Sharing a pattern of a granny square with a flower.

Делюсь схемой квадратного мотива крючком

See this page for abbreviations in this pattern.

Условные обозначения к схеме находятся здесь.

You will need yarn of three colours.
For my work I used three shades of Alize Bella cotton yarns:
A -- Fuchsia;
B -- Purple;
C -- White.

В своей работе я использовала хлопковую пряжу Alize Bella трёх оттенков:
А -- Fuchsia;
Б -- Purple;
В -- White.

Sharing a crocheted flower-shaped rattle pattern

Делюсь схемой вязаной крючком погремушки в форме цветка

As our little girl was growing older, she started grabbing things and it was the best time to make for her a mobile. I searched for ideas through Pinterest and Google, but absolutely nothing was found that could catch my eye. Then one day I noticed that Marge likes to observe a crocheted flower in her cardigan and the idea was born. It was decided to make a few crocheted rattles with flowers on top covering plastic egg containers.

Каждой подрастающей малышке нужен красивый мобиль. К сожалению, Pinterest и Google совершенно не помогли мне в качестве вдохновения. Зато в один прекрасный день я обратила внимание, что Маргоше нравится смотреть на вязаный цветочек на её кофточке, и тогда родилась идея. Было решено составить мобиль из вязаных погремушек с разноцветными и контрастными цветочками наверху. В качестве основы для погремушек привычно использовать пластмассовые яйца-контейнеры от Киндера.

Sharing a crocheted flower pattern

Делюсь схемой вязаного крючком цветка

This is a pretty easy pattern for a nice crocheted flower. I used it to decorate cardigan for my little Marge.

Это достаточно простая схема симпатичного вязаного крючком цветочка. Я использовала его в качестве украшения к кофточке для нашей маленькой Маргоши.

See this page for abbreviations used in this pattern.

Условные обозначения к схеме находятся здесь.

You will need yarn of three colours:
B -- bright basic colour for the flower midst
A -- bright alternative colour for the second row of petals
L -- light (white or cream looks very good) colour for the first row of petals

Для цветка понадобится пряжа трёх цветов:
Б -- яркий основной (базовый) цвет для серединки цветочка;
А -- альтернативный (можно контрастный) цвет для второго ряда лепестков;
С -- светлый (можно белый, или кремовый) для первого ряда лепестков.

I used Alize Bella cotton yarns: Indigo, Red and Cream colours.

Я использовала хлопковую пряжу Alize Bella. Цвета: "Indigo", "Red" и "Cream".

Start with colour B.
1) Chain 4, slip stitch to make a ring.
Chain 1 and work 5 SC into the ring, slip stitch into the first chain-1.

Начните вязать нитью Б.

Sharing a pattern for a one-peace wrap cardigan for my baby-girl

Finally, Marge can try her new short-sleeve cardigan in the colours of a red poppy and a blue knapweed field! As I wrote in a previous post, I've searched for a nice and not so common pattern for a baby-girl cardigan, but haven't found any, and decided to design one by myself. It came out so nice and work on it was so enjoyable, that it would be just wrong to keep the pattern within myself rather than share it.

Also I would be really happy to hear that someone used this pattern and managed to make this cardigan. So, if you intend to try this, please, take a picture of a result and share it with me!

This is a rather easy pattern of a beautiful one-peace wrap cardigan for a little baby girl.
Marge is two month old now and 62 cm long. This cardigan is a bit larger size. But you can make your own measurements and crochet cardigan of any size you need. I'll explain you, how.

The whole work consists of 4 stages:
1) after taking measurements, crochet a shoulders part (I'm not sure about professional terminology, so I'll just call it "shoulders part"). It is very similar to crocheting a granny square, only without it's center;
2) crochet a waist band;
3) crochet body part;
4) edging.

First of all, you should take some measurements. The easiest way to do this is to take any of your baby's tops (I took Marge's sleeper) and measure it. What you need is to measure the width of a neck hole (N), bust width (W) and sleeve aperture depth (S).

As you can see (you can click on the pictures to get a larger view), I've got N = 11 cm, W = 26 cm and S = 10 cm.

Now count Z = (W - N) / 2 and BC segment length as (S - Z) * 2.

CD segment length equals N and DE equals BC.

I've got Z = 7.5 cm, CD = 11 cm, DE and BC = 5 cm.

I'll refer to the mark up of this scheme further.

You will need yarn of three colours.
I used Turkish cotton yarn Alize Bella of a red, coral and cream colour in my work.

Pattern of a crocheted hat with flower for a girl

All of a sudden a heat wave came across Riga.  But it won't prevent me from sharing a pattern of Veronika's new hat.

My daughter wanted a hat with a flower, so I crocheted one nice flower too. I used Indigo colour from my favorite Alize Bella cotton yarns to make the hat fit daughter's blue coat.

But before I start, some pics of today: a morning after the first thunderstorm in Latvia this year. Air after the rain became moist and warm.

Back to the pattern, I drew a scheme (pictures can be clicked for a large picture), but to be on the safe side, I wrote it down too.

So, here goes the pattern of a crochet hat for a 5-year old girl (head diameter 50 cm (19.5 inch)).

 Pattern 

• st = stitch
• ch = chain
• sc = single crochet
• dc = double crochet
• hdc = half double crochet
• sl st = slip stitch
• rep = repeat

Start with colour "Acid".
1) Chain 4 and join with a slip stitch to make a ring.
2) Chain 2,  work 11 dc into the ring, sl st into 2d ch of initial chain-2.