Yeah! A thread crochet section!

[RebeccaVelasquez]

oh, i love the crocheted flowers! i would love to make a bouquet of pink/mauve roses for my mom, but i haven't the patience (yet) for thread. the tinyness (did i make another new word? ) of it makes me nervous

[RachelG]

I love thread...as everybody knows. These are the three projects I'll be working on soon:

 

Love this one (so much so that I'll even tolerate weaving in the extra ends):

 

www.denisecrochets.com/apples.html

 

Also this one (would make a cute gift):

 

www.denisecrochets.com/february.html

 

And this one...to tease somebody who thinks they are so impractical :

 

www.crochetpatterncentral...andals.php

 

Rachel

www.crochetpatterncentral.com

[RebeccaVelasquez]

i LOVE those barefoot sandals - even considered thread to make them --- nah

do love them, though!!

[Julie]

Rachel, great links! I LOVE the apple doily, I bookmarked that one. I think by the time I get the bookmarks down for the Swap, I'll be looking at doily patterns. Well, I have been looking, I just haven't done anything about it yet.

 

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[Tiffany]

Great links, Rachel! I can't wait to see your work.

[MommaChelle]

I really like that apple doily! And what are the barefoot sandals? It looks like it's something that goes on top of your foot with the toe and around your ankle? I've never seen anything like that I dont think! Very cool.

[RachelG]

Aren't those barefoot sandals cute? I love it when somebody contacts me to put an original pattern on my site. (Although I love Crochet Me and really enjoy seeing it grow!!) Yes, Chelle, the loop part goes around your big toe and the string part ties around your lower leg/ankle. I've never worn any...yet.

 

Rebecca...have you ever tried thread? With just a teensy bit of adjusting, it's not all that bad!

 

I love those doilies...not sure when I'll get time to do them, though. Hopefully soon!!!!

 

I can't take pics of these projects because of not having a digital camera, but perhaps I'll stick 'em in the scanner. I have to scan a coaster I made soon.

 

You'll never guess when you see it I sat down to try to create a poncho and that's what I came up with...a coaster!!!

 

More later...

 

Rachel

www.crochetpatterncentral.com

[RebeccaVelasquez]

coaster from a poncho....:thinking1

i think that takes talent, rachel!!

 

oops: yes, i made a bookmark - didn't like it at all though, although i think donna said she didn't like doing that pattern, too.....

i might pick it up again but i have SOOO much going on right now:wow

[Tiffany]

My goodness, now I'm intrigued. I can't wait to see it! :sheep

[RachelG]

I can't write patterns so I have to have my sister do it. I haven't named the coaster yet, either. I enjoy naming things and it takes time.

 

How did I end up with a coaster? I was playing around with stitches for a poncho (still haven't thought of anything) and then I thought of motifs...so I made up my own. Then I decided that I didn't want to make a motif poncho, but my motif said "don't tear me out, make me into something nice" so I added a few rows to what I had and put some lovely scallops with my favorite lacy picot edging on it and voila... a coaster.

 

It may be a week or so before it's up in my free pattern section...between getting the pattern written, getting a picture, and getting it named. It's only my second design. I better get busy...who knows what I'll come up with next! I might start a shirt and end up with a stuffed crocodile. (Just kidding.) :bigsmile

 

Rachel

www.crochetpatterncentral.com

[RachelG]

Okay, so the coaster got scanned, but I can't figure out if it was right-side-up or up-side down. I'll figure that out later.

 

I'm one step closer to those three planned projects--just printed them! The colors for the Apple Doily are obvious, but I can't decide what to do the other two in. I think white sandals with clear glass sparkly beads would be pretty, but it would get dirty too fast. I'll probably end up doing them in blue. As for the heart doily...do you think it would like nice in bright red?

 

Rachel

www.crochetpatterncentral.com

[Guest laprincessadelaquitealot]

I love thread, too! It's been a while since I did anything really complicated, but I've done a couple of tablecloths and a bedspread for a godchild a few years ago.

My mother used to make a doily that was big enough to cover the middle of a round kitchen table - I snagged three of those when she died. You can make such beautiful, delicate stuff with thread. Love it, love it - wish I had the time but right now I'm doing blankets and sweaters. (new grandbaby due in October - ooooohhhhh- Christening set!)

[RachelG]

Tablecloths and bedspread? I'd never have the patience to complete those!

 

(Okay, okay, I am surprised, but I've been dying to use that emoticon above and I just now had the opportunity!)

 

Rachel

www.crochetpatterncentral.com