Fun Crochet

Hello Lovelies,

back in 2009, before I started blogging, I discovered the wonderful world of creative crochet available on the internet

I loved the many stripy jar covers that I saw like THIS  and I remember using EVERY colour of yarn I possessed at the time to make this version...........

It lives by the phone and is great to keep various pens and scissors handy.

I still like it's colourful stripes but it's grubby and has seen better days now. My crochet was a bit rubbish back then and I just made a rectangle and sewed it together......it was too big so there is a large overlap which I hide at the back :0)...........

Since that first attempt I've made many other and better stripy covers like THIS one, so when it came to this project I wanted to try something different and thought small squares might work............

Once again I used every colour of yarn I own......well every colour of Stylecraft........I have much more yarn these days...............

These tiny squares are made using half double ( U.S.) half treble ( U.K. ) stitches . They are made in the same way as the centre of a granny square, but with only one chain at the corners and joined as they are made.

Here is my finished cover   Ta-dah...............

 I love this bit of colourful yarny goodness that is destined to live between the phone and the fairy liquid, beside the kitchen sink :0)

 But I couldn't resist popping some garden flowers in it today and enjoying it as a vase on my mantle for a little while.............

 It's simply sewn together , you can just see the stitches in the photo above. I could have joined as I went to create the cylinder of yarn, but as it's purely decorative I didn't think it mattered too much. I did think it needed a border top and bottom to tidy it up though so I added a row of U.S. single crochet to finish it off.

I love my patchwork vase/pen holder............

and I love summer days at home with time to smell the roses...............

I hope you lovelies  are finding some creative moments this summer (or winter)

Jacquie x

p.s. despite the glut of posts I am spending most of my time away from a keyboard this week.

Outings with my boys , gardening, de-cluttering, visiting the library, reading, crochet and  a little running have been making me very happy......I think I've found a balance and it's a good feeling. Thank you so much for all your kind comments.