…compilation of tutorials
I presented several entries with crochet medaillons already, here you can find a lot more crochet medaillons :)
Links:
Crochet Medaillons (vzory pro háčkování (Crochet pattern)) (Czech)
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Entries with the tag ‘crochet’, containing the word ‘medaillon’
I don’t only find this a cute crochet medaillon, but also a great illustration: you can see wonderfully how the chart traces the medaillon.
Links:
Crochet Medaillon (Viewing 21 of 239)
via: Useful source for reading crochet chart?
I presented several crochet medaillons already and how you can make clothes from, but for this crochet medaillon here I can’t imagine what I could make from ;-))
Links:
The original site doesn’t exist any more and is now available through webarchive:
Vintage Crochet Medaillon (The Puritan Bedspread – Crochet Treasures You Asked For – Star Treasure Book No. 126)
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Entries containing the words ‘crochet’ and ‘medaillon’
Once I found the website of Jessica Tromp.
Hours later I regained consciousness ;-))
It is difficult to say, what I love best, but in the end I decided, that it must be the crochet patterns for/from square medaillons. But make sure to check all the other crochet patterns also (look for ‘crochet PATTERNS’ in the left navigation bar of her website).
Best of all, she designed a gazillion of clothes and each and every one for different women sizes!
In addition she offers basic woman measurement charts for clothing patterns.
I simply don’t find the right words for this site ;-))
Links:
Jessica Tromp:
Crochet patterns for/from square medaillons
Basic woman measurement charts for clothing patterns
You’ve surely already seen my random squares pattern generator, now I found a similarly working random crochet square generator.
This could have been my idea ;-)
Links:
Random Crochet Square Generator
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Random Squares Pattern Generator
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I find this doily very interesting, too – to work, not to put anywhere ;-))
On the other hand it should give a great jacket, if you sew together several of them?!
;-)
The instruction is in German, but charted, so I translated the meaning of the symbols.
At the links below I added links to tutorials on how to make the stitches for you to see what I’m talking about ;-)
Links:
Crochet Doily (Zauberhaftes Deckchen) (German) => there is a PDF download (~ 2,3 MB)
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Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons
I find the lamps funny ;-)
Especially because you don’t do anything else than freeform crochet on the spherical lamp frames.
But I won’t make them because my ceiling is very low and I had always to go round the lamps ;-))
But I have more lamps ‘on offer’ ;-))
Because the instruction is in German, here a (very short) translation:
You need: sphere lamp frame, different yarns (funky yarns, cotton, wool, ribbon yarn and so on, all in white or nature colours), big crochet hooks (5 mm and 7 mm (for conversion of crochet hooks see links below)) and if you like some big paillettes.
Patterns: They say that it looks best if you use a lot of patterns.
You can find inspiration in their PDF file, where they use the following stitches:
= ch (Chain)
= sc (Single crochet)
= dc (Double crochet)
= V st (V-stitch)
= ps (Puff stitch)
= shell (Shell stitch) with 4 dc, 3 ch, 1 dc
If you click the stitch names here above, you can see how these stitches are worked.
How to: Begin on top: crochet a chain ring to lay around the top opening. Crochet rings of patterns around the lamp, but they say that it looks great, too, if you change the pattern often by e.g. working crochet medaillons and adding them into your patterns.
They suggest to best crochet directly on the lamp frame so that you always can see whether it still fits.
They say that it was better to work too narrow than too wide and that they often worked with a couple of threads at a time with 7 mm needles.
Finish: Sew everything on at the top and bottom of the lamp frame. Cut from all threads fringes of about 1,60 m/4,5-5 inches and add to the bottom edge. If you like to, add some big paillettes.
Links:
Freeform Crocheted Sphere Lamps (Umhäkelte Leuchtkörper) (German)
Stitch descriptions:
ch (Chain)
sc (Single crochet)
dc (Double crochet)
V st (V-stitch)
ps (Puff stitch)
shell (Shell stitch)
Possibly helpful sites:
Crochet Hook Sizes And Conversions
Converting a pattern from US terms to UK terms
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Entries with the tag ‘box’
Entries with the tag ‘lampshade’
Filet crochet in rounds? What for?
Well, I find that it looks simply better with symmetrical patterns like those of the random squares pattern generator :)
It can that you don’t see any difference from far away, but from close I find it more beautiful if the stripes pattern made from the double crochets radiates from the center.
