick for creativity.

Fall 2008 I took part in the lace competitions Golden autumn and Halloween.
http://forum.hobbyportal.ru/viewtopic.php?t=9860

Here come my works.

Bag Autumn breeze

It’s a canvas bag I got from Lancôme when I shopped makeup for a huuuge (for me) sum of money. I decided to customize it a bit.

The techniques are mixed: tatting with beads (ankars), crochet and irregular net from Irish lace. I used two types of yarn, mercerized cotton, 50 gr are ca 160 m, crochet 2,5; beads.

First I made separate elements, then joined them by the irregular net of Irish lace technique.

Scarf Truffle

I had some leftovers of a very soft and nice to touch yarn (100 % polyester, appr. 100 grams, crochet size 3, also brown cotton for the edge) and decided to make a scarf of it. The original model was actually done in mohair yarn so it became rather different from it.

And as the yarn did not want to finish I also made a pair of gloves.

A hat and a shawl/stole Kitty

Once I bought a very funny furry yarn, mixture of white and black and was not sure of what I can do with it. Then I found this wonderful idea of a shawl/stole, very easy to make and at the same time looking just gorgeous.




Mine is made of 100% polyester, 50 gr =90 m, needles 4, appr. 450 gr (300 gr mixed colours and 150 gr black).





Later I crocheted a hat (no pattern, only measuring on my own head) to match it, appr. 100 gr of yarn. I used also a thick woolen thread (from the previous project, cap Sanna) inside its row so that the hat will keep its shape better.

A cap Sanna (á-là Jennifer Lopes)

This picture of Jennifer Lopes in a cute cap made many Osinka girls lose the head and so it was for me. As it is not a very detailed picture it became quite a puzzle and stimulated our own imagination and creativity.

I chose rather thick 100 % wool yarn (Mark Kattens Tuva) as I wanted this cap for winter. Crochet size 4, needles size 5, needed appr. 150 gr.

I re-made mine at least 10-15 times in some places before I reached the result I was satisfied with. The body of the cap is crocheted but when I was making a visor it turned out it’s too rough, so I knitted it instead.