Showing posts with label april. Show all posts
Showing posts with label april. Show all posts

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Voting time for my Aloha Pillow Sham entry!

The Aloha April contest voting has started!

If you have a reddit account (and if you dont go make one!) head over to /r/crochet/ and you can join the wonderful community.

If you want to vote, the voting poll is *:・゚✧*:・゚✧Aloha April FO Voting Thread ✧・゚: *✧・゚:*

To vote just log into reddit, and go to the link above for the FO Voting and UP vote, by clicking on the top of the little crochet hook next to a users name for the project you like best.  To tell if you did it right the top half of the hook will turn orange, if you clicked to low you will have down voted someone (taking points away) and the bottom half will be orange.  Please vote reasonably and try not to down vote.


Here are photos of my entery into the contest, if you want to vote for them my user name over on reddit is u/EmberTouchtehFire


You can find the patterns I wrote to make your own under the Free Pattern's tab.  This pattern motif is very versatile and you can make anything out of it that you can imagine.






Sunday, April 13, 2014

Aloha April matching sham! ~Pattern~


So I decided I didnt want to match the pillows exactly I wanted the second sham to look like its part of the same 'set'.

I supersized the motif, pattern ajustments as fallows--

Working with a double strand (holding 2 strans together) and a large hook (I used a P)
Ch 8 slst into ring
sc 22 into ring
ch1 sc 2 into ring, ch 9 slst into top of sc, sc 4 ch 9 slst, sc 4 ch 9 slst, sc 4 ch 9 slst, sc 4 ch 9 slst, sc 4 ch 9 slst, sc slst to firt sc  (should have 6 loops)

Then work the fallowing over the chain 9 ~~sc 2, hdc 2, dc 4, trb 4 ch 3 slst, trb 3,dc 4, hdc 2, sc 2,  slst into the middle  2 st between chain 9's ~~and repeat from ~~


For the corner motif ajustments--

Ch 6 slst join in the round.

SC 12 around the chain slst to join

SC 2, chain 7 slst into top of stitch, sc 4 ch 7 slst into top of stitch, sc 4 ch 7 slst into top of stitch, sc 4 ch 7 slst into top of stitch,sc 4 ch 7 slst into top of stitch, sc 2 slst to join. (Should leave you with 5 chain loops)

Work over all the chain loops-
Sc 2, hdc 2, dc 2, trb 3 ch 3 (this chain will be your join stitch so when you are joining to an other motif ch 1 slst into motif ch 1 instead) slst into top of stitch, trb, 2 dc, 2 hdc, 2sc

 I now have a matching set of spring/summer pillow sham's!

I cant wait for the voting process over on r/crochet to start, as there are so many other people in the contest with great projects to go up against.