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Hello there!

Here is my first time of trying knitting needles.

This (a kind of) jacket was knitted in a very short time without using any design except yarn colors and funny buttons.

I used only front loops and crocheted along the edges of two front jacket details.

Well I didn't really like the yarn, it's too flabby, messy and can be easily stretched out...

So this is the pic of the jacket after manual washing and I didn't like the curvy edges :(

Anyway the jacket was very warm, my daughter wore it several months, but children grow so fast...

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One day I've bought some red and yellow yarn balls (wool) just because they were very cheap. But I couldn't imagine what can I do with them, so after some deep thoughts I decided to crochet a rug for my daughter to play on it.
As I had only two colors I decided to combine them in one pattern (piece). I chose that one.
I crocheted 32 pieces with red heart in yellow square and 32 pieces with yellow heart in red square.
After that I crocheted them together in lines of 8 pieces and got 8 lines.
Then I just crocheted that lines together too.
I also had the remains of yarn like "grass", very furry, so I decided to decorate my rug with that yarn.
The size of the rug is abt 110cm*110cm
We use it as a bedding in baby carriage when we go for a walk or as a counterpane at home.



If you have any questions, please ask)))

the rug


the face


the back side

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This is another my work, a kind of yarn remains utilization.
100% cotton, very comfortable, really good at hot weather.
The main design called "chess", consists of double stitches in chequer-wise.
The amount of d.s. grows in every second row.

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When my daughter was about 8 months (last summer) I'd crocheted her a nice blue dress and a summer hat.

The yarn I used was not thin (crochet # 2,5-3) so I used simple double crochet to make the dress yoke.

I planned to create not a very flared skirt of the dress, as I was lack of the yarn, so I decided to use bow-shaped design in the middle and pineapple style for the skirt hem.
That is why the dress's shape resembles narrow trapezium.

The back of the yoke - a kind of plank with 3 childish buttons.
The middle of the dress and the skirt I crocheted round by round so there are no side seams.


The hat I crocheted using double stitches.
These 6 edges are formed with relief or raised double stitches.
The border of eaves - simle arches of chains and single crochet (stitch).


This is my princess in her new costume.



P.S.
Sometimes I think it's a pity that children grow so fast. Now Margarita is almost 1,8 years and we gave the costume to our small 6 months old cousin.

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Hello there))
This is my first post and I want to tell you about my grandmather, who taught me to love fancywork.
When I was a small girl I visited my grandma every summer holidays. Her village was very far from the city and there were no good roads, no phones, but only wooden houses, green forests and clean lakes.
I remembered that every summer there were a lot of scary thunderstorms as if they were "attracted" by the plenty of waterbodies or the lowness of the country place (geologists says that the big area of the country place (several big villages) stayed on a big underground lake which attracted nasty weather like a magnet).
So that thunderstorms were really powerful but I loved them because at that time (the only time she had nothing to do in her garden) our grandma taught me and my cousins to knit and crochet .
She had very old even ancient vintage hooks and needles. She crocheted very beautiful lacy things and I always dreamed to create such beauty. Times passed and I'd almost forgot about crocheting, finished school, graduated from the university, married. I remembered of it when I became pregnant and had to spend some weeks in a hospital. There I began to crochet and knit some clothes for my future baby and for me and that was a real surprise for me when I realised that I remember all that I learnt from my grandma. I never forgot that. My grandma Anna is now 79 years old, she doesnt crochet anymore, because she has poor eyesight and her hands are not flexible, but she still gives me great ideas and I really appreciate this. I love her so much and want to tell THANK YOU, GRANDMA for having taught me to love the beautiful!

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