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Sometimes by moving chairs or other small furniture we can damage the floors…or we think that we can damage the floors. I often catch myself on the thoughts that I should buy soft stickers for the chairs or tables but I always forget it! Well, good for us, guys, the problem can be easily solved by crochet (not forgetting things but damaging the floors)!
Actually in my case it’s an easel that is the problem, not the chairs. Even if I ever remembered to buy the stickers, it would not really help because of its shape!
So dear painters, attention, today I want to present the feet for your easel to protect your floors!

You will need:

6 mm crochet hook
beige yarn matching the hook
thinner black yarn
scissors

Abbreviations:

ch – chain
st – stitch
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
at the end of every round total number of stitches is shown in brackets

Instructions:

Main part (make three):

7 ch
Round 1: sc in the second ch, sc in next 5 ch, 1 turning ch (6)
Round 2: sc in all 6 st, 1 turning ch (6)
Round 3: now we crochet around the whole piece in front loop only. sc in next 6 st, sc in the side of every row, sc in next 6 st, sc in the other side of every row (18)
Round 4-7: sc in all 18 st (18), sl st in the back loop of the next st, fasten off and cut the yarn. Weave in the end.

You will need three of them, so crochet two more feet the same way.

Toes (make 8):

Round 1: 6 sc in Magic ring (6)

Round 2: sc in next 6 st (6), sl st in the back loop of the next st, fasten off and cut the yarn. Weave in the end.

In total we need 8 toes as we put them only on the front two feet, 4 on each.

Now we make claws. For that just insert the hook in the magic ring, pull the black yarn through the toe, cut it, make a knot and hide it inside (the process is shown on the picture set below).

After making the claws of all 8 toes we can sew them on two of three feet.
This is the result:

Now the floors are safe and your easel has cute feet! I wish you inspiration a lot of new ideas for painting and crocheting!

PS: you can use the pattern for making soft protecting feet for chairs or tables, just adjust the size. If you don’t know why, just send me the feet size of the chairs you have and we will adapt the pattern together.

Was it fun to crochet with this tutorial? Have a look at my other patterns, maybe you will find something you like there!

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Crochet Halloween Decoration Spider in less than an hour!

September 10, 2018 Secret Crochet Box

Winter is coming! But first comes Halloween!
Perfect opportunity to show some creativity and crochet a scaaaring deco! Or maybe scaring and sweet, or just sweet!
Little spiders for your mailbox will scare all your neighbours and contribute into the special atmoshere on the Halloween days!
The most important: the pattern is quick and easy and you don’t have to invest a lot of time into it!
Don’t forget to buy some sweets! I am sure, kids will be attracted by the little cute spiders!

You will need:

5.00 mm crochet hook
black yarn matching the hook, white thiner yarn
googly eyes
scissors and a sewing needle
fiberfill

Abbreviations:

ch – chain
st – stitch
sc – single crochet
inc – 2 sc in the same st
dec – 2 sc together
X 6 – repeat 6 times
at the end of every round total number of stitches is shown in brackets

Instructions:

Spider body:
Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring (6 )
Round 2: inc X 6 (12)
Round 3: (sc in next st, inc) X 6 (18)

Round 4-5: sc in all st (18)
At this point you can make a spider net: just insert the white yarn in the body through the magic ring, make a knot with the end of the black yarn inside the spider body (see pictures below).

Round 6: (sc in next st, dec) X 6 (12)
Stuff the body but not full (so there is some space left for inserting the legs).
Round 7: dec X 6 (6)
Close the body with a sewing needle.

Spider legs:
Make a chain 25 ch and cut the ends as short as possible. This is one pair of legs. As you know, we need 8 legs so make 3 more pairs.

Insert the hook through the body and pull one of the chains through in the way that its two ends have the same length (as shown on the picture below). Do the same for other 3 chains.

Stick the eyes on the body and the spider is finished! It did’t take long, right? Now you can attach it to your mailbox or enterance. Or you can crochet more spiders and decorate a room! This will look scaring! Have fun on Halloween!

Think about crocheting a small basket for sweets? You can use this pattern for it, just take orange and/or black yarn instead of the packing twin!

Did you like to crochet with the tutorial? Check out my other patterns here!

