Friday, 23 March 2018

Spider stitch jacket

A Crochet summer top I made for my daughter with Bamboo yarn and the antique spider stitch It is very soft and cool and very nice against the skin. Perfect for summer evenings.


Monday, 12 March 2018

Antique bedspread motif

Found a photo of a beautiful bedspread on the internet.  Unfortunately, couldnt find a pattern or any information, but it is so precious that I feel it deserves a place in modern crochet. Probably an antique pattern originated from Italy that was handed down from one generation to the other. So this is a variation of that pattern as I made some minor changes to it.

Just leave a message in the  comments section if you need step by step photo's of the pattern. It is a unusual pattern and maybe somewhat sonfusing.




With nr 5 cotton thread and 2 mm crochet hook, ch 7. sl st in 1st chain to form ring.
1st round: 3 trebel cluster (ch 4 for 1st treble)  3 st on hook pull through to form cluster.5 ks, 7 more treble clusters in ring. End with 5 ch, sl st in 1st cluster.

2nd round:* 3 sc in 5ch sp, ch 11, sc in 7th ch from hook, sc in each of next 4 ch, 2sc in 5ch sp*  Repeat 7 more times. You will now have 8 "spikes" with loops.Work may curl, don't worry, it will auto=correct.
3rd round: sc in sp between 2 5ch sp (on top of/in line with treble cluster of previous row) ch 3, sc in 5th st from hook, ch 3, 12 dc in loop, ch3, sc in 3rd st, ch3. Repeat for rest of round.
4th round:to get to the next row, loosely sl st in ch till you reach 1st dc from previous round.hdc in dc, ch1, dc in next dc. ch1, rep 9x. hdc in last dc.
5th round: sl st into 2nd 1ch sp, 4ch=1st dc+ch, dc in sp between dc, ch1, rep 7x

My completed African flower and also one in scrap yarn.

African flower bag made from squares.