Tatted flowers for the peg bag

So nice sitting in the sunshine

Hi Folks,

First attempts on that tatted flower pattern:

First Attempt 

Problems noted in the first flower 

1. need a slightly bigger area in joining the first circle.

2. forgot to leave a picot on the first petal

3. I tatted these is Twilley's Lyscordet cotton no.5, colour: rose but I don't think this was such a good move.  It really does not tat well becoming shabby and unwound if you know what I mean. I tried to show it in the picture.

Close up of a join of a petal
and shabby thread

picot on first petal

And the dog came to help

A very rough diagram of the pattern and here it is tatted up.

Just remember that this isn't mine I got the picture from Pinterest  http://pinterest.com/pin/565483296932672889/ http://atelier.woman.excite.co.jp/creation/34706.html#  

Well next time I'll hopefully have some sewn on a finished peg bag. 

Wish me luck. 

ally x

update on peg bag

Hi crafty people of the internet world

Just a little update on this blog today as the major news was happening in honey pot creations, but since it has been quite a while since I told you about the plans to crochet a peg bag I thought it only fair to let you know how I have been getting on.

Well not as quick as I had hoped, the 4.5 hook and dk yarn is crocheting up slowly so I have not as yet finished but one more good evening at it and I think I will be there.  I have just completed the opening for the pegs to come out off so only really need to do a couple more inches before finishing it off.

This was me testing to see if it was big enough to get all my pegs in, you can see it has gone a little lumpy.  In hindsight I should have made more effort to ensure the yarns were of the same weight, as the green was considerably finer and consequently a round of green was smaller than a round of cream, and the pink was in the middle but closer in size to the cream, but since it is only for me and I think I can iron it out and once hanging from a line it will fall differently, I can put up with it.

For the opening I stopped DCing and crocheted a chain of 23 stitches and then took up DCing 23 DCs further on on the round, continuing as normal next time round.


Also I found a lovely tatted flower on Pinterest, that I will try for the embellishments, the website is Japanese, but you can work out what's needed. The little loop at the top is for hanging if you plan to put it on a necklace or the like, so I will miss that bit off.  http://pinterest.com/pin/565483296932672889/ http://atelier.woman.excite.co.jp/creation/34706.html#


More pictures soon once I've finished it. Well that 's all for now, I got stuff to do. Keep well all and I'll be in touch soon.

love ally x

holiday washing

howdy folks, 

Well, back from holiday camping can mean only one thing, a mountain of washing, and as I was hanging out yet another load I decided to finally get on with it and make myself a retro style peg bag.  

As any self respecting vintage girl, how could I have gone so long using the modern plastic bag that I think came from the front of a magazine?  I had chide myself several times in the past, but never enough to get on and do something about it, but this time I felt different, the house is getting more complete, and stepping out of my 40s/50s style kitchen I really felt the need for a nice little crochet peg bag. 

So upstairs I went to to the sewing room, opened up a box of wool and rummaged, and these are the colours I came up with.

I had no pattern in mind just thought I'd do a reasonable length of chain  and then work up both sides to form a bag, leave a slit at a reasonable height and join it off at the top when its big enough, in random stripes of colour and maybe a bit of the dark pink tatted up for decoration. So I thought I'd show you how I do a foundation chain to make it easier to crochet to down either side of it. This is something I do often when making a bag that isn't round based. I do a little more to each stitch  than a simple chain and I hope that the photos will show it well enough, but please let me know if you need more explanation. 

 Firstly complete 2 chain stitches then put the hook through the first loop, yarn around hook and pull back through first loop on hook, yarn around again and then through both loops

2 chains

hook through 1st loop

yarn pulled through 1st loop

yarn pulled through both loops

Then you put the hook through the side of the bottom of the stitch you just created and do the whole thing again.

hook through bottom of stitch

 The chain a bit longer and the hook through the bottom of the stitch.

A further stitch completed

3 SC in the last chain to enable the flow of stitches
 round to go down the other side

It then becomes very easy to crochet down the other side.

both sides completed

 

to give a bit of a base I did a 3 increase at the end and 2 increase in the stitch either side of the end.

The base starting to build upwards.

And this is how far I have got, a couple more nights should see it completed, then I will need to get the saw out to chop a wooden coat hanger down to size, hopefully next week's washing will be retro style.

see you all soon 

luv ally x