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Crochet as a Meditation

September 2, 2018September 9, 2018 Secret Crochet Box

Hi everyone! I am happy to be back and to write my next post. I started to work again so I had no time for developing new patterns and crocheting them and writing about them. At least I thought so. Now I am learning to use my time efficiently but at the same time to take care that I always can relax when I need it. So I want to share with all of you how crochet saved me again 🙂

There is no pattern in this post but an advertisement how cool it is to use patterns from other people 🙂 Being a parent is a great thing but it also can be really tough. You have to be always 100% concentrated, you have to keep thousends things in your head and plan everything. Well, sometimesit is just too much for me and then I am really looking forward to the evening, when my son goes to bed. And my holly time starts, the time when I can be anyone and when I can do anything. The truth is that often I have only capacity for laying on the sofa watching a series. Sounds like waste of time, right? No powers at all for creativity and finishing all the crochet projects I am excited about. So recently I discovered that a short meditation directly after a child falls asleep makes a real difference. Just some minutes of silence (or with a pleasant music) without any thoughts (or as little as possible) can clear the mind and “reset” our brain, it’s amazing! Later I realized that meditating by doing something simple works better for me. For example by practicing a yoga. Well, then I went even further and decided that meditation with producing something would be just great. And crochet was a perfect answer to that!

So just pick a cool pattern (there are so many nice ones in internet) and just follow it without thinking. I am a big fan of the movie HOME so I decided to crochet the boov Oh! I used this instructions which are by the way really nice and clear and look how it turned out:

If you are balanced and relaxed, new ideas will always come to you! Following patterns of other people made me think of my own and now I am working on several small projects which I show you next days!

Good luck in your new projects and always try to find time for yourself!

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Dummy Holder Crochet Tutorial

March 18, 2018 Secret Crochet Box

Tomorrow we fly with our 7 months old son for the first time! I am very excited about it! I have no idea how he will behave in the airport and during the flight. So I read hundreds of articles about travelling with children and what one should take. And then I realized that we don’t have a dummy holder! So I took a crochet hook and yarn leftovers, after an hour the problem was solved 🙂

You will need:

2.00 mm crochet hook
left over yarn of colour you like
Scissors and sewing needle
wooden clip

Abbreviations:

ch – chain
st – stitch
sc – single crochet
hdc – half double crochet
dc – double crochet
inc – 2 sc in one st (used to increase the number of stitches)
dec – 2 sc together (used to decrease the number of stitches)
X 6 – repeat 6 times
at the end of every round total number of stitches is shown in brackets

Instructions:

As I mentioned before, yarn leftovers are perfect here. We basically make many small beads and rings to put on our dummy chain. Choose different sizes (also by choosing different yarn and hooks) and colours, make it interesting for your child!

So as you can see on pictures I made 4 beads (2 small and 2 bigger ones) and 2 rings. Of course, you can make as many as you’d like. You can also decorate the dummy holder with everything you want! You should remember that a baby will put it in its mouth most of the time so you should carefully choose deco elements.

Step 1. Crochet the chain as long as you want the dummy holder to be and crochet 30 ch additionally (for the loop which actually connects dummy with the chain), don’t join the chain. Connect one end to the wooden clip.

Step 2. Beads. Make as many as you want. Note, that you should make them in the order you want to put them on the chain (starting from the wooden clips)

Round 1: 6 sc in magic ring
Round 2: inc X 6 (12)
Round 3: (sc in next st, inc) X 6 (18)
Rounds 4-6: sc in all 18 st (18)
Round 7: (sc in next st, dec) X 6 (12)

Using the hook pull the chain through the magic ring and stuff the bead. Later you can move the bead on the chain so the exact position is not very important for now.

Round 8: dec X 6 (6)

Cut the yarn leaving a tail for sewing and go with the sewing needle through the last round closing the bead.

The bead is finished! You can make it bigger/smaller using bigger/smaller hook and yarn. Or you can change the size manually:

To make the bead bigger, crochet one more round between rounds 3 and 4:

Round 3.5: (sc in next 2 st, inc) X 6 (24)Then make 4 instead of 3 Rounds without changing. Afterwards crochet (sc in next 2 st, dec) X 6 (18) and you are at Round 7 of the description above, follow it to the end!

To make the bead smaller, crochet first two rounds, then make 2 rounds without changing (12) and pull the chain through the magic ring. Afterwards keep following the instructions.

Step 3. Rings. You can put the rings any time in any order at any place of the chain.

Crochet 15 ch, join with sl st on the chain (at the right position).
2 ch, 28 hdc in the ring, join with sl st.
(reverse sc in next 6 st, inc) X 3, note: reverse sc is a regular sc but in the opposite direction!!!

The ring is finished! If you want to make it smaller, make the row of sc’s instead of hdc’s. If you want to make it bigger, make crochet dc instead of hdc in the row.

