Crochet Mushroom pattern in English

In my last post I told you about these gorgeous small mushrooms. Pattern is to be found at IA Nyckelpiga in Swedish and she has been so kind to let me translate this pattern into English. Thanks dear blog friend. :D

IA Nyckelpiga has made a lot of fun small crochet creations, often something for a kid's kitchen play such as toast with cheese and cucumber, wild strawberries on a straw, fried eggs, apples etc. She also makes her own crochet pillows, stuffed up animals and afghans in the most beautiful color combinations.  She makes her own patterns and shares them on her blog. You should really pop in and see her. The picture is of IA's mushrooms from her blog.

Well lets get to mushroom making, shall we?

Preferably use a very fine lace yarn and small hook, hook size 1.5 - 2.0. This is a little bit of a fiddly project so be patient. The results are so much worth the effort I will assure you.

Abbreviations as follows in UK/US terms:


ch - chain

dc/sc - double crochet/single crochet
sl st - slip stitch



The hat/top of the mushroom

Red yarn

Row 1:
Chain 6, sl st into 1st ch to make a magic ring.

Row 2:
2 dc/sc in every chain, sl st in 1st dc/sc (= total 12 dc/sc)


Row 3:
Increase every other stitch like this - *1 dc/sc, 2 dc/sc in same ch*, repeat * 5 times, sl st in 1st dc/sc (= total 18 dc/sc)

Row 4+5:
dc/sc in every stitch, sl st in 1st dc/sc

Change to white yarn

Row 6:
Decrease every other stitch crocheting dc/sc in the front loop only, sl st in 1st dc/sc.



Row 7:
Decrease every stitch crochetiung dc/sc in the front loop only, sl st in 1st dc/sc. Fasten off and weave in the end.

The foot of the mushroom

Row 1:
Chain 6, sl st into 1st ch to make a magic ring.

Row 2:
2 dc/sc in every chain, sl st in 1st dc/sc (= total 12 dc/sc)

Row 3+4:
dc/sc in every stitch, sl st in 1st dc/sc

Row 5:
Decrease every other stitch crocheting dc/sc in the front loop only, sl st in 1st dc/sc.

Row 6+7:
dc/sc in every stitch, sl st in 1st dc/sc. Save a longer end to sew on foot to the top with. 



Stuff the foot, not the hat. Sew on white pearls or embroider spots.


Enjoy your mushroom making and please share them with me. I would love to see your version.


Kärlek
Annette

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1st of advent in the house

I brought down the Christmas boxes yesterday. Today is the day to start the decorating for this big holiday we call Christmas. I love this part. The build up. Adding something new every other day to my home to make it warm, welcome, nice and cuddly.

So I started out this morning by making Christmas porridge. It is literally a round rice slowly boiled in milk mixed with water, add a pinch of salt and a cinnamon stick, a sting of vanilla - VOILA! Creamy Christmas porridge coming up. Very Swedish indeed. I love sprinkling sugar and cinnamon on top and I always have this mixture handy in a cute little jug. Yum. My favorite and my best!

♥ Christmas porridge ♥

250 ml round rice

800 ml whole milk

500 ml water

Pinch of salt

1 cinnamon stick

Sting of vanilla extract

Boil and stir regularly on low heat for about 30-40 minutes.

I couple of years ago when I was new to crochet I spotted the cutest little crochet mushroom over at IA Nyckelpiga and I made some for my advents candle holder (although hers are much more adorable than mine...). They now come out every year and make me smile from ear to ear every time. So darn cute they are. Her pattern is in Swedish but I am sure I can get her to make a translation if need be, she is a good blog friend of mine. Or I might even get the blessing to do it if you would like. Let me know and I'll talk to her.

So happy advent to you all. I am going to take the kids on a moss hunt in the woods as I have run out of moss for my hyacinths... Have a lovely Sunday. Christmas is coming to town!

Kärlek
Annette

Vintage FQ's in the shop

How lovely to hear from you all. I really missed being in Blog Land. All your happy comments have made me really heartskipping happy! Thank you my lovely blog friends . Thank you. Now some business talk. Or business and business, well I guess it is a small business... Business to provide for my hobby, that is what I have had in mind at least... well, however. I've been listing some stuff in My ETSY Shop now when my computer is back up and running. :D

First in were these pillow covers. My favorite is the big floral one in green and blue which I have a whole bed sheet of. If anyone would like to have a larger cut just let me know. I think it would work perfect for a bag lining or similar.  I have a bed sheet of the French pastel floral too, made myself a pair of PJ pants form that fabric... Much nicer than my clown spotty ones that I usually pot around in I can guarantee!