And that’s how the same pattern looks if filet crocheted the normal way.
The other one is much more beautiful, isn’t it?
;-)
Actually it’s another form of crochet medaillons, that you simply join.
You can have a filled or empty middle square…
…that you crochet the normal way:
You crochet the empty middle square from 4 ch for the ‘bottom’, 3 ch for the right side, 2 ch for the ‘lid’ and 1 dc for the left side (that are 9 chains and one double crochet in the first chain) and
you crochet the filled middle square from 4 ch for the ‘bottom’, 3 ch for the right side, 3 dc for the ‘filling’ (these are 7 chains and three double crochets in the first three chains).
Or you can have four filled or empty middle squares.
You can crochet the empty middle squares the normal way, too (7 ch for the bottom of two squares, 3 ch for the right side, 2 ch for the ‘lid’, 1 dc for the side, 2 ch for the ‘lid’ of the left square and 1 dc for the left side), then turn and add two more squares on top.
You should begin the filled middle squares in the center: 4 ch for the bottom of the 1st square, 3 ch for the side of the 1st square, 3 dc for the filling and the other side of the 1st square, then 3 ch for the side of the 2nd square, 3 dc for the filling and the other side of the 2nd square in the last dc of the 1st square, continue this way until you have crocheted all four squares.
Here you see using the example of an empty middle square from the top how to continue: you crochet 3 ch for the side of the 2nd square(!) of the 2nd round, 3 dc to fill and finish the 2nd square. For the empty corner square you crochet ‘around the corner’: simply 5 ch and a filled square again by crocheting 4 dc. Continue this way until you join the round with a slip stitch at the end.
For filled corner squares you always(!) crochet it to be the first of the side by crocheting 3 ch as for the empty square but then you crochet the following two dc in the last dc of the previous square.
Here you can see again how a filet crochet square worked in rounds with one middle square is constructed (I turned the numbers so that you also can see the work direction of the actual square).
You can see at squares 2 und 10 that you begin a round always in the same column.
And here you can see how a filet crochet square worked in rounds with four middle squares is constructed (here again I turned the numbers so that you also can see the work direction of the actual square).
You can see at squares 5 und 17 that you begin a round always in the same column.
That’s the pattern I used for the swatches, I let it generate with the Random Squares Pattern Generator.
Of course ;-)
(To save the pictures click them with the right mouse button and select ‘Save image as…’ or similar)
The pattern:
The quarter pattern:
The border:
The repeated pattern:
And perhaps the whole as a summer shawl, straight or triangular:
Well, the whole thing is ‘cheated’ from photos of my swatches, especially ‘cheated’ because a single square is crocheted from cotton thread and has only a side length of about 10 cm. As per Pythagoras Calculator the triangular shawl was about 70 cm at the longest side and therefore rather a kerchief ;-))
Links:
Here at unikatissima:
Random Squares Pattern Generator
Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons
Entries containing the word ‘medaillon’
Online Pythagoras Calculator
Instructions for filet crochet:
Filethäkel-Anleitung (CROCHET TUTORIAL) (English)
Filethäkeln-Grundanleitung (German)
At both tutorials there are instructions for increasing and decreasing, too, which you can use e.g. for the triangular half squares of the triangular shawl on the photo.
I find this Venetian crochet motif most beautiful and I’m impressed if someone makes from single motifs a whole top.
I also found an instruction and even an instruction for a round lace collar.
Sigh.
Links:
Top from Venetian Crochet Motif
Instruction for Venetian Crochet Motif (Crocheting Venetian Lace Motif Help Photos)
Instruction for Round Lace Collar (Venetian Crochet – 1915 Collar and Lace Edging)
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Clothes From Crocheted Medaillons
I presented several crochet squares already but the one on the photo is one of my favorites since a long time.
Unfortunately I couldn’t crochet it immediately and haven’t had the time yet to try it unhurriedly.
If you like it, too, you can download a PDF file (ca. 970 KB) with the instructions for 17(!) most beautiful crochet squares at the Free Pattern Index of Priscilla’s Crochet (Afghan Squares).
And then you can begin with your crochet Afghan ;-))
Links:
Free Pattern Index of Priscilla’s Crochet
PDF file ‘Afghan Squares’ (ca. 970 KB)
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Entries containing the words ‘crochet’ and ‘square’
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