Well good morning! It seems very indulgent blogging to you on a Wednesday morning. Normally I fit my posts in around work: but not today – I have got a whole day off! A whole day to myself, to do exactly as I please: I can’t tell you how much I am looking forward to it. I have a lot of lovely things planned and I thought that I would start the day with you! I have been crocheting hard over the past few days, to bring to you a flower for January. Last year I crocheted a Snowdrop (I saw my first Snowdrop yesterday), it still needs working on as I am still not truly happy with it, but that can wait. I have been working on crocheting Hellebores…
Do you like them? I am
really pleased with how this worked out.
Just in case you are, here is how to crochet on for yourself. Gather together lots of yarn, in Hellebore
colours, I used mainly DK – but that is not really too important and a 4mm
crochet hook…
Round one: using your first colour 5ch, join the ring with a slst…
Round two: 3ch, 2tr cluster, 2ch…
[3tr cluster, 2ch], repeat this four times…
You will have five clusters and five chain spaces, slst to
join, finish off…
Round three: using your second colour join yarn in one of
the chain spaces…
[5dc in each ch sp]…
repeat this in each chain space, slst to join, finish off…
Round four: using your third colour join yarn in 1st
dc, [3ch, 2tr in dc, 1dtr in next dc, 1dtr, 3ch, slst in 1st ch,
1dtr all in next dc, 2tr in next dc, 3ch, slst into dc, slst in next dc]...
repeat this four more times, finish off and weave in the ends…
Play about crocheting lots of Hellebores in all different
colours…
Happy crocheting!
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NB stitches are written using UK terms, if you prefer American terms :
UK dc = sc
UK tr = dc
UK dtr = tr
Ooohh and a cluster is crocheted in a very similar way as decreasing: expect all of the stitches are worked onto the same stitch rather than across several.
Hope that makes sense – if not let me know!
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