These pastel lovelies can be found in My ETSY Shop as Fat Quarters. Some of them are available in larger cuts, just drop me a line. They are all upcycled vintage sheets in cotton and cotton/poly blends. The softest imaginable. Perfect for patchwork and other crafty sewing projects.

And I have also listed some more bold and colorful FQs like these. My favorite is the 70's orange one and the 80's summery flower one.

Peep over and take a look at My ETSY Shop.

Kärlek
Annette

DMC wool treasure = HAPPY!

We rushed in to the Emergency Room and our Dear Mac was quickly put into the intensive care unit. He has been suffering for while now being lethargic, working in slow motion... Diagnosis said brain damage, heart failure... Not much hope. And he just turned 2!!!

The specialist Dr Apple suggested a transplant and with worry we left Dear Mac in Dr Apple's hands. It has taken a week but everything went well. A new hard drive has been put in, updated system and software. It was pricy, no insurance will cover this type of surgery... but we are SO happy to have Dear Mac back at home. And he runs like lightning. Swisch, swisch, swisch... Funny how effected one can be by loosing her computer for a few days...

So we are back Dear Mac and me. And I have lots to share so lets get started.

I found a magic box at my favorite thrifts store Emmaus and Curious George in me opened the lid...

... and found this! The box was loaded with DMC tapestry yarn bundles. I started to pick out colors and soon I just couldn't hold them with one hand or even two... So many shades of colors. So hard to choose. Little Emmy Bo, clever girl, looked at me with her big brown eyes "Mama, why don't you buy the whole box?" So I did. I bought the whole box!

Lets play sorting colors and shades. Ohhh beautiful blues and greens.

Beautiful earthy reds, pinks and purples.

Ooops, Frankie Boy wants to play too but "No No! Not with my DMC yarn."

Look at that. A wheel of pure color bliss!

I have no clue on what to make out of this but to only have them and look at them does the trick. Color therapy on high level. This might just be perfect for a new granny project one day, when all the other crochet WiPs have been finished that is. For now I will just look at them.

Aaaaahhh, it is good to be back. Will catch up with you all in blog land the upcoming days, feels like I've been gone for ages. :D

Kärlek
♥♥♥ Annette

Mac disaster on the grump side. A table runner VOILA on the smiley side.

My computer is acting up. It is a Mac. Running incredibly slow for the moment. I can't do anything on it. So after a week of annoyingly sloooooooow computer I reinstalled my system. Better? No. Anyone who has any advice on what to do? I am terrified to delete pictures or preferences... But I think I have to deleete the hard drive completely and start all over. Maybe I will turn in my Mac for a tune up. Pay for it although it is probably easy peasy...

However, I have something smiley to show you. My table runner is finished!!! VOILA!!! I am so happy with this table runner (sorry about the bad light in my pics, not so easy to take pictures indoor this time of the year...).

I had this idea in spring, cut out all the pieces and got distracted. Like always. It is really a summer table runner but I will use it for another couple of weeks before my Christmas table runner will be taking over.

I really enjoy making table runners. So easy and so satisfactory. No matter what fabric you will use it always turns out fabulous. And do you see the big blue fruit bowl. My latest find at a market. I couldn't resist. I might have to give it its own post as it is absolutely adorable. I l♥ve l♥ve l♥ve it and am so happy I found it. :D

And what else has been going on around here? Well, I have made 15 scout scarves. Spotty scarves. I still have 35 more to make... But 15 is for now. The rest will be for spring time.

It is for a friend who is a scout leader and she really wanted something different for her scout group on the next scout happening. I think they look great in all tehir spottyness... Although I am not sure I will take on such a project again... Triangels are very difficult to cut and sew...

Oh, and yes it happens to be my birthday. Tomorrow. But we celebrated today. It has been a great day, although turning 40 + is nothing to really brag about... I am quite happy with this birthday passing by in a bit of tranquility and silence... See you again soon.

Kärlek

♥♥♥ Annette

Waiting for a moment to quilt...

This is what I am working on right now. A table runner for my kitchen in blue and white. Two pillow covers from my dear rosy pozy left over fabric that I used for Lea's and Grace's baby quilts. Now I am waiting for a moment to quilt this... Maybe tomorrow. Color me happy!

