Knitt: Baby Blanket : “Wave Blanket”

Hello,
Here is one of my favourite knitting baby blanket!
It was my FIRST baby blanket for my friend's baby girl:)
Here is my “Wave Blanket”:

Here’s the pattern if you’d like to knit one yourself!

ABBREVIATIONS
K – knit
P – purl
yo - yarn over: wrap the yarn around right needle
K2tog – knit the next 2 stitches together as one stitch.
STITCH PATTERN
Row 1 (right side) – knit
Row 2 – purl
Row 3 – *(K2tog) 3 times, (yo, k1) 6 times, (k2tog) 3 times; repeat from * to end.
Row 4 – knit.Repeat Rows 1 to 4.
BLANKET PATTERN
CO 144 stitches. Repeat pattern. Bind off loosely and weave in ends.

Have a great day,
Oya Mearns

PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.

Happy NEW YEAR !

I wish you to have a.....    

Sweetest Sunday,
Marvelous Monday,
Tasty Tuesday,
Wonderful Wednesday,
Thankful Thursday,
Friendly Friday,
Successful Saturday.
Have a great Year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Christmas is everywhere..and it is "on the air" for my Weblog..

Helloooo,
December! Cold, rainy... I don't like this type of weather! Very depressing really !
Maybe everybody feels the same so that"s why we all put some colourful lights, mainly red and green colours are in every where! Those decorations makes me happy! There are  a lot of positive feelings, wishes in the air! Brilliant!
This time I met Dear Sarah-Jayne, I found her in Instagram, She is absolutely brilliant person! and I really loved some of her projects, and suddenly I did try and have done beautiful decoration materials, LOVE them.
You will find some of my projects pictures in below, but I would like to share her blog, and youtube videos with you. I learned from those and hope you try to do... pls do it, very enjoyable and very easy to make them! I have done a lot and I gave as a gift to my friends and to family members!
Time to make for myself now :)
Project 1 : Mini Crochet Christmas Stocking : Tutorial (Pls click)
                       If you prefer to watch the VIDEO Tutorial (Pls Click)

I have done exactly what she was telling us, and also I have made some little ones with a little bid changes. Here are some ideas from me too:

    

Diagram:

 

 

 

Mini ones are soooo cute, aren't they! so lovely!!!!

Project 2: Crochet Star  Tutorial (Pls click)
                      If you prefer to watch the VIDEO Tutorial (Pls Click)
PS: after a while I have changed the middle of the snowflakes crochet stitches, I have done "puff stitches" and much more puffy looks I have got:)
here is the VIDEO of "Puff Stitch" : pls click on this....
And here are the result of my works :)

 

 
               
AND also I loveeeeee the SnowFlakes! I have learned from "The Crochet Crowd"
Project 3 : Crochet SnowFlake:   VIDEO Tutorial (Pls Click)
                       And here are the result of my works :)

 

 

some more pictures of them:

 

Have a Great XMAS to everyone!
and a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Oya Mearns

PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.

NEW FRIENDS, NEW BLOG...

Hello,
I have been doing a blanket for my friend's living room as she requested. 4 weeks I've been doing it. Almost finishing. I can not share the pictures because it will be surprise for her. But time by time I have been taking the pictures, so at the end I will post them in here and explain it how I have done it! I am sure you will like it, why? because it is very simple and very easy to do!. All about colours, If you find right colours with the right hook; that's it!  Any way I will talk about it later, I promise!!

As you know that I am in Instagram too (@oyamearns), and when I post some pictures of my crochet works, always I put some "tags", like #crochet. #crochetlover, #crochetaddict etc. I found so many talented people from Instagram, and I really looooove to look at their own crochet projects, and honestly I really love to share my works with everybody:)

Today I especially talk about a new blog, which I found it recently. Excellent talented people has got together and created this blog: http://yarnbombersunited.weebly.com/
I was so impressed when I saw the blog first time, and now I do always follow them:)
I really advise you to look at that blog, and you will find the contact details in there, also you can find them from Instagram too! Most importantly they like to share too ! I believe we all support them too!
I have learned one of their pattern from their blog, and also I have done with my own one, here it is:

Beautiful, isn't it? They call those pattern: The COURAGE FLOWER :)
You will find the pattern diagram and also explanation of this pattern in almost every languages on their blog/web page! (Turkish translation one is mine by the way:) I am so chuffed to help a little bid to those excellent women! Especially very special thanks to dear Jane   (@queen_babs)

Have a Great day:) ,  Oya Mearns

PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.

Crochet Abbreviations and some Basic Crochet Stitches

I would like to share some of basic information for crochet.
I have learned everything about crochet from internet and took a lot of time to learn. But I am ok now, so I wanted you find the basic information of crochet in my blog. So only I am compiling for you some useful information of crochet from some different web sites, with their links.
And also you will find some Video Links in below, you can learn how you can make some basic stitches:)
Hope I can help you guys!

