Tiny flower

aka - flower nr.121 :)

it is cute, tiny and works up fast .. try out!

Abbrevations used (US terms): Col - colour :)
ch - chain
sc - single crochet
hdc - half double crochet
dc - double crochet
sl st - slip stitch
st - stitch

Round 1: Col A, magic ring, ch 2 (counts as hdc), 9 hdc in magic ring. Sl st in first hdc. Fasten off.
(10 hdc)

Round 2: Join col B in any hdc. *Ch 4, sc in 2nd ch from hook, hdc in next ch, dc in next ch. Skip one st from previous round, sl st in next. Fold petal to front, sl st in skipped st.* (One petal made, nine more to go) Repeat from * to * 9 more times.
(10 petals: 40 ch, 10 sc, 10 hdc, 10 dc, 20 sl st)

Btw, second row (aka - petals) are worked 2 steps forward one back on first round..

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Happy crafting!
p.s. I'm tight crocheter using DK weight yarn and size 4 hook.

LovelyCAL: part 4

Previous post was all about heart parts to smoothen side edges of the blanket. Now we'll smoothen up top and bottom edge as well.

so close to finishing now - it's exciting!!!

flower 104 ❀

YAY!!!

now I'm officially part of the flower power :)

#365daysofcrochetflowers originally started up by amazing Emily (instagram, blog) and now keeps going on the power of comunnity @thecrochethookup :)

This one is mine :)

Simple and sweet ❀

Have you made one of these gorgeous flowers? all these patterns are free and there are SO many gorgeous flowers out there ! trust me ;) and make some - even if you only make them for your 4yearolddoughter so she can play and loose most of them in an instant :D

LovelyCAL: part 3

This post will be all about the heart parts :)
And might help those that struggled understand some of instructions for the heart in the first post, because if there were next to no pictures of granny heart - here will be way too many pictures of all the parts :D

But before we begin with the instructions and oh so many photos.
just to brag somewhere :D
I've made all the greenish hearts! not saying how far I am overall because I just don't want to count them atm, and I'm waiting for you to catch up ;P
judging by the fact that I planned to make 4 hearts a week ... at this point I should have made just 20 .. I even have more in this greenish picture, but no worries - I must be faster than you, because I have to figure out how to write up the fancy joining part waaay before you get that far ;)

Ok, ok - let's get to part hearts ;)

If you've made 10 hearts already you definitely know pattern by heart - so this part heart thing is here to add some spice in the mix ;D try out part hearts to test your temper :P

just kidding - should be real simple - knowing I've photographed almost each stitch I've made :)

LovelyCAL: part 2

Two weeks later and i've fallen head over heels with these hearts! ❤
I made it to the store once more and just grabbed all the colours that had the right thickness and reminded me of spring or I plain liked the shade ... then I obviously HAD to make heart of each and every one of them to test if I had picked the right thickness and if the colours play well together - fun, fun, fun! :)

So far I have 11 colours I like and 2 I find mismatching ..
knowing me - all colours most probably will find the right place when it's time to arrange them :D

This no doubt should have been mentioned in introduction .. but better late than never ..

• one heart measures 16x12 cm
• weights 7g (might be usefull for stashbusters ;) )
• I'm using DK weight yarn (started by the yellow RedHeart Lisa yarn just to find out NONE of the yarnstores in my hometown have it in their stock, doh) & 4mm hook :)
• it takes me 12 min 49 sec to make one ❤ ( this might not be relevant but I just had to time myself :D ) 

At this point i have 22 out of 51 hearts (if my blanket ends up as big as I've sketched it in the colouring page). I should have had just 12, but I got overexcited about the new colors :D
How far you have got?
Share some pics so I can rejoice in your hearts too ;) (in comments here or over at instagram using tag #LovelyCAL )

Btw, maybe you have noticed that these hearts can be joined as you make them, as simple as you would join a granny squares or hexagons ... and as I had three green shades that did not fit in thickness wise I'll show you few photos of how to do that ;)

But even if you are not interested in join as you go scroll ahead till the end where I show you sneak peak of how I have planned to join my hearts using continuous join as you go ;)