Kärlek
Annette

The last of the last...

First of all - thank you so much everyone for your encouraging words about my Gypsy Blanket. I need a bit of a push to finish that project I have to admit, and reading all your comments makes me so motivated to continue. Thank you. I heart you all!♥♥♥

Today was a beautiful day. The autumn sun made things look magic and couldn't help but wanting to catch this moment in pictures to share. It feels like it is a bit of "the last of the last" hanging in the air... Before snow comes and the landscape will turn all white.

The last of the last flowers in my garden are in bloom. Making me go AAAHHH just looking at them.

The last of the last few days to be able to dry my laundry outside. How I love watching laundry on a clothes line... Have I mentioned that before? Oooh. Actually Laundry has its own label on my blog now. That is how magic I think this is.

The garden is almost all cleared, the last of the last veggies like chard and some Italian black cabbage is the only greens left...

And my geraniums is showing their last flower buds and flowers before they will be taken inside for a quiet and dark winter rest in the attic.

And even though it is the last of the last of autumn days it is the start of a new season - winter - and what can be better than to start on a warm winter blanket?

This is a ripple in Christmas colors. And it is making me go OOOOHHHH.  I am following Lucy's pattern over at Attic24. And the fabric you might spot behind will become matching pillows if things go as planned. I love doing the ripple. A bit of a struggle in the beginning but now I am on a roll. It is growing very quick compared to my Gypsy Blanket which is a nice feeling. I really hope it will be finished in time.

I am so looking forward to winter and snow. And Christmas. I have already started on some Christmassy crafts. More about that another time. Now it is time for some X Factor USA and adding a few more rows to this cozy blanket. Happy Saturday evening. See you next time.

Kärlek

Annette ♥♥♥

Granny squares - now 166 of them

I am not sure how many of you who have been hanging around my place long enough to have seen this crochet WiP before. I started this project way back in July 2010 but I was quickly forced to take a crochet break for 5 months as I got struck by pain in my crochet elbow. Since then I have been very careful with the crochet. Going slow. And my oh my, this project really is sloooooooowwwww.

I am now up to 166 squares and if I have calculated it all right I have another 86 to go... But I don't mind that this is taking forever. I am really enjoying the making of each and every square. Combinating the colors, joining the squares as a I go and watching the blanket growing...

What I like less is to tie in ends... So therefor I do one row at a time. To avoid getting overwhelmed by all the million ends. But they are quite pretty to look at. :D Says a crochetoholic... Nobody else would understand that.

So while the blanket is growing, I am finding new favorite color combos (with a tendency of loving everything involving white or blue)... I have another crochet WiP going on as well. Something Christmassy. I'll show you soon. Thanks for popping by and I hope you enjoyed my little Gypsy blanket update.

Kärlek
Annette

Walnut harvest

I couldn't resist taking pictures of the walnuts our dear landlady have harvested from the big walnut tree out on the field behind our house.  Previous years we have picked some for ourselves as well but this year we missed out on it all... I guess we were busy with other things. What a shame.

These nuts have the sweetest and mildest walnut taste. Just to walk past these boxes and baskets makes me happy. There is such joy to see true harvesting. Right there. Outside Madames front door they have been sun drying for days before she brought them inside to store them. Yum... Maybe I can send the kids over with some drawings and they will come back with their pockets full of walnuts... She always gives them treats when they pop over for a chat... Sneaky me...

Kärlek
Annette

Zurich with Nelly

Zürich was great!  It was an adventure. The weather was a bit comme ci comme ça... The trams were very fascinating. The shopping successful. Time went by fast.  To fast. And again... We loved the trams! And almost got lost when "tramming" to the theater to see Mama Mia. And Mama Mia was... "Dancing Queen - young and sweet only seventeen - da da da da da da da da..." Fab-fantastic! Nah nah nah nah... la la la la.... We now got ABBA fever at home. Or at least I do.

We indulged ourselves with multiple visits to Starbucks in only 24 hours. :D That is luxury considering a coffee costing nearly 6 dollars... for a SMALL one. We strolled down the streets on an early and quiet Sunday morning and watched the birds from the bridges. We hugged. We laughed. Giggled. And were the best friends ever! It was a moment to treasure for life. Happy! And I added on quite a few squares to my Gypsy blanket on the train ride home. More about that next time.

Kärlek
Annette