Crochet Abbreviations

alt = alternate approx = approximately BP = back post BLO = back loop only BPdc = back post double crochet beg = begin, beginning CC = contrasting color ch = chain cl = cluster cont = continue dbl = double dtr or dbl tr = double triple dc = double crochet dec = decrease dir = directions dk = dark dnt = do not turn ea = each ex sc = extended single crochet fig = figure 1 (picture of stitch) FLO = front loop only FP = front post FPdc = front post double crochet fig = figure 1 (picture of stitch) fo = finish off foll = following gm or gr = grams gr = group hdc = half double crochet hk = hook htr = half triple crochet in = inch inc = increase incl = including inst = instructions lp(s) = loop(s) lt = light MC = main color med = medium mm = millimeter no. = number oz(s) = ounce pat st = pattern stitch pc st = popcorn stitch prev = previous rem = remaining rep = repeat rnd = round rs = right side sc = single crochet sk = skip sl st = slip stitch sp = space st(s) = stitch(es) tch = turning chain tog = together tr = triple (treble) x times = (such as repeat 5x) ws = wrong side yo = yarn over If you would like to get more details please click HERE . ___________________________________________________________________________ Crochet Chart Symbol More information of the crochet instruction pls click HERE. How To: Crochet - For Beginners: pls click HERE Have a Great day:) ,  Oya Mearns PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.

Crochet: Baby Blanket with SHELL STITCH

SHELL STITCHm it is really simple and very nice to make it. I love it and I decided to make baby blanket for my friend's baby boy . Still I am working on it, so when I finished I will share the pictures in here.
You will find the Diagram and the Video of this stitch on below.

I used soft yarn with 4mm Hook.

Symbols:

Chain Stitch – Ch
Single Crochet-sc
Double Crochet-dc

Turning Chain - tch

Foundation Chain: Chain multiples of 6 + 1 (add 1 for base chain)

Row1 :  1 sc into 2nd ch from hook, *skip 2ch, 5dc into next ch, skip 2ch 1 sc into next ch; rep from * to end, turn.

Row 2 : 3ch (count as 1 dc), 2dc into first st, *skip 2dc, 1 sc into next dc, skip 2dc, 5dc into next sc; rep from * ending last rep with 3dc into last sc, skip tch, turn.

Row 3 : 1 ch, 1sc into first st, *skip 2dc, 5dc into next sc, skip 2dc, 1sc into next dc; rep from * ending last rep with 1 sc into top of tch, turn.
Repeat rows 2 and 3 until you have reached your desired length.

PS: to be honest instead of dc (double crochet) , I ve done tr (treble crochet) because it looks more puffy :)

 

DIAGRAM:

VIDEO: How to Crochet the SOLID SHELL STITCH

Have a Great day:) ,  Oya Mearns

PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.

Crochet: Blanket with BIG SQUAREs

Hi , one more project has been done!
This time I am very very happy because I made a blanket for my BOY !
My boy is a Jack Russell and he is 9 years old! He really loves to sit between me and my husband while watching TV, and always he asks a blanket to put his body! So this time I made a blanket for him, he is really chuffed!
There were some yarn , left overs, so I used them and look at the end what I ve got :

and look EDDIE is very happy for his own blanket:)

 

  

You will find the diagram of this squares, very simple and very fast to do it!

 

when I finished 9 big squares, then I attached them with Single Crochet;

 

and I really feel great when I finished my project!

Have a Great day:) ,  Oya Mearns

PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.

Crochet: SIMPLE FLOWER

Hello,
I was trying to find a diagram of a very simple crochet flower. Because suddenly I thought that I can make a house gift to my friends, then in my mind I prepared something, but for this I needed a very simple "crochet flower". Anyway I found one of them (you will find the diagram in below), and I made a lot of flowers in different colours. At the end look at my creation!

Isn't it beautiful?
This one is a gift for my favourite Ice Cream Shop:)

  

 

I love it. Now I can make it for my friends house!
BUT next time I will use some colourful beads , I am sure it will be more beautiful:)

  

 


Very Simple Crochet Flower Diagram:

I found this diagram from the Internet, "Share Knott and Crochet"

Have a Great day:) ,  Oya Mearns

PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.

Crochet: "EXPERIMENTATION"

I love to search and look at the different projects, then I like to try it. One day while searching I found this pattern, Stunning Granny Squares - Just a picture though, no pattern! Searched and searched.... then I found this diagram (you will find it in below). No idea who created this pattern, so that's why it is "NO named pattern" for me. 
I had some left over yarn, and started to practice... then this gorgeous product  appeared !!!
I am sure one day I will do something with it, still in my mind and thinking: what am I gonna do with it? till that day here is the diagram and my trial's picture :)

(if you click the picture you will get the big size of it)

Have a Great day:) ,  Oya Mearns

PS: All my posts will be published for helping to you. BUT of course if you would like toDONATEfor my “piggy bank”, I can then get some more yarn for my projects and share with you. If you do so, you will find the “DONATE” button at the top of the blog :)If you FOLLOW me by email, you can get a message too. You will find the SUBMIT button on right side under the Block Archive.