Marine themed granny square cushion cover

Hello there everyone. Today is a post about a granny square cushion cover. It took about six months time to post this, apologies for that. Though I had finished off earlier, the fact is I almost had forgotten about this. I completed this project when I was about to travel to India in the last summer vacation. It was almost a rush and I couldn't find time to post it at that time. But glad that I had drafted this project as well as few other projects in my blogger dashboard, so that came to my rescue. I can pull out one by one to post about it. So now it is time for describing about my marine themed granny square cushion cover :-).

 

When I was thinking of what theme could be applied for the second cushion cover (earlier one was a multi coloured one), I was in a dilemma. The pattern of course was to use granny square, but the choice of colours put me to trouble. Then I remembered that my brother's favourite colour is blue. So why not add a touch of blue to its maximum. And to second my thought, I saw an ad in between watching a movie. It showed some island and touches of blue and aqua here and there. Something in my mind sparked immediately to use patches of blues on one side and other side with a different appearance.

 

Yes, that's it. Having finalised on the colours and patterns, I started digging out all the blue coloured yarns that I had in my hand. Being it a granny pattern, I was sure it will not affect me watching the movie either. So crocheting a marine themed granny square cushion cover began to evolve.  

 

For the patches of blue, I didn't design much. Just kept in mind that dark and light blues should alternate or overlap to produce sort of good gradient effect. I started crocheting the squares and followed the JAYGO (join as you go) method to connect each squares, which is absolutely a good time saver, and sometimes I weave in my ends in this process. I hardly remember spending time weaving ends. So this pattern was for one side.  

 

The other side also followed granny square pattern with only two blue colours, but it is a diagonal granny square pattern. I learnt a new pattern in that way and you know what, this diagonal pattern took considerably less time. I could crochet it easily, maybe I got the hang of it and it went on flowing easily, just changing the sides. It was really fun crocheting this pattern. See how the pattern grows from the centre to the corners. I have marked this pattern for making a cushion cover for myself anyway. I think we can add two more colours, in total having four to give much more effect. I don't know. Need to try.

This time I didn't use any single crochet stitches for the border and then any FLO or BLO or whip stitch techniques to join the cushion covers. I just used JAYGO technique here. So again a time saver here that the three sides were joined as I crocheted along each side. Only the top was left open to insert or remove the cushion. I added buttons again for this cover, some blacks and blues to match with the colours. And finally, a cushion cover had evolved. I really liked how it turned out at the end. It was really awesome.

 

With two cushions (Granny square cushion cover -1, the post here) side by side, my sofa was looking great. Hubby and kids loved it. My big boy commented if I am planning to turn everything in our home to have a crochet touch. Yeah, he is right to an extent. I would love to do so if time permits, I said.

 

So that's all for this time dearies. I hope you enjoy reading my posts and would like this too. See you in the next one, until then its bye from Kala. Have a lovely weekend. And if there are any crocheters or would love to learn crochet, HAPPY CROCHETING. 

Spiral earrings

This week in  my blog is about the spiral pattern. I wanted to learn this somewhere last year, but it went delayed and in course of time, forgot about that. Last week, when my boy M was describing something about a lego creation he made, he mentioned something about spiral steps or ladder he wanted to build in it. At that time, I thought I too had wanted to learn something similar in crochet and recalled it was this spiral pattern. I felt I should have noted this somewhere in my jotter, but hadn’t.

 

I took some time to understand this pattern. The pattern is straight forward, but handling the yarns were bit difficult for me. But you know what, if you can place the yarns on either side unwinding a long working yarn, to an extent this difficulty can be solved.

 

So now that I have learnt this pattern, it prompted me to make earrings and within no time, I had my own set of earrings. It turned out to be so crisp and cute earrings. I liked it very much. But sad that I am not able to wear it outside as it is so cold, icy, rainy and sometimes snowy that I have to get tucked in the jerkin. But I didn't give up. I wear it at home (hahaha).

 

My ladybird liked the earrings, and she wanted to wear it. I will make it for her when she grows up. Wait my dear, until then.

 

Hope you liked this small creation. See you in another post, until then its bye from Kala.

Happy First Birthday Yarnoments and Give away!!!

Yes... Its one year since I launched my Yarnoments. I feel so happy for this moment. Of course, without God's grace and support from my dear and near, I won't be able to reach this far, that is for sure. Ohhh, getting emotional here...... Also, I see that day by day , visits to my blog is also increasing which motivates me to explore more and more about crochet.

I organised a give away to celebrate this. Decided to choose three lucky winners from my WhatsApp group. Kids were also so enthusiastic as me. Luckily they were having vacation, so I got some more time to continue with the finishing touches for the give away. Also, this is my first experience too. I wasn't so sure of how to do this. But in the end, everything went well. I asked my kids to pickup three winners from the lot of names. My ladybird wasn't sure what to do. She was picking up name after name (hahahahaha)  and then putting back all the papers in the bowl. Continued this for a couple of times. I then asked my older one to show what to do and tiny tots followed him.

Don't you want to know what was the give away??? I crocheted three purses for the winners made out of bulky yarn. Added a flower applique too. My friends liked the idea and the gifts. I am so happy to read it too.

 

I was planning to upload this post a couple of weeks ago, but my ladybird fell ill and as she was recovering, she developed ear ache as the aftermath of her illness. Then the school reopened and I was held up with my routine tasks as well. I almost lost the track. Excuse me for that, (I am sure my readers would do that, thank you so much). However, I didn't sit idle these days. Tried to snatch some time in between the schedule to learn new a couple of new things about crocheting a curtain, a new stitch, made couple of earrings, worked out on cushion cover (continuing that, these are the pending ones that I had to give it to my brother) etc. Shall soon post about it.

 

See you soon in my next post, until Kala signing off for the day.