That’s it! Now you can combine these two shapes and play with sizes and colours! Have fun! I hope, your baby will like its new dummy holder!

Was it fun to crochet with this tutorial? Have a look at my other patterns, maybe you will find there something you like!

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Ponytail Hat Crochet Pattern

March 18, 2018 Secret Crochet Box

I made the hat as an addition to the fingerless gloves. The pattern is basically the same and it is explained with many details and pictures in the tutorial for the gloves (as I made them first). If you want to make only the hat and have a question, take a brief look at the gloves tutorial. The hat is very stylish, I really love it!

Materials:

3.5 mm crochet hook
recommended for the hook light pink and turquoise yarn (I used 100% cotton 115 m = 50 g)
scissors

Abbreviations:

First of all I want to warn you to not get scared by the abbreviations you don’t know! The “difficult” or better to say new stitches are explained here! I am sure, after finishing this pattern you will be full of inspiration and you will want to use your new skills more and more, and maybe even design your own patterns!

ch – chain
st – stitch
sl st – slip stitch
sc – single crochet
dc – double crochet
ddec – in this case: double crochet next 2 st together
FPtrc – front post treble crochet (US crochet terms)
exFPtrc – extended front post treble crochet (US crochet terms)
(…) X 5 – repeat “…” 5 times

Ribbling (work with turquoise yarn)

8 ch + 1 turning ch
Round 1-101: sc in all st, 1 ch (8)
Fold the ribbling together, crochet through both the first and the last rows.
Round 102: sl st in all st (8)

Now we turn the ribbling inside out so that the sl st row is not visible.

The rest of the hat:

Round 1: sc in all st (one sc in every row of the ribbling, see the picture below), sl st (101)

Round 2: change to light pink yarn. 3 ch, dc in back loops in all st, sl st (101)

Round 3: 3 ch, dc in next st, (exFPtrc in next 4 dc, dc in next 7 st, exFPtrc in next 2 dc, dc in next 7 st) X 5, sl st (101)

Round 4: 3 ch, dc in next st, (skip 2 st, exFPtrc in the 3rd st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the next st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the first skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the second skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 7 st, exFPtrc in next 2 dc, dc in next 7 st) X 5, sl st (101)

Round 5: 3 ch, dc in next st,FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the upper loop of the exFPtrc of the previous round), FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 7 st, exFPtrc in next 2 st, dc in next 7 st) X 5, sl st (101)

Round 6: repeat Round 4 (101)

Round 7: change to the turquoise yarn. 3 ch, dc in the back loop of the next st, (dc in back loops of the next 11 st, ddec, dc in next 7 st) X 5, sl st (96)

Round 8: change to the light pink yarn, 3 ch, dc in next st, (exFPtrc in next 4 dc, dc in next 7 st, ddec, dc in next 6 st) X 5, sl st (91)

Round 9: 3 ch, dc in next st, (skip 2 st, exFPtrc in the 3rd st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the next st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the first skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the second skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 6 st, ddec, dc in next 6 st) X 5, sl st (86)

Round 10: 3 ch, dc in next st, FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the upper loop of the exFPtrc of the previous round), FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 5 st, ddec, dc in next 6 st) X 5, sl st (81)

Round 11: 3 ch, dc in next st, (skip 2 st, exFPtrc in the 3rd st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the next st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the first skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the second skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 5 st, ddec, dc in next 5 st) X 5, sl st (76)

Round 12: 3 ch, dc in next st, FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the upper loop of the exFPtrc of the previous round), FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 5 st, ddec, dc in next 4 st) X 5, sl st (71)

Round 13: 3 ch, dc in next st, (skip 2 st, exFPtrc in the 3rd st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the next st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the first skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the second skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 4 st, ddec, dc in next 4 st) X 5, sl st (66)

Round 14: 3 ch, dc in next st, FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the upper loop of the exFPtrc of the previous round), FPtrc in the next 2 st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 3 st, ddec, dc in next 4 st) X 5, sl st (61)

Round 15: 3 ch, dc in next st, (skip 2 st, exFPtrc in the 3rd st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the next st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the first skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), exFPtrc in the second skipped st (though the exFPtrc of the previous round), dc in next 3 st, ddec, dc in next 3 st) X 5, sl st (56)

Round 16: change to the turquoise yarn, 3 ch, dc in next st, (dc in next 3 st, ddec) X 11, sl st (45)

Fasten off, cut the yarn and weave in the end. The hat is finished!

Was it fun to crochet with this tutorial? Have a look at my other patterns, maybe you will find there something